Home Learning for week beginning Monday 18th May

Remember: Try your very best to complete one activity each day from each section again this week. So one piece of English, reading every day, one phonics or grammar activity each day, one maths activity each day and just one Science activity for

the week but remember to look after your beans!

EnglishTask 1

1. Think inside your head today! What is your very most favourite book? Do not tell anyone! Get 3 post it notes or 3 pieces of paper and write a clue about your favourite book on each piece. Give one clue to your brother/sister or grownup, can they guess your book? Give them each clue in turn if they need it to help them guess.

2. Explain to your grown up why you like that story, remember to use the word because to justify your answer. Explain to your grownup what is the problem in your favourite story, what is the thing that goes wrong

3.

What do you predict this book will be about? What can you see? What do you think the setting is? What clues are there as to what this book will be about? Who are the characters?Write two questions that you would like to know the answer to when we read this book.

Task 2

Listen to Mrs Roberts read the story on our school website

Draw a story map to show the main events of the story. This will be important later.

Task 3

1. Listen to me read the story again and complete a chart like this one about the story.

What I liked about the What I disliked about the

story. story.

Questions about the story that I would like answered.

2. Write your own blurb for the book (you might need to explain to your grown ups what a blurb is!).

Compare it to the blurb on the back of the book (scroll to the bottom of this week’s work to see it when you’ve finished).

Questions to answerWould you have chosen this book based only on the front cover?Would you change your mind now you’ve read the blurb?

The purpose of a blurb is to tell us a little bit about what the story is about without giving too much away so that we want to read the book for ourselves.

Task 4

Look at the pictures below. What story could these pictures be about?

Use these pictures to help you summarise this story, tell your summary to a grownup. What in formation did you decide was important? I challenge you to retell the story in 30 seconds (get a grownup to time you)!

Why could you not fit it all in?

Sometimes we need to summarise a story or an event and when we do this, we just provide the key (most important) information.

Listen to Cotton Wool Colin again and use bullet points to make a note of the main events.

Discuss with a grownup and decide what the five most important events are in the story. You must include these five events in a summary of the story.

Use this to help you.Sentence starters you could useOne winters day,After that,Whilst running,Scared and cold,

Conjunctions (words that join sentences together) you could useBecause, so, but, yet, except

Questions to think about when you are writing your summaryWhere did the story begin?How did the story progress?How was Colin feeling?How did he escape?How was the problem resolved?

Task 5

Make up a story with your family!

Start the story by looking at the pictures below.

Each person takes it in turns to say the next sentence in the story (have lots of goes each if there are only a few of you). The story you are telling must have a clear beginning, middle and end, the aim of the game is to create a complete story by the end.When you have finished, discuss how you knew what to say next and how well the story flowed. What could you have done to make the story better? How did you know what to include to make the story work? Did you use ideas from other stories that you know? You will need the knowledge from this week to continue this work next week .

Reading ChallengeCan you complete all the hexagons on this Reading for

Pleasure challenge this week?

We would love to see pictures on the blog of your special reading den! (I have put a link below to help you make a

mini book)

https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books/activities/make-a-miniature-book

Reading

Click on the website below and choose one book to read from these books each day. When you have finished each book, complete a quiz on it on Accelerated Reader.

The Accelerated Reader quiz code is underneath each book just type that into our Accelerated Reader as normal.

Accelerated Reader websitehttps://ukhosted18.renlearn.co.uk/6701828/

Your log in for Accelerated Reader is the same as the one you use at school.

AR Quiz Number 233628

AR Quiz Number 233677

AR Quiz Number 233637

AR Quiz Number 233675

AR Quiz Number 233684

Phonics

Username is: loginPassword is: homelearning

Complete one activity each day from week 5https://monsterphonics.com/home-learning-in-the-covid-

19-lockdown/year-2-home-learning/

Grammar

If you are a phonics and spelling wizard, revise your grammar knowledge instead and complete one of these

Grammar Hammer checks each day, you know how to do these as we do them in school each week but you might

need to explain them to your grownups!

https://www.irkvalley.manchester.sch.uk/year-2-grammar-hammer-tests/

Maths

Complete one lesson each day from Summer Term Week 5https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

The links to the worksheets for each lesson are at the bottom of this week’s page or you could write the answers

on some paper.

Problems to Solve for extra challenge!

Science

Print off this Bean Diary or you can use it to create your own! Complete page 4, put the date, write a paragraph to explain what has happened to your bean since last week and include a detailed labelled drawing of what it looks like now. Take careful measurements using a ruler accurately to measure how tall the stem is, how long the main root is (if you can) and how long and wide the leaves are. This is important scientific data that needs recording carefully.

https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/semley-ce-va-primary-school/UploadedDocument/

e37a2960473d4070a2cc5b01958f9d75/bean-diary.pdf