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Year 2 (Mr. Crook)
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Learning Together, Rooted in God.
Welcome to Year 2
If you have any issues or need to contact me, please do not hesitate to do so via my school email address :
r.crook@st-lawrence.lancs.sch.uk
Our Class Teacher is Mr Crook and our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Smith
In order to see what we have done in previous weeks, take a look at the link below;
Take a look at some of the things the children have been doing at home.
During the twelfth week, the children are welcome to have a go at the following;
MATHS - Statistics - including subtraction (finding the difference)
Plan
These plans are particularly useful and there is a lot more to them then first appears. Have a look at the whole plan.
Success Criteria
Activities
Children can continue to access the mymaths.co.uk and educationcity.com websites to consolidate their learning.
PROBLEM SOLVING
This is a set of problem solving questions. Please try to work up to question 16. Once the children have had a go, I would then go through the questions and explain the answers and if they have got any wrong, explain why.
(The script is in the same document as the test)
TIMES TABLES
It would be important for the children to keep up with their times tables. If you would like to know where they are up to, please email me.
These websites are excellent for maths games too;
Any further ideas for Maths can be accessed by following this link.
It is an excellent resource!
ENGLISH
Reading
Reading - Online access to reading scheme books
Writing
Writing - Buckets and Spades - Explanations. This unit will last for the last two weeks of term.
If children want to, they can access this website to do more writing.
Phonics - Common exception words
For the final two weeks we will be looking at the Year 2 common exception words. I have lots of resources for this so please feel free to choose from any below and spread it out over the next two weeks.
The following website may aid with any phonics work;
Grammar - Use compound words
I have set SPAG work again this week - NOUN PHRASES and COMPOUND NOUNS (B)
Children can continue to access the educationcity.com and SPAG.com website to consolidate their learning.
Handwriting
Children can continue to practise their handwriting following this link;
Any further ideas for English can be accessed by following this link.
It is an excellent resource!
R.E. - Ascension and Pentecost
Our topic this half-term is 'Ascension and Pentecost'. This is the plan for the unit.
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TOPICS - These are the new topics that will last up to the end of the school year. If you would like to see what the old topics were, then just click on the earlier week links near the top of the page.
SCIENCE
Here are some ideas you can use for a unit on 'Material properties - uses of materials'.
This website gives practical ideas that you can use for 'Living things and their habitats' too.
HISTORY
The unit focuses on seaside resorts. You can follow the plan below;
COMPUTING
If the opportunity arises and you have the facilities, children can explore the following computing activities;
ART
This unit is on COLLAGE and TEXTILES;
Again, this resource is excellent for topic plans. They have resources and teaching packs for many topics.
P.E.
Our focus for the final half-term is striking and fielding - if you have the space!!
thepehub.co.uk have created fun, healthy home activities for children and their families, free of charge, to hopefully help with the school closures. If you contact them, they will send you a link to access the resources. Please email me to let me know if you have success getting these resources or not. Thanks.
HOME LEARNING PACKS
This resource pack includes plenty of resources for home learning.
A fantastic website that lists ideas for family learning. Includes mathematics, spelling, and ideas for other subjects.
A fantastic home learning pack that includes Maths, GPS, reading and other practical ideas.
Online tutorials, activities, learn screens. Includes Maths, English, spelling and other subjects.