We hope you are all well and enjoying this beautiful weather. Please remember as you go about completing this home learning that our priority is reading, writing and maths so use your time to complete the tasks set for those. Pick and choose from the other subjects e.g. science and art; there is no expectation to complete them all.
English- Oak National Academy
This week’s English lessons continue to come from the Government’s online school, Oak National Academy. This week’s lessons follow on from the previous home learning that we have set. The lessons start with a teacher explaining the lesson and setting the tasks; the children can click through at their own pace, pausing the video when needed. All they need is a pencil and paper. We have found that the best internet browser to use for the lessons in order that the videos work is Google Chrome.
Lesson 1: To be able to retrieve information
Lesson 2: To be able to retrieve information-part 2
Lesson 3: To be able to identify the key features of a setting description
Lesson 4: To be able to identify and use commas in a list
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-and-use-commas-in-a-list-year-2-wk3-4
Lesson 5: To able to write a setting description
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-write-a-setting-description-year-2-wk3-5
Spelling
As part of the online lessons, there are weekly spellings set. This week’s are:
| every | great |
| break | steak |
| pretty | beautiful |
| after | fast |
| last | past |
On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.
Year 1 CEW colour by similar letter pattern
Year 2 CEW colour by similar letter pattern
Maths -Oak National Academy
The Maths lessons follow on from the maths home learning set last week. Please follow the link to access the videos.
Lesson 1: To be able to follow a route around a map
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-follow-a-route-around-a-map-year-2-wk3-4
Lesson 2: Consolidate and review lesson
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-consolidate-and-review-year-2-wk3-5
Lesson 3: To be able to relate halves and quarters to division
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-relate-halves-and-quarters-to-division-year-2-wk4-1
Lesson 4: To be able to identify the parts of a fraction
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-the-parts-of-a-fraction-year-2-wk4-2
Lesson 5: To be able to identify half of a shape
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-half-of-a-shape-year-2-wk4-3
Please continue to check MyMaths where you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week as well as logging into Sumdog to develop your maths skills.
Science
Find out all about pollination and how bees and other small insects make sure that flowers make seeds. Try following these links to help you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=j-S5ui9Us7U&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy3r1zlC_IU
You can draw a poster, write instructions or paint a picture explaining how it happens. There is an example below if you would rather copy that.
Family Science Activity – Friday 5th June 2020
Homemade Lava Lamp https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/homemade-lava-lamp
Experiment with objects of different shapes and sizes. See what makes a difference to whether something sinks or floats in water.
Learn how an object’s density affects if something is likely to sink or float. https://www.rigb.org/docs/lavalamp_infosheet_0_1.pdf
Questions to ask children:
- Before each activity: can you predict what will happen? Why do you predict that? (For example, can you predict what will happen when we squash the tin foil really tightly?
- Can you predict what will happen if we use metal spoon instead of a plastic one?
- Can you predict what will happen if we peel the fruit?) Why does the diet drink float while the non-diet one sinks?
- What do you think will happen when we pour the oil into the glass of water? Why?
- What do you think is in the bubbles that are rising up in the lava lamp? Why do you think they sink back down again?
Going Further:
- You can give your child or children a lump of plasticine and explore how to mould the plasticine into shapes that float. Discuss what the floating shapes have in common compared to shapes that sink.
- The density of an object affects its buoyancy. You can learn more about this and how density affects whether something sinks or floats here: http://bit.ly/
- Buoyancy You can try to make a ‘density tower’ by floating liquids of different density on top of each other, as shown in this video: http://bit.ly/DensityTower
- Here’s a quick lava lamp using fizzy water – http://bit.ly/FizzyLavaLamp
Music
Week 2- Grandfather
Listen to this short piece of music and find the picture of the bassoon.
What mood do you think Grandfather is in?
How do you think grandfather might move?
How is this music the same or different to Peter’s music?
Art
Read all about it! St Peter’s are IN THE NEWS!
For this week’s Art Challenge I would like you to produce some art using old newspapers or magazines! It can be anything from cutting out shapes and creating your own abstract art, or landscape, to making something using Paper Mache. What you make can be left black and white or even painted (using watercolours is very effective). Whatever you create I’m sure you will ‘Make the headlines’ on the Art Blog!
Ideas to inspire you: 
However, if this doesn’t appeal to you can still send any other art work to me and I will post that on the Blog too.
Please email your artwork to me: n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Thank you- Keep creating and keep safe!
Mrs Pearson