Home Learning Summer Term

Home Learning Information
 
Reading
Each week, children will be loaned a book from our reading scheme. Please send a book bag with them each day to carry these to and from school.
We would be grateful if you could:
  • Encourage your child to read these books with you at home;
  • Make a comment or sign your child's reading record to let us know that they have read and how they managed;
  • Send their reading books and reading records with them to school each day in a book bag.
As well as a reading scheme book, your child will have free choice of a book from the school library each week. 
 
Spellings
Spellings will be set and tested each Friday. Please encourage your child to practise these regularly – little and often is usually the most effective method for long-term learning.
 
Due to the way we teach reading, sometimes different children may have different spellings at different times! Your child should know which spelling group they are in. If they aren't sure, drop me a message and I'll let you know.
 
Homework
Each Friday, your child will usually be given a short home learning task to be completed before the following Friday.
 
As well as this, please practise times tables and number facts regularly with your child at home. By the end of year two, children are expected to know the number facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
 
Online Resources
As part of our blended learning approach (face-to-face and online), we often use these online resources:
If you need or have forgotten your password for any of these, please let me know!
 
Many thanks,
 
Mr J
30th June - 8th July
 
Spellings
Words related to time.
 
o'clock
half
quarter
hour
minute
second
week
fortnight
month
year
 
Thanks,
Mr J
23rd - 30th June
 
Spellings
More homophones (words that sound the same but have different meanings). Remember, the spellings aren't difficult - the tricky part is knowing the correct time to use each spelling!
 
there
their
they're
 
to
too
two
 
be
bee
 
bare
bear
16th - 23rd June
 
Spellings
This week, we are looking at homophones. These are words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings. As well as learning the spelling, you need to know what each word means!
 
night
knight
 
blue
blew
 
hole
whole
 
here
hear
 
see
sea
 
Thanks,
Mr J
 
PS: Don't forget your homework is to practise our Rockpool Rock song - music and lyrics are available on our online classroom!
 
9th - 16th June
 
Spellings
Red words
 
break
steak
great
sure
sugar
clothes
pretty
busy
beautiful
poor
 
Homework
See if you can find some examples of instructions for any games you have at home, such as a board game. What do you notice about them? How are they set out? What information is included?
See if you can write down at least 3 things that are included in instructions - be ready to share your findings next week!
 
Thanks,
Mr J
26th May - 9th June
 
Spellings
Some common red words for you over the holidays - nothing too tricky, so you'll have plenty of time to enjoy yourselves!
door
floor
wild
find
mind
behind
kind
climb
any
many
 
Homework
The only homework over this holiday is to make the most of any nice weather and enjoy yourselves! You've worked very hard this half term and deserve a great break. If you'd like an activity, maybe you could keep a diary or make a scrapbook of your week off which you could share with the class when we get back. See you after the hols!
 
Thanks,
Mr J
19th May - 26th May
 
Spellings
The suffix -ment. Again, only five spellings as they're quite tricky!
 
enjoyment
argument
excitement
disappointment
achievement
 
If you learn the root word, this might make them easier.
 
Homework
I'd like you to design your own garden and draw a map of it! It can be a real garden or one you've made up. You can use the sheet I've sent home, or you can create it in another way if you'd like; however, you MUST include a KEY. A key explains what the symbols you draw on your map mean.
 
There's an example below to give you some ideas
 
Thanks,
Mr J
 
 
12th - 19th May 2023
 
Spellings
The suffix -ness. This turns adjectives into nouns. For example, happy (adjective) becomes happiness (noun).
 
sadness
kindness
fitness
happiness
helpfulness
 
You'll only be tested on those five words, but here are a few more to help you practise using the suffix.
 
shyness
calmness
loneliness
liveliness
thankfulness
 
Homework
There's an arithmetic quiz on our online classroom for you to try. Can you solve all of the calculations?
 
Thanks,
Mr J
 
5th May - 12th May
 
Spellings
The suffixes -ful (meaning 'full of') and -less (meaning 'without').
 
hopeful
hopeless
joyful
joyless
careful
careless
fearful
fearless
plentiful
penniless
 
Thanks!
Mr J
 
28th April - 5th May
 
Spellings
The suffix -ly
 
badly
slowly
quickly
quietly
silently
loudly
lovely
angrily
happily
crazily
 
Homework
After practising your interviewing skills in English, I'd like you to put them to good use. I'd like you to choose someone older than you that you know well (maybe one of your parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles or a friend of the family) who can remember a holiday by the seaside that they had when they were younger. I'd like you to find out:
  • Where they went
  • When they went (rough year will be fine!)
  • Where they stayed
  • What they did while they were there
  • Their favourite part of the holiday
You can ask them as many questions as you like, not just about these areas!
Write down or record their answers and bring them along to school.
 
PS - Don't forget to use your microphone!
 
Note for parents: We will be looking at how seaside holidays have changed over time, so if you know anyone older who remembers holidays from their childhoods, this would be perfect. Don't worry if not!
 
Thanks,
Mr J
 
21st April - 28th April
 
Spellings
Words ending in -tion.
Pay attention, it's a celebration!
 
station
fiction
motion
national
section
addition
subtraction
potion
option
introduction
 
Homework
 
Thanks,
Mr J