Hello Year 2!
I hope that you have made the most of any sunshine you have had this week, we seem to have had a lot of rain. Hopefully if you have been inside during the rainy days, you have had the chance to complete some online learning. I can see that nearly everyone has been on some kind of online platform this week and over half have completed Kahoots. This week in school we have been doing a mixture of addition and subtraction with larger numbers and fractions. See if you can have a go at making different fractions by splitting a group of objects into different equal parts. If you can, don’t forget to take a photograph and send it to the email year2@eastbierleyprimary.com or tweet us at @eastbierleyPS.
This week we are learning about music! Keep up to date with the school Twitter account to see some of the things we have been doing in class. This week we will be listening to some different types of music and using it as some inspiration for artwork. I think that my artwork to represent classical music will be very different to the artwork that represents rock! Why don’t you ask your grown-ups what their favourite type of music is and see if they will complete some music inspired art with you. Don’t forget you can always do it on your own listening to the radio, there are lots of channels with many different genres. As well as completing some work, keep active and get some fresh air whenever you can, keeping your mental health in check is the most important thing at the moment so look after yourselves.
This week I have set some MyMaths tasks and don’t forget you can always use the old Kahoot pins if you missed some and even complete it again to try and beat your score! Spelling shed, TT Rockstars and Numbots are available as usual.
This week I will be having my lunch on the moor from 11.45am till 12.15pm on Monday and Wednesday if you want to come by for a socially distant catch up. Keep yourselves safe and look after the people around you, I look forward to hearing from you all.
Miss Papamichael
Weekly Maths Tasks
| Can your child complete the patterns on these sequencing games using 2D shapes? This will help your child to recognise 2D shapes and to problem solve. |
| Look at the tins/cartons of food in your cupboards. Discuss with your child which ones are cylinders, which are cubes and which are cuboids. Sort them into groups. Which 3D shape do they think makes the best packaging and why? |
| Ask your child to practise spelling the names of these 2D and 3D shapes- square, circle, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, cube, cuboid, sphere, pyramid. |
| Go on a shape hunt around the house or on your daily walk. Label things that match the shape names they have been practising. |
| Describe 2D shapes to your child based on their properties. Ask your child to draw the shape or make the outline using pasta or rice. |
Weekly Reading Tasks
| Listen to the programme Instruments Together. Your child can design a poster for a concert – who will be performing? What instruments will be played? |
| Ask your child to read a favourite story or to read Rumpelstiltskin here. When reading, play some classical music. Talk to your child about how it made them feel. Mind map their feelings after this e.g. relaxed, calm. |
| Listen to the story Every Bunny Dance. Following this, ask your child to list all of the instruments and dances that appeared in the book. Extend their learning through asking them a range of questions about the story. |
| Practise a favourite rhyme or poem. Your child could learn the National Anthem for their country. Create actions and perform this to the family. |
| Listen to the story of a poor musician and a stray dog. Stop the film at certain points, e.g. 5:11 or 5:43. Discuss together what the characters might be thinking. Can your child draw thought bubbles showing this? |
Weekly Phonics and Spelling Tasks
| Can your child list different musical words that begin with the letters M, U, S, I & C? How many can they write? Can they identify rhyming words? |
| Look at the following sounds: ai, ay, igh. Read the following words out and your child can match the correct sound to the word: nail, light, play, pray, night, paint, fight, spray, day, may, tray. Look for objects in the house with these sounds. |
| Ask your child to add the ‘ing’ suffix to these root words: beat, clap, dance, sing, hum e.g. beat+ing = beating. Where does the rule change? Can you write the rule out to help a child coming into Key Stage 1 next year? |
| Play this plural game or this investigating ‘ai’ game. |
| Write a list of musical words on paper/card. Play snap using these words. Rule: to be able to read the word to win! |
Weekly Writing Tasks
| Make an A-Z list of musical vocabulary. This could include instruments, artists or musical verbs. Apply some of these into sentences. |
| Create fact files about musical instruments. This could include where they originate from, what they’re made from, etc. Your child can include an illustration of the instrument and label the parts. |
| Can your child rewrite the events from Every Bunny Dance as a newspaper report or as a comic strip style using words such as ‘first’, then, and ‘after that’. |
| Task your child with writing their own family song. When ready, they can perform it- perhaps to a family member on Facetime (with adult supervision). |
| Visit the Literacy Shed for this wonderful resource on Once in a Lifetime or your child can create an invitation for their family song performance. |
Learning Project - to be completed through the week
The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about music. Learning may focus on famous musicians, listening to and performing music and exploring a range of music genres and instruments.
- Famous Musicians- Find out about famous singers and bands from Bradford and Yorkshire. Listen to some of their music. Ask your child to list what they like/dislike about the music. What genre of music is it? Does it remind them of any singers or bands that they know? Create a fact file about the musician/s.
- Making Music- Task your child with making a variety of shakers. Using empty bottles from the recycling, fill them with different dry foods/things from the garden. How can they make the shakers sound different? Ask your child to use the shakers during their family song performance (see above). They could also write a set of instructions for making your own musical shakers.
- Making More Music!- Can your child use different parts of their body to make music e.g. clicking fingers, stamping feet. After this, ask your child to design a new instrument. This could be an instrument that belongs to the woodwind or brass family. They can draw and label their design and then make it using materials from the recycling. Does it work? Ask your child to record 3 ways they could improve their design. Share at #TheLearningProjects.
- The Four Seasons- Vivaldi wrote The Four Seasons during the early Classical period. Divide a piece of paper into 4 and ask your child to draw each season in each box as they listen to the music here. Discuss how each movement sounds different e.g. Spring is energetic and has a fast tempo.
- What can I Hear? Ask your child to visit different places in the home and garden. Get them to list all of the different sounds that they can hear e.g. the humming of the fridge. Which room is the noisiest? Encourage them to use words such as volume, tempo, pitch and beat. After this, ask your child to record the sounds and play them to the family. Can the family guess where the sound is coming from? Alternatively, your child can replicate the sound and the family could guess this way instead.
Discovering Different Eras
| 1920’s | 1930’s | 1940’s | 1950’s | 1960’s | 1970’s | 1980’s | 1990’s |
- Click on the links above and listen to a sample. Which era did your child find most enjoyable to listen to? Can they dance in the same style?
STEM Learning Opportunities
Engineering Around the World - World’s Largest Steel Structure
- The Bird’s Nest is the world’s largest steel structure and was built in China for the 2008 Olympic Games. It is made out of 26 miles of steel.
- Use strips of paper, card or wool to create your own bird nest style building. You might like to search for photos of the ‘Birds nest’ to help you with your design.
Numbots and MyMaths Your child can access these with their individual log ins.
White Rose Maths online maths lessons. Watch a lesson video and complete the worksheet (can be downloaded and completed digitally).
Mastery Mathematics Learning Packs Learning packs with a range of different activities and lessons. There are notes on how to do these activities with your children.
Y2 Talk for writing booklets are an excellent resource to support your child’s speaking and listening, reading and writing skills.
