Year 2 Summer 2020
Year 2 Home Learning
Hello Year 2s. We would first of all like to thank you and your grown ups for being totally FANTASTIC in this very strange time. The Year 2 team miss you all so much and wish we could be with you. Your Facebook posts are super and we all love seeing your smiley faces and lovely learning at home. Please keep sharing these! We hope you're making use of the free websites, keeping up with your reading as reading helps us to be superheroes and is so important. We have been busy planning new exciting work when we are not working in school. Mrs Vine has been learning to bake in her free time and Mrs Munro has been improving her gardening skills! All of us are playing lots of games with our families like snakes and ladders, monopoly, scrabble and lots more. Are you enjoying playing games? Stay safe and enjoy precious family moments.
Year 2 home learning for June
We have been so impressed with your home learning Year 2s, it’s been wonderful to see you flourish and grow at home in these very strange times. It’s been fantastic seeing your super work via Facebook and year group e mail. Please keep sharing! If you haven’t had your Active Learn Bug Club Reading password and log on please email us as we would like your child to read EVERY day. Ten minutes daily will make such as difference to your child’s progress. Reading really does give us wings to fly!
Bug Club Reading
www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login
Username, please e mail us to get your child’s username yr2@windwhistle.extendlearning.org
Password: Windwhistle!
School code: pssw
Home learning tasks are changing. As well as daily reading please keep up times tables practice, especially of x2, x5 x10 and x3, that would be super. Along with this, we have put together a collection of websites which can be accessed at home. Not all of these require the child to use the tablet/phone or laptop. They are websites which can be used by yourselves to set challenges too. If you want any further advice or help with this, please get in touch using the Facebook page or at yr2@windwhistle.extendlearning.org.
We’re happy to post suggestions on Facebook also so let us know if that’s something you might like. Year 2 are not going back to school yet so we will continue to support you in any way we can. All the home learning from previous weeks will remain on school website so feel free to go back and complete things that haven’t been done. If your child is finding the Year 2 work from websites below too difficult please adjust and use Year 1.
- BBC Bitesize – This links takes you to the Year 2 part of BBC Bitesize. They upload an English, Maths and another lesson daily. They don’t have to be done on the day either, you can look back to see what takes your fancy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-and-p3-lessons/1 - White Rose Maths – This link is the daily Year 2 maths lessons from White Rose. The videos are great especially the recap part at the beginning. The sheets are not available to download any more but the videos still have some great learning on them.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ - Times tables Rockstars – A great website to practice timestables. The children that use it regularly are really enjoying it so have a go! We can send your child’s log on details if you haven’t already got them.
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student - Twinkl for parents – Twinkl is an education resource company which has got home learning opportunities on it. You have to sign up but it is FREE. The suggestions for English tasks on here may be beneficial.
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/parents - Oak Academy – this has been put together by teachers and school leaders nationally in response to the home learning situation. It is online based but has some good resources
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2#subjects - Snappy Maths – this is a free resource website. It has loads of printable resources based on the maths we’d be teaching in school. Sheets can be printed or the questions can be copied on paper at home.
http://www.snappymaths.com/year2/index.htm
- Discovery Education Espresso- www.discoveryeducation.co.uk when logged in it will give you an option. Please choose Espresso. Once on choose KS1 and there are a wealth of videos, games and activities for all areas of the curriculum. The spelling and phonics section is fantastic especially if reading is challenging for your child.
Username- student3761
Password- whistle
Thank you for continued support. We miss you all and look forward to seeing you. Take care and remember to enjoy time outdoors. Keep checking Facebook as we will continue to use that as usual.
Mrs Munro and Mrs Vine
Year 2 Home Learning WB: 18th May 2020
This week our theme is ‘The Circus’. Here are some lovely activities to keep your minds busy. Please remember to read EVERY day. Ten minutes is our suggested time. If you are not on Bug Club Active Learn online reading programme yet please try it out, it’s a lovely reading scheme.
Logins you will need:
Bug Club Reading
www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login
Username, please e mail us to get your child’s username yr2@windwhistle.extendlearning.org
Password: Windwhistle!
School code: pssw
Purple Mash
Username-wps
Password – wps5
https://www.purplemash.com When you get to the site there is an option to log in on the schools page (choose the school option) if you type in Windwhistle it will find us and then you can add username and password.
