Little Heath Primary School
Welcome to Year 2
Hello everyone! I hope you are all keeping well.
The project for the next two weeks is learning about animals and their habitats.
Choose an animal from each habitat and explore as much as you would like to and create a leaflet/poster with your findings from the following habitats:
- Seashore
- Woodland
- Ocean
- Pond
- Desert
- Arctic
Some useful links:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6scr82 bbc bitesizeKS1Habitats and the environment
https://www.ducksters.com/animals.php
Educational espresso KS1 science (seacrh 'Habitats')
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I have also attached a power point here: Animal habitats PowerPoint
Maths topic for this week is part two on capacity and volume.
Please complete the quiz and activities on each daily lesson.
Monday
To compare and order millilitres and litres.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-compare-and-order-millilitres-and-litres
Tuesday
To use known number bonds and related facts to 1000, using the context of measures.
Wednesday
To solve word problems about capacity and volume.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-solve-word-problems-about-capacity-and-volume
Thursday
To solve word problems about capacity and volume-part two
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-solve-word-problems-about-capacity-and-volume-part-two
Friday
To consolidate and review this unit on capacity and volume
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/consolidation-and-application
Extra:
Read daily for 30 minutes.
Login to mathseeds or mathletics working through the next activities for 1 hour.
Phonics, phonics websites and spellings, please see the tabs on the Year 2 blog.
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Music/Singing Assemblies
Please see below message from our music teacher, Mrs Lawrence:
Hello everyone,
I hope you’re all well and happy.
Our song this week (for everyone) will be ‘The Place Where The Lost Things Go’ from the film ‘Mary Poppins Returns’. Here is a version with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKc0jVW6AaU If you find it a little low at the start, you can speak the words, rather than singing them. Here is a version without the singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpLTjJDCsJg
This is a very gentle and dreamy song and has quite a different sort of mood to most of the songs we have sung together. In the film, Mary Poppins, who is nanny to three children, sings this song to remind them that their mother, who has died, is still with them. I, personally, really like this song because it reminds me of my Dad, who has a illness which makes his memories fade away. When I first heard this song, it reminded me that memories are never gone really, even if they are a little harder to reach some days.
For the older ones, if you would like to do an extra activity, I would also like you to also choose a song that means something to you.
First, I would like you to listen to it carefully and see if you can answer the following questions:
- What instruments can you hear? Do the instruments change in different sections of the song?
- What is the mood or feeling of the song? Is it happy / sad / angry / romantic / dreamy / hopeful / determined, etc.? Does the mood change during the song?
- Can you think or at least one way that the writer, singer and musicians (or producer) achieves this mood? For example, if it is sad, the music may be slow and quiet and could have one solo instrument , such as a violin. If the music is angry, it may be loud, with a fast and aggressive beat. If the music is happy, it may be upbeat with a catchy rhythm.
- What is it about the song that makes it special for you?
Then, perhaps you could learn your song and sing/perform it? When you’re ready, you could film yourself performing it and then watch the film and think of at least one thing you think you did really well and one thing you could do to make it even better.
For the younger ones, you could make up some movements to a song of your choice. It could be our song for this week or it could be a different song. Think about whether the music is fast or slow, loud or quiet. Can you move in a way that fits with the music? You could either decide on different moves to fit different parts of the song or just improvise (that means make it up as you go along!). There is a big word for the movements we put to a song or piece of music. The word is ‘choreography’. Do you think you can remember that word?
I hope you continue to have fun and enjoy yourself this week.
Best wishes,
Mrs Lawrence
Here are the previous attached letters about our singing assemblies and ideas:
Please click on the links below for previous work:
Week 7, week commencing 18th May
