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Our Year 2 Class Charter -

Homework Menu - Summer Term 2017

There are 13 weeks this term please complete 5 projects from the following themes (with at least 1 from each section and using a range of skills from the grid below):

Whole School Themes

I can explain about democracy (link to the general election in Jun) (Citizenship).

I can tell you about a different Christian denomination (Religious Education).

I can raise money for Little Havens (Chosen school charity).

Subject Themes

I can design and make a poster for the Summer Fair (English/design).

I can find out something about a significant mathematician (Maths).

I can design and make myself an outfit for Eco Week using recycled materials (Friday 26 May) (PSHE).

Topic Themes – Pirates (Year 2)

I can share an example of how I have shown our Christian values Trust or Courage (English, Religious Education, PSHE).

I can find out about our author Timothy Knapman (English, Computing).

I can find out about an historic explorer e.g. Columbus, Cortes, Francis Drake, Grace O ‘Malley (History, Literacy, Computing).

I can investigate different habitats in my locality. e.g. bug survey, photos, art work of different habitats, or advertisement for a bug hotel (Science, Art, Literacy, Maths, Computing).

year 2 School games events

Final Easter boxes for our Chocolate.

Celebrating Red Nose Day

Homework 24th March We will continue our fraction work in maths

Reading

Read every night. Look for exciting verbs in your story book.

Gather bits and pieces suitable to decorate your Easter egg packaging.

Spellings

Easter celebration

Jesus candle

Christ tomb

crucified angel

resurrection world

Great homework Well done!

Our eggtastic fabulous finish

Great homework. Well done

Homework 17th March

Reading

Read every night.

Identify any interesting noun phrases e.g. the shiny, blue butterfly, to share with your guided reading group this week.

Maths

CGP maths workbook pages 17 & 18

To support our work this week on fractions.

Design an Easter image for the front cover for the Church Easter service booklet.

Some from each class will be included in the final booklet. A4 sized paper and only use black so it can be copied Thank you

Spellings

busier funnier

happier heavier

heathier noisiest

angriest loneliest

craziest luckiest

Our maths for the week beginning 20th March:

Finding fractions of quantities
Comparing and ordering fractions
Counting wholes and parts

Homework 10th March

Subject	Activity
Reading	Read every night. Identify if the text in your reading books is in the past or present tense.
D&T	For our Fabulous Finish (which will be from 10.15 on 17^th March) we will need a selection of modelling materials and protective packaging eg. Newspaper, bubble wrap, fabric, boxes. They are unlikely to be returned!
Theme	Final Project Title: ____________________________ Due in on 15^th March
Spellings	denied lied relied replied satisfied tried carried hurried scurried worried

Our maths for the week beginning 13th March:

Recognising fractions
Identifying halves, thirds and quarters
Identifying the numerator and denominator

great homework.

Homework 3.3.2017

Reading	Read every night. In your reading book see if you can find different adjectives to describe feelings of characters e.g happily, moody, grumpy
Maths	CGP maths pages 12 & 13 multiplication Practise the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables. (There are a huge amount of websites and apps which will practise times tables in a fun way.)
Theme	Start Project 4 Title: ____________________________ Due in on 15^th March
Spellings	cities ponies countries puppies enemies ladies fairies babies families cries

Our maths for the week beginning 6th March:

Grouping objects into equal groups
Recognising division as sharing into equal groups
Understanding the relationship between multiplication and division

Aztec drumming workshop.

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Super homework

Homework 24th February

Reading	Read every night. In your reading book. See if you can find an example of a command, question, statement, exclamation sentences.
Literacy	Visit www.activelearnprimary.co.uk log on and work through the activities allocated to you under ‘my stuff’ which are marked with this image: Talk through the quiz with your child and if appropriate they can record the answer in their homework book. User name – first initial and then surname Password – Bumblebee ( all 1 word starting with capital B) So Mary Berry would be: User name - mberry Password - Bumblebee The school code is - nbsk
Theme	Project 3 Title: ____________________________ Due in on 2^nd March
Spellings	cry dry try apply deny sky sly rely reply supply

Our maths for the week beginning 27th February:

Practicing our 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s
Performing multiplication as repeated addition
Recording multiplication equations
Solving word problems involving multiplications

Aztec Marvellous Middle

Super 3d models made at home. Well done!

Wonderful project homework

Project 3 homework Well done.

Homework Menu - Spring Term 2017

There are 11 weeks this term please complete 4 projects from the following themes (with at least 1 from each section):

Whole School Themes

I know something Mardi Gras (Christianity around the world).

I can find out about China (World Religion/Geography/Multi-cultural awareness).

I can explain why Valentine’s day is celebrated (British Culture).

Subject Themes

I can design and make a game with a set of instructions (DT/English).

