Home Learning Archive 20.4-8.5
07.05.20 Hello It's Miss Stevens, I hope you are all enjoying the activities we are setting you. Don't forget that as well as these activities you should be reading for 20 minutes every day and practising your times tables. Don't forget to access AR and complete some reading quizzes on the books you have read too.
Literacy
Write an adverb alphabet. An adverb is a word that tells you more information about the verb. It often tells us how, when or where.
A - Abnormally
B - Beautifully
C - Cautiously
D - Dangerously
Maths
Money maths games. Choose one of these money games to play. They are of varying levels so you might want to play a few different ones.
Some of my favourites are ... Coin cruncher and How much left?
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/money
Other
If you enjoyed the Online Great Fire of London Museum visit a few weeks ago, today there is another online session from The London Fire Brigade, this time all about the fire service during WW2. It will be Live at 11:00 and available on the Facebook page, website or youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXpJq5lM-8F8zz9yjFadgZQ/featured
After you have watched this session could you create your own medal like the WW2 medals? Perhaps one we could give to our NHS staff or for all their help during this time?
Here are some examples of medals from WW2.
6.5.2020
Literacy
Homophones are two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.
There their they’re
To too two
Where wear
How many homophones do you know? Can you put them all into sentences? Be careful to check the spellings.
Maths
Test your Hundred square number knowledge using this game ( you could also write out your own hundred square and do the same activity).
Science: Design a fair test
Who in your house has the shoe with the best sole grip?
How will you carry out the test?
How many shoes will you test?
What equipment will you need?
What surface will you test your shoe on?
What did you find out?
Website of the day https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/activities
French
- Look at this pictures by the French cubist painter Auguste Herbin . Choose one and answer the questions in French:
Composition on the word ''vie'' (life) 2, 1950
How many: carrés rouges?
rectangles noirs?
rectangles blancs?
carrés bleus?
triangles jaunes?
Maison (house), 1947
How many.... triangles oranges?
croissants bleus?
ronds blancs?
triangles noirs?
rectangles noirs?
2. Choose a painting and write in French the shapes and colours you see like in the activity one.
Femme (Woman) 1944 Soleil (sun) 1947
3. Can you make your own painting in the style of Auguste Herbin and describe it for us?
Tuesday 5th May 2020
Literacy
Read the 100 Animals poem below:
What do you think about this poem? Write your own 100 animal poem. Use the same format but choose your own animals. How can you illustrate your poem?
Maths
Today you will be looking at inverse operations. The inverse of multiplication is division. I would like you to write out your times tables and then write the inverse sum.
For example:
1 x 3 = 3 3 divided by 3 = 1
2 x 3 = 6 6 divided by 3 =2
I would like you to choose the times table that you are most confident with and write it out. After each number sentence write the corresponding division sum. Remember to set out your work neatly.
MG Art Challenge
The challenge this week is called ' It's oh So Quiet' Find out more :
Topic Challenge
Your challenge is to make a Thaumatrope. What is a Thaumatrope? You are thinking. Well scroll down and click on the link ' How To Make a Thaumatrope.' Follow the instructions to make one. Extra house points if you can explain how it works.
4.5.2020
Well done to Chiff Chaff and Crow who won last week's TTRockstars competitions.
This week's competition has already started.
Chaffinch vs Cuckoo
Chiff Chaff vs Crow
Maths Let's use our division methods to find fractions of amounts.
If we wanted to find 3/4 of 12, we would....
Step 1: We draw a bar and break it into the number of pieces in the denominator (4).
Step 2: We share the amount (12) between the different sections of the bar (4). Make sure each section has the same amount (3).
Step 3: We look at the numerator (3) and add together the number of bar sections it tells us (3).
Step 4: We check our work! Does 3/4 of 12 equal 9.
To help you to become really confident, check out this video.
Try to solve these problems now:
English
Can you describe an animal without saying it's name? Use your description and senses and I will try and guess the animal.
Think carefully about the animal:
- What does it look like?
- What does it sound like?
- What does it feel like?
- What does it sound like?
- How does it move?
- How does it make you/ people feel?
Handwriting
This week's handwriting joins are oo and ue. When you are practising this, remember that your o joins from the top.
How many words can you think of that have these joins?
Other - Our Life Timeline
Last week, I was in school doing a lot of artwork with the children who are in at the moment. Those of you in Chaffinch know I love Art and I want to see some of the art you can create that represent you or the things you love and enjoy doing.
Try to be as imaginative and colourful as possible.
01.05.20 It's officially May!
English
Today we would like you to describe your favourite character. It could be a film or TV character or even a book character. When writing remember to not only think about and describe their looks but their personality too. Remember when we were describing Aladdin and Jafar we talked about how Jafar was evil and sneaky and Aladdin was courageous and clever.
