Year 2

English

Roald Dahl

Click here for Roald Dahl website

There are lots of activities and resources on the website.

We would be learning about The Twits and George's Marvellous Medicine after half term.

Write a list of things you could put in your marvellous medicine. Remember, don't make it unless you have a grown up to help you and definitely don't eat any of it! 

Maths Challenges

Direction

Describe turns using the language ’forwards’, ‘backwards’, ‘full turn’, ‘half turn’, ‘quarter turn’, ‘three-quarter turn’, ‘clockwise’ and ‘anticlockwise’. Remember to take into consideration which direction the object/person is facing to begin with.

You could explore giving each other instructions to move around your room, or draw a map like the one below:

Perhaps you could draw a grid like this one:

How many different routes can you find to get from start to finish? Use the language ’forwards’, ‘backwards’, ‘full turn’, ‘half turn’, ‘quarter turn’, ‘three-quarter turn’, ‘clockwise’ and ‘anticlockwise’.

Time

Practice telling the time – o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to each hour. If you are confident with this, try telling the time to each 5 minutes. You may like to use one of these links to download and make your own clock:

Clock face template

Clock template

Click here for a clock that you can use to practice making different times.

When making times on your clock, remember to start by making the o’clock time and then move the minute hand forward to make the ‘quarter past’ and ‘half past’ times, and back to make the ‘quarter to’ times.

Here are some worksheets just in case you would like to download, print and practice telling and making the time. However, the most important thing is to practice telling the time on analogue clocks at home.

Telling Time

Clock Worksheet

Time Problem Challenge Cards

Capacity

You will need to find a collection of bottles of different sized and shapes, like those in the picture below:

Which container do you think holds the most/least liquid?

Use estimation first of all. How could you find out? Explore!

Can you find a way of counting how many ‘small-container-fulls’ each will hold? Can you find a better way?

Money

Use the shop prices below:

Choose two things to buy. How much will it cost?

How much change would you get if you paid with £1?

Now try buying three or more objects, how much do they cost in total?

Problem Solving

Science

Animal/Habitats

Thinking about the animal/habitats topic we would be doing if we were in school, here are some links to UK zoo cams which I thought would be fun.

Edinburgh Zoo

Paignton Zoo

Dudley Zoo

Dublin Zoo

Marwell Zoo

Folly Farm

Think about the animals upi can see, their habitats, their diet and link to their knowledge of year 1 classification.

Art

Mr Twit has loads of disgusting things in his beard. Can you draw, paint or make a beard using paper or wool and fill it with loads of disgusting things? Don't forget to send a picture to your teacher!