Discovery Education Espresso
Username- student3761
Password- whistle
www.discoveryeducation.co.uk when logged in it will give you an option. Please choose Espresso.
Tigtag Jr (Science)
Username- Year2@
Password - windwhistle
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Maths (approx 20 mins) |
English (approx 20 mins) |
Wider Curriculum (approx 20 mins) |
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Monday |
Daily 10 Daily 10 (begin at Level 2) You can choose your challenge area. Play it 3 times. Can you beat your score? If you are wanting further challenge try changing the level.
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Purple Mash- create a circus picture and describe what is happening using lots of nice circus words like trapeze artist, performing, juggling, big top and clown. Can you use a range of simple, compound and complex sentences? If you would rather write and draw a picture to go with your sentences that is fine. |
Art- Purple Mash Can you design a clown? He/she needs a hat, face makeup and hair! If you would rather draw/paint/ colour or collage your own clown that is fine.
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Tuesday |
Purple Mash – A –Fish- Metic! Choose your own level of challenge. Have fun playing this game!
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Espresso Spelling Log into Espresso and click KS1 English and then click on ‘Spelling’. Enjoy spending time exploring the videos and activities. Make sure you choose a game/s that will challenge you and make sure you try one you haven’t used before.
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Purple Mash- Art/DT Create a bow tie for a clown to wear. If you would rather make one with paper / material that is fine or perhaps draw or paint one. Happy creating! |
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Wednesday |
Espresso Number and place value Log into Espresso and click KS1 Maths and then click on ‘Number and place value’, then click on the ‘reading, writing and representing number’ section. Explore the games and videos here making sure you choose a game/s that will challenge you. The 100 square challenge is really good. |
Purple Mash- Circus poster. Purple Circus is coming to Weston! Can you make a poster to put up to advertise this? Remember your poster must be bright and eye catching and include: Dates, location, time and attractions. If you would rather make your poster by hand and stay off line that is fine. |
On you tube listen to the story ‘The Rainbow Fish’ by Marcus Pfister or read it if you have the book at home. What do you think makes a good friend? You could draw pictures of your ideas or write them down or perhaps make up a song or poem about being a good friend. |
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Thursday |
Espresso Number and place value Log into Espresso and click KS1 Maths and then click on ‘Number and place value’, then click on the ‘place value’ section. Explore the games and videos here making sure you choose a game/s that will challenge you. The partitioning numbers in different ways game is good. |
Purple Mash- Circus News. Write a newspaper report about something unusual that has happened at a circus. Remember to include: What, when, where, who. You could add a witness too! If you would rather write your newspaper report that is fine. |
Science – Tigtag Jr Grouping animals. Log in using the username and password above. Click on ‘living things’ and then ‘animal kingdom’. There is a link ‘grouping animals’ Here there are three lovely videos, photos, a game and a quiz to play. Enjoy investigating! |
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Friday |
Purple Mash- Funky Platforms! Make the number on the calculator equal the target number by jumping on the sum platforms. Choose your own level of challenge. Can you get to the other side with as few moves as possible? If you are doing this from a laptop you need to move the calculator with the arrow buttons and jump with the space bar.
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Espresso Grammar and punctuation Log into Espresso and click KS1 English and then click on ‘Grammar and punctuation’, finally click on ‘sentence’ option. Explore the games and videos here making sure you choose a game/s that will challenge you. The space one is really fun. |
Choose one of these workouts to follow…
Joe Wicks (You Tube) Jump Start Jonny (You Tube) Cosmic Kids Yoga (You Tube) Just Dance Kids (You Tube)
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DON’T forget to share your lovely work on our Facebook page!
Please try to read every day either on line or with one of your own/school books.
Year 2 Home Learning WB: 11th May 2020
This week our theme is ‘The Zoo’. Here are some great activities to keep your minds busy. We now have access to Bug Club reading online. It is an exciting reading scheme that we have selected books to match your child’s reading level. It brilliantly combines stunning books, filled to the brim with kid -favourite characters. Once your child has completed the books, new books and levels are automatically applied. The login is below and we will e mail you a user name (as each child has their own). We would like your child to read EVERY day please, little and often is the key to reading success. Ten minutes daily will make such as difference to your child’s progress.
Logins you will need:
Bug Club Reading
Username, please e mail us to get your child’s username yr2@windwhistle.extendlearning.org
Password: Windwhistle!