Maths
Today is column subtraction. This might be new learning for lots of you so don't worry as long as you try your best that is all we ask!
Here is a short video of me going through the steps and how to do it.
Chose 1 set of questions to answer. Green are Easy, Orange are Medium and Red are Hard.
Don't forget with subtraction the biggest number always goes first.
Other
Some of the teachers at Mission Grove have been recording themselves reading some stories for the children at MG. Take a look at some of them here on the Learning > Story telling page of the website. Can you spot Miss Watkin and Miss Stevens?
Your task today is to get somebody to record you reading a story. Just like the teachers, so that we can share them on the class pages for your classmates to see.
Have a lovely weekend.
French
Bonjour Year 2, Miss Zanon here. I have a little activity for you where you can learn about shapes.
Learn the name of some shapes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb_QzaqxmA
Complete the quiz here: https://wordwall.net/play/1362/151/858
You can play different games here by choosing the activity on the right side of the player: https://wordwall.net/resource/1362151/french/les-formes-shapes
Bon weekend!
30.4.20
Hello Year 2 it's Miss Stevens here. Before we get started with today's learning a few things that you can do to help us out.
1. Please put your name (your child's name) and class for the subject in each email. - There are 4 classes sending work and this helps us work out what teacher the email is for.
2. Please try to send everything in 1 email as opposed to 4-5 emails with only 1 picture in each.
Thank you.
English
Alphabet hunt - Name something in each of these categories for each letter of the alphabet. Animal, Food, Country, Girls name, Boys name. Draw a table like the one below to help organise your work. There are 5 house points up for grabs for every completed category.
Maths
One of the key skills we learned in school before Covid 19 was column addition. Today I would like you to practise answering some addition questions using it.
Here is a short video of me reminding you of the steps and how to do it.
Chose 1 set of questions to answer. Green are Easy, Orange are Medium and Red are Hard.
Other -History
How well do you know your history vocabulary?
Take this quiz
https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks1/history/vocabulary-2/
and find out more about any that you didn't get right. Remember making mistakes is a good way to learn!
Have a great day and i can't wait to see all of your work!
29.4.20
English
There is a document attached below that explains the five activities you can do related to this picture. You can visit the Pobble if you like this activity and want to try more.Literacy
Maths
Practice your coordinates by playing this game. on primarygames.co.uk. You help feed Billy by showing him to the location of the coordinates, because that is where the bugs are! Remember that the first number is for the bottom axis (horizontal) and the second number if for the vertical axis – the one that goes up and down. Good luck!
Science
Today’s challenge is to make a paper plane! How far can you get it travel? What about if you change the design - does it change the way it flies?
You can measure the distance it travels or write a set of instructions (for how to make a paper aeroplane) so that someone else can make one.
Website – Barefoot Computing.
Today there is another really exciting website for you to check out called Barefoot Computing. They have lots of interactive games and mini missions for you to complete, and some activities don’t even require a computer or device! This is a brilliant chance to flex your brain muscle and work on your coding, debugging and thinking skills.
28.4.202
Hello, Year two, it’s Mrs Hussain, I hope you are all well. It was very sunny yesterday, what did you do in the sun? I practised making shadow puppets with my hands. Can you make a shadow puppet with your hands, in the sun? Send me a picture, I would love to see what you made.
English
Write a letter to your friend from school. Remember to include the features of a letter, address, date, who it’s to and from. You can use the school address. If you send it to us we can forward it on to your friend. Tell your friend all the exciting things that you have been doing.
Maths - Problem Solving
Today, for maths I would like you to play the games below. You need two dice for the first game. If you do not have dice, then try and make your own. For the second game you will need to make cards numbered 1 to 12 and a partner to play with. Have fun!
Two Dice
Here are two dice. If you add up the dots on the top you will get 7. Find two dice to roll yourself. Add the numbers that are on the top. What other totals could you get if you roll the dice again? Notes for adults: Children can count the total number of spots on the dice or add them together using number facts they already know. Record the results and explore the different totals that you can get. Help them to find all the possible combinations.
Shut the Box
You will need:
Two dice and Cards with the numbers 1 to 12 on them.
How to play
The aim of the game is to turn over all the cards. You can turn over the cards that match the numbers on the dice. How to play Start with the numbers showing on all the cards. The first player rolls the two dice. They can turn over the cards which are the same as the numbers rolled. For example, if a 4 and a 5 is rolled, they would turn over the 4 and 5 cards. If a double is thrown, the player's turn ends. They can roll the dice again until they can't turn over any more cards. The cards that are left showing are then added and that is their score. The dice are then passed to the next player who turns the cards the right way up again and then rolls the dice in the same way as player one. They now can keep on rolling dice as long as each time they can turn over some new cards. When the player can't turn over any more cards, those that are left are added together and that is the player's score. The winner is the person with the lower score. It can be played with just one turn each or each player can have a number of turns that you decide at the beginning of the game.
