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Week 4
English Task 3:
First of all, please listen to the extract from George’s Marvellous Medicine below.
Your task today is to make a marvellous medicine and then write a recipe for it. Your marvellous medicine could be made from things around the house (ASK YOUR PARENTS FIRST!), actual ingredients to bake or cook something or even your imagination!
A recipe is a type of instructions. We learnt how to write instructions in the Spring Term. Below is an example of a set of instructions to help you with your writing. Don’t forget the title, ingredients, time words, imperative verbs and detail.
How to make marvellous medicine
You will need:
boot polish
hair spray
pink paint
four raisins
a large bowl
a spoon
- First smear the boot polish into a large bowl. Don’t forget to use gloves so your hands don’t turn black!
- Next spray the whole bottle of hair spray into the bowl. Stir the mixture thoroughly.
- After that pour 300ml of pink paint into the bowl. If the mixture is too sticky, you could add a little water.
- Finally beat the mixture until it has a creamy texture. Add the four raisins to decorate.
Top tip! When feeding your medicine to Grandma, don’t forget to hold her nose!
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Maths Task 2
Scroll down for today’s video about finding a quarter of amounts.
English Task 2
This week, I am setting you a “Get Caught Spelling” challenge! Your challenge is to practise your spellings in the silliest, funniest and most ridiculous way possible. Why not write sentences in ketchup on a tray? Shout out the letters while bouncing on a trampoline? Spell out your words using cutlery? Don’t forget to post your spelling practice on the Padlet. Who will make us laugh with their ridiculous work?! This week your spellings use suffixes. Suffixes are letters that are added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
We have already learnt some words which use suffixes, such as hoping, babies and stopped. Your new suffixes are -ment and -ness.
Below, you will find this week’s Picture Puzzle, another copy of the spelling list
(check Week 2 for the answers!), a couple of helpful videos and some ideas for activities. Good luck!
Click to access spelling-puzzle-ment-ness.pdf
Note to Parents: We are coming to the end of the spelling curriculum for Year 2. As such, the words are becoming increasingly difficult to read, spell and understand. If your child is struggling with these spellings for any reason, I have provided an alternative list of spellings which we learnt earlier in the year.
Feel free to practise these instead. -dge words bridge, badge, lodge, ledge, fridge, fudge, dodge, ridge, hedge, sludge.
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RE Task
Click the pdf link below to access the task.
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English tasks Task 1 – Read the text and answer the questions below:
*These questions start easier and get harder – do as many as you can.*
1. What is the title of this text?
2. What type of book do you think you would find this page in?
a) a maths book? b) a history book? c) a science book?
3. Is this text fiction or non-fiction? How do you know?
4. What type of creature is a frog? (Clue – look for the words in bold)
5. What is special about where frogs live?
6. How long does it take for tadpoles to grow a) their hind legs? b) their front legs?
7. Are the following statements true or false?
| Statement | True | False |
| Frogs lay their eggs on land | ||
| Fish don’t like to eat tadpoles | ||
| A froglet has no tail | ||
| Tadpoles use gills to breathe underwater | ||
| All frogspawn will hatch | ||
| When a frog leaves the pond, it uses its lungs to breathe | ||
| Only some tadpoles will grow into an adult frog |
8. How many stages are there in the life cycle of a frog?
9. Why do you think some words are written in bold in the text?
10. Think of another title for this text. What could it be?
Maths tasks
Task 2:
Following Monday’s work on finding a quarter of shapes, today we are thinking about a quarter of amounts. Work through the video below, pause to have a go at answering each question. If you still have the paper you folded into quarters it will be useful for today’s tasks too.
Task 1 – We are continuing with our learning about fractions this week – focusing on finding one quarter. You will need a piece of A4 paper before watching the video and for some of the task later. Watch the video below and then have a go at the activities in the ‘Recognise a quarter’ document attached.
Recognise a quarter Recognise a quarter – PDF
Task 3 – halves and quarters
Begin by explaining to someone in your family the difference between a half and a quarter. You might use words like ‘equal parts’!
How much of this shape is coloured in?
How much of this shape is coloured in?
Tom says he has coloured in half the circle. Sarah disagrees and says he has coloured in two quarters. Who is right? Explain your reasoning?
(This is what we call equivalent fractions – where both fractions are the same)
Last time we found a quarter of different amounts. If you want to do some more of this use this link below to watch the video for Week 1 Lesson 4 before completing the final task.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Try sharing other numbers into halves and quarters? What do you notice?
Answers to Task 2:
5 sweets is one quarter. So I must have 20 sweets altogether.
I can see 7 smarties. So there must be 21 still in the packet.
Well done if you didn’t get caught out by the last problem!
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