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Find all the pieces of the map below and solve this to win the treasure:

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Here are all of the map pieces. Use them to put your map together and then check your answer. When you have found the route to the treasure, look at the writing below to find your reward.

Map pieces

Map answer

Ahoy there Shipmates! You’ve proven you’re not just landlubbers- you’re real pirates at last! Enjoy this pirate story as a reward for all of your hard work to find the clues! Click here to watch.

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English

In English today, you can complete your usual Friday grammar activity. Remember, if you have decided to carry on with writing your pirate adventure story then you can miss this today. 

Once you have completed your task you can check your answers. If you don’t have access to a printer, it is fine for you to talk through each question and discuss your answers rather than write them down if things a little easier. 

Have fun and be great grammar detectives! 

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Find today’s grammar hammer activities and answers here, using our usual code: 

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Year 2 Grammar Hammer Summer week 2

Year 2 Answers Grammar Hammer Summer week 2

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Maths

Today in maths, we have another Friday maths challenge for you to have a go at! 

Similarly to last week, these problems aim to encourage you to challenge yourself, and draw on your maths knowledge to find the answers. The first two problems will be aimed at Year 2, so we suggest you focus on these, and may want to complete either, or both of these problems.

Please click on the link below to access the above problem, and others on the White Rose page. Complete ‘Lesson 5’ in ‘Summer Term – Week 2’ named ‘Friday maths challenge’. Please email us if you have any questions regarding this. Good luck!

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Year 2 – Summer Week 2 – Friday maths challenge

The answers to last weeks problems are:

Topic

Today’s extra activity will continue with our science learning all about plants. Today we are going to be thinking specifically about what plants need to grow. Click here to watch a short video explaining the things that plants need to grow. 

Once you have watched the video, share what you have learnt by completing one of the below activities.

Activity 1- Circle the things that plants need

Activity 2 – Fill in the gaps

Activity 3 – Cut and order stages

Daily Time Fillers

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 (the entire alphabet) 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 on Spelling Shed, and the Year 2 Common Exception Words.

Common Exception Words

The-Entire-Alphabet

Tuesday Weekly Spellings Update

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Use the link below to solve the last two clues:

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English

In English today, you will be writing your exciting Pirate Adventure stories. We are really looking forward to these and hope you are too. The presentation below shows one way that you could go about your writing and has broken the writing into sections. You can do this too if you’d prefer and you can write your story over two or three days if that makes it more manageable, breaking it into a beginning, middle and an end. For reluctant writers, this can make the task less daunting and more manageable. If you do this, remember to read where you have got to before you carry on with your writing so that you don’t miss anything exciting. Tomorrow’s lesson, is a grammar hammer but you can miss this if you’d prefer to continue with your story so be as flexible as you like.  

Some children may wish to include pictures in their stories too and they may even want to have chapters or turn it into a little book. This is fine and if children want to type their stories, then we are happy for them to do so. Another incentive that we find useful in school is allowing them to write in pen. 

Try to use as many of the different skills that we have learnt over the past few weeks in your writing as you can: expanded noun phrases, similes, compound sentences and question and exclamation sentences. These help to make your writing exciting and engaging for the reader. Above all have fun and enjoy being an author! We can’t wait to see the end results and all of your super ideas!

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Below is a selection of paper with a pirate themed border that you can use if you’d like. If your child may work better doing a bit of a picture and then some writing, you could use the half lined paper as there is a space for a picture too. Feel free to write directly into books that you have or onto other paper. Some children may like to type it into the computer too. All ways are fine. 

Half Lined

Lined

Narrow Lined

Pirate Adventure Story Starter

Maths

Today in maths, we are going to have a go at some problem solving, using some of the skills we have learnt so far this year in maths. Get your thinking caps on!

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 4’ in ‘Summer Term – Week 2’. Please email us if you have any questions regarding this. Good luck!

