Sycamore 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.
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:
Phonics and spelling:
Handwriting:
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:
Geography:
History:
Art:
Design Technology:
Music
RE:
PSHE:
Computing:
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.
Websites and Learning at Home - There are many excellent websites that we recommend the children access from time to time. These include :
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/
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
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
Year 2 Common Exception Words (NC) - 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
Stay safe, stay in touch and we look forward to seeing you as soon as we can.
Thank you
The Year 2 team.
These photos below show some of our wonderful home learning.
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
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.
Websites and Learning at Home - There are many excellent websites that we recommend the children access from time to time. These include :
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/
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.
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
Year 2 Common Exception Words (NC) - 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
Stay safe, stay in touch and we look forward to seeing you as soon as we can.
Thank you
The Year 2 team.
These photos below show some of our wonderful home learning.
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