Year 2 Home Learning

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Aiming High, Achieving Together

Bentworth Road London W12 7AJ Tel 020 87432527 [email protected] www.arkbentworth.org

Year 2 Home Learning

Dear Parents/Carers,

Please find attached the following:

1. A Curriculum Map detailing what your child will be learning about in each subject.

2. Knowledge organisers which contain images, vocabulary and facts that are related to our learning. Through discussion and the activities listed below, please help your child become familiar with the organiser.

Below you will find useful information for the term ahead and home learning activities.

Learning Activities

Reading You can create a free account for your child at https://readtheory.org/ to practice their reading comprehension.

Spelling Spelling tasks are added to DB primary weekly and should be completed at home.

Curriculum This half term we are learning all about our planet, Earth. Recycle objects in your home to make your own globe. Draw and label the different continents and oceans.

Create a fact file for a continent of your choice. What important landmarks can you find there? What is the climate like? Which animals are native there?

Watch ‘Planet Earth’ on BBC iPlayer or ‘Our Planet’ on Netflix to learn more about our amazing planet. Can you make a poster sharing some of the interesting things you have learned?

Useful Information

PE is every day. Children will need to come into school in their PE kits on Tuesday and Thursdays.

Children should bring their reading books in daily for morning reading. They will receive a new reading book every Wednesday.

For any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on [email protected]

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Aiming High, Achieving Together Research what a micro habitat is. What are they? Where can they be found?

What creatures live there? This link could help you

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/z9fkwmn Can you design your own micro habitat?

Websites DB Primary https://arkbentworth-lbhf.secure- dbprimary.com/

Oak National Academy https://www.thenational.academy/

DK find out! Planet Earth https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/earth/

Multiplication and Division

Games https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7- years/multiplication-and-division

Many thanks for your continued support, Mrs Morgan

Year 2 teacher

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Year 2 Curriculum Map Spring 1

Planet Earth

Literacy Fiction

Writing Postcards (in the style of different characters) Non-Fiction

Instructions: How to make a wormery A guide for living on Planet Earth Core Texts Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers

Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett Reading Read, Write Inc Phonics

Mathematics Multiplication and Division: 2,5 and 10 Time

Fractions

Science Habitats

Humanities Planet Earth

(Geography)

Art and Design Animal Finger Puppets (Textiles)

PSHE What jobs do people do?

PE Mighty Movers (Aerobics)

Throwing and Catching Computing DB Primary: Programming

Music Ark Music Curriculum

Exploring Musicianship: Rhythm

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Knowledge Or ganiser Planet Earth Planet Earth is made up of seven continents and five oceans . A continent is a lar ge ar ea of land that contains differ ent countries. An ocean is a very lar ge ar ea of salty water . North America South America Africa Oceania Antar ctica

Eur ope Asia

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Eur ope

One of the world’s smaller continents, it contains countries such as the UK, France and Italy. It has many famous landmarks, such as the Eiffel T

ower . North America The Earth’s thir d lar gest continent, it includes

America, Canada and Mexico. It has many natural wonders, such as the Grand Canyon.

South America The Earth’s fourth lar gest continent, it includes

Brazil, Chile and Peru. It has the world’s lar gest rainfor est (Amazon) and driest desert (Atacama). Oceania

The smallest continent, it is made up of Australia, New Zealand and many other smaller islands. It is home to the Gr

eat Barrier Reef. Africa The second lar gest continent, it has 54

countries, including Egypt, Nigeria and Ghana. Africa has the world’s lar

gest desert (Sahara) and longest river (Nile). Asia

The biggest continent in the world, made up of 48 countries including China and India. Asia has the world’s highest mountains (the Himalayas) and the world’s lowest point (the Dead Sea). Antartica

At the bottom of planet Earth, it is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent in the world. Due to the weather

, no humans live ther e.

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Knowledge Organiser Living Things and their Habitats

Food chain A food chain shows how animals in a habitat ar e linked by what they eat. A food chain starts with a plant. An arr ow in a food chain means ‘is eaten by’. Living Dead

Animals and plants ar e living things. Dead things ar e animals and plants that have died. Parts of living things that ar e no longer attached, such as empty shells or fallen leaves, ar e also dead.

Never lived Life pr ocesses Objects made of r ock, metal or plastic have never lived. All living things shar e life pr ocesses. Movement, r espiration, sensitivity, gr owth and nutrition ar e some of these. Habitat Micr ohabitat

Somewher e that animals and plants live. Animals can find food, water and shelter in a habitat. Plants can gr ow in a habitat. Desert, polar and woodland ar e habitats. A very small habitat. Under a stone or in the leaves of a bush ar e micr ohabitats.

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Welcome to your Discovery Box

Here you will find an array of exciting activities and fun facts to prepare you for your next Unit of Study.

Within this box you will find:

• knowledge organiser

• fun facts and information

• craft activities

• puzzles and games

• recommended books

• suggestions for visits and days out

We hope you find these activities engaging and

entertaining but most of all that they make you

curious

to learn more.

