Year 2 – Second Summer Term

Hello Dragonflies and Frogs

We hope you’re all well. It was lovely to see some of you when we delivered the home learning packs. Thankyou to

those of you that have emailed through your fabulous home learning to the class email addresses. It’s been lovely to

see how hard you’ve been working and the incredible work you’ve produced. Please continue to choose your best

piece of writing, maths and topic work each week. Parents can e-mail photographs of the chosen work to

frogs@oldbrookschool.co.uk or dragonflies@oldbrookschool.co.uk . We will review the learning sent and will respond

with feedback. Also, remember to keep using Purple Mash for activities of your choice and of course, to keep emailing

us and your friends in your class.

Take care of yourself and loved ones,

Mrs Dunkley and Miss Brown

You can listen to the story being read and look at the illustrations by following the link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJeAKYrvSQ

For Geography, you will need the link below to listen to Masai and I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgKoPOq4DBk

You can also continue to use the following websites for your home learning:

The PE Hub Music Yoga

Maths and literacy lessons Topic lessons Phonics

Home Learning Week 3 Timetable

Home Learning Timetable Week 4

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Phonics Phonics Play Split digraphs colouring

Phonics blast off

Suffixes Punctuation

Literacy Read Bonting Draw story map of Bonting

Make puppets Innovate story map

Write story

Maths Multiplication number

sentences

Multiplication Word search

Division number

sentences

Division Problems -

colouring

Addition and subtraction –

crack the code

Reading Read Bonting

Draw and label

character with

adjectives

Draw and label

own ‘special’

object

Star Fish

Comprehension

Read a book of

your choice for

pleasure and complete book

review

Topic Music - see link of website to

Out of the Ark Music

Geography Milton Keynes

Fact file

Geography Similarities/

differences of physical and

human features

between MK and Masai

Mara

PSHE Keeping safe

poster

PE - Joe Wicks, Yoga, The PE

Hub

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Phonics Phonics Play SPaG

Commas in a

list

Phonics games

sheet

Split digraphs Common

exception words

wordsearch

Literacy Read seaside

poems.

Write your own

acrostic poem

Rhyming words

– seaside theme

Write rhyming

poem

Edit, write up

and illustrate

poem

Maths Time – read

times

Time – draw

hands on clock

Compare values

using

<>=

Compare – +

using

<>=

Intervals of

time

Reading Read a selection

of seaside poems

Underline

adjectives/

nouns/verbs within poem

Seaside

comprehension

Which poem is

your favourite

and why?

Compare two

poems

Topic Science

Living, non-living, once

living

Music – see link

of website to Out of the Ark

Music

Geography

Masai Mara

Art

Masai Necklaces

PE – Joe Wicks,

Yoga, The PE Hub

Literacy - Seaside poems

Read the poems below that all have a seaside theme. Do

you recognise any of the poet’s names?

Maths – Time to 15 minutes

Write the time on each clock below using these key words:

half past o’clock quarter past quarter to

Challenge:

Reading

Read the poems below. What do you notice about these

poems. Consider the features of poetry we have previously

discussed:

Type of poem Structure Features

Acrostic (The first letter of each line spells a word) Shape (Shaped like the thing it describes) Haiku (The first and last lines have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables) Free Verse (No rhyme or obvious rhythm)

Written in verses Each line starts with a capital letter A comma usually at the end of each line

Alliteration Metaphor Onomatopoeia Pattern Repetition Rhyme Rhythm Simile

Science – living/non-living/once alive

Cut out and sort the pictures on the next page into the

correct column. Think carefully about the material these

objects are made of.

Science: sorting pictures

Can you think of anymore examples? Draw them in the

correct column in the table.

Phonics: SPaG: Comma in a list

Can you rewrite these boring breathless lists and replace

‘and’s’ with commas. Don’t forget to leave the last ‘and’ so

that sentence still makes sense.

e.g For my holiday I will need: a towel, shorts, a hat and goggles.

Literacy: Acrostic Poem

Write your own acrostic poem. Here’s a template for you but

perhaps you can choose your own word.

Maths – Time

Draw hands on the clocks to show the time

Maths – Time Challenge

Reading: Word Types

Can you underline the verbs, nouns and adjectives

following the key below?

Word type Definition Colour

verb a ‘doing’ word blue

noun a person or object green

adjective a describing word red

Phonics : Games

Literacy: Rhyming words

Make a list of rhyming words that can be used to write a

rhyming seaside poem tomorrow.