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Year 2 – Summer Week 2- Lesson 4 Worksheet

Year 2 – Summer Week 2 – Lesson 4 Answer sheet

Please click here to access today’s additional maths challenge if you have finished today’s maths and would like to push yourself even further.

Topic

Today’s extra activity is to continue with our science topic on plants, specifically thinking about the life cycle of a bean. Firstly click here to read a story about the different stages in the life cycle of a bean, and have a chat about how many stages there are, and what the bean looks like at each stage.

Once you have finished the story, have a go at sequencing the bean pictures below in the correct order. Can you label the root, shoot and leaf on the longest bean? If you do not have access to a printer to print the bean pictures, you could have a go at drawing and colouring the beans at the different stages of the cycle. Have fun!

Picture of beans: Bean sequence

Daily Time Fillers

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. Remember the scholastic learning zone too!
• 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.

Common Exception Words

The-Entire-Alphabet

Tuesday Weekly Spellings Update

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Use the link below to reveal today’s clue: 

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English

In English today, we will be beginning our planning for our pirate adventure story. We have a story starter and a planning sheet for you to complete. We will use this to guide our writing today. If you don’t have access to a printer, you can write your plan directly onto a sheet of paper.  The pdf flipchart below breaks our planning down into steps so you can work through this today as you complete your plan.

Remember this is your story, so feel free to add in any extra details that you like. You may also change your ideas after you plan it and that is fine too. Planning is basically an opportunity to try and test out ideas. The important thing is to make sure you have an exciting part and then a good ending. We are really looking forward to reading them after you have written them tomorrow.  Talking about your story once you have planned it is another way to plan a successful story. Try telling it to members of your family using story telling language: first, next, suddenly, out of the blue…

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Story Planning Map

pirate word mat

Maths

Today in maths, we are going to be continuing our work on measurement, exploring the four operations with length. This involves using what we know about adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing to help us solve problems involving length.

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 2’. Please email us if you have any questions regarding this. Good luck!

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Year 2 – Summer Week 2- Lesson 3 Worksheet

Year 2 – Summer Week 2- Lesson 3 Answer sheet

Please find the additional maths challenge here if you have completed today’s maths and want to challenge yourself further.

Topic

Today’s extra activity is about the pollination of flowers and shows how flowers reproduce. There is a short piece of reading and then you can stick and sort the pictures into the correct order. You could also draw your own pictures if you’re feeling creative or if you can’t print it out. 

Plant_Reproduction

Daily Time Fillers

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.

Common Exception Words

The-Entire-Alphabet

Tuesday Weekly Spellings Update

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Find the latest clue under here: 

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English

In English today, we will be continuing our work on compound sentences whilst also learning about the characters that appear in adventure stories. Most adventure stories have villains and heroes and we can tell whether characters are nice (heroes) or nasty (villains) based on how they act or behave and by what they say. For today’s activity, we will use some speech bubbles to help us think about what the heroic and villainous characters might say to each other.  Whilst we do this, we can try and show the character’s personality and practise some of our compound sentences. We have included a speech bubble example sheet in the resources section below, to give you some ideas. 

Optional extra

As an extension task, your child may wish to explore how we write dialogue into our stories. The last two pages of the pdf flipchart below give some examples. Your child may like to go back and look at each of their speech bubbles and then write these as direct speech, using speech marks. This is a year 3 expectation but many children in year 2 like to write speech into their stories, so we often include a discussion of this in our classwork to begin to teach the children how to do this. Feel free to give it a go and challenge yourselves but there is no expectation that children must be able to do this in Year 2. 

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These useful resources include empty speech bubble pictures and some examples which can be used to get you started: 

Remember: You can also write the sentences onto paper rather than print anything out. 

Year 2 Tuesday Speech Bubbles

Speech Bubble Examples

Maths

Today in maths we will be continuing with our measurement unit, looking specifically at ordering lengths.

