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Welcome to Maple Class

As our summer term begins and we find ourselves in these strange and challenging times, we wanted to share with you what we will be learning about this term. Naturally some of the topic will have to be adapted for home learning but we are trying to include as much of our summer term curriculum as we can for you to work on at home.
As explained on our google classroom, we would ideally like you to complete one Literacy and one Numeracy activity each day, these are numbered to help the week’s learning progress. You can then choose from any of the other subjects and complete one of those each day as well. Some of the subjects will change each week. Please see the help video posted on our google classroom feed if you are unsure how to send your work to us. We are really enjoying seeing all the fantastic learning that you have been doing at home.

​Our topics include : 

 

​Literacy:
Traditional stories from around the world
  • Poetry on the subject of water
  • Information writing on animals and bugs
  • The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine
 
Phonics and spelling:
  • Each week the children will be focusing on a new spelling rule or letter/sound pattern.
  • Year 2 Common Exception word spelling and reading practice.
 
Handwriting:
  • Each week the children will be focusing on a range of joined letter formations and a selection of Year 2 Common Exception words that follow a similar letter pattern.
 
Numeracy:
This term we will mainly be revising, consolidating and extending the topics we have already covered this year. New material will include position and direction and problem solving using different operations and measures.
 
Science:
  • Living things and their habitats
 
Geography:
  • Comparing locations – London and Cape Town
 
History:
  • The Great Fire of London
 
Art:
  • Colour chaos
 
Design Technology:
  • Dips and Dippers
 
Music
  • Friendship Song
  • Reflect, rewind and replay
The children’s music tasks can be accessed directly each week using the website Charanga. All of the children should have a log in for this site. If you have any problems accessing the site then please contact one of the year 2 team or Mrs Pugh via the Google Classroom email address or feed. You will also find links to some other fun music activities on our Google Classroom page.
 
RE:
  • Why should we care for the earth?
 
PSHE:
Money
  • Staying safe
  • Changes
 
Computing:  
  • Using powerpoint
  • Understanding how to use branching data bases
  • Simulations
 
PE:
In school we would have been working on different team games and athletics this term which is obviously quite tricky to do at home! Miss Ellis will continue to set you a PE task on Google Classroom each week (I know lots of you have been enjoying the warm up activities!) You can also try Joe Wicks in the morning, make up your own games and see what other ways you can come up with to stay active.
 
 

Children might like to read

​Non- fiction books about the animals and their habitats
 Any other books by Anthony Browne
Stories from other countries and cultures such as the stories of Anansi spider
Poetry
The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy
Non-fiction books about any of the topics listed 
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Year 2 Common Exception Words

Door, floor, poor, because, find, kind, mind, behind, climb, child, children, wild, most, only, both, old, cold, gold, hold, told, clothes, every, everybody, hour, even, any, many, great, break, steak, pretty, beautiful, after, fast, last, past, father, class, grass, pass, plant, path, bath, busy, move, prove, improve, sure, sugar, could, should, would, eye, people, water, who, whole, again, half, money, parents, Mr, Mrs, Christmas.

Useful Websites

​http://www.fireoflondon.org.uk/

 http://www.history-for-kids.com/great-fire-of-london.html

 http://www.thekidswindow.co.uk/News/Fire_of_London.htm

http://www.mylearning.org/samuel-pepys-and-the-great-fire-of-london-of-1666/p-2603
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http://www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx?cat=64 
This page includes links to lots of science pages that are related to this term's topics.
 
http://www.magickeys.com/books/
Free story books for children to read online
 
You may also like to try some of the maths games found at http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html

  • https://www.purplemash.com/sch/silsoe - The children are used to using this in school and have access from home too. They know their own personal log in details - please ask us if they have forgotten.
  • www.ttrockstars.com – The children were given log in details last term. Please encourage them to go on from time to time focussing initially on x2, x5 and x10. Later this term we will extend multiplication tables and start dividing so the children will soon be ready to move on. If you need a reminder of the log in details, please just ask.
 
You may also like to try some of the maths games found at http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html . Your children are used to using these. However if you need further assistance accessing them online, please speak to a member of the Year 2 team. 
 
 
Stay safe, stay in touch and we look forward to seeing you as soon as we can.
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 The Year 2 team
Have a look at some of our wonderful home learning.