HOMEWORK IDEAS!
Go on a mini beast safari with your family. Investigate your
garden, local park or woodland to search for wriggly and
crawly creatures! Take photos or draw any mini beasts you
find.
Create a graph to show how many of each mini beast you
find and identify the most popular habitats.
Visit your local library and find stories, poems and non-fiction
books about mini beasts. Write a review of your favourite
book.
Find out about the Borneo walking stick, the longest insect in
the world, and the Goliath beetle. Make a poster to display
amazing facts that you can show your friends at school.
Watch ‘Antz’, ‘A Bug’s Life’ or ‘Epic’ with your family. Make a
comic strip that shows part of the film or write a review.
Write a list of adjectives to describe what spiders look like and
a list of verbs to describe what spiders do. Use the lists to write
six facts about spiders and make up a story about a spidery
adventure.
Create a table to collect information about mini beasts,
including their name, body parts, legs and wings. Identify
whether or not each mini beast is an insect.
Create a mini beast word search containing all the mini beast
names you have learnt. Give it to your family and friends to
solve!
Write a letter to Miss Muffet and explain why she shouldn’t be
scared of spiders. Look for information online and in nonfiction books to support your ideas.
Wriggle and
Crawl
Year 2
We begin each of our topics with a memorable experience
to excite the children and make them want to find out more.
This term our memorable experience will be a visit to the
Ironstone Museum, Skinningrove. We will be finding out about
things that flutter and things that buzz.
Here is an outline of the subjects we are covering this term
English
We will be reading a range of stories by the author Eric Carle.
We will be reading; The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy
Spider and The Bad Tempered Ladybird.
As part of our work on these exciting books, we will be
describing characters, writing fact files about our favourite
mini beasts and writing a persuasive letter to a very bad
tempered ladybird! At the end of the topic, we will be
creating a mini beast of our choice.
Below, you will find a checklist of things your child should be
working on at home to help improve their writing.
Working towards the expected standard
Used some capital letters and full stops correctly
Some words are spelt correctly
Lower case letters formed correctly
Lower case letters correctly sized in relation to one another
Used finger spaces between words
Working at the expected standard
Most sentences correctly punctuated with capital letters and full stops
Used some ? !
Used different sentence types (statements, questions, commands and exclamations)
Used some expanded noun phrases
Used past/present tense correctly
Used and, or, but
Used when, if, that, because
Most spellings correct
Used contractions e.g. can’t
Used suffixes -ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly (some)
Used joined up handwriting (some)
Used capital letters which are the correct size compared to lower case
Used finger spaces that match the size of the letters
Working at greater depth within the expected standard
Used the full range of punctuation taught at KS1 (mostly correct)
Used commas to separate items in a list
Used apostrophes to mark singular possession in nouns
Most common exception words are spelt correctly
Most words spelt with contracted forms
Used suffixes -ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly (most)
Used joined up handwriting (most)
Maths
This half term, we are going to be developing our
mathematical skills. We will be developing our number skills
and using this knowledge to solve problems. We will be solving
addition and subtraction problems using the partitioning
method. Another area of Maths that we will look at will be
capacity, let’s hope we don’t get too wet!
Science
In Science, we will be researching a range of habitats that
mini beasts live in and why they live there. We will also be
thinking about the food that certain mini beasts eat and what
their favourite food may be. We will focus on life cycles too.
RE
In RE, we will be learning about why Easter is important to
Christians and why Pesach is important to Jews. We will be
talking about our own experiences and feelings when
celebrating our own special occasions.
Art and Design
We will be drawing a range of mini beasts and thinking about
the patterns that we can see.
Design Technology
We will begin by making our very own army of Ants. Then, we
will finally use our knowledge of all the mini beasts we have
studied and create our very own made up mini-beast.
Computing
All areas of learning will be enhanced using computing as
children have regular access to iPads to learn new skills and
find out about areas of their topic. The children will use
programming skills to investigate mini beasts.
PSHE
Our new PSHE topic is ‘Healthy Me’. We will be learning about
being healthy and relaxed. We will also be learning about
medicine safety and enhancing our knowledge of healthy
eating.
You can support your child by encouraging them to read a
range of texts at home. To support your child with their writing,
please encourage them to write interesting sentences using
adjectives and then read their sentences to make sure they
are grammatically correct. Finally, please help your child
learn their 2, 5, and 10 times tables.
HOMEWORK IDEAS!
Go on a minibeast safari with your family. Investigate your
garden, local park or woodland to search for wriggly and
crawly creatures! Take photos or draw any minibeasts you
find.
Create a graph to show how many of each minibeast you
find and identify the most popular habitats.
Visit your local library and find stories, poems and non-fiction
books about minibeasts. Write a review of your favourite
book.
Find out about the Borneo walking stick, the longest insect in
the world, and the Goliath beetle. Make a poster to display
amazing facts that you can show your friends at school.
Watch ‘Antz’, ‘A Bug’s Life’ or ‘Epic’ with your family. Make a
comic strip that shows part of the film or write a review.
Write a list of adjectives to describe what spiders look like and
a list of verbs to describe what spiders do. Use the lists to write
six facts about spiders and make up a story about a spidery
adventure.
Create a table to collect information about minibeasts,
including their name, body parts, legs and wings. Identify
whether or not each minibeast is an insect.
Create a minibeast word search containing all the minibeast
names you have learnt. Give it to your family and friends to
solve!
Write a letter to Miss Muffet and explain why she shouldn’t be
scared of spiders. Look for information online and in nonfiction books to support your ideas.