Year 2 Home Learning Spring 2021

If you are off school here are some ideas to help you with home learning
English
Quickly recognise and read year 2 tricky words |
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Write sentences which include year 2 tricky words Encourage children to find the word and copy it Make up ways to remember how to spell it...w-hat for what, big elephant can always understand small elephants for because
For example- The children go to school. There is a beautiful plant. |
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Support your child with writing sentences about things they are interested in |
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Read a story and retell it by acting it out with props or homemade puppets |
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Write your favourite story and draw pictures to go with it |
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Write a letter to a friend or family member. Can you remember all of the features?
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Write a book review on your favourite book. Why did you enjoy it? What did you think would happen?
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Write a set of instructions on how to do something. It could be how to build a Lego model, how to play a game or how to make a drink
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Make a list of anything at all Focus on writing all of the sounds in each word Phase 3 sounds
Phase 5 sounds
Links to other phonics games and learning ideas. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
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Focus on forming all letters correctly Write simple sentences and focus on letter formation for example- The black cat is on the mat.
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Maths
Here is a great website to use: https://mathsbot.com/manipulativeMenu OR https://toytheater.com/category/teacher-tools/ if you don't have any suitable resrouces at home to use.
Count in multiples of 2, 5 and 10 up to 100 Use coins to practice counting Use a 100 square to see the patterns. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares Watch this video...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_yUC1NCFkE |
Form numbers clearly and correctly Make your own snakes and ladders game |
Get used to telling the time to o’clock and half past Learn to tell the time to quarter past and quarter to the hour Talk about the time you do things, make a clock Here's a great video to watch...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Posbu-VKxU Here's an interactive resource you can use...https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock Here's a game you could play...https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling_the_time# Start with level 1! Solve simple problems for time for example: We leave home at 8am and it takes half an hour to get to the shop. What time will we arrive? We spend an hour in the shop. What time do we leave? |
Learn about weight |
Be confident with recalling number bonds to 10 and then to 20 Play...https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button OR https://www.studyzone.tv/game32-codeb185a011318c3d8c938f8d21f4a19d9b Listen to...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9tjBUiXs0 and then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6udqW6VhWg |
Partition 2 digit numbers into tens and ones using practical things such as straws and beads Play...https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball Take a look at...https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82 |
Use fact families to writing addition and subtraction number sentences Go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkd98xs |
Play...https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
every day and try to beat your score and move up levels!
Learn how to read numbers as words
Play...https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/early-math/number-words-fruit-splat-game/
Make sure children confident with recognising all coins. Can they name them?
Add two coins together. What's the total?
How many ways can they make an amount? e.g. 10p: 1 x 10p coin, 2 x 5p coin, 5 x 2p coin, 10 x 1p coin etc. Start with smaller amounts.
Here are some online resources to support this:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game