Year 2 – Second Summer Term Believe it or not we have now started our last Summer half term! We hope you’re all keeping well and looking after yourselves. A huge well done to all of you that have been working so hard at home with your learning. In this pack we have put together some daily learning tasks for the next two weeks. Our new topic will be Roald Dahl. Lots of your learning will be based around some of Roald Dahl’s famous stories. However, if you’ve already read some of Roald Dahl’s stories, why don’t you tell each other about them using the 2email on PurpleMash. You can access the links directly on the Oldbrook First School website through the home learning section but they are also included below. Take care of yourself and loved ones, Mrs Dunkley and Miss Brown Please ask your child to choose their best piece of writing, maths and topic work each week. Parents can e-mail photographs of the chosen work to [email protected] or [email protected] . Teachers will review the learning sent and will respond with feedback. Below are three links with the story of George’s Marvellous Medicine. http://indbooks.in/mirror1/?page_id=620371 https://www.slideshare.net/SharenGanesh/georges-marvellous-medicine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KdR1MFb1ks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Rl-UspWdY (Full Story) Below are three links with the story of The Enormous Crocodile http://ebooks.rahnuma.org/1508584979-Roald.Dahl_The-Enormous-Crocodile.pdf.html https://www.slideshare.net/susivinh/the-enormous-crocodile-15652116 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j6vIjpkyUU You can also continue to use the following websites for your home learning: The PE Hub Music Yoga Maths and literacy lessons Topic lessons Phonics Home Learning Week 1 Timetable Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Phonics Phonics Play Common Writing Alternative Suffixes Exception sentences using graphemes er/est Words (CEW) CEW ai/ay/a-e Literacy Read George’s Write Descriptive Descriptive Big Write: Marvellous instructions on sentences about sentences about Character Medicine how you made Grandma Grandma description of your medicine (Focus: (Focus: using a Grandma adjectives/comm range of a in a list) conjunctions) Maths Column Column Column Column Addition addition/ addition with addition addition three worded balancing carries (carries and digits problems number sentences non-carries) Reading Read George’s Magpie new Design your Find words George Marvellous words: use own front types within the character Medicine and dictionary to cover to text of George’s description (list answer find definition George’s Marvellous of adjectives) comprehension Marvellous Medicine questions Medicine Topic Make your own Art: History: History/Literacy Computing: medicine/potion Make own Research the : Photography medicine bottle life of Roald Make a Roald using label Dahl and make Dahl fact file iPad/tablet/ notes phone Home Learning Timetable Week 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Phonics Plural spelling Split digraphs Alternative Suffix: Grammar rules graphemes: ly questions Pseudo words Literacy Read The Read crocodiles Convert notes Create a Edit work Enormous fact sheets: to write full crocodile fact Crocodile make notes sentences and file (Focus: plan Big Write Layout) Maths Column Column Column Column Subtraction subtraction/ subtraction subtraction subtraction activity balancing with borrows (mixed) three digits number sentences Reading Read The Magpie new Design your Crocodile Character Enormous words: use own front character comparison: Crocodile dictionary to cover to The description crocodile and find definition Enormous George. Crocodile Topic Geography: Masai Mara PE Computing: Music Research: Masai poster Photograph Mara make editing notes Maths: Column addition Set the following addition number sentences out in columns in the squares below. 64+32 54+25 18+71 73+26 83+14 30+16 80+14 65+32 31+28 12+65 T U 6 4 + 3 2 Maths: Balancing number sentences challenge: Can you write your own? Reading: George’s Marvellous Medicine Reading Comprehension Answer the questions below after reading Chapter One of George’s Marvellous Medicine. Remember the answers will be in the text and if you are not sure of how to answer reread the text again till you find the answer. Where was George’s mother going at the beginning of the story? Name George’s family members What did George have to make for his grandmother? What was the first thing Grandma grumbled about? Why do you think Grandma didn’t order George around when his parents were home? According to George’s Grandma, what should you eat if you want to grow? According to George’s Grandma, what should you eat if you want to get smaller? According to George’s Grandma, what do caterpillars