Learning Project WEEK 2 - Area you live in

Age Range: Y2

Weekly Maths Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day) Weekly Reading Tasks (Aim to do 1 per
day)

● Work on Education City - your child has an ● Reading a variety of books at home.
individual login to access this. Your child could share a book
everyday. This can be reading a book
● Play on The Mental Maths Train Game - aloud everyday or sharing a book with
practise adding and subtracting. an adult. Encourage them to read with
expression and intonation, taking
● Recognise the place value for numbers up account of punctuation.
to 99 in this place value basketball game.
● Get your child to read a book on
● Use a pack of playing cards to make a Oxford Owl, discuss what your child
game that is based around making number enjoyed about the book. This requires
pairs to twenty that can then be played as a login but is free to sign up. On this
a family. E.g. draw a card from the deck, site, there are plenty of resources to
your partner has to say its pair to 20. Use help home learning across a range of
Jack as 11, Queen as 12 and King as 0. subjects.

● Identify shapes and finish the patterns in ● Listen to a story read out loud,
this online game. Can any of these shapes Storytime, Audible. Also there are lots
be found around the house? How many of of authors reading their books on
each shape can be found? YouTube as well as children’s favourite
books read aloud by celebrities/others.
● Write the numbers 20 - 50 in words and
digits ● Listen to the book ‘Voices in the Park’
read online (YouTube). Discuss the
illustrations and why the book has
been set out the way it has.

● Create a mask of one of the characters

from ‘Voices in the Park’. Can your
child hot seat the character and ask
them questions?

● Watch Newsround and find out what is

happening in the world. What did you
find out? Is there anything you need
help understanding?

● Work on Education City - your child

has an individual login to access this.

● Purple Mash - your child has an

individual login to access this. Click on
Serial Mash, Diamonds and Meet the
Author
 Weekly Phonics/Spellings Weekly Writing Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day)
Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day)

● Daily phonics - Ask your child to practice ● Ask your child to Imagine that they live
their sounds and blend words. Interactive in the opposite house. What would
games found on link below. they see? Write sentences using a
variety of suffixes - ing and adjectives.
● Phonics play
● Write your address: Discuss with your
● Top Marks child. Do they know who delivers the
post? Share a letter with them and
● Spelling
explore the envelope from the front
● Spell the days of the week and back. Can they see any numbers
on the front or back of the envelope?
● Spell common exception words What do they mean? Who is the letter
addressed to? Ask your child to write
● Spelling City their address on the envelope. Discuss
the postcode and any capital letters?
● Work on Education City - your child will
has an individual login to access this.
● Purple Mash - your child has an individual ● Well known addresses: Discuss with
login to access this. Click on English, your child any well-known addresses
SPAG, Spelling Resources or Phonics of book characters/famous people/
historical figures they may know? e.g.
10 Downing Street, The Post Office,
Isle of Struay Katie Morag. This
Powerpoint may help.

● Write a letter to the Queen, Prime

Minister or someone in your family and
post it.

Learning Project - to be done throughout the week: Where do you live?

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about the
area in which they live. Learning may focus on your local area, famous people, key landmarks
and links to your city.

To develop knowledge of the location of significant places:

Ask your child to look at where they live. What can they see outside the window in the front of their
house? At the back of their house? What could they find near them? Find a map and see if they can
find Liverpool. Do they know the name of their street? Can they create a street sign with their street
name?

My address: Support your child to find out your address. Can they find the number on your door?
Can they write the number in digits and words?. Ask them to try writing the number using crayons
and paint. Can they write a postcard or letter to a teacher at school? They could tell their teacher
about where they live and things about their local area.

My house: Discuss with your child what their house looks like inside and outside? How many
bedrooms does it have? Who has the biggest bedroom? Who has the smallest? Ask them to look
outside their window and see if they can spot a house different to their own.
Can they draw their house? How many windows at the front? How many windows at the back? Do
you have one door or two? In a special bag - could you (with adult support) place things that make it
your home? Why would you pick those items?

Draw a picture of your street. Support your child to take a look at the street and buildings around
where they live. Encourage them to think about the shape of the buildings.

Shape hunt: Take your child on a shape hunt around their house and garden. Look at the different
shapes of the windows, doors, and houses. Can they name them? Are they 2D or 3D shapes?
Ask them to create a picture of their house or street.

Name the shape: Place some 2D or 3D shapes into a bag and play the game ‘Can
you name the shape?’ You will need a partner to play this game. One partner has a
shape from the shape bag and they stand back to back. The partner with the shape
describes it to their partner who has to try and draw it. How many do you know?

Find you house on ‘Google maps’.

Search for your house on the street, Can you find Liverpool, Melling, Southport,
Wheeler Drive or any other places you know, have been to or would like to go?

Compass: Make a compass. Do you know what the different compass points
mean? Can you label the points?

Create a passport: create an individual passport to show your own information

about where you live. Discuss the use of a Passport. What is a passport? What information does it
contain? What does a passport allow you to do? Can you find a real life passport? Do you have
one?

Flag: On the right is the United Kingdom flag, the Union Flag. What do you
think the flag represents? Can you design your own flag for your local area?
What could you add? What would they mean to you?

Design a cottage - Compare how a cottage is different to your house. Can you make a model of
your house and a cottage?

Create a song about ‘Where you live’ - Can you add your address in your song?
Can you find the UK on the map? Can you name the countries? Why do you think the Countries
begin with a capital letter? This song may help.

Additional learning resources parents may wish to engage with

Classroom Secrets Learning Packs - These packs are split into different year groups and
include activities linked to reading, writing, maths and practical ideas you can do around the
home. The packs are already on the class pages.
Twinkl - to access these resources click on the link and sign up using your own email
address and creating your own password. Use the offer code UKTWINKLHELPS.
Audible – a wealth of audiobooks available for free for the duration of the school closures.
No login or download needed.
Headteacherchat - This is a blog that has links to various learning platforms. Lots of these
are free to access.

Additional Year 1 phonics support can be found here:

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/learn-to-read-phonics/

Additional year 2 work to support SATs can be found here:

https://www.theschoolrun.com/key-stage-1-sats-learning-journey

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