Year 2 Message

Today we continued our British Wildlife Week theme by beginning the morning with a ‘Hungry Caterpillar’ colouring competition.

We then made caterpillar-themed thank you cards for our local ASDA supermarket to show our appreciation of their efforts during these challenging times. Those who completed their card with time to spare made their own ‘collage goose’.

Before lunchtime, we went around the school environment looking for natural objects which could be used to help create our very own ‘Bug Hotel’ for the mini-beasts living at our school.

In the afternoon, we learnt how to play Archery followed by some ‘Golden Time’ as a reward to the children for being so well behaved throughout the day.

A ‘Learning at Home’ pack has been created for every child in Year 2. This pack includes a variety of computer and non-computer based activities. We have also sent home a couple of reading books and this week’s Literacy and Numeracy Homework.

Those children who were at school on Monday 23rd March completed a range of activities during their day. Perhaps you could try some of them at home…

Drawing and labelling wildlife which is commonly found in Britain.
Every child painted their own rainbow to take home and put on display in a window at home. A lot of families are walking around their neighbourhood to see how many rainbows they can find.

We went on a wildlife trail around school during the afternoon. There were 16 different cards hidden around the school playground, each containing a description what an animal, or bird, commonly found in Britain likes to eat. The children then had to write the name of the animal, or bird, which they thought matched the description.

Below are a number of suitable websites which your children can access for free:

Numeracy Games

https://www.themathsfactor.com/

The Maths Factor website is now FREE for everyone (usually about £2 per week) to support childrens’ continued learning at home for the duration of the UK Schools closure period.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/504/Super-Maths-Bowling-Multiplication

‘Super Maths Bowling’ can be played as a one or two player game. Before each game begins, you will need to select the x2, x3, x5 and x10 multiplication tables. Your child could practise a single table at a time or a combination.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/399/Archery-Arithmetic-Multiplication

‘Archery Arithmetic’ can be played as a one or two player game. Before each game begins, you will need to select the x2, x3, x5 and x10 multiplication tables. Your child could practise a single table at a time or a combination.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication

‘Multiplication Fishing’ can be played as a one or two player game. Before each game begins, you will need to select the x2, x3, x5 and x10 multiplication tables. Your child could practise a single table at a time or a combination.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

‘Hit the Button’ can be played to practise number bonds to 10, 20 and 100 (multiplies of 10). Basic doubles, halves and multiplication tables can also be practised.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/coconut-odd-or-even

‘Coconut Odd or Even’ is a brilliant game where the children can practise their knowledge of odd and even numbers up to 100/

‘Place Value Basketball’ is a great game where the children can consolidate their understanding of ‘tens’ and ‘ones’ in numbers up to 99.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/543

‘Penalty Shootout’ can be played as a one or two player game. Before each game begins, you will need to select the x2, x3, x5 and x10 multiplication tables. Your child could practise a single table at a time or a combination.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/555/Subtraction-Mini-Maths-Golf

‘Maths Mini Golf’ can be played as a one or two player game. Before each game begins, you will need to select the x2, x3, x5 and x10 multiplication tables. Your child could practise a single table at a time or a combination.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/117/telling-the-time-in-words

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/hickoryDickory/index.html

‘Hickory, Dickory, Dock’ is a game where the children can practise telling the time. By the end of Y2 children need to be able to tell the time to the nearest 15 minutes, or the nearest 5 minutes for those children who excel.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/countingCaterpillar/index.html

‘Counting Caterpillar’ is a game where children can practise ordering numbers up to 100.

https://www.ictgames.com/postAletter/index.html

‘Post a Letter’ enables chldren to practise reading numbers as words up to 100.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/fractions/index.html

The game above enables children to practise finding fractions of a number. In Y2 children work with 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 1/2, 1/3, and 2/3.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/capacity/index.html

‘Capacity Countdown’ allows children to test their ability of being able to read numbers accurately on scales of different increments.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/doggyDivision/index.html

‘Doggy Division’ lets children divide by sharing.

https://www.ictgames.com/tablesTennis/mobile/index.html

‘Table Tennis’ can be played as a one or two player game. Before each game begins, you will need to select the x2, x3, x5 and x10 multiplication tables. Your child could practise a single table at a time or a combination.

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/30503

Each child has their own personal log-in details to the Times Tables Rock Stars website which can be found in the front of their Reading Record. Children will need to play on the ‘Garage’ section of the website to be tested on their x2, x5, x10 and x3 multiplication tables.

https://play.numbots.com/#/account/school-login/30503

Each child has their own personal log-in details to the Numbs website which can be found in the front of their Reading Record. This website helps the children to improve their number fluency.

Spelling Games

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/lcwc/index.html

‘Look, Cover, Write – Check’ allows the children to practise the specific spelling patterns which they need know by the end of Y2. They can also practise their tricky words.

https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/login?return_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spellingshed.com%2F

Each child has their log-in details for ‘Spelling Shed’ in the front of their Reading Record.

Reading

https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/

For children who are in the early stages of reading, ‘Teach Your Monster to Read’ is an excellent website which teaches children the basics of Phonics. Please note that you will need to create an account before being able to access the game.

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