Year 2

Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Welcome to learning at home for Week 6 Term 3. Remember our learning at home tasks give you the flexibility to plan these into your day around other commitments.

The Junior teachers all hope that you are well in your bubbles!

This Week’s Story Time

This week our spotlight story is The Very Clumsy Click Beetle with Mrs Borrie

Reading

Sunshine Online provides access to a range of readers for junior children. To access Sunshine Online for digital readers please visit http://www.sunshineonline.com.au/

In the top right corner of this website, select the red login button and in the dropdown select the option ‘Student Login’

User name: Puhinui

Password: Books2015

Poem

Focus- Long a sound: ay

Tip- if the long a sound is at the end of a word we use the letters ‘ay’

Read the poem two times

Activities:

• Make a list of all the long a (ay) words that you know of (It must have the long ‘ay’ sound at the end)

For example:

Tray ____________ ____________ ____________

Delay ____________ ____________ ____________

• Read your words to an adult

• Write a silly sentence using your ay words

For example:

Spray the room with hay so we can go to the bay.

Focus - wh sound (h is silent) and oo sound (like the word zoo)

You can click on the ‘play’ button beside the story to hear it being read and you can also click on the TEXT (brown button) to download the story and follow the words.

Activities:

• Read or listen to the story two times

• Read the story out loud yourself

• How many words can you find that have the oo sound? Write them all down, you can copy them from the book.

For example:

Hoot ____________ ____________ ____________

____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

• How many words can you find with the wh sound? Write them down

____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ etc

• Count how many words you wrote down in total. Did you find more than 12? Less than 18? Read your words to someone at home

Can you think of any more words that have the oo or the wh sound? Ask an adult to help you. Here’s some to help you: too, loop, what, when… How many can you think of?

Activities:

• Read or listen to the story two times

• Read the story out loud yourself

• On page 3 find the word hatch. What other words in the story rhyme with hatch? How many words can you find? Did you find 2 or 3? Can you think of any more words that rhyme with hatch? Write them down, here’s one to help you - match

____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ etc

• On page 4, find the word six. What other words in the story rhyme with six?

How many did you find? Did you find 2 or 3 again?

Challenge questions: Write down your answers

1. Why did their bowl tip over?

2. What ingredients did they put into the bowl for the pancakes? There’s 5 ingredients - can you find them? (the pictures can give you a clue).

3. At the end, Mum says, “Let’s fix it”. What do you think mum did to fix the problem?

4. What would you have done to fix it? You can write your own story ending and read it to an adult.

Activities:

• Complete the follow up activity on Sunshine Online

Activities:

• Complete the quiz on Sunshine Online

• Make a list of some interesting facts you have learnt

Interesting facts:

1. ___________________________________________

2. ___________________________________________

3. ___________________________________________

4. ___________________________________________

5. ___________________________________________

• Draw a picture of a shark and label the different parts on its body

You might want to use some of the following words:

Non-fiction Comprehension Skill activity

Read the fact sheet two times

Answer the below questions in full sentences. Remember to use capital letters and full stops in correct places.

• What is the difference between a bumblebee and a honeybee?

• Where in the world honey bees do not live? Why?

• Where do honeybees live?

• How many honeybees can fit into a hive?

• What do they eat?

• Who is honeybees predator?

• Write one interesting fact about honeybees

Writing

When writing your stories don’t forget what good writers do…

If you write a Recount:

Remember to use the words: Who, How, What and Why.

Who did the experiment? How did you do it? What happened? Why did that happen?

Challenge: You could even write a conclusion about whether you enjoyed doing the experiment and why or why not?

If you write the Instructions or Steps of the experiment:

Remember to write the title, the things you need and list what you did down the page, like this:.

Leaky Bag Experiment

You will need:

• A plastic bag that seals…….

• 
  

• 
  

Instructions:

1. Fill the plastic bag ………

2. Pour…..

3. 
   