I can create a piece of art work inspired by a famous artist (Art).

I can investigate the effect of gravity (Science).

Topic Themes Year 2

I can carry out a chocolate survey recording my findings using data charts or graphs (Maths).

I can show what I know about chocolate

(Science, History, Geography, Cooking).

I can find out about Helen Cooper, Jeanne Willis and their books

(Author focus).

Our maths for the week beginning 20th February:

Developing our mental arithmetic
Using different strategies to solve calculations
Checking we read the question carefully to understand what we need to do

On Tuesday 21st February we need a large amount of newspaper. If you have any that you are finished with, please send it in. Thank you!

Our maths for the week beginning 6th February:

Identifying 3D shapes
Investigating the properties of 3D shapes
Continuing patterns using shapes

Homework 3.2.2017

Reading	Read every night. Think about who the characters are in a traditional story. Do they vary depending upon version of the story?
Maths	CGP maths book pages 34,35, 36 Interpreting data.
Theme	Project 2 Title: ____________________________ Due in on 8^th February
Spellings	magical final musical accidental original normal special legal

We have made chocolate roses and scuptures using chocolate play dough.

Look at our information pages about different uses for chocolate.

Great homework Well done!

Homework 27.1.2017

Read every night. Discuss how the story begins.

Is there a traditional start?

For Monday

Please do not stick in homework journals.

Find or draw a picture which can be used on your information text about chocolate.

Remember the focus is how chocolate can be used.

Think about the caption which explains your picture.

It needs to be no bigger than A6.

Project 2 Title: ____________________________

Due in on 8^th February

travel quarrel

angel label

cancel tunnel

squirrel towel

camel marvel

Our maths for the week beginning 30th January:

Interpreting data in picture graphs and tally charts
Reading demarcated scales
Reading temperatures
Comparing and finding the difference between temperatures

Fantastic homework. Very creative ideas. Well done!

Homework 20.1.2017

Read every night. Find an interesting fact or piece of information to share in guided reading next week.

Complete ‘My Healthy Week’ keep a record of your daily exercise, snacks you eat, and your hygiene routine.

Please do not stick in homework journals.

Project 1 Title: ____________________________

Due in on 25^th January

puddle ankle

saddle uncle

chuckle tickle

bottle simple

grumble table

My Healthy Week.docx

Our maths for the week beginning 23rd January:

Adding using regrouping (renaming) the tens and ones
Telling the time to five minutes
Writing the time
Sequencing events using time

Super Homework. Well done!

Chocolate tasting. Our stunning starter yum!

Maths for the week beginning 16th January 2017:

Adding within 1000
Subtracting within 1000
Adding with renaming (regrouping) with ones and tens
Solving word problems

Fun in the snow!

A big Thank you for the super tree, the children have enjoyed sharing their thoughts today, a lovely idea.

Thank you also for the kind gifts for Mrs King and myself.

have a lovely, fun filled Christmas and we look forward to next term.

love Mrs Hodder

Infant Christmas party

Year 2 School Games event.

Both Bumble Bee and Puffin took part in a variety of team games in their houses. They had lots of fun competing against each other. They showed good sportsmanship and respect for their opponents. The afternoon finished in a draw and they ended the event shaking hands and congratulating each other. Well done everyone!

Our maths for the week beginning 5th December:

Adding and subtracting using different methods

Costumes for the Nativity are due in by 8th December.

Do come and catch us in the playground after school if there are any problems.

Homework 5.12.2016

Reading

Practise your words for Nativity.

Next week we are rehearsing without scripts.

Remember you need to know who speaks before you.

Christmas

This year our infant Christmas party is on Thursday 15^thDecember. To create a Christmassy atmosphere we would like the children to have an accessory to add to their school uniform e.g. badge, belt, hat, bandana following the school theme of Silver and White. Have fun, be creative!!

Spellings

Jesus manger

Mary stable

Joseph straw

Bethlehem travelled

animals donkey

Homework Champion

Homework 25.11.2016

Reading	Read every night. Looking for alternative words for said e.g. yelled, cried, shouted What is the most interesting word you can find?
Maths	CGP pages 7 & 8 Focussing on different methods of addition. (part, part, whole and using a number line)
Christmas	This is year our infant Christmas party is on Thursday 15^thDecember. To create a Christmassy atmosphere we would like the children to have an accessory to add to their school uniform e.g. badge, belt, hat, bandana following the school theme of Silver and White. Have fun, be creative!!
Spellings	bubble bible cuddle table middle apple candle dazzle little uncle

Our maths for the week beginning 28th November:

Recognising number patterns
Counting in 2s and 10s
Investigating what happens when we add or subtract 5 or 3

Homework 18.11.16

Reading

Read every night. Looking for different sentence connectives e.g. so, but, then

What is the most interesting connective you can find?