See the examples below

tide wide

rain train

seaside tide

Maths: greater than, less than and equal to < > =

In year 2, we have learnt the ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’

symbols (< and >), alongside the ‘equals’ symbol (=), and

began to use these symbols in number sentences. To help

us remember we learnt that the < and > symbols resemble a

crocodile’s mouth, and the crocodile always eats the bigger

number (for example 45<84, 32>20).

Put the correct sign (<, > or =) between these numbers.

Remember – the crocodile always eats the bigger

number!

Maths Challenge: < > =

Reading: Comprehension

The questions on the next page!

Reading: Comprehension questions:

1. Tick two things animals and plants need from a habitat.

Wings

shelter

food

2. What is marram? Tick one.

a mammal

a plant

a minibeast

3. Find and copy one word which means ‘tough’.

_______________________________________________________________________________________

4. Complete the sentence by adding in the missing word.

Otters use their webbed feet to swim and their tails to

_____________________, steer and balance themselves.

5. What could you do to help look after our beaches? Tick

one.

take photos of plants and flowers

collect shells

pick plants and flowers

Geography: Masai Mara

Last week you researched the Masai Mara. Complete the

information below:

Where is the Masai Mara?

______________________________________________________________________________________________

What is the climate like?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Name 3 animals that live there.

_______________________, ___________________________, and __________________________

Draw a picture of the Masai Mara showing plants which

grow there and features of the landscape.

Do any people live there?

________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Phonics: Split digraphs

Literacy: Rhyming Poem

Using your rhyming word bank from yesterday, write your

own rhyming poem about the seaside. Consider the rhyming

pattern you want to write your poem in. Will you make the

1st and 3rd line rhyme or the 2nd and 4th line rhyme? Or

perhaps both!

Maths: Less than, greater than and equal to

Use < > = symbols again to make the following statements

correct. The first one has been done for you.

14 + 6 < 21

20 + 10 29

5 + 4 + 1 fourteen

0 + 21 20 + 1

11 + 6 10 + 7

34 - 11 45 + 21

Twelve 20 - 8

15 – 4 4 + 15

Maths: Challenge

Reading:

Re-read the two poems below.

Which poem is your favourite and why?

Art: Masai necklaces

The making of Masai necklaces is a practice done

specifically by women and it's considered their duty

to learn beadwork.. The beaded ornaments represent

Maasai cultural values and traditions. These

products are for both men and women, and they're

used in cultural practices such as weddings, rituals,

and community events.

Use the template on the

next page to create your

own Masai necklace.

Art: Masai Necklace

My Masai Necklace

Phonics: Common exception word wordsearch

Literacy: Poetry

On Wednesday you wrote your own acrostic poem and

yesterday you wrote your own rhyming poem. Choose

your favourite poem and write it out below in your

neatest handwriting. Check the bullet points below to

make sure you have remembered everything.

• Give your poem a title

• Neatest handwriting (use a pen if you’re allowed)

• Cursive handwriting

• Check your spelling

• Check your punctuation , ! ?

• Write your name at the bottom

Challenge

Try and include:

• Simile (The sky is as blue as the sea. The waves

crashed like smashed plates)

• Onomatopoeia(boom, crash, whack, thump, bang)

• Alliteration (The shiny soft shells were buried in the

sand)

• Once complete, illustrate your poem

Literacy: Poem

Maths: Compare intervals of time

Cut out and match the intervals of time.

Maths: Challenge

Reading: Compare two poems

Choose two of the poems that you’ve read last week.

Compare them both by thinking about the following

questions:

What are the similarities between the poems?

• Do they both rhyme, same type of poem, have

alliteration, similes or onomatopoeia?

What are the differences between the poems?

• Does one poem rhyme and one not? Does one poem have

similes and the other doesn’t?

Literacy & Reading: Read/watch Bonting by Shirley Hughes

One fine summer morning Alfie went

out into the back garden and he

found a stone. It was an

especially nice sort of grey stone,

worn very smooth all over with

white streaks in it. It was rounded

on one side and flattish on the

other. It fitted well into the palm

of Alfie’s hand. Alfie put the stone into the pocket of his

shorts. By the end of the day Alfie had decided that the

stone had become a real friend and he called it Bonting.

