Homework
Year 2 Summer 1 Homework
This term, our learning will have a Geography focus in which we will be learning about the continents and oceans of the world. We will have fun exploring climate around the world and different animal habitats.
Keep reading at home every day. Don't forget to record your daily reading in your diary so you can move your name along our class reading trail.
Summer 1
Year 2 Homework Grid Spring Term 2
This term we will have a history focus and will be learning about Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell. Have a look at the homework grid and pick the activities you would like to try. Remember, you can be as creative as you want to be with these activities or even adapt them to something you are interested in. The expectation is that one activity is completed every 2 weeks.
Don't forget to keep reading daily!
Year 2 Homework Grid Spring 1
This term we will be learning all about India and comparing the small village of Chembakoli to Great Gonerby. In Maths, we will be learning about mass and weight so have lots of fun using your skills at home in the kitchen! In RE, we will be learning all about thankfulness and in PSHE we will be focusing on friendship and emotions.
Your child will be expected to complete one homework task every two weeks. You can choose to complete these tasks in any order or adapt one.
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Year 2 Homework Grid Autumn 2
In Maths, we will be continuing to learn about multiplication and division of 2, 5 and 10, length and mass and in English we will be basing our work on the book 'The Great Fire of London: Anniversary Edition of the Great Fire of 1666'. Our Science topic is 'What do we need to be healthy?' and in History 'What happened in 1666?' In PSHE we are thinking about mental health and wellbeing.
Your child will be expected to complete one homework project every 2 weeks. You can choose to complete the tasks in any order or adapt one.
Find out about the different ways that we keep our homes safe from fire today. Your child could produce a safety poster. | Create a new exercise to share with your friends or create a new game to play. If you’d like to video a 5-minute PE/fitness activity and send it in, then we will give it a try in school. | Encourage your child to draw or paint a picture of the Great Fire of London or to make a collage to depict the Great Fire of London. |
You will need a 30 centimetres ruler.
Find 6 objects in your house that you can measure with a ruler. Estimate the length of each object before measuring them. Can you record the name of the object, your estimate and the actual measurement of your 6 objects in a table? | Encourage your child to learn to play London's Burning on a musical instrument.
| Write a Christmas acrostic poem with your child or create some Christmas craft. |
Year 2 Homework Grid Autumn 1
In Maths, we will be learning about numbers to 100, addition and subtraction, and multiplication of 2, 5 and 10 and in English we will be basing our work on the book ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’. Our Science topic is ‘Uses of Everyday Materials’ and in Geography ‘What is it like to love in hot and cold places?’. In PSHE we are thinking about physical health and wellbeing.
Your child will be expected to complete one homework project every 2 weeks.
You can choose to complete the tasks in any order or adapt one.
How you present the information/finished work is up to you, if it is suitable you may like to put it in your project journal (A4) or you may wish to take a photograph of something your child creates. I look forward to seeing what your child creates!
Draw, create or make a Barn Owl, or an animal from a hot or cold country.
| Plop is scared of the dark. Can you write a letter to Plop to change his mind about the dark? | Draw, create or make our world and label the continents and oceans.
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What is your favourite animal that lives in either a hot or cold country and why? Create a fact file. | Can you learn your 2, 5 or 10 times tables – or even all three?
| Design (or even make) a healthy plate of food.
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