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World Map Jigsaw

Stick your continents into the world map below.

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World Map Jigsaw

Make your own map of the World. Cut out the seven continents below very carefully with scissors. Then stick all the pieces on the blank map.

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Blank World Map

Colour in each of the seven continents in a different colour and label them.

Asia Africa Antarctica Europe Oceania North America South America

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Continents and Oceans Wordsearch

How many of the words listed below can you find?

Asia Africa Antarctica Europe

Oceania North America South America Pacific

Atlantic Indian Southern Arctic

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Anagram Quiz

The names of the seven continents have been muddled up! Can you rearrange the letters to work out the names of the continents?

1. porueE 2. tarcAnaitc 3. iasA

4. naOaeic 5. crifAa

6. Shuot carimeA

7. horNt cAmreai

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The 5 Oceans.

Can you label the five oceans of the world?

Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Southern Ocean Arctic Ocean Pacific Ocean

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Planet Earth Biscuits

Ingredients:

100g butter 100g caster sugar 1 egg

280g plain flour

Green and blue food colouring

Method:

1. Mix together the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until it is smooth and light in colour.

2. Gradually beat in the egg. Then sieve in the flour and stir the mixture together.

3. Knead the mixture to make a dough. Split the dough in half and put each half into a separate bowl.

4. To one half of the dough, add a few drops of green food colouring. Mix until the dough has turned green.

5. To the other half of the dough, add a few drops of blue food colouring and mix until the dough has turned blue.

6. Chill the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes. While the dough is chilling, preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (gas mark 4) and line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.

7. After it has chilled, take a small piece of blue dough and a small piece of green dough. Mould the pieces together to make a round disc shape.

8. Put the biscuits on the baking tray and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

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Suggestions for Visits and Days Out

London

Royal Observatory Greenwich

Peter Harrison Planetarium, Greenwich Natural History Museum

National

Winchester Science Centre

National Space Centre, Leicester We The Curious, Bristol

Thinktank Planetarium, Birmingham Science Museum Star Centre, Keighley, West Yorkshire

Life Science Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne Local

Visit your nearest IMAX cinema to see ‘A Beautiful Planet’ in 3D or watch David Attenborough’s Planet Earth on BBC iplayer, or ‘Our Planet’ on Netflix.

Year 2 Home Learning

Knowledge Or ganiser Planet Earth Planet Earth is made up of seven continents and five oceans . A continent is a lar ge ar ea of land that contains differ ent countries. An ocean is a very lar ge ar ea of salty water . North America South America Africa Oceania Antar ctica

Eur ope Asia

Eur ope

One of the world’s smaller continents, it contains countries such as the UK, France and Italy. It has many famous landmarks, such as the Eiffel T

ower . North America The Earth’s thir d lar gest continent, it includes

America, Canada and Mexico. It has many natural wonders, such as the Grand Canyon.

South America The Earth’s fourth lar gest continent, it includes

Brazil, Chile and Peru. It has the world’s lar gest rainfor est (Amazon) and driest desert (Atacama). Oceania

The smallest continent, it is made up of Australia, New Zealand and many other smaller islands. It is home to the Gr

eat Barrier Reef. Africa The second lar gest continent, it has 54

countries, including Egypt, Nigeria and Ghana. Africa has the world’s lar

gest desert (Sahara) and longest river (Nile). Asia

The biggest continent in the world, made up of 48 countries including China and India. Asia has the world’s highest mountains (the Himalayas) and the world’s lowest point (the Dead Sea). Antartica

At the bottom of planet Earth, it is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent in the world. Due to the weather

, no humans live ther e.

Knowledge Organiser Living Things and their Habitats

Food chain A food chain shows how animals in a habitat ar e linked by what they eat. A food chain starts with a plant. An arr ow in a food chain means ‘is eaten by’. Living Dead

Animals and plants ar e living things. Dead things ar e animals and plants that have died. Parts of living things that ar e no longer attached, such as empty shells or fallen leaves, ar e also dead.

Never lived Life pr ocesses Objects made of r ock, metal or plastic have never lived. All living things shar e life pr ocesses. Movement, r espiration, sensitivity, gr owth and nutrition ar e some of these. Habitat Micr ohabitat

Somewher e that animals and plants live. Animals can find food, water and shelter in a habitat. Plants can gr ow in a habitat. Desert, polar and woodland ar e habitats. A very small habitat. Under a stone or in the leaves of a bush ar e micr ohabitats.

Welcome to your Discovery Box

curious

World Map Jigsaw

World Map Jigsaw

Blank World Map

Continents and Oceans Wordsearch

Anagram Quiz

1. porueE 2. tarcAnaitc 3. iasA

4. naOaeic 5. crifAa

6. Shuot carimeA

7. horNt cAmreai

The 5 Oceans.

Planet Earth Biscuits

Suggestions for Visits and Days Out

Recommended Reading