Alfie liked Bonting a lot, almost as much as his knitted

elephant. Alfie’s elephant was old, nearly as old as Alfie

but mum said that Bonting was a lot older than that,

perhaps thousands of years old. Alfie didn’t know anyone

that old so that made Bonting even more special.

Mum gave Alfie a box lined with cotton wool for Bonting to

sleep in. Next Alfie asked if Mum could make Bonting some

clothes so she kindly knitted Bonting a scarf and hat

using green and black wool. There was a bit of stuff left

over so she made him a bathing suit as well. This was

brilliant because the weather was very hot. Alfie and

Annie-Rose played in their paddling pool and Bonting could

play too. He didn’t float like the boats but sank to the

bottom. Dad said that the next day when they got up in the

morning they would go to the sea side.

It was a long drive. Alfie looked out of the window hoping

to see the sea but all he could see were cars and lorries.

At last they arrived! The sea was huge. It was almost as

big as the sky and full of sparkling light. Alfie stared in

amazement. It looked beautiful. The waves arched over each

other sucking seaweed and pebbles with them down the

sand.

The first thing they did was to change into their bathing

suits and run into the waves. Then they raced each other

up the beach and ate their picnic. Bonting had a little

piece of Alfie’s sandwich. After lunch Alfie gave Bonting a

swim in a pool and put him carefully to dry in the sun.

Next Alfie dug a sandcastle. Dad and Annie-Rose helped.

They collected bits of frilly seaweed and looked at little

fish and crabs hiding in pools.

At last when the tide had gone out leaving miles and miles

of shining sand and when Alfie’s shadow was getting

longer and longer Mum and dad started to pack up. Alfie

and Annie-Rose fetched their spades and their buckets full

of the special things they had collected. Alfie felt in his

pocket to check that Bonting was there but he wasn’t.

Alfie’s tummy felt like it flipped over. He ran anxiously to

the place where Bonting had been drying but Bonting was

nowhere to be seen.

Alfie looked all around. Mum and Dad helped him. It was

useless. There were stones everywhere but none was wearing

a green and black bathing suit. Alfie began to be very

upset. After a long search Dad said it was getting too late

and they would have to go home.

“But we can’t leave Bonting behind he’ll be all lonely,” cried

Alfie. Dad said that Bonting would have lots of other

stones to keep him company. All the same Alfie cried.

Eventually he fell asleep in the car.

In the morning the first thing Alfie saw when he woke up

was Bonting’s empty box and he felt sad. After breakfast he

went into the garden. He and Annie-Rose began to sort the

shells and stones they had collected. Alfie looked sadly at

his stones because none were as nice as Bonting. Next

Annie-Rose tipped out her bucket. Out came lots of seaweed

and muddy water. There was a strong smell of the seaside.

Then Alfie and Annie-Rose looked into the bottom of Annie-

Rose’s bucket and what do you think they saw? It was

Bonting! His green and black bathing suit was all sopping

wet and covered with mud. Alfie was very pleased to see

him. His tummy felt full of happiness.

“Can Bonting please have a new bathing suit?“ he asked

Mum.

“His next one had better be bright red so that he doesn’t get

lost again,” she said. Alfie smiled with contentment.

Maths: Multiplication

There are many ways to solve multiplication number

sentences. The most efficient way is by learning your times

tables (below)

We also encourage children to count in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s to

solve multiplication problems.

e.g 3 x 5 = I would count in 5 three times 5, 10, 15

Your child might be more confident to draw arrays to solve

multiplication number sentences. An array is an

arrangement of dots or objects set out in rows.

e.g 3 x 5 Here we have 5 rows of 3 dots. Now

I can count how many there are altogether. I have

15. The children also know that multiplication is

commutative – that 3 x 5 and

5x 3 equals the same amount.

Maths: Multiplication

Solve these multiplication number sentences using the

method you are most confident with. Write out the number

sentences (one digit per square) as we would in our school

maths books.

4 x 5 = 2 x 10 = 5 x 3 = 8 x 2 = 0 x 5 =

10 x 3 = 7 x 5 = 8 x 2 = 3 x 4 = 6 x 3 =

Phonics: split digraphs

Literacy – story map of Bunting

Re-read the story of Bunting. Create your own story map by

drawing pictures to retell the story.

Maths: Times table search

Solve the multiplication number sentences, write the answer

then find the answer written in words in the word search.

