Term 5 English Activities

Below are some activities that children can work through to reinforce their learning from Year 2. They include phonics activities, reading comprehensions and word searches.

 

 Please also continue listening to your children read and reading to your children.  All reading is valuable, including reading recipes and instructions for games.

 

We would also encourage other types of activities that would support your child's English. Some ideas that could be done at home include:

 

Put on a play or puppet show for the rest of the family.   They could design posters for it and make tickets. 

 

Write a menu and set up a café with real or pretend food.

 

Write emails or texts to friends or family.

 

Learn a poem or short story by heart.

 

Write clues for a treasure hunt around the house and see if your family can follow them.

 

 

 

 

https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html

This is a great website providing inspiration for stories.  There are lots of videos that are short stories or story starts that children could watch.  They could then retell the story they have watched or plan their own version of the story, changing the character or the event slightly.  The video Catch it, in the fun shed, is a great story to try first. We often use a story mountain to help plan our stories before writing them, then at the end we read it back and edit to try to improve spelling and punctuation and also use more powerful word choices.  

This is the Year 2 common exception word list. These are words that Year 2 pupils are expected to be able to read and write by the end of the year.

The following information above may support you with some ongoing handwriting practice. It would be good to work on linking your letters. You do not need to print the sheets but could instead practise handwriting on lined paper at home. I would suggest choosing three high frequency from the sheets provided, writing them in a lined book and practising joining them. This could be good spelling practice as well. Remember to work on making the size of individual letters just right. You could also practise a number a day. If it is a nice day, get outside with chalk and paintbrushes and water instead.

 

Fine motor activities around home:

• Hama beads- Great for fine motor skills and occupy children for a while (so Mum and Dad can get on and work- win, win, win!)
• Mosaic- The sets from GALT etc will keep your children busy and the end products are satisfying.
• Pegging washing- Your children may not be able to reach the washing line but they could peg washing onto a clothes horse.
• Old fashioned games like 'Pick up sticks.'
• Lego and other construction- Great for imaginations and creativity, and again, they will allow you to get on with what you need to do.
• Colouring- The children love the detailed mindfulness colouring sheets in their free time in class.