Year 2 Learning

Below is a list of activities to support your childs learning from home. Please keep your childs work and send it to school when your child returns. We understand that there may be restrictions which make completing tasks difficult, please only do what is realistic for you and your child. If your child is an EAL learner who works with Ms Eva please click here. Reading *Learning Intention: To discuss characters in stories and think of adjectives to describe them. Read a picture book from home. Draw a picture of one of the characters and write down words to describe them. EAL Learning Intention: Begins to expand vocabulary and understand subject area language. Pick a character from one of your books at home that you think is a lot like you. Draw a picture of your character on one side of a piece of paper. Draw a picture of you on the other side. Write one word under each picture that shows that you and the character are the same. Then write one word under each picture that shows you and the character you picked are different. Talk to an adult at home ( in either your Mother Tongue or English) about why you think you are the same and why you might be different. Spelling *Learning Intention: To familiarise themselves with sight words in texts that they read. Choose 6 words from your First 100 Sight Word list and using the same book as above, go on a word hunt and record the number of times those words appear in the book (or part of the book). Writing *Learning Intention: To write an instructional text that teaches and instructs others. Write out your morning routine as a set of instructions. For example 1. Wake up 2. Take a shower 3. Get dressed 4. EAL Learning Intention: Produces longer, more complex utterances using phrases, clauses, and sequence words ( e.g. then and next). If you have written out your morning routine above then share it with an adult ( in either your Mother Tongue or English). Give the adult as many details as possible! Pretend that you are on the phone with a grandparent that lives far, far away and they cannot see the instructions you wrote out so you have to paint a picture in their mind using your words. If you were not able to write out your morning routine then using your Mother Tongue or English tell an adult at home, in as much detail as possible and using words like then and next , what you did in the morning. You might want to draw pictures in the order that you did your morning routine before you explain it orally to an adult.

Math *Learning Intention: To use non-standard units of measure to measure length. 1. Estimate how many of your shoe lengths long your bedroom is from one corner of the room to another. Use your shoe to check and record. 2. Repeat using your Dads shoe. What do you notice? *Learning Intention: To revise addition and subtraction strategies If you are able to access the internet, visit http://www.netvibes.com/nistict#Y2 Student to work on math activities related to addition and subtraction Rainforest Math Username: IR-7072 Password: from27 Day Two Reading *Learning Intention: To identify instructional texts around the home. Find around your home examples of instructional texts such as recipes, rules for games, manuals and How to books. Make a list of what you find. UOI *Learning Intention: Observe different materials and their uses in the home Students are to identify and record the types of materials used for different objects (purposes) around the home. For example, the dining room table is made of wood. The chairs are made of wood and fabric. EAL Learning Intention: Begins to understand classroom and subject area language. Pretend you are a very famous scientist. All the house builders of the land have come to you to help them win a competition. The competition is to see who can come up with a better material for objects around your house/condo/apartment. For example, you see that your kitchen chair is made of wood. The house builders want you to come up with a better, more interesting material but, it still has to work! Draw a picture of what material you might use for a chair. A table? A sofa? A cup? Explain using written words or by talking to an adult, why your new material is better than the one you see around your apartment/house/condo. On the other side of the paper come up with a new material that is not glass, metal, plastic. Remember the game you played at school where you matched an object with a material like a dung kite, a wool chair, etc.? What material can you think of that is different from the object around your house but, would still work? You are a very smart scientist, can you come up with something we havent thought of yet?! Math *Learning Intention: To use non-standard units of measure to measure length. 1. Estimate how many of your hand spans long your dining room table is from one end to the other. Use your hand to check and record. 2. Repeat to measure the length of your sofa (couch). What do you notice?