TROON PRIMARY SCHOOL & EARLY YEARS CENTRE Home Learning: Primary 2 Week beginning 30 th of March Literacy Reading and Grammar Spelling Writing Reading: We are learning to remember information from a story we have read. Grammar: We are learning to use a conjunction to join two sentences together. We are learning to use the spelling rule ‘e-e’ We are learning to write an imaginative story using our tools for writing. Task: 2a Story - Saving Easter Lions - read story out loud to a parent. Tigers – shared reading (parent reads and child reads at least 2 sections from each page) Zebras – parent reads, child reads highlighted sections Giraffes - parent reads, child reads highlighted sections 2b Story - Saving Easter Giraffes and Lions - read story out loud to a parent. Tigers – shared reading (parent reads and child reads at least 2 sections from each page) Zebras and Bears – parent reads, child reads highlighted sections Reading Task Orally answer the Bloom’s Buttons questions. See attached task sheets. Grammar Task Conjunctions – see attached sheet Task: Using the ‘Capital Writing’ approach, write your spelling words out. Remember to start all of your capitals at the top of the line. List attached. Choose 3 words and write a sentence with each. Remember a capital letter at the beginning and full-stop at the end. Challenge Can you write a sentence that would require a question mark or exclamation mark instead of a full-stop? Task: A Night at the Museum Imaginative Writing: Using all you have learned about Dinosaurs and the Tools for Writing we have been using in class write an imaginative story about A Night at the Museum. See the attached sheet. Success criteria Authors: Write at least 6 sentences with a different sentence opener for each and try 3 different conjunctions. Poets (P2a Illustrators): Write at least 5 sentences with 3 different sentence openers and try 2 different conjunctions. Illustrators: (P2a Poets) Write 3/4 sentences with 2 different sentence openers. Try to use a conjunction. **Try the grammar task first so that you can include some conjunctions in your story** Numeracy Mental Arithmetic Core Learning ICT Support We are learning to recall answers quickly using our mental We are learning to partition a number using tens and units and state the value of a digit. Research some Easter symbols. http://kiddyhouse.com/celebrations/cs/easter/easte r-symbols/
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TROON PRIMARY SCHOOL & EARLY YEARS CENTREHome Learning: Primary 2 Week beginning 30th of March
LiteracyReading and Grammar Spelling Writing
Reading: We are learning to remember information from a story
we have read.Grammar: We are learning to use a conjunction to join two sentences
together.
We are learning to use the spelling rule ‘e-e’
We are learning to write an imaginative story using our tools for
writing.
Task:2a Story - Saving Easter Lions - read story out loud to a parent. Tigers – shared reading (parent reads and child reads at least 2 sections from each page)Zebras – parent reads, child reads highlighted sectionsGiraffes - parent reads, child reads highlighted sections2b Story - Saving Easter Giraffes and Lions - read story out loud to a parent. Tigers – shared reading (parent reads and child reads at least 2 sections from each page)Zebras and Bears – parent reads, child reads highlighted sectionsReading TaskOrally answer the Bloom’s Buttons questions. See attached task sheets.Grammar TaskConjunctions – see attached sheet
Task:Using the ‘Capital Writing’ approach, write your spelling words out. Remember to start all of your capitals at the top of the line. List attached.
Choose 3 words and write a sentence with each. Remember a capital letter at the beginning and full-stop at the end.Challenge Can you write a sentence that would require a question mark or exclamation mark instead of a full-stop?
Task: A Night at the MuseumImaginative Writing: Using all you have learned about Dinosaurs and the Tools for Writing we have been using in class write an imaginative story about A Night at the Museum.See the attached sheet.
Success criteriaAuthors: Write at least 6 sentences with a different sentence opener for each and try 3 different conjunctions.Poets (P2a Illustrators): Write at least 5 sentences with 3 different sentence openers and try 2 different conjunctions.Illustrators: (P2a Poets) Write 3/4 sentences with 2 different sentence openers. Try to use a conjunction.
