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Good morning Year 2!

Today’s blog is a little bit different so please make sure that you read it carefully.

Tomorrow is VE Day and that means three things.

1. I won’t be blogging any lessons for you tomorrow as many people across the country are taking a day off from work to remember VE Day.
2. You need to find some time for an extra Maths lesson before Monday (see below).
3. Today’s activities are all about VE Day!

What is VE Day?

Before you do anything else today, have a look at this PowerPoint to find out what VE Day is all about.  To give you some context – back in October and November we learnt all about World War 1.  VE Day celebrated the end of World War 2 which happened about 20 years later.

VE Day Information

Literacy

Today’s Literacy task is all about VE Day.

VE Day Writing Task

Maths

Today we are learning about non-unit fractions.

Find today’s maths sheet and get ready with a pencil.  The video will tell you when to answer the questions on the sheet.  To find the video, you need to go to this website:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

When you are there, you need to click on Week 2, Lesson 4 – Non-unit Fractions.  It looks like this:

You’ll notice in your packs that there is also a lesson for tomorrow.  To find that lesson, you need to go to Week 2, Lesson 5 – Equivalence of a half and two quarters.  It looks like this:

It is completely up to you when you do that lesson.  You might want to do it today, tomorrow or at some point over the weekend.  Maybe you could do it instead of your handwriting/spelling time today.  Find a time that works for you and your family.  On Monday we will be moving on to the next lesson.

Other VE Day activities

Once you have done your Literacy and Maths today, you can spend the rest of the day doing some activities to remember and celebrate VE Day.  I have put lots of ideas below.  I’m not expecting you to have time to do all of them!  Choose one or two that interest you most.  You can print some of these at home but if you don’t have a printer, I’ve given other ideas, too.

Design a VE Day medal

Morse Code

Make a Spitfire (If you don’t have a printer, make your own paper aeroplane and decorate it to look like a Spitfire)

VE Day Bunting (If you don’t have a printer, you can just cut triangles out of any paper you have and decorate them.)

Colouring Page (If you don’t have a printer, draw your own picture of a VE Day street party.)

Songs, Dances and Food for a VE Day party at home

I hope you have lots of fun learning about VE Day today.  Remember, you can take photos of what you do and send them to photos@allsoulsprimary.co.uk – I’d love to see them.

Have a great day and a great weekend.  I’ll write to you again on Monday.

Love from Mrs Legg

Good morning Year 2!

How are you today?  It was lovely to speak to some of you on the phone yesterday.  I’ll be ringing the rest of you today, so do ask your grown ups to keep an eye on their phone!

Below are the videos you need for your learning today.

Literacy

This is Session 7. Get your writing book ready, write today’s date, and then press play.  The video will tell you what to do.

Maths

Have you heard the gossip/rumour about butter?  Well, I’m not going to spread it.

Why didn’t the crab share very well?  He was a bit shellfish. 

What do you call a man who can’t stand?  Neil

I wouldn’t buy anything with Velcro.  It’s a total rip off!

What do you all a bear without any teeth?  A gummy bear

Good morning Year 2!

How are you today?  It was lovely to speak to some of you on the phone yesterday.  I’ll be ringing the rest of you today, so do ask your grown ups to keep an eye on their phone!

Below are the videos you need for your learning today.

Literacy

This is Session 6. Get your writing book ready, write today’s date, and then press play.  The video will tell you what to do.

Maths

Good morning Year 2!

Did you have a lovely weekend?  What did you do?  When I ring you this week, it would be lovely to hear your answers so think of something to tell me!  I did a very boring adult thing of sorting the cupboards in the kitchen!  I’m sure you can tell me something much more interesting than that.

Below are the videos you need for your learning today.  There are also some new links to match the links on your topic grid for this week.

Literacy

This is Session 5. Get your writing book ready, write today’s date, and then press play.  The video will tell you what to do.

Maths

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It’s Superhero Day!

Dear Year 2,

I hope you’re going to have lots of fun being superheroes today.  Below are lots of superhero activities for you.  First, however, you might like to listen to something very exciting Miss Ascough did on the radio this morning!

Go here – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hq5f (BBC Sounds, Radio 2 Zoe Ball show) and go to 24:30.

Literacy

We’re going to take a a break from our videos today to write a superhero story!

Instructions are here.

Superhero stories

Maths

You are still going to do your Maths lesson from White Rose today.

Go on to the website – https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ – and look for Week 1, Lesson 5 – Find a quarter.  The website has moved around a bit since yesterday so don’t worry if it’s not where you thought it would be!  Try scrolling to the bottom of the page.  You are looking for this:

More Superhero fun!

Here are some other superhero activities for you to pick from.

Superhero Maths

Handprint Flying Superhero Art

Superheroes on the Computer

Have fun everyone and remember to send your superhero photos to photos@allsoulsprimary.co.uk .

Remember, you are all superheroes and I am very proud of you! 🙂

Love from Mrs Legg