English Home Learning Week 1

Every day this week  there will be a new English activity added to this blog post for you to complete at home.
Thursday 26th March 2020
Mrs Pearce  woke up this morning and look what she found in her living room! A huge, scary tiger! 🐯  Maybe it has eaten Mr Pearce for breakfast?

Today's English activity is to use your imagination to answer the following questions. Remember to use your Year 2 writing targets!

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Send your writing to [email protected] (Miss Edwards) or [email protected] (Mrs Pearce). We look forward to seeing your amazing ideas!   🐅
Wednesday 25th March 2020
Today we are going to use Colourful  Semantics to write sentences from picture prompts. We've used Colourful Semantics lots in school - maybe you can explain to your parents what each part means?

Example: The man  is eating a sandwich in the park.

Example:   On Monday   the man   eats   a tasty sandwich   in the park.

Example:   On Monday   the man   eats   a tasty  sandwich   in the park because he is hungry.

Who? - Who can you see? What doing? - What are they doing?
What? - What are they using? Where? - Where are they ? 
When? - When is it happening - morning,  night, Wednesday, in winter?
What's it like? - Use adjectives to describe.  Why ? - Why are they doing it - because...
Tuesday 24th March 2020

Mild: Grandma Bird   wears a  purple  cardigan and she has  small,  round  glasses on her face.
Medium: Grandma Bird (xBerdx)  doesn't spend time with Noi because she is always busy knitting  huge,  itchy  blankets  or  she is meditating in the garden.
Hot: Although Grandma is elderly and frail,  her favourite activity is  to   peacefully meditate in the garden. When she isn't meditating Grandma Bird spends her day eagerly exploring the island.   What a busy lady!
What does Grandma Bird do when Noi goes home?
Monday 23rd March 2020
Familiarise yourself with the Grandma Bird story   here.

Write a character description  for Grandma Bird. Challenge yourself to use  words from the vocabulary bulls eye. 

Mild: Grandma Bird   wears a purple cardigan and she has small, round glasses on her face.
Medium: Grandma Bird  doesn't spend time with Noi because she is always busy knitting huge, itchy blankets.
Hot: Grandma Bird doesn't spend time with Noi because she spends her time calmly meditating in  the boiling hot sun.