Challenge: You could ask someone in your family to do the experiment by following your instructions and then you’ll see if they are correct and easy to follow.

Remember to read through your writing as you write to check if it makes sense. When you finish, read your writing to someone in your family/whānau.

Be as creative and imaginative as you can!

Challenge:

Can you use any ‘wow’ words in your story?‘ Wow’ words are more interesting words to use, for example, instead of saying the animals “walked across” you could say they “scuttled across” or “the ground trembled as they stomped across”.

Birds eye view

Have you tried making a paper helicopter from the science activities section?

This got me thinking about what it would be like to be able to fly like a bird. Have you ever been in a plane or helicopter? What did it feel like to be up so high in the sky and what things could you see? If you haven’t, you can use your imagination!

Draw a picture of you looking down from the sky. Draw the different things you might see like gardens and buildings.

Write a story about an adventure you could go on as a bird. Write about all the things you might explore and experience from being up in the sky.

Challenge: Can you write a story from the opposite point of view. Imagine you are a tiny insect on the ground, what things might you see from way down there?

Challenge

Can you write a great opening sentence for your story? Here’s mine “Oh my goodness, we are finally here!” I shouted

If you need some help, draw your pictures and talk about them with a grown up in your house. Can you remember that story, and tell it again to someone else?

Need something else to do?

Build your very own model zoo. Using recycled boxes, lego, small toys, playdough and/or anything else you can find in your home.

Here are some examples of work made by other children to inspire you

Bees

Read the fact sheet about honeybees (there is also a reading task you can do with this fact sheet)

Think about some key facts you have learnt about honeybees.

Key facts are factual (true) information

Make a plan for your writing (see example below)

Next write an information report using your plan and facts you have learnt about bees. Remember, you will be writing only factual information about bees.

Think carefully about your opening sentences to engage your reader.

Here is an example of the opening sentences for an information report….

Can you see the honeybees buzzing in the garden? They are looking for food. Did you know honeybees eat pollen and nectar from flowers which helps them with growing and getting energy to fly around……

Once you are finished with your report, check your punctuation and reda it back to yourself. When you are happy with your report, read it to a family member.

Skip counting in two’s

Practise skip counting in 2’s using the hundred board

Family counting investigation (using skip counting in two’s)

How many people live in your house?

How many eyes do you all have? Try counting in 2’s

You can draw the pairs of eyes and record your answer like this: 2, 4, __ , __ , etc

Repeat the task above using ears

What if you put the eyes and ears together? Could you still count in two’s?

Remember to draw and record your answer to show your thinking

Now you’ve got the hang of skip counting in 2’s, repeat the task using

• Pairs of hands

• Pairs of feet

Skip counting in 5’s

Use the hundreds board from your skip counting in 2’s, but this time practise skip counting in 5’s

Hands are a great way to skip count in 5’s. This is because we all have 5 fingers on our hands! Gather your family members to help you skip count. The more people in your family the higher you can skip count to!

1. Family sits in a circle, everyone places their hands on the floor

2. Go around the circle and count the fingers on each hand (5,10,15,20)

3. Try going back around the circle counting backwards in five’s

4. Repeat this activity placing your feet forward and each person lifts their feet up as you count in five’s around the circle

Arts and crafts!

1. Trace around your hands, you can do this lots of times and make lots of hands!

2. Cut out the hands

3. Label each hand like the picture. 5, 10, 15, 20. The more hands you have the more tricky it will be.

Hint: To help you skip count in 5’s, write on your fingers each number. For example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 then write 5 on the palm of the hand, then count on from 5 and write 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 on the second hands fingers, then write 10 on the palm and so on.

Repeated addition and making multiplication sentences

Watch the video of Miss Findlay using repeated addition to solve some problems

In year two, we start to learn to solve multiplication problems by repeated addition.