Science
Investigate a small area of grass.
- Find a small patch of grass in your garden and mark out a 50cm x 50 cm square using pegs and string.
- Measure and record the height of the grass.
- Carefully look over the patch and try to identify as many of the plants as you can, using the plant ID worksheet that is attached below. You could look even more closely with a magnifying glass if you have one.
- Now draw three of your favourite plants from the patch.
- Are there any insects that you can spot, identify and draw as well?
- Come back to the same patch over the coming weeks and record how it changes as the seasons progress. Can you explain the changes you notice?
If you do not have a garden, or cannot access a patch of grass, do the activity below.
Messages from the wild
Go to the following website:
https://www.messagesfromthewild.com/?g4id=9
Listen to the messages of the different animals. How do they sound different? What are they trying to tell you?
MG Art Challenge
Well done all of you for taking part in last week's Arty Architecture Challenge - if you haven't seen the amazing work of our young artists, check out the exhibition here:
https://artatmg.blogspot.com/2020/04/arty-architecture-exhibition.html
Take part in this week’s art challenge - Seeing Double. To find out more, click on this link
Happy Learning, Mrs Hussain
27.4.2020
Hello Year Two! I hope you have all had a great weekend!
Well done to Chaffinch and Crow who won last week's TTRockstars competitions.
This week's competition has already started.
Chaffinch vs Crow
Chiff Chaff vs Cuckoo
Try to use your TTRockstars password to access Numbots to practise your number bonds as well.
Maths
Let's revise our division methods today. We have learnt how to use sharing circles and arrays this year.
Sharing Circles
Arrays
Can you solve these problems using division?
English
Let's look at some different word types today. What are adjectives? What are nouns? (I'm sure you remember our song!)
Make a list of all the nouns can you see in the room you are currently in?
Now write an adjective in front of each noun. Try to use your senses and be as descriptive as possible.
Why don't you test you understanding with this game? You will need to use the espresso login and password.
https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/standalone/activity_html/item321272/index.html?source=espresso-gamezone
Challenge: What nouns need capital letters? Can you give me some examples?
Handwriting
This week's handwriting joins are oa and ow. When you are practising this, remember that your o joins from the top. How many words can you think of that have these joins?
Other - Our Life Timeline
Think carefully about your life. Can you create a timeline of six or seven of the main events in your life? What exciting way could you present this - pictures with writing underneath, PowerPoint, drawings?
Summer 1 Project Page
Have a look at our new Summer 1 Project Page which is attached below in the documents. It is full of Plant and Explorer things you can do at home.
Please continue to send us some of the great work you have been doing at home yeartwo@missiongrove.org.uk as we really enjoy seeing it.
Miss Conroy
24.4.20 Today is the beginning of Ramadan
Literacy
Log on to Discovery Espresso and read a newspaper article to find out all about Ramadan, what it is and who celebrates it.
After reading the article (or watching the video) complete the Quiz. Don’t forget to let us know how you did?????!
After that, write two paragraphs to explain what Ramadan is and why it is a special time for people. The question you have to answer is - how will it be different this year from other years?
There are lots of Extra Activities available on the site so you can explore them too. You can even do one of these lovely crafts.
Maths
Today I want you to look at patterns. You can choose the level to start at T.1 (an introduction where you copy the pattern) and T.7 which gets a little bit trickier. Draw your own shape patterns next, using as many unusual shapes as you can think of.
Science - Explorify
Here are two more activities to explore about plants. One video will explain what to expect when a shoot starts to grow, and the other involves looking at different shapes of leaves and how they help a plant to survive. What can you notice about the plants around you ?
Website – The Oak National Academy
For those of you who want a more formal or structured set of lessons, this is a good resource that the Government have launched called The Oak Academy It is not mandatory so you can just pick and choose what you would like to try. Although it has been made by teachers children should still be supervised when using it.
NEWSFLASH
London Fire Brigade are hosting a Live session At 2pm today for parents and their children to ask questions about The Great Fire of London. https://www.facebook.com/events/811201419367772/
23.04.20
Today is St Georges day, St George is the patron saint of England. All of our work today will be centred around St Georges day, so hopefully by the end of it you will have learned all about St George and why today is special.
English
Start off by watching this Espresso video on St Georges day,
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Then have a go the St Georges reading comprehension attached below. Remember to read the text carefully and use it to help you answer the questions.
Maths - word problems
Have a go at answering some of these word problems
Other
Draw and create a beast the St George could fight next. You can be as imaginative as you want. Don't forget to label you beast.
