Year 2 Homework Blog

• Animals and nature
• Learning pack 4 Your new learning pack is now available to download from the school website. It will e using the Oak national Academy lessons to support your learning at home. If you have any questions or you would like to share what you have been up to, please contact me via the class email account.
• Harry Potter at Home Good morning Year 2. As some of you might be aware, I am a big Harry Potter fan and I know some of you are as well so I wanted to make you aware of Harry Potter at Home. This is a new website brought to you by J K Rowling and her team who have created a range of activities to keep the whole family entertained during the lockdown. There are lots of activities to keep you entertained such as colouring, word searches and quizzes. There will also be celebrity guests each reading a chapter of Harry Potter and ...
• Home Learning Pack 3 Hello Year 2. I hope you are all happy and healthy. Your new home learning pack is available to view and download on the class page of the school website. The pack continues to look at the stories of Roald Dahl and in this pack we will be learning about Matilda and the BFG. Maths will complete our learning about shapes and start our learning about length and height. As Mr Gately mentioned in his message on Friday, I am aware that it may not be possible for everyone to print out the entire pack. Please only print out what you ...
• Static Electricity Hello Year 2 I hope you are all well and healthy. In this video I have completed a number of experiments involving static electricity. They are nice and easy to do at home and you don’t need much to complete them. Let me know if you give any of them a try at home. As the water investigation didn’t work very well in the above video, I have included one of me doing it at a sink. As you can see it works really well with a small stream of water.
• Frozen water experiment Hello Year 2. I hope you are well and working hard on your new home learning packs. Please contact me if you have any questions about it or if you would like to send me any pictures of the work you have completed. Today I have done one of my favourite experiments and all you need to do it is a bottle of water. Watch the video to find out how to do it and see what happens.
• BBC bitesize Hello Year 2. I just wanted to share the new BBC Bitesize lessons with you. These are daily lessons covering Literacy, Maths and an additional foundation subject. Although the lessons might not match our current learning in class they are designed to cover the Year 2 objectives. They include lots of videos, games and even some appearances from celebrity guests. Obviously the new home learning packs were released yesterday which include all the learning the children need to do. However if you are looking for additional tasks to do I would recommend using the BBC Bitesize website. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
• Home learning pack The new Year 2 home learning pack is now available to download from the school website. Our new topic this half-term is Roald Dahl. The pack consists of daily Literacy, Maths and foundation subject lessons designed to support your child’s development whilst they are learning from home. Please use the new Year 2 email address to contact me if you have any questions about the learning of if you want to share any work that has been completed.
• Eggsperiment
• There’s a tiger in my garden One of my son’s favourite books at the moment is ‘There’s a tiger in my garden’ by Lizzy Stewart. This morning we had a visit from a tiger in our garden. If you would like a visit from an animal in your garden then there are instructions in the video below. Warning: the video contains a scary tiger! The tiger was also very loud so at points it is very hard to hear me. It would be great to know what animals have been visiting you so please let me know using the class email address.