**Try the grammar task first so that you can include some conjunctions in your story**
NumeracyMental Arithmetic Core Learning ICT Support
We are learning to recall answers quickly using our mental
strategies.
We are learning to partition a number using tens and units and state the value of a digit.We are learning to add and subtract using place value.
Research some Easter symbols. http://kiddyhouse.com/celebrations/cs/easter/easter-symbols/
Create an Easter mat if you have access to a computer at home showing some of these. Remember to use different font and letter size, colour and insert clipart the way we have been learning in class.
Practise your Number Bonds with addition and subtraction. How many can you manage in 2 mins. Challenge yourself and try to beat your score each day.Sumdog ChallengePractise the mental set up on Number Bonds and
1. Write the numbers using tens and units and the value of each digit. e.g. 26= 2 tens and 6 units. = 20 + 6 etc.
2. Complete the tens and units task sheet in your jotter.
complete the assessment.house: books, kitchen cupboards, calendars etc. Find some numbers and practise writing them as tens and units.
IDL: Dinosaurs Health and WellbeingWe are learning to place dinosaurs in the correct period of time and find
reasons why they became extinct.We are learning to keep
healthy and safe and have fun at home.
Share your dinosaur you have researched for homework with someone at home. Ask them some questions about the dinosaur you shared. How well did they answer?A Dinosaur Timeline –Mesozoic PeriodWatch the clip https://youtu.be/3_UJOdFx89I Make a Mesozoic Timeline using the Triassic, Jurassic and the Cretaceaous Periods. Split your page into the 3 periods and decorate each period with the correct environment e.g. trees, horsetail, ferns, plants etc. Find 4 dinosaurs who lived in each period and write their names and sketch some in the correct period in which they lived. You can use some of your dinosaur books to help you if you wish.
Try some activities from the Daily Timetable of Fun.Enjoy cooking at home. Have fun baking some Easter Nests or ice and decorate some biscuits to make an Easter Bunny face.Enjoy some Easter activities- see school newsletter on website.Physical ExerciseTry some Cosmic Yoga Try some Joe Wicks for kids on You TubeDance with Oti Mabuse as she has daily live dancing streaming sessions.Keep a record of your daily fitness.
Spelling Chilli ChallengeFrom the word lists below, select the set that will challenge you at an appropriate level:
Mild (Red group) Medium (Orange group) Hot (Green group)Eve eve themeHere here deleteThese these competeSteve Steve scene
theme Chinesedelete completecompete persevere
Use the Capital Spelling approach to secure your spelling skills this week.
Common Words
father head mother jump
Bloom’s Buttons – Remembering Button
Once you have read ‘Saving Easter’, orally answer these questions from the Remembering Button.
ConjunctionsConjunctions are joining words. They are used to join two sentences together.
There are lots of other conjunctions including so, but and because.
Choose one to join these sentences.
1. I wanted to play outside. My mum said I couldn’t.
2. I was feeling hot. I got a drink of cold water.
Can you try writing some sentences of your own using different conjunctions.
Tens and Units
Primary 2a
Tens and Units
Primary 2a
Have fun trying some of these from Tree of Knowledge
A Night at the Museum
You have been visiting The Natural History Museum with your family and have forgotten the time. Nobody realised you were still in there. Write an imaginary story about what you did that night. The door locked behind us. We were all alone and left inside!..............Remember to Use
Sentence Openers A beginning, middle and an end Wow Words Your Feelings Capital letters and full stops Conjunctions (see teddy word mat for ideas)
Sentence Openers
All around me were Dinosaurs from long ago
Just then I felt as if Staring at me
Next Slowly I climbed My heart beat so fast
Before very long Meanwhile As it got darker
The corridors were Glass cases were filled with
Meanwhile Soon At last Finally
You can ask someone to help you scribe as you go on this adventure.