To do this, as suggested with the previous activities, you could approach this practically to start with by measuring a selection of toys or items that you have in the house. You can then consider which is the longest, and which is the shortest, before ordering them with the shortest at one end, and the longest at the other. If you used items to help with yesterdays maths, perhaps you could use the same items to allow for consistency, re-enforcing prior learning.

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 2’ in ‘Summer Term – Week 2’. Please email us if you have any questions regarding this. Good luck!

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Year 2 – Summer Week 2 – Lesson 2 worksheet

Year 2 – Summer Week 2 – Lesson 2 Answer sheet

Please click here for today’s additional maths challenge if you finish the maths above, and wish to challenge yourself further!

Topic

Today’s extra activity is linked with our science. We are going to be thinking about plant life cycles. Go to the BBC link below to watch 2 short clips about plant life cycles and how dandelion seeds disperse.  You can also have a little read of the ‘Year 2 Science- plant life cycle’ pdf below. There are then some cutting and sticking activities that you may like to try, or you could complete the BBC quiz, or you could also see if you can collect dandelions when you go on your daily walk and see if you can spot different points in their life cycle. 

Year 2 Science Tuesday plant life cycles

BBC Bitesize clip

dandelion worksheet

match the words and definitions

Daily Time Fillers

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.

Common Exception Words

The-Entire-Alphabet

Tuesday Weekly Spellings Update

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Find today’s pirate clue here: 

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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 below (the entire alphabet) 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.
• Go to the scholastic website using the username and password that you have been sent. We have added new books for you to read. 

Common Exception Words

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English

In English this week, we will be planning and writing our own exciting adventure story. We’ve heard that lots of you have been watching pirate movies and reading pirate books for inspiration so you will be able to use your own ideas in your story. Over the next two days, we will be revising using compound sentences as we learn about pirate adventure stories and the exciting heroic and villainous characters. On Wednesday, we will plan our own story and on Thursday we will write our own adventure.

Today’s activity includes a clip for children to watch and it would be advisable for adults to supervise children with this- it only lasts about 1 minute. When they have finished watching, the children can either practise writing compound sentences about the clip ( i.e. A big orange octopus crashed onto the ship and it chased Captain Hook).; or they can write their own short adventure about it including some compound sentences, like the one in the example that’s given. Have fun, be creative and challenge yourselves!

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Below is a clip from Peter Pan return to Neverland that you can use to inspire your writing today. Parents there may be an advert at the beginning so please supervise children to skip this. They only need the clip with the octopus so do stop them after this short clip. 

Peter Pan clip link

 

Maths

Today in maths, we will be continuing our unit on measure, exploring comparing lengths. Perhaps you can engage your child with this concept by firstly comparing the length of some of their favourite toys, using the language ‘shorter’ and ‘longer’ to compare each object. You can then talk about items that you would measure using centimetres, and items that you would measure using metres, reminding your child that a metre is much longer than a cm, as there are 100 cm’s in 1 metre. Use a ruler and metre stick if you have one available to help compare different lengths and decide which length is longer, and which is shorter.

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 1’ in ‘Summer Term – Week 2’. Please email us if you have any questions regarding this. Good luck!

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Year 2 – Week 2 – Lesson 1 – Comparing length

Year 2 – Week 2 – Lesson 1 – Answer sheet

Answers to Friday’s maths challenge should be available here: BBC/Whiterose maths challenge Week 1

Our school daily maths challenge is available here and can be completed in addition to the above lesson if you would like an additional challenge. 

Science

Today’s extra activity is to find out about the different parts that make up a plant. Now that the weather is warmer and spring is here, the plants are starting to grow. These are growing from seeds, ‘hidden treasures’ in the soil. Read the poem about plants and then complete the worksheet describing the job of each part of a flowering plant. Perhaps you can go outside and look at plants, and even draw your own. May be you can impress your family by teaching them about the different parts of a plant.

Science activity- parts of a plant

Science- plant worksheet

Bye for now!