Science

Become a label hunter!

Explore your kitchen and complete the task. Please do not stick in homework book so we can use the information in our lessons.

Theme

This is your final project for this term and we would love to see it when it is finished.

Title: ____________________________

Spellings

some come

with feel

should went.

fire wrap

wrapper wreck

write wrinkly

Science homework task

Food location.docx

Our maths for the week beginning 21st November:

Adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers
Solving addition and subtraction problems using concrete and pictorial representation

Great homework projects well done!!

Homework weekending 11th November

Reading	Read every night. Discuss the vocabulary and glossary in your non- fiction text. Can you create a definition for an interesting word?
Maths	Be a detective! Can you crack the code?
Theme	This is your final project for this term and we would love to see it when it is finished. Title: ____________________________
Spellings	use other saw could make thing your gnarled gnash gnat gnaw sign

Maths for the week beginning 14th November:

Measuring using a ruler
Comparing lengths
Using directional language (forward, anti-clockwise etc)
Programming and controlling movement

Super homework project 5. Well done.

Today Bumblebee class presented an assembly on the Great Fire of London.

They were great at acting, as they put lots of expression in and knew their words. When they spoke, the children's voices were loud and everyone could hear them clearly. The poems about fireworks were performed beautifully.

They also sang London's Burning beautifully and they weren't out of tune or out of time.

The costumes they wore were amazing as it really illustrated who they were acting as.

Finally, Bumblebee class told everyone how to stay safe fantastically.

We thought they deserved another round of applause!

Written by Kitty P and Louie B

Bumblebee Class Assembly

Reading	Read every night. Think about how the author has used the layout of their book to make it more exciting.
Maths	CGP workbook pages 24 & 25 Money problems
Theme	Project 4 is due in on 9^th November. Title: ____________________________
Spellings	knee know kneel knuckle knight knife knives knot knock knew

Our maths for the week beginning 7th November:

Adding multiples of ten to a 2-digit number
Adding 11, 12, 21, 22 and 31 to a 2-digit number
Subtracting multiples of ten from a given number
Subtracting 11, 21 and 31 from a given number

Fabulous homework Well done.

Please practise and learn for our class assembly.

( all) Bonfire Night

( boys) In the night-time darkness,

( girls) In the night-time cold,

( boys) Did you spot a Catherine wheel

( girls) Raining showers of gold?

( boys) Did you watch a rocket

( girls) Go zoom into the sky?

( boys) And hear a bonfire crackle

( girls) As the sparks lit up the Guy?

( boys) In the night-time darkness,

( girls) In the night-time cold,

(boys) Did you clutch a sparkler

(girls) As it scattered stars of gold?

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 21.10.2016

Reading	Read every night. Linked with below
Literacy	Over the holiday review one of your favourite books. Tell us why you like the book, think about the events, characters and the word choices the author makes. Your review could be written, typed or even an oral presentation which is filmed.
Theme	Project 4 is not due in until 9^th November. Title: ____________________________
	Practise spellings previously learnt. Bumblebees have words to learn for their assembly (4^th Nov). There are lines as well as a poem. The poem is already on the class page. The children need to bring in their costume from the Great Fire of London day to change into for their performance.

Our maths for the week beginning 31st October:

Finding different combinations of coins
Recognising and using the symbols of pounds and pence
Combining amounts to make a particular value

Our Marvellous Middle Great Fire of London day. A great day thank you for everyones help.

Costume ideas for our Marvellous Middle (17th October)

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 14.10.2016

Reading	Read every night. Think about a question you would like to ask the author.
Maths	Visit www.activelearnprimary.co.uk log on and work through the activities allocated to you under ‘my stuff’ User name – first initial and then surname Password – Bumblebee ( all 1 word starting with capital B) So Mary Berry would be: User name - mberry Password - Bumblebee The school code is - nbsk
Theme	c Complete project 3. Title: ____________________________ Due in on 19^th October.
Spellings	jacket join adjust enjoy journeys joke January joint jerseys jewellery

Maths for the week beginning 17th October:

Telling the time: quarter past, half past and quarter to
Reading the time on analogue and digital clocks
Converting analogue times to digital and digital to analogue

Super homework project 3 well done

Maths for the week beginning 10th October:

Locating and comparing numbers on a number line
Using the <, > and = sign to compare numbers
Finding 10 more and 10 less from any given number

Project 2 homework well done.

