Y2 Summer 2 Homework Menu

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Year 2 Half-term: Summer 2 (W/C Monday 3rd June 2024– W/C Monday 15th July 2024)

In Year 2, we believe that homework should consolidate the learning that has taken place in school and inform families of the children’s learning as they share this knowledge with you at home.

To support this, please choose and complete 6 activities from the grid over the course of the halfterm. Please can your child bring this in every Thursday so it can be celebrated in class on a Friday. Work can be completed in homework books or, where appropriate, brought in its original form e.g. a photograph or poster etc.

We teach the children to take pride and responsibility for their own work and we strive to develop their independence, therefore we expect each homework task to be completed with care and to the best of their ability.

Our weekly homework offer in Year 2 includes:

1. Curriculum Menu.

2. Reading- please continue to aim to read with your child at least 3 times a week.

3. Maths - we would also like your child to continue to practise their maths at home, focusing on counting in steps of 2s, 5s and 10s. Your child may use TTRockStars to practise these as well as their number passport.

4. Focus words - practise their ‘red words’. Red words are common exception words – this means they are words that don’t always follow the usual phonics patterns when we read & spell these words. We will put our focus words inside your child’s reading records every week so they can practise reading & spelling these words at home. In class, we will learn to read and spell these words together throughout the week.

We can’t wait to see your work!

Thank you so much for your continued support!

Your Year 2 Team

English: Look at different stories written by Roald Dahl. (There are stories on You tube if you don’t have the books at home). Maybe you could you write a book review about your favourite story stating why you like it or you could retell the story in your own words.

Maths:

Look at clocks when you are out and about. Model using the language of o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past.

Spanish:

Can you draw a superhero and then label the colours you have used in Spanish?

PSHE:

What are you looking forward to in Year 3?

What are you worried about in Year 3?

What would you like to learn in Year 3?

Can you draw the inside and outside of a Mosque and label it?

Science:

Using the sheet provided, have a go at any of the experiments suggested.

Children’s choice: Share something you have learnt at home! Maybe you could do some baking, crafting or go on an outing somewhere.

History: Research about either Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole or Edith Cavell and find out some facts about them. Can you create a fact sheet?

Design and Technology:

Can you create a healthy meal or snack? Maybe you could write some instructions on how to make it.

Religious Education:

Homework ideas for Science

Research a scientist who specialises in an area that interests you (E.g. astronomy, botany, zoology).

Put an egg into a container with vinegar and leave it for a few days. What happens?

Investigate what happens when you leave a rusty nail in a glass of cola.

What happens when you float sweets in a dish of water? Can you use scientific reasoning to explain?

Put plants in different parts of the house and record how much they have grown. Do different environments affect their growth?

Place a cut flower into a glass of coloured water. Investigate what happens, Why does it happen?

Create a fidget spinner using recycled materials.

Cover an ice cube in salt and another in sugar. Have another uncovered ice cube. What do you notice about the time they take to melt. Use you scientific reasoning to explain why.

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