School code: pssw
Purple Mash
Username-wps
Password – wps5
Purple Mash When you get to the site there is an option to log in on the schools page (choose the school option) if you type in Windwhistle it will find us and then you can add username and password.
Discovery Education Espresso
Username- student3761
Password- whistle
Espresso when logged in it will give you an option. Please choose Espresso.
Tigtag Jr (Science)
Username- Year2@
Password - windwhistle
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Day |
Maths (approx 20 mins) |
English (approx 20 mins) |
Wider Curriculum (approx 20 mins) |
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Monday |
Top Marks Daily 10 Daily 10 – level 2 - fractions - Play it 3 times. Can you beat your score?
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Be a zookeeper! Purple Mash- imagine you are a zoo keeper |
Science - Food chains Can you complete the quiz all about food chains – herbivores (only eat plants), carnivores (only eat meat) and omnivores (eat everything!)
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Tuesday |
Pets Corner – pets corner - sorting animals
Snakes! Adding and subtracting – snakes on the brain – adding and subtracting
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Noodle nous Noodle Nouns – have a go at the activity to help you expand noun phrases |
Music – a great, fun song to learn and sing along to. |
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Wednesday |
Weigh in at the zoo - Watch the video about measuring animals at the zoo and have a go at the quiz it may be a challenge but just try your best |
A zoo in the garden - Watch this video all about a family who bought a zoo. Can you make a poste / leaflet telling people all about the fantastic things they can see and do at the zoo and try to persuade them to visit? |
Lego zoo – watch the video, can you create a zoo of your own? You could use lego or junk modelling or draw it – whatever you want – how many different animals will you have? |
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Thursday |
White Rose Maths – home learning
Have a go at any of the activities – watch the video clip and then answer the questions - you can print out the sheets but you don’t need to – they are easy to answer on a piece of paper. |
Dear Zoo – watch Dear Zoo being read on youtube – can you write or record a book review of the story? What do you like about it, what don’t you like? What age child do you think would like this book the best? Can you draw a picture from the book? |
Science Animals and their young Animals and their young
Grow up
Two activities thinking about animals and how they change as they grow. |
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Friday |
Times tables rockstars
If you would rather stay off line. Practice counting in 2’s, 5’s, 10’s and 3’s. Can you ask a grown up to quiz you?
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On Discovery Education (Espresso) Look at KS1 – English - Books. Listen to the story of The Lonely Beast and then have a go at the activities. |
Choose one of these workouts to follow…
Joe Wicks (You Tube) Jump Start Jonny (You Tube) Cosmic Kids Yoga (You Tube) Just Dance Kids (You Tube) Go Noodle
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DON’T forget to share your lovely work on our Facebook page!
Year 2 Home Learning WB: 4th May 2020
This week our theme is ‘Traditional Tales’. Here are some great activities to keep your minds busy. Ask your grown-ups to share their favourite traditional tales. Mrs Vine’s favourite one is ‘Three Little Pigs’ and Mrs Munro loves ‘Sleeping Beauty’. What are your favourites?
Logins you will need:
Purple Mash
Username-wps
Password – wps5
Purple Mash When you get to the site there is an option to log in on the schools page (choose the school option) if you type in Windwhistle it will find us and then you can add username and password.
Discovery Education Espresso
Username- student3761
Password- whistle
Discovery Espresso when logged in it will give you an option. Please choose Espresso.
Tigtag Jr (Science)
Username- Year2@
Password - windwhistle
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Maths (approx 20 mins) |
English (approx 20 mins) |
Wider Curriculum (approx 20 mins) |
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Monday
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Purple Mash – Sequence Snake Can you make the snake eat the numbered balls to complete the sequence? There are further challenges too but have a go at Challenge A first.
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Espresso Discover Espresso Log into Espresso and click KS1 English and then find the link for ‘Traditional Tales’. Click the video clink and watch the story ‘The Golden Goose.’
Once you have listened to the story you can click on activities and play the ‘Golden Goose’ quiz. Did you manage to reveal all the pictures in the quiz? |
Computing: Purple Mash
Enjoy exploring with the Purple Mash cameras. Look at Mrs Munro! The wizard looks funny.