give you? Think of three adjectives to describe George Science: In George’s Marvellous Medicine, George makes his own medicine using ingredients from around his house. Can you make your own marvellous medicine using things you find in your house or your garden? Make sure you ask your parents first! WARNING: DO NOT DRINK YOUR MEDICINE (you know what happened to Grandma! Phonics: Common exception words (CEW) Practise reading and writing these words Above are the common exception words that children should be able to read but more importantly spell correctly by the end of Year 2. Children should not only be able to spell these during a spelling test but also apply the spellings to their everyday writing. Only once these spellings are consistently applied to their writing are they considered to have learnt them. 1. Look at the word carefully. Pay attention not just to the letters and their order, but also to the shape the word makes on the page 2. Say it aloud. Say the word both as you would usually say it, and then again enunciating any silent letters, e.g. Wed – nes – day. 3. Cover the word with a piece of paper or your hand 4. Write the word down from memory. 5. Check your answer letter by letter. If you’ve got it wrong, write it out again correctly. Literacy: In the story George mixes all kinds of ingredients together to make a medicine to give to his Grandma. Here is an example recipe: What A Good One Looks Like You will need: Method: • 1 bottle of hair shampoo 1. Collect a large pan from the kitchen. • 1 tube of toothpaste 2. Empty all the jars, bottle and aerosol cans • 1 can of shaving soap into the pan. • 1 jar of vitamin enriched cream • 1 jar of hair remover 3. Stir all the ingredients together and heat on • 1 large tin of floor polish the stove. • 1 tin of curry powder 4. Stir in the brown paint with a wooden • 1 bottle of extra hot chilli sauce spoon. • 4 bottles of animal pills 5. Fill up a medicine bottle with some of the • 1 large tin of brown paint mixture and replace the cork. 6. Run the bottle under a tap to cool it down. 7. Give it to Grandma and wait for amazing results! Write a recipe to create your own ‘Marvellous Medicine’. Before you start think about what to include in your instructions: a title showing what it will make a list of the ingredients, including the quantities step-by-step instructions about what to do. verbs (stir, mix, add) at the beginning of each instruction. Remember to direct the reader to carry out each instruction in order. Use the bank below to think of what time conjunctions you should use: Firstly Secondly Thirdly Next After Before Then Finally Imperative verbs are also known as ‘bossy verbs’ are used to tell people what to do! e.g. “Shut the window!” or “Turn the kettle on.” put mix spread open place combine add slice sprinkle get cut chop dice heat grate crack grill pour season serve Ingredients: Equipment: Method: Maths: Column addition with regrouping Reading: Magpie! What is a dictionary? Ask a helper at home to explain what dictionaries are used for and use Kids Wordsmyth online website to find out the definitions of the words listed below. Create your own dictionary by alphabetising these words and any others that you find in the text that you needed to learn the meaning of. enormous properly beckon marvellous mischief selfish wicked medicine absurd solemn shrill quiver ponder rigid puncture grumbling complain fetch Art: Design and create a new label for George’s Marvellous Medicine bottle. Look at the bottles below to inspire you and then either sketch and colour your label or make a physical copy of the label to attach to the ‘medicine’ you created in Science. twinkl.c twinkl.c twinkl.com Phonics Can you choose ten of the common exception words that you practised yesterday and write them correctly in a sentence. Literacy: In the story the author has written very descriptive sentences by using lots of adjectives to help the reader create pictures in their head. Read chapters 1 to 4 and then draw a picture of what you think Grandma would look like based on what you’ve read. Use the descriptive words in the word bank to compose sentences that describe grandma. Here is an example: What A Good One Looks Like It was a truly magnificent sight, this ancient, scrawny old woman was growing taller and taller, longer and longer. Descriptive Words Illustration of Grandma grouchy cruel ancient selfish lazy mischievous frail ugly vile disgusting witchy obnoxious rude appalling scary evil creepy monstrous Maths: Column addition (mixed) Set out the following number sentences in the squares below. 43 + 23 10 + 46 38 + 44 71 + 19 67 + 24 81 + 10 46 + 28 55 + 0 33 + 58 19 + 19 Reading: Roald Dahl (author) worked alongside Quentin Blake (illustrator) for many years to create drawings that would enrich the reader’s experience.