Learning at Home

Welcome to the Year 2 page everyone! We hope you enjoy doing the activities you find on this page.

They are all linked to the learning we will do in school.

Have fun and enjoy!

Remote Learning Letter for Year 2

Hello Year 2,

All of the staff in school hope that you are all safe and well and we’d like to let you know that we are all missing you very much and look forward to seeing you next week as we begin our remote learning. As you, we are both excited and anxious as we begin this new approach but we have been very busy preparing some great things for your children to learn.

We understand and appreciate fully that for some of you there will be issues around sharing of devices, access to the internet and also siblings needing to share the equipment and so we ask that although you may be unable to participate in all of the live sessions, that you try to attend some of them across the week if possible. Please scroll below for the timings of the live sessions in each year group.

Please also note that we will put up the links to the sways (scroll below) containing the lessons here on this web page for you too in case you have difficulty with using Microsoft Teams. These will be the same links which the children will use on Teams and in the classroom to ensure all of the children are having the same learning at home and school. We hope this will help.

The purpose of this letter is to outline to you the approach that we will take to remote learning, over the coming weeks.

A timetable will be posted onto the home school webpage below https://underwood.schooljotter2.com/classes/year-2-2/learning-at-home-1

for year 2 outlining learning activities for the weeks ahead. Each week we will provide the following …

a daily live meet and greet at 9.30am
a daily maths lesson.
a daily reading & phonics lesson.

a daily literacy lesson.
a daily live feedback session at 1.15pm
a daily topic lesson.
a daily story.

To start the day, at 9.30am, you will receive an invite to a live ‘meet and greet’ session where a teacher from year 2 will outline the lessons and learning for the day and how to find the links for the lessons on the chat section of Microsoft Teams. A link to the live sessions will be found under the general tab in the team called Year 2 Remote Learners.

We will use Microsoft Teams to ‘post’ these as a link to each lesson which will be either a sway, a power point or a video. A link for the daily learning will be posted under the relevant heading.

Remember you will find your child’s log in details in your child’s reading log. If you can’t find your child’s log in details please use teachers email address to let us know and we will provide you with them. teachers@underwoodwest.cheshire.sch.uk

Additionally, at 1.15pm, we will invite you again to another ‘live’ session to check in with the children and provide continuing general feedback.

Throughout the day, a year 2 teacher will be available to answer any questions you may have through the ‘chat’ function until 3.30pm on Microsoft teams.

You will be able to post the children’s work in the form of screen shots in the chat area of each subject. Please be assured that we will read the messages and responses which you post here but, understand that feedback will be more general and will not necessarily be to individual posts but will be in the form of verbal feedback during the two live sessions.

Reminders

Reading

Click here to go to our Year 2 Home Learning Webpage and scroll down further on this page to use the virtual Year 2 Library and the virtual Year 2 book corner as links for story books and also books linked to our topic of 'Antarctic and Arctic', as well as other fun virtual classrooms for music and PE etc. Scroll a little further down on this page.and you will find in purple font, additional website for home learning support and ideas.

Click here to go to our school's reading web page for further ideas and support for reading. 

Click here to go to the website Oxford Reading Tree where you will find a super collection of free digital e books to read. Your children are familiar with this website as it is used in school.  

The username is class2hr for children in class 2HR and the password is reader 
The username is MrsAshley for children in class 2A and the password is Reading 
The username is missmann for children in class 2M and the password is reading

Monster phonics

We now have a parents login for you to access the monster phonics website and all it's resources at home. Go to Reception EYFS Curriculum - Term 1 to see which letter sounds your child has been learning.

https://monsterphonics.com/

User name : parents

Password: homelearning

We thank you in advance for all of your amazing support and look forward to working with you all in this new way over the coming weeks.

The Year 2 Team.

Week beginning 18.01.21

Please download the document below and then click on the links to each of the lessons.

Please also see the schedule of primary school lessons available on the CBBC channel for this week.

Download Document

Week beginning 11.01.21

Please download the document below and then click on the links to each of the lessons.

Please also see the schedule of primary school lessons available on the CBBC channel for this week.

Download Document

Virtual Zoo Visits

Hello to all of our Super Home Learners in Year 2. Are you missing visiting Chester Zoo? Well the great news is they are doing 'virtual' visits! If you click on this link then you can visit virtually!!!! You can see the red pandas having breakfast and you see the meerkats having fun too. https://www.chesterzoo.org/virtual-zoo-2/

Week Beginning 4.1.21 

Mathematics 

In maths we will begin work on what is an equal group, counting in 2’s and our two times tables.

 The homework tab is on our web page and it has even more ideas and links to activities - click here.  

