Year 2 Miss Griffiths

Week Beginning 6.7.2020

Maths and Numeracy

• Use a stopwatch to time the children completing a range of tasks. How many times can they hop on one foot in 30 seconds? How many times can they write their name in 20 seconds? Is 30 seconds as long as they originally thought?
   

• Using a 100 square, two people play. If they turn over a hare card they move 10 spaces and if they pick up a tortoise they move 1. Let’s see who wins. Can you predict which numbers you will land on before counting? (Make cards).
   
• Look at the shirts and shorts: how many combinations of different out fits can you make? Complete the investigation after this page.
   
• More problem solving challenge cards attached if you want extra work!
   
   

Language, Literacy and Communication

Oracy: Which is your favourite sport and why? Talk about this, tell me all about it. See if you can talk for one minute? Send me a video.

Reading: Listen to Aesop’s Fable of ‘The Hare and The Tortoise’ online.

• Join Oxford Owl, find the book band your child is on. Let your child read it online with help.
• Attached comprehension on the Hare and The Tortoise plus Sports Day if you want the extra work.

Writing: Can you change the two main animals in the fable? Write a new version of this. It could be a modern version with a scooter etc. Remember capital letters and full stops.

Spelling: Use 100 common word sheet in your books, and learn the next five spellings. Tick off as you get them correct.

Health and Wellbeing

• Talk about the saying ‘it’s not about the winning but the taking part too’. Is it always important to win?
   
• Mr Couch Potato is very unhealthy – he sits and watches TV all day, eats chips and sweets, stays up   really late and forgets to clean his teeth. Can you pretend to ring him and give him some advice to keep healthy and happy?
   
•  Make up your own mini sports day at home. What things will you include? Running race, egg and spoon, sack race etc. Compete with siblings or grown- ups.
   

Expressive Arts

• Share some of the artwork by Marcel Duchamp that illustrates movement, for example, Nude Descending a Staircase. Get the children to look at how the artist has shown movement in an abstract form and ask them what they can see, how can they see movement? How can they represent movement in a similar way? Can they make it sports day themed? One way is to use a picture of themselves (in a sports day themed pose), cut around it and use a series of coloured card cut outs of their silhouette that overlap.

Science and Technology

• Feel your heart when you sit down. Run on the spot for a few minutes and then feel it again. What do you notice?
   
• Using Scratch Junior App – the children can select a background, with three animal’s sprites. Using the teaching card to help, program each animal to race at different speeds.
   
• Create a healthy picnic with a grown-up. What foods should be included? You could take this on your daily walk. https://www.scratchjr.org/teach/activities/run-a-race

Humanities

• Find out about the history of the Olympic Games. Where did it start?

• Where would the Olympics have been held this year? What are the colours of the National Flag there?