Year 2 Learning Resources

YEAR 2

Over lockdown, our Year 2 teachers created a fantastic library of pre-recorded resources that augmented their live Zoom classes and group reading sessions with the children.  A lot of these resources are listed below and we sincerely hope that you and your children enjoy browsing the lessons, activities and challenges, and that they prove engaging and informative.

 

ENGLISH

 

GUIDED READING SESSIONS:

 

What’s that Noise?’ – Non-fiction text

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Please access the worksheet here

 

‘Escape of the Giant Chicken’ – fiction

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Please access the lesson worksheet here

 

‘Dinosaur Safari’ – Non-fiction

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Please access the lesson worksheet here

 

‘Animal Magic’ – non-fiction

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Please access the lesson worksheet here

 

SPELLING:

Double consonants

Please access the spelling worksheet here

 

‘Ph’ words

Please access the spelling worksheet here

 

‘al’, ‘el’ ‘& le’ words’ (ul sound)

Please access the spelling worksheet here

 

English – a after w and qu (the ‘o’ sound)

Please access the spelling worksheet here

 

SENTENCE BUILDING:

Lesson 1 – homophones – their, there, they’re

Please access the sentence building worksheets here and here

 

Lesson 2 –  double consonant investigation and a challenge about the homophones their, they’re and there.

Please access the sentence building worksheet here

 

Lesson 3 – adverbs, verbs, nouns, adjectives, & making a fortune teller

Lesson 4 – adverbs, verbs, nouns & adjectives 2

Please access the sentence building worksheet here

 

Lesson 5 – Sentences beginning with ‘If…’

 

Lesson 6 – Expanded Noun Phrases

Please access the sentence building worksheet here

 

 

MATHS:

Doubling, number bonds revision, and addition.

Counting, doubles and challenges

Number bonds and missing numbers
FD

Finding change by counting on

Subtracting by counting on

Subtracting

Adding in 10s and 1s

Partitioning to add

Partitioning to add

Measuring – weight

Measuring – weight

Capacity

Measuring

Doubling

Please access the mats worksheet here

Halving and fractions

Please access the mats worksheet here

Fractions – sharing

Please access the mats worksheet here

Fractions

Please access the mats worksheet here

 

 

TOPIC WORK:

 

Science – Plants – A plant challenge and cress / seed planting experiment 

Lesson 1 –

Lesson 2 –

Please access the Science Growing Seeds booklet here

PSHE – Mental Wellbeing

PSHE – Understanding lockdown

PSHE – A day in lockdown – comic strips

Art – Lockdown Art

Art – Outside drawing

Science – Food chains

Science – Venn diagrams – herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.

Art – Food chain art

History – Significant People in History

History / Art – Design a Blue Peter badge

History – The Blue Peter badges

History – Applying for a Blue Peter badge

History – Blue Peter Badges

Looking after our planet

Reducing, reusing and Recycling

 

MUSIC: