Remember it is important to listen to your child read every day. Please choose a book from Oxford Owl - to find your class login please go to the Homework sub page.
Friday
Watch video clips on how to play common playground games such as the hopscotch rules YouTube clip . Follow the instructions carefully, picking out the key language including verbs and adverbs. Play ‘word pull’ by pulling out new words, discussing meaning linking to known vocabulary, before then returning to its original context.
If possible and you have a piece of chalk and some space in your home grounds, draw a hop scotch grid and play the game to reinforce the game, or play 'What's the Time Mr Wolf?' for the same purpose.
Thursday
Today we will begin our non fiction unit on instructions. To create interest tell your child Mrs Nunns has sent email telling us that the playground games need updating. Because we are a Year 2 class she hopes we can help the younger children learn the games in their bubbles by writing instructions on how to play the games. The first task is to make a list of all the playground games. Discuss the games you know and play e.g. Hop scotch, What's the time Mr Wolf. Tig ,etc.
Watch a video on Discover Education Espresso/ Key Stage1/ English, Grammar and Punctuation- How to separate words in a list using comas.
After watching the video and discussing how the comma is used, ask your child to write a list of playground games using commas to separate the games in the list then draw some pictures of the games.
Wednesday
Login to Discovery Education Espresso / Key Stage 1 /English/Grammar and Punctuation/ Sequencing sentences to describe something that has happened. Watch the video, pausing and discussing the sequence of a set of sentences. Write a sequence of three sentences to describe something that has happened. Repeat this activity three times writing about something different that has happened each time.t
o describe something that has happened
Tuesday
Read through independent write. Discuss other opportunities for adjectives. Are capital letters and full stops used appropriately. Is the story correctly sequenced? Do you like the changes you have made? After editing , rewrite and illustrate.
Independent write Monday
Find a video of the story 'Prince Cinders' and listen to the story. Discuss the names of the characters, the adjectives used to describe the characters and the sequence of the story.
Talk about a few things that could be changed, e.g the name of the princess, where Prince Cinders was waiting to go home ( could be train station etc) Draw a simple plan of the story.
Ask your child to write the story in their own words using adjectives, capital letters and full stops including some of the changes discussed.
Phonics
Friday
Today we will focus on the grapheme u-e.
Login to Phonics Play. Play Speed Trial Phase 5.
Play Buried Treasure Phase 5 -Revise all Phase 5 words sounding out the words and sorting into real or Alien words.
Thursday
Today we will focus on the grapheme o-e.
Login to Phonics Play. Play Speed Trial Phase 5.
Play OBB and Bob choose Phase 5 -Revise all Phase 5 words sounding out the words and sorting into real or Alien words.
Introduce o-e, complete Thursday worksheets below
Wednesday
Complete the sorting grid with the sorting words for the igh sounds (i-e, igh etc) below. Printout or draw sorting grid and write words under the correct grapheme.
Tuesday
Today we will focus on the grapheme e-e.
Login to Phonics Play. Play Speed Trial Phase 5.
Play ict games Forest Phonics focusing on a-e and e-e words.
Return to Phonics Play and play Tricky Words Trucks - all words, these words do not need to be sounded out just read.
Dictate the following sentence for your child to write.
'I can make a cake with eggs and butter and flour then bake it and eat it when it is cooked.'
Monday
Today we will focus on the a-e grapheme.
Login to Espresso Discovery Education and watch the video for the a-e sound
KS1/Phonics/Ash's Phonics. After watching the video complete 'Activities' for a-e ay, Sorting Graphemes, Reading and Spelling