These links will take you to the clips for learning this week.

Tuesday – Make equal groups activity.

Tuesday – Make equal groups.

Wednesday –Redistribute from unequal groups to equal groups activity

Thursday - Add equal groups.

Friday - Make arrays

Watch these videos to help with….

Counting in 2’s

Literacy 

In literacy we are carrying on with narrative writing. Follow the (week 2) sequence of lessons for Honey and Trouble: character

focusing on descriptive writing. Remember to use the lovely adjectives we have been learning in class:

Week 1

Monday - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-and-respond-to-a-story-70tked

Tuesday - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-tell-a-story-from-memory-6gt68d

Wednesday - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-character-through-what-they-do-say-think-and-feel-6gvp6e

Thursday - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-use-adjectives-6nh3jr

Friday - https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-make-inferences-based-on-what-is-said-and-done-68v68c

Reading 

Scroll down further on this page to use the Year 2 Library and the Year 2 book corner to find links for story books and also books linked to our topic of 'London'. 
Click here to go to our school's web page for further ideas and support for reading. 
Click here to go to the website Oxford Reading Tree where you will find a super collection of free digital e books to read. Your children are familiar with this website as it is used in school.

The username is class2hr for children in class 2HR and the password is reader 

The username is MrsAshley for children in class 2A and the password is Reading 

The username is missmann for children in class 2M and the password is reading

Monster Phonics

SPaG 

Exclamation marks and question marks.

  Handwriting.

Please complete the sheet on joining the letters ‘ole’ and ‘obe’.

Phonics 

For phonics this week we would like you to watch and use the resources on this page which is on the Monster Phonics Home Learning page. 

 Please complete week 1 day 4 er

Here you will find 

a video to watch to introduce and teach the sound for Monday and read the flashcards to practice reading the sound differently this week. 
2 worksheets for Tuesday and Wednesday. For the section called ‘ Quick Mix Review’, please ask your grown up to read these words aloud and ask you to spell them in your book. Under better after dinner brother ever
For Thursday and Friday please click here for the link to a sway document.

Science

Click on the link below to complete this weeks Science lesson based on the book What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers

Science Lesson

 PSHE and RHE

Please click here for the link to take you to the page where you will find the work you do with Mrs Minor.

Scroll further down for our virtual classrooms too where you will find PE, music, books and more geography!

Our new topic is Antarctica and Arctic.

Please click on the links below to go the virtual classrooms.

Here find further links to books, music and art linked to the theme.

To go to the Year 2 Music Room Click Here

To go to Antartica Click Here

To go to the Year 2 Art Room Click Here

To go to the Year 2 History Room Click Here

To go to the Year 2 Book Corner Click Here

To go to the Year 2 Library Click Here

Useful Websites for Year 2 children

Here is a list of useful website which your children will find useful to practice the skills they are learning in class.

Maths

Revise your number bonds, times-tables, doubles and halves:

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

Addition and subtraction number fact families:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

Pick a skill you wish to practise:

https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-2

Short videos and activity sheets based on the Year 2 curriculum

:https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

English

Practice spelling Common Exception Words and select Year 2:

http://www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

Pick a picture for some writing inspiration:

http://www.pobble365.com/

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-ks1-shed.html

Use this link for ideas from the Literacy Trust on reading and writing:

https://wordsforlife.org.uk/activities/filter/?age=5-8

Free E books for children - Please scroll up for the details of class logins :

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

Click here to go to the link to see the links to SPaG activities and songs with George who comes in to school to help the children learn.

https://anchorcreativeeducation.com/george-explains

Click here to go to a website that supports your child's developing skills in phonics.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/literacy.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcqqtfr

Scroll further down for more useful websites using the Year 2 library and the Year 2 Book Corner links.

Science

Fun science activities for home:

https://pstt.org.uk/resources/curriculum-materials/Science-Fun-at-Home

Range of games and activities:

https://wowscience.co.uk/

General

http://www.twinkl.co.uk (free printable resources)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z3g4d2p (covers a wide range of subjects across the KS1 curriculum)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary (daily lessons on a range of subjects)

Well-being

Try some yoga, we love to use this in class!

https://www.cosmickids.com/category/watch/?duration=short&changed=duration

Joe Wicks ‘PE with Joe’

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6

Scroll further down for our virtual classrooms too where you will find music, books and more geography!

Term 2

2020 - 2021

Topic: Antarctica and Arctic

Book: Penguins in Peril

It's Advent time and below you will find a 'Poetree Advent Calendar'. Download the document first and then, click on a number to listen to a poet read their poem out loud!

Download Document

Click here - Here is another link to an advent calendar for maths too!