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Tuesday |
Once on site, search for ‘Mental Maths Train’. You can choose a level to challenge yourself (you can explore all four operations)
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Gingerbread Man On you tube watch the story ‘Gingerbread Man’, if you have the book you could read that instead. Activity: The Gingerbread Man You are the old lady. Make a poster for your gingerbread man. Remember to describe him, explain what he has done and give a reward for finding him! If you would rather do this activity with paper and pencil that is fine. |
Gingerbread Man- Purple Mash Design your own gingerbread man Can you design you own Gingerbread man? You can do this with the link above OR you could bake one with your grown up or perhaps draw and colour/paint one. Happy creating! |
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Wednesday |
Espresso Discovery Espresso Log into Espresso and click KS1 Maths and then click on Time. Choose any of the activities ‘Days, weeks, months and years’ and you choose a game/s that will challenge you.
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Espresso Discovery English Log into Espresso and click KS1 English and then click on ‘Spelling’. Enjoy spending time exploring the videos and activities. Make sure you choose a game/s that will challenge you.
If you would rather stay off line….Make a list of compound words e.g foot + ball = football. |
Music – Sounds all around us! Sit still for 5 minutes, close your eyes and just enjoy being still and quiet. What sounds can you hear? You can try this inside and outside. Were there some sounds that made you feel calmer than others? |
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Thursday |
Espresso Discovery Maths Log into Espresso and click KS1 Maths and then click on Time. Choose any of the activities ‘Telling the time’ and you choose a game/s that will challenge you.
It would be amazing if you become confident telling time o clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.
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Red Riding Hood (we know this story well) Can you write an e mail to Grandma from Red Riding Hood? If you would rather write this that is fine.
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Choose one of these workouts to follow…
Joe Wicks (You Tube) Jump Start Jonny (You Tube) Cosmic Kids Yoga (You Tube) Just Dance Kids (You Tube)
Or make a fun exercise or game up!
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Friday |
Bank Holiday!!! |
Can you proof read your e mail you wrote yesterday?
Check these things in this order. 1. Full stops 2. Capital letters 3. Spelling Read your work aloud to a grown up. What did they think?
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Science – Tigtag Jr Where do animals live? Log in using the username and password above. Click on ‘living things’ and then ‘animal kingdom’. There is a link ‘where do animals live?’ Here there are two lovely videos, photos, a game and a quiz to play. Enjoy investigating! |
DON’T forget to share your lovely work on our Facebook page!
Year 2 Home Learning WB: 27th April 2020
We thought this week we would head off to the jungle for some jungle themed learning!
Logins you will need:
Purple Mash
Username-wps
Password – wps5
https://www.purplemash.com When you get to the site there is an option to log in on the schools page (choose the school option) if you type in Windwhistle it will find us and then you can add username and password.
Discovery Education Espresso
Username- student3761
Password- whistle
www.discoveryeducation.co.uk when logged in it will give you an option. Please choose Espresso.
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Day |
Maths (approx 20 mins) |
English (approx 20 mins) |
Wider Curriculum (approx 20 mins) |
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Monday |
If you have forgotten your login just drop Mrs Vine or Mrs Munro a message on Facebook or email yr2@windwhistle.extendlearning.org
You all have different challenges to take part in and a “battle” between Y2M and Y2V who will be the champions??? |
Purple Mash- English – Spelling Resources – Spelling Year 2 – Y2 Autumn 2 week 6 quiz
This is a quiz reviewing a term full of spelling learning
As an extension could you write a sentence using some of the words: hopeless celebration work giraffe quiet |
Can you draw or paint a picture of one of the animals you might find there? Could you add labels? If you need some help there are some fab guides to drawing on youtube egLearn to draw
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Tuesday |
Addition Daily 10 (Level 2) Addition – three one digit numbers – challenge yourself – how many seconds do you need for each question?
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Have a look at Find dictionary section
In the dictionary section – have a go at looking up these words:
rainforest indigenous tropical canopy understory deforestation logging endangered extinct You could then have a look at the videos section and search up “rainforest” |
Have a look at some of the information and play some of the interactive games on the rainforest alliance website. |
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Wednesday |
This is education city - If you have forgotten your login just drop us a message and we can remind you what it is. These activities are all about measuring! |
Thousands of beautiful butterflies live in the rainforest – can you complete this butterfly life cycle leaflet? |
Can you make a poster / information page / booklet to share what you know about the Amazon Rainforest? How many different facts can you share? Can you use pictures and labels to help share your understanding? |
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Thursday |
This activity is on discovery education (espresso) and is great for problem solving. |
Still on Espresso – go to the English KS1 section and find “books” There is a story called Halibut Jackson – listen to the story and then complete the comprehension and sequencing activities.