The x symbol means rows of, or groups of

Now it’s your turn

• Collect all your teddies/soft toys

• Count how many teddies/soft toys you have

• Now give all you teddies/soft toys 2 “lollies” (this could be leaves, pebbles, pens, or anything else you can find)

For example:

You have 5 teddies. Each teddy has 2 lollies. This would be shown as 5 x 2 or 5 groups of 2.

How can you count it to check the answer?

• Can you skip counting in 2’s? 2, 4, 6, 8, 10

• Or can you use repeated addition 2+2+2+2+2+2

Now try to give your teddies/soft toys a different number of “lollies”. How would this look as a multiplication sentence?

Can you work out how many lollies in total I had at my teddy bears picnic by using repeated addition?

Write out your repeated addition for each picture

Doubles practice

Knowing our doubles is great for repeated addition.

Remember when we double something it always is the same number repeated. For example double 3 is 3+3, double 1 is 1+1.

Try practising your doubles using a piece of paper, fold one side and draw a line. Put a number of objects on one side. Now double it. How many do you have now?

Can you write an equation for it? For example 3+3 = 6, double 3 = 6

Now practise your doubles all the way up to 10+10!

1+1=

2+2=

3+3=

4+4=

5+5=

6+6=

7+7=

8+8=

9+9=

10+10=

Or follow these instructions

1. Fill a ziplock bag with water and close the bag at the top.

2. Hold the bag up from the top and quickly poke a pencil through so that it comes out the other side.

3. Quickly poke another pencil through to the other side and another if you want.

4. Does the bag leak?

Have a think about these questions:

1. What did you think would happen?

2. Why didn’t the bag leak if there’s holes in it?

3. What would happen if you push a pencil in slowly and not quickly?

What is the science behind the Leaky Bag experiment?

Plastic bags are made of polymer chains. The polymers have many molecules inside of them. When the pencil goes through the bag, the molecules in the polymer chains surround the pencil, sealing it up tightly and preventing/stopping leaks.

Other options:

1. Does it work with colouring in pencils?

2. If I don’t have a ziplock bag but I put a knot in the top of a plastic bag, would it still work?

3. What if I pushed a pencil through slowly and not quickly, would that change anything?

You can use this template by either printing it out our drawing your own onto paper

You can make your helicopter more interesting by drawing different design on it

Blood/ heart

Remember our school cross country?

Could you feel your heart beating really fast?

The children in Room 9 wanted to know why, so I have done some investigating.

You might have thought your heart looks like this:

But really it looks like this

Your heart’s job is to pump your blood around your body, and to all your muscles. When we exercise, our muscles need more blood, and so our heart beats faster.

Make a model of your heart

You will need:

• A plastic cup

• 2 straws

• a balloon

• 2 rubber bands

• Water

1. Fill the cup just over half full and add a few drops of food colouring.

2. Cut the neck off the balloon and stretch the rest over the opening of the jar. Save the balloon neck.

3. Use the scissors to carefully poke two holes in the balloon. These should be smaller than the straw as you need them to fit tightly.

4. Push each straw through a hole in the balloon.

5. Place the neck from the balloon over the end of one straw and seal the end of one straw with the balloon neck and attach in place with tape. This is your valve.

6. Press down on the balloon and watch what happens. Water should be forced out of the straw that isn’t sealed.

7. The balloon end valve stops water going back down the straw.

8. Take the balloon valve off the straw. You should find that water now goes back down the straw.

When you push down on the balloon this is like your heart contracting and squeezing the heart chambers. This pushes blood out of the heart and into arteries.

Test it out!

You will need:

• A timer

• A space where it is safe to run around

Before you start, measure your heart rate. Some phones have a heart rate monitor built in, ask your parents if theirs has one. If you put two fingers on the side of your neck, you should be able to feel your heartbeat. Count how many beats you can feel in 30 seconds. Use a timer to make sure that your 30 seconds are accurate.

Write down this number, and then double it to get your heart rate

Run around as fast as you can in a safe place for 5 minutes.

Measure your heart rate again