3 x 3 = 3 x 4 = 3 x 10 =

3 x 6 = 3 x 2 = 3 x 7 =

Reading:

Draw Alfie from the story of Bunting and label your

drawing with adjectives that describe him. Can you include

some expanded noun phrases?

An expanded noun phrase is a phrase made up of a noun

and at least one adjective. If one or more adjectives are

listed to describe the noun, a comma should be added to

separate the sentence.

e.g The boy wore dark, brown, ripped trousers.

caring

Geography

Milton Keynes Fact File

Consider the following sub-headings to create a fact file

about our local area. Use the internet to research and

decide how you would like to present this information.

Location Population Climate

Buildings Roads/travel Animals

Phonics: Phonics game

Literacy: Make puppets

Just as we would at school after creating a story map, we’d

like you to create some character puppets of the characters

in the story of Bunting. Use the paper below and draw and

colour in the characters, then cut them out. If you have

anything to attach the pictures to (lolly stick, tubes,

straws) then you can hold your puppets and retell the

story.

Maths: Division number sentences

Just as with multiplication, the most efficient way to

divide is by applying our knowledge of times tables.

It helps to understand the inverse:

e.g 20 ÷ 5 = 4 then 4 x 5 = 20

Another method to solve division number sentences is to

share.

8 ÷ 2 = We encourage children to draw 2 circles (as

that’s the amount we are dividing between and then share

out the 8 by drawing dots in each circle.

Once we have shared out the 8 dots between 2 circles, we

count how many dots are in 1 circle.

8 ÷ 2 = 4

Maths: Division number sentences

10 ÷ 5 = 12 ÷ 2 = 20 ÷ 10 = 14 ÷ 2 = 18 ÷ 3 =

25 ÷ 5 = 20 ÷ 4 = 18 ÷ 2 = 20 ÷ 5 = 21 ÷ 3 =

Write out the number sentences (one digit per square) as we

would in our maths books. Then show your working out.

Reading:

Alfie had his special stone in the story of Bonting. Draw

something that is special to you and label your drawing

with adjectives that describes your object. Can you include

some expanded noun phrases?

An expanded noun phrase is a phrase made up of a noun

and at least one adjective. If one or more adjectives are

listed to describe the noun, a comma should be added to

separate the sentence.

Geography: Human and Physical Features

Using your knowledge of Masai Mara and Milton Keynes,

compare the two considering the headings below.

e.g When considering the climate, what is the average

temperature throughout the seasons in Masai Mara

compared to Milton Keynes? You could also find out about

average rainfall when thinking about the climate.

Milton Keynes Masai Mara

buildings

animals

roads

climate

Phonics: Suffixes

The ‘Phonology’ board game below is all about suffixes. A

suffix. A suffix is a letter, or group of letters, that forms a

new ending to an existing root word. Here are some

examples of suffixes we use:

-ly slowly -ful beautiful

-ment amazement -ness sadness

-est greatest

Literacy – Innovated story map

Now that you are familiar with the story of Bunting, it’s

time to innovate it. This means you can change parts of

the story. You can change 3 things – the characters, the

special object and the setting. These can be anyone,

anything and anywhere! Draw your innovated story map.

Maths: Division

Solve the division number sentences then colour the square

according to the key.

Reading: Comprehension

Once you have read about Super Starfish, answer the

questions on the next page – good luck!

PSHE: Safety poster

Make a poster to be displayed around school to let other

children know how to stay safe whilst at school during

these times. Think about washing hands regularly, keeping

our distance and not touching our faces.

Here’s some examples

Keeping Safe poster

Phonics: SPaG: Punctuation

Can you add the correct punctuation to make these

sentences correct?

Literacy: Write your innovated story

Using your story maps from yesterday, write your innovated

Bonting story, Read the steps to success carefully!

• Write in full sentences

• Remember full stops, capital letters and finger spaces

• Include a range of conjunctions (if, or, but, because,

when, that)

• Try and apply suffixes (ment, ness, ful, ly, est

• Cursive handwriting

• Spell common exception words correctly

Maths: Addition and subtraction

Crack the code:

Reading: Book Review

Read a book of your choice – it can be one you’ve read

before and complete this book review.

OPTIONAL ART CHALLENGE:

Follow the step-by-step guide below to draw your very own enormous

crocodile that could be used to illustrate your Big Write Task. Take your time

and pay close attention to the form of the body and features.

Drawing Characters from Starry-Eyed Stan