Have a wonderful rest of the week, Miss Stevens.
22.4.20
To celebrate this Earth Day I'd like you to look at this poster and think about how many of these you already do, or could do more of. Talk with your family about what changes you could make to help protect the planet that we all call home.
Can you think of any other things that can help Reduce, Reuse or Recycle what we use? You could design your own Top Tips like this one, or make your own craft project.
Literacy- Create your own river story with the WWF.
Be inspired by watching storyteller Cindy Lou’s journey of a salmon travelling up the river and the animals it meets on its way, the playful otter, the nervous water vole, and the superfast kingfisher.
Then read the fact files to plan and create your own story about the river-dwelling species and how their habitats are affected by human activity. While watching the video, why not magpie some of the adjectives and other vocabulary that you like and use them in your own story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLrLO6qWsoE&feature=youtu.be
Maths
Today we're going to look at data again. Watch these two tutorials here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zjxhfg8 and then let's look at collecting your own data. This really just means counting the amount of things that you want to know about. As it's Earth Day, can you collect data about your recycling bin?
How many cardboard items are there? You might have plastic wrappers, tins, bottles, pots, trays, glass jars - whatever you have you can record the data in a chart. Write your own questions about your data - What is the most/ What is the difference between/What is the least.
Science
Our science topic is all about Plants. Explore germination by trying to grow from your own ‘seed’. All you need is a dried bean/pea (a cooked one won’t work) or seed, a wet paper towel and a clear bag to put them in. This website explains the steps. You can even start your own ‘Bean Diary’ to track it’s progress by writing down the changes every few days.
Website
Where does our food come from? And how do they get it to us? Find out how your food gets from the farm to your fork and what it takes to produce some of the foods we eat every day. Visit this website to find out all about it.
21.04.2020
Hello Year two. It's Mrs Hussain. I hope you are all well and enjoying the nice weather. I have been busy planting my seedlings. This is what they look like now:
Some of the leaves have already been eaten by slugs. So if you have any suggestions about how to stop slugs from eating my plants, I will be happy to hear from you.
English
To celebrate World earth day which is on the 22nd April 2020, INTO film have some films for primary school children. Click on the link below and scroll down the page. Choose a film to watch. Copy and paste this link.
Or watch a nature film on BBCiplayer.
Think back to when you watched Aladdin in the cinema and then wrote a film review. I would like you to write a film review about the film that you have seen. You can send your film reviews to the email account. I will watch the film that has the best review.
Maths - Spelling numbers
I would like you to practise writing your numbers in words, from one to a hundred. How many can you write in fifteen minutes?
1 - one
2 - two
3 - three
How far did you get? If you're a little tired from writing all those numbers, Espresso Learning has lots of fun activities that you can do to help you learn how to spell the numbers.
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There are lots of learning activities that you can do to help you write your numbers.
Science
While you are on Espresso, learn what the parts of a plant do.
Draw your own plant and label it. Describe what each part of the plant does. Or, if you have a garden, maybe you can pick one plant, with your parents' permission (for science purposes only). Have a good look at all the different parts. Dry the plant, stick it on paper and describe what the different parts do.
Happy learning!
Mrs Hussain
20.4.20
Hello Year Two! I hope you have all had a great weekend!
Well done to Chaffinch and Crow who won last week's TTRockstars competitions.
This week's competition has already started.
Chaffinch vs Chiff Chaff
Crow vs Cuckoo
Try to use your TTRockstars password to access Numbots to practise your number bonds as well.
Maths
What does the number 12 mean to you?
How many number sentences and related facts can you write down that include the number 12?
Challenge: Try to use all four operations.
English
Practise spelling some of the Year 2 words that you find difficult.
Can you now put the in exciting sentences, questions or exclamations?
Challenge: Can you make sentences using more than one word? How many words can you put into one sentence and still have the sentence make sense?
Handwriting
This week's handwriting joins are ie and ide. When you are practising this, remember that your d should be taller than your other letters.
How many words can you think of that have this join?
Other - Topic
Play Pirate Bunnies World Adventure at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvsd8xs/articles/z6vyf4j
Find three facts about one of the places mentioned and write them in your neatest handwriting, using correct punctuation and an expanded noun phrase or adverb.
New Science and Topic Learning
Unfortunately, we are not in school yet to begin our new Science and Topic units. Our new Science topic is Plants and our new History and Geography topic is Explorers.
Instead, we have created a wonderful new Summer 1 Topic and Science Project Page full of ideas which is attached below in the documents.
Please continue to send us some of the great work you have been doing at home yeartwo@missiongrove.org.uk as we really enjoy seeing it.
Miss Conroy