Hello Year 2,
We hope that you are staying safe and have enjoyed learning about Fairytales – The Three Little Pigs. This week we have some more home learning activities for you to choose from based on the National Portrait Gallery’s Hold Still project.
This is an Art project in conjunction with The Duchess of Cambridge to create a portrait of the nation in 2020. We would like to create a gallery of the children at Sandylands.
To find out more information about this you can go to:
https://www.npg.org.uk/hold-still/
Spearheaded by The Duchess of Cambridge, Patron of the National Portrait Gallery, Hold Still, a portrait of our nation in 2020, is an ambitious community project to create a unique photographic portrait which captures the spirit, mood, hopes, fears and feelings of the nation as we continue to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak. Whilst many people’s lives are on hold to help protect our … www.npg.org.uk |
Below is some home learning for Maths and English as well as the project grid for the Hold Still exhibition. Some resources to help you complete the activities are also attached.
Maths
- This week we are learning about 2D shapes. Here are some bits of shape information to support you.
- Vertex – This is where 2 sides meet. It can be called a corner and the plural is vertices.
- Sides – They can be straight or curved.
- Polygon – This is a shape with only straight sides.
- In your workbook B of Maths No Problem, complete Worksheet 1 and 2 – page 43 to 46
- How many shapes can you find in your house? Have any items got more than one shape in them?
- What about a challenge:
- Put these shapes in order according to how many sides they have:
triangle, pentagon, rectangle, hexagon
- Put these shapes in order according to how many sides they have:
- Beth says:
My shape has one curved side and one straight side. What could it be?
- Beth says:
- Make sure to practise your times tables on TTRockstars
- Well done to these children who have the best accuracy over the last 7 days: Peyton
Spelling
- We have learnt about verbs and how these can show what we are doing or have done.
- You have been practising regular verbs in the past tense using the –ed suffix e.g. cook – cooked, clean – cleaned
- Remember some verbs don’t use –ed suffix like sleep in past tense is slept.
- Can you change this list of verbs into the past tense:
swim, sleep, drive, bend, begin, build, know, take, think, see
Hold Still project June 2020 Year 2
Andy Warhol Fact Sheet
Click the link below to watch a powerpoint all about Andy Warhol
Take care everyone and remember we would love to see what you are up to if you can email: [email protected]
Miss Wildon and Miss Kelly
