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WB 8th June

Friday 12th June 2020
Maths
Reading/Phonics	Write a list of musical words on paper/card. Play snap using these words. Rule: you have to be able to read the word to win!
Writing	Visit the Literacy Shed for this wonderful resource on Once in a Lifetime or your child can create an invitation for their family song performance. https://www.literacyshedplus.com/en-gb/resource/once-in-a-lifetime-ks1-activity-pack
Theme	What can I Hear? Ask your child to visit different places in the home and garden. Get them to list all of the different sounds that they can hear e.g. the humming of the fridge. Which room is the noisiest? Encourage them to use words such as volume, tempo, pitch and beat. After this, ask your child to record the sounds and play them to the family. Can the family guess where the sound is coming from? Alternatively, your child can replicate the sound and the family could guess this way instead.

Thursday 11th June 2020		Optional Extra
Maths		TT Rockstars – login in pack https://ttrockstars.com/
Reading/Phonics	Play this plural game. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PondLifePlurals.html Or this investigating ‘ai’ game. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/aiAltSpellings.html	Games on www.phonicsbloom.com (most games are free and do not need a logon)
Writing	Task your child with writing their own family song. When ready, they can perform it- perhaps to a family member on Facetime or Zoom (with adult supervision).	Oxford Owl Spellings www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ Click ‘my class login’ Class login: Username: hawt y2 Password: spelling
Theme	The Four Seasons- Vivaldi wrote The Four Seasons during the early Classical period. Divide a piece of paper into 4 and ask your child to draw each season in each box as they listen to the music here. Discuss how each movement sounds different e.g. Spring is energetic and has a fast tempo.	Complete any of the activities detailed on the Year Two class page.

Wednesday 10^th June 2020		Optional Extra
Maths	In a school kitchen, the cook has 20 pie trays. She makes meat pies and vegetarian pies. The cook uses 8 trays for the meat pies and 7 for the vegetarian pies. How many trays are not used? A teacher collects a bag of 28 balls for a PE lesson. There are 3 colours of ball. There are 13 blue balls and 8 green balls. How many red balls are there? A farmer has 26 cows, which he keeps in 3 fields. After counting 12 in the first field and 5 in the second, how many cows would he expect to find in the third? A photographer takes 34 photographs in a day. She takes 13 in the morning and 12 in the afternoon. She takes the rest of the photographs in the evening. How many photographs does she take in the evening? The children in Mrs Jones’ class earned some extra minutes of playtime. Normally, they have 15 minutes. Now they have 22 minutes. How many extra minutes did they earn?	TT Rockstars – login in pack https://ttrockstars.com/
Reading/Phonics	Read along to the story Every Bunny Dance. https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/everybunny-dance/ Following this, ask your child to list all of the instruments and dances that appeared in the book.	Games on www.phonicsbloom.com (most games are free and do not need a logon)
Writing	Can your child rewrite the events from Every Bunny Dance as a newspaper report? If this is too challenging, they could draw the events in a comic strip style using words such as ‘first’, then, and ‘after that’.	Oxford Owl Spellings www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ Click ‘my class login’ Class login: Username: hawt y2 Password: spelling
Theme	Making More Music! - Can your child use different parts of their body to make music e.g. clicking fingers, stamping feet. After this, ask your child to design a new instrument. This could be an instrument that belongs to the woodwind or brass family. They can draw and label their design and then make it using materials from the recycling. Does it work? Ask your child to record 3 ways they could improve their design.	Complete any of the activities detailed on the Year Two class page.

Tuesday 9^thJune 2020		Optional Extra
Maths	Amina collects 23 conkers. She gives 6 of the conkers to her brother and 8 to her sister. How many conkers does she have left? James and Zain bring their football cards to share with their friend Thomas. James brings 14 and Zain brings 11. They give Thomas 8 cards between them. How many do James and Zain have left altogether? A greengrocer has a box of apples. In the morning he sells 17 apples. In the afternoon he sells 6 apples. At the end of the day there are 11 apples left in the box. How many apples were there at the start of the day? In a tube of sweets, Kate finds 7 orange ones, 6 green ones and 3 yellow ones. How many sweets are there altogether? Lily’s mum has 28p in her purse. Lily has 11p. How much do they have altogether?	TT Rockstars – login in pack https://ttrockstars.com/
Reading/Phonics	Ask your child to read a favourite story or to read Rumpelstiltskin here. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=Age+6-7&level=&level_select=&book_type=&series=# When reading, play some classical music. Talk to your child about how it made them feel. Mind map their feelings after this e.g. relaxed, calm.	Games on www.phonicsbloom.com (most games are free and do not need a logon)
Writing	Create fact files about musical instruments. This could include where they originate from, what they’re made from, etc. Your child can include an illustration of the instrument and label the parts.	Oxford Owl Spellings www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ Click ‘my class login’ Class login: Username: hawt y2 Password: spelling
Theme	Making Music- Task your child with making a variety of shakers. Using empty bottles from the recycling, fill them with different dry foods/things from the garden. How can they make the shakers sound different? Ask your child to use the shakers during their family song performance (see above). They could also write a set of instructions for making your own musical shakers.	Complete any of the activities detailed on the Year Two class page.

Monday 8^th June 2020 Reading/Writing Theme: Music		Optional Extra
Maths	John buys 12 pencils one week and 7 the following week. He gives 3 pencils to his friend. How many pencils does he have left? Lydia has 15 marbles. She takes them to her friend’s house. She loses 3 on the way and 4 in the house. How many does she have left? Asif has a packet of biscuits. There are 12 in the packet. He gives 6 of the biscuits to some friends. He buys another packet of 12 biscuits. How many biscuits does he have now? Joe and Sam are playing a computer game. Joe scores 45 points and Sam scores 32 points. How many points do they score altogether? In the next round of the game, Joe scores 36 points and Sam scores 49 points. How many more points does Sam score than Joe?	TT Rockstars – login in pack https://ttrockstars.com/
Reading/Phonics	Can your child list different musical words that begin with the letters M, U, S, I & C? How many can they write? Can they identify rhyming words?	Games on www.phonicsbloom.com (most games are free and do not need a logon)
Writing	Make an A-Z list of musical vocabulary. This could include instruments, artists or musical verbs. Apply some of these into sentences.	Oxford Owl Spellings www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ Click ‘my class login’ Class login: Username: hawt y2 Password: spelling
Theme	Famous Musicians- Find out about famous singers and bands from Birmingham. Listen to some of their music. Ask your child to list what they like/dislike about the music. What genre of music is it? Does it remind them of any singers or bands that they know? Create a fact file about the musician/s.	Complete any of the activities detailed on the Year Two class page.

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