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Year 2 – Wednesday 22nd April
Good Morning Year 2
Ahoy there Year 2,
We hope you are well rested and are ready for another day of exciting learning. We loved seeing all of your amazing work yesterday. You are clearly enjoying all of our pirate activities and we are pleased that no one has needed to walk the plank yet!!! (Parent’s keep this in mind if your little pirates are not behaving themselves or getting on with their work!!)
Each day those cheeky pirates are hiding parts of the map in the Year 2 teacher’s houses. Can you solve the clues and tell us where to look? Look in the password protected video box below- we want to hide it from other pirate crews trying to find the treasure too! Send your answers to the email below. Tomorrow we will post the next part of the map that we have found to help us find the treasure. Below is Clue 3! We will publish all of the clues at the end of our unit so that you can try to put the map together.
Clue 2 was found under a pillow in Miss Tamblyn’s house.
We would love to hear from you and see your lovely work, so please do not hesitate to email us at year2@stmarksce.org.uk. Have a lovely day.
Many thanks,
Year 2 Team
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Helpful Reminders
Don’t forget you can email us on year2@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
Additional Ongoing Daily Activities
Here are some additional activities for you to have a go at each day if you choose to. Please feel free to do as much or as little of these as you wish. We have added a handwriting booklet that you could work through very gradually, not in one go. You can either print the booklet, or do this onto paper of your own at home. We look forward to seeing how amazing your handwriting will be when we see your work. The Common Exception Words should also be learnt gradually, by selecting 2 or 3 words a week that you should aim to learn along side your weekly spellings.
- 20 minutes of reading either a school book or a home book.
- Practice your 2,5 and 10 times tables using TTRockstars, or a different method.
- Practice your weekly spellings which will be provided below, and the Year 2 Common Exception Words.
English
In English today, we will be learning about simile. A simile can be used to make description more vivid to capture the reader’s imagination (i.e. as brave as a lion). Later in the week, we will be able to use these within our character descriptions of a pirate. Have fun creating your own different simile. Remember the simile could be about any part of the pirate: hair, hat, sword, eyes, beard etc or how he moves, speaks or acts. Be creative!
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Here are some pictures of pirates to get you started with your similes:
Maths
Today in maths, we are going to be starting a new topic on measuring lengths. Today’s activity focuses specifically on recognising what a centimetre is, and being able to accurately measure and draw lengths using a ruler. Perhaps you could engage your child in this new topic by first measuring some of their toys to find out how many cm’s they are using a ruler. If you don’t have a ruler at home, you can find an online version on the internet. Just ask an adult to do the search for you.
As with the other maths lessons shared, there is a video to help explore this concept, as well as an activity sheet to complete. You can then check your answers using the answer sheet provided. Please click on the first link below to access the White Rose page, before completing ‘Lesson 3’ in ‘Summer Term – Week 1’. Please email us if you have any questions regarding this. Good luck!
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Year 2 – Summer Lesson 3- Measuring Length
Year 2 – Summer Lesson 3 – Answer Sheet
Topic
Today’s extra activity is to create your very own pirate word search using the template attached below. To do this write each of the pirate words one letter at a time into the boxes. Then write random letters in the remaining boxes. To challenge people you could try and write words backwards or diagonally across the grid. Perhaps you can ask one of the people you are living with to see if they can find the words in your word search! Have fun!
Follow this link: A Pirate Wordsearch