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STEM activity- can you create a model of a rainforest? You could use any materials you can find – junk / lego / card / paper. Can you show the different levels of the rainforest – the forest floor, the understory, the canopy and the emergent layer? Could you add animals? We would love you to share your creations on the Facebook page |
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Friday |
How are you getting on with the battle? Can you beat your score from earlier in the week? |
Can you write a story about an orang-utan? Have a look at Orangutans to get some ideas about what an orang-utan’s life is like.
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Go onto Go Noodle and do some of your favourite dances – we would love to see any videos of you doing them on Facebook! Or – have a go at learning this jungle song – perhaps you could perform it for us? |
DON’T forget to share your lovely work on our Facebook page!
Y2 Home Learning WB: 20th April 2020
Ahoy, me hearties! We thought it would be great fun to have a pirate themed week! Here are some nice activities to keep your minds busy.
Logins you will need:
Purple Mash
Username-wps
Password – wps5
Purple Mash When you get to the site there is an option to log in on the schools page (choose the school option) if you type in Windwhistle it will find us and then you can add username and password.
Discovery Education Espresso
Username- student3761
Password- whistle
Espresso when logged in it will give you an option. Please choose Espresso.
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Day |
Maths (approx 20 mins) |
English (approx 20 mins) |
Wider Curriculum (approx 20 mins) |
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Monday |
Purple Mash - Bond Bubbles (challenge A) There are further challenges too but have a go at Challenge A first.
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Purple Mash- Describe a pirate. f you would rather write this that is absolutely fine, you could draw a picture of your pirate too. What do they look like? What do they smell like? Are they brave/scary?
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Art- Purple Mash – Rock Pool (this can be found under the describe a pirate) Can you draw a rock pool? If you would rather paint, use felts/ crayons or even collage/junk modelling get creating!
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Tuesday |
Top Marks Maths Daily 10 (Level 2) Multiplication X2, 5, 10. Play it 3 times. Can you beat your score?
If you are wanting further challenge try X3
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Fruit Tree Word Spot
Can you sort the words into singular and plural? You could challenge yourself further and write your own singular and plural word list. |
Science Purple Mash- Fish Can you draw a fish? What makes them suited to living in the sea? If you would rather not do online you could draw/paint a fish and write a sentence explaining why they are suited to the sea. |
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Wednesday |
Pizza maths! If you select the first challenge ‘Pizza Rookie’ this will consolidate work we have done on halves, quarters and thirds. The two other challenges are work not covered in KS1 so will be very tricky.
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Can you write at least 4 interesting sentences about pirates? Use pirate vocabulary (there are ideas on the page for this) You can import pictures to go with each sentence in the box above the text box. If you would rather write your sentences on paper that is fine. |
Espresso Log into Espresso and click KS1 Science. Next click on the unit ‘habitats’.
Enjoy exploring the activities, videos and books. The books have the option to read to you too. |
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Thursday |
Espresso Log into Espresso and click KS1 Maths and then Addition and subtraction. Click on activities and you choose a game/s that will challenge you.
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Can you write your own story with a pirate in it? Perhaps you have found the most amazing treasure and some other pirates are trying to steal it! Remember to use exciting story language and lots of adjectives. |
STEM activity- can you make a boat for a pirate to hold his treasure? The boat MUST be able to float and hold a tin of beans! There are no rules, any building materials are ok. Things like Lego, junk modelling, foil, plastic bags, plastic bottles and empty fizzy drink cans are great to use. You could even decorate it, make a flag and add a pirate! You can test it in the sink or a bath.
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Friday |
Espresso Log into Espresso and click KS1 Maths and then Addition and subtraction, click on activities like yesterday. Today can you have a go at the word problems involving addition and subtraction?
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Can you proof read your pirate story you wrote yesterday?
Check these things in this order. 1. Full stops 2. Capital letters 3. Spelling Read your work a loud to a grown up. What did they think?
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Choose one of these workouts to follow…
Joe Wicks (You Tube) Jump Start Jonny (You Tube) Cosmic Kids Yoga (You Tube) Just Dance Kids (You Tube)
If you’re feeling creative you can make up your own fitness routine instead.
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DON’T forget to share your lovely work on our Facebook page!