Maths for the week beginning 3rd October:

Identifying mirror lines of symmetry
Investigating angles
Using Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams

Maths online homework link

Our maths for the week beginning 26th September:

Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, including money
Repeated addition using 2s, 5s and 10s
Using arrays to show multiplication facts
Identifying number sequences

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 16.09.2016

Subject	Activity
Reading	Read every night. Ask questions about what is happening in the story.
Science	Create your name using different materials. Collage each letter in a different material, be creative and colourful! If it is tricky to carry you could bring in a photo of your work. The final piece of work should be no bigger than A4, otherwise it may not be able to fit on our display.
Theme	Project 1 Title: ____________________________ Due in on 21^st September.
Spellings	badge badger Learn and edge hedge practise these bridge budget words. fudge judge trudge smudge
	Daily reading for 10 to 15 minutes. (Please record in your reading journal.) You should spend a total of one hour over the week on the rest of your homework.

Homework should be returned each Wednesday.

Our maths for the week beginning 19th Sept:

Doubling numbers to double 15
Using number bonds to solve additions and subtractions
Solving additions bridging 10 using number bonds

Year 2 autumn menu

Autumn Menu 2016 year 2.doc

A great start to homework this term. Well done!!

Thank you for joining our fabulous finish. We had fun working together to great art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy.

St Mary's Bumblebees

Mrs O'Brien has been looking after the flowers in the planter outside the reception at school and has recently discovered we are the very lucky owners of a bumblebee nest. The bumblebees are in the lower portion of the planter, and are probably everyday white-tailed bumblebees. They are very active and you can see them flying in at all points of the day.
Please be careful when you are near this area, as although bees are not aggressive, if the nest is threatened they will protect it.

We created these Andy Goldsworthy art creations using natural objects.

Victorian Week Day One - we learnt what a Victorian classroom would have been like and played some Victorian Games. A great start to a fantastic week of learning!

We are learning to play cricket. This week we focused on fielding skills. We learnt lots of skills.

Fantastic Homework over the last few weeks. Well done.

Baddies! Who are the baddies in stories. We looked through a variety of books and discussed who were the baddies.

We are finding out about the stem of a plant and working out how a plant feeds its leaves. We have set up an experiment to see what happens to the food colouring.

We looked carefully at leaves and drew what we could see.

Homework

We have found out lots of information about animals. We created these groups posters to show all we have learnt.

Our trip to Colchester Zoo. We had hands on experience in touching different parts of animals bodies. We had to sort and classify them according to different criteria. We sorted them in to groups of birds, reptiles, mammals, fish and invertebrates. Then we thought about the climate they would come from.

Our Homework certificates - well done to all the children who received them this week for a great effort over the last few weeks. Keep up the good work.

Remembering Palm Sunday

To end our Literacy work on instructions we made sandwiches.

We had fun doing to pancake races. We managed to flip a few!

This week in Science we have been learning about Insects. We learnt some fascinating facts! We have made some insect models using playdough and talked about the parts of the body. can you spot the insects we have made?

More super homework. You have all been working hard. Well done

Some more wonderful homework. Well done Bumblebee class you have been working hard

The Lord's Prayer in pictures.

In RE we have been learning about Prayer. We have painted pictures in response to the Lord's Prayer.

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We're having fun at year 1 games club.

Homework - some wonderful ideas.

Paddingtons Postcards - we worked together to think of ideas that Paddington would write on a postcard to his Aunt Lucy.

Our Puppets - we told the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff to Dolphin Class.

We learnt about measuring accurately. We had to find out how many cubes long our pasta snakes were.

We have been finding out about different materials around our school. We found lots of different things.

We have been learning a special prayer in sign language - can you tell what prayer it is?

Helping with phonics at home.

Many parents have asked how to help at home we have found a few websites which are interactive and a fun way to practise.

To reinforce the sounds you can visit:

http://www.focusonphonics.co.uk/sound.htm - click on the sound you want to hear.

Youtube clips and 'spelling book' games on ipad from Mr Thorne are very good.

I Can Spell with Phonics - an free app for iPad

Cbeebies Alphablocks programmes and games reinforces sounding and blending words.

Also there are a variety of fun games on http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/ - focussing on phases 3,4 5.

Practise little, often and importantly make it fun!!

Hope this is helpful.

Phonic phoneme list

T-L-4923-Phase-2-3-and-5-Phonemes-Sound-Mat.pdf

Year One Autumn Overview

Bethnal Green Toy Museum

Homelink 9.10.2015

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Some of our super homework

Our Five Senses sensory morning

Homelink and homework 25.9.2015

Teddy bears Picnic

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Homelink 10th July 2015.doc

Can you copy the pattern to make it symmetrical?

Can you make your own symmetrical pattern?

Click on the picture and have a go.

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Ordinal Numbers game for homework

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All our ladybird lavae are starting to cocoon... and some are even starting to shed their skin and change into pupae

Larva to pupa

The tiny larva eats and eats and grows and grows and GROWS!
Next the larva will begin to change into a pupa. Now we just have a week to wait for them to hatch.