Purple Mash – 2Create a Story

Yesterday, you were set the task of writing your own quest story.

Today you can make that story come alive by making it into a digital story book using the programme ‘ 2Create a Story’ on Purple Mash. This programme lets you combine words, pictures and animations to create engaging stories in minutes!

To access this program log on to Purple Mash using your child’s individual picture password then click on ‘English’ and ‘2Create A Story’.

Click on the video icon to watch a short tutorial on how to use the program!

3, 2, 1…. get creating! 🙂

Arts and Crafts

Keeping with the theme of dragons… have a go at creating this paper plate dragon.

It is simple and easy to make!

Arts and Crafts

Try these fun art activities at home!

Create your own fire breathing dragon.

Have a go at recreating these pictures using objects found at home.

Learning at Home

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.

Grammar

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?e=spelling-grammar02

‘Big Babies’ is a game which teaches children how to identify verbs and adverbs in a sentence.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/interactive/nouns.html

‘Trapped’ is a games which teaches children how to identify nouns and adjectives in a sentence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqhpk2p/articles/zc4jpbk

Homophones – learn the difference between the words to, too and two through a series of videos and games.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqhpk2p/articles/z3cxrwx

Homophones – learn the difference between their, they’re and there.

Whole Curriculum

https://static.preprod.purplemash.co.uk/login/

Children in Y2 should recently have brought home a letter containing their log-in details for a website called ‘Purple Mash’.

This website has games and activities for children to access all areas of the curriculum.

In science we have been looking at ‘Living things and their habitats’

You can find these activities under the science topic ‘animals’

‘Living and Non-Living’

‘Animals and their homes’

Create a rock pool thinking about the animals that might live there.

You will find this activity under Geography/coasts

Computing

Children can have a go at simple programming by playing on ‘2go’

Our topic lessons have been based around ‘Where in the world is Bear?’

Children can consolidate their geographical knowledge by playing these games.

Activities found under: Topics/geography/ maps.

Children can have a go at writing their very own postcard from Brazil. 

You will find this activity under Topics/Countries and places.

Year 2 Homework

Year 2 homework goes here