Year 2 Writing

Hello everyone, I hope you have all had a lovely weekend. This week, we are going to be reading a book called Beegu. I have emailed you a private link to the story, as it wouldn't really be kind to the author to put their whole book on youtube. Pause the video now and watch the video I have emailed you. You will need to write today's date and LI in your Home Learning Book. Pause on the next screen to copy the date and LI. Monday, 4th May LI - I can plan an information text This week we will be writing an information text about aliens. For my example, I am going to plan a text about Beegu but I would like you to plan a text about an alien you have made up. Let's start by thinking about what an information text is. Well, the clue is in the name! It gives us information! Does that make it fiction or non-fiction? An information text is non-fiction. I am sure you have read lots of information texts before, maybe about animals, places or things. We will be working more

Hello everyone, Today, we are going to be doing our story writing. This video will probably be a bit longer than normal, so make sure to take a break in the middle if you are losing concentration or finding it tough. I am going to try and make it like we are in class doing writing together so remember to give yourselves about twenty to thirty minutes to do the writing, please don't spend hours and hours doing the writing because remember we want quality not quantity. First, let's get all things we will need for today's lesson. You will need the Story Map Parts 1,2, and 3, the Success Criteria and you will need the word list. You can find those in your email or on class charts. Today's learning is called Story Writing. Pause the video now to collect the things you need. Next, let's write our date and li. I hope you have a nice, sharp pencil for writing with as there's nothing worse than writing with a blunt pencil. Pause on the next screen, get that pencil

Hello everyone, Before we start I'd like to say a massive WELL DONE! to Aynie. Aynie sent her story map and, to be honest, I thought it was actually better than my one. Aynie has given me permission to share it with you so if you keep watching all the way to the end of the video you can see Aynie's story map. Well done Aynie! Let's get ready for today's learning. You will need the have the Descriptive Language Challenge Sheet ready for today's lesson. It has all the activities and examples so it's really important you use it in today's lesson, you will also need your story map, home learning book and a pencil. Pause on the next screen to collect the things you need. We need to write today's date and LI. Pause on the next screen to write them down. When you are writing, think about what it means to be descriptive. I've definitely heard the word describe before but what does it mean? I've got a helper for our warm-up challenge t

Hello everyone, Before we start, I would like to say a massive well done to Joseph, Deanna and Amy for all the amazing work they've been doing. I'm going to start giving points on class charts as well for amazing work so make sure you login to class charts to see how many points you have. Joseph, Deanna and Amy have been emailing us work every single day to check on the school email address (yr2@grange.harrow.sch.uk). Today, we are going to be looking at conjunctions. You will need the Conjunctions Challenge Sheet. You should have received this on your email but if you haven't you can get it from class charts. This lesson is called Using Conjunctions. Pause on the next screen to make sure you have all the documents you need. You will also need to write today's date and LI in your home learning book, on a piece of paper or in a word document. Pause on the next screen to see the date and LI. Let's warm up with a little recap of what we've been working on t

Hello everyone! I hope you're all happy and well. Before we start, I'd like to say a huge well done to Afsheen, Andrada and Fahad for all the amazing work they've been doing. It's so great that I get so much lovely work from so many children in Year 2. Well done! Let's begin by downloading the files for today's lesson. Hopefully, most people got these by email, if you didn't make sure to get your grown-up to send an email to the school email address. The easiest way to get any downloads for the lesson is by visiting class charts. You can find everything for today's lesson there, it is the lesson called Features of a Story. Pause on the next screen to download the files for today's lesson. You'll also need to write the date and LI in your Home Learning book. If you have finished your home learning book or if you like using the computer you can do this is a word file, but make sure you are still practising your writing. Pause on the ne

Hello everyone, Before we start with today's learning, you need to watch this video of Chris Haughton reading his book 'Shhh...we have a plan'. I won't be showing any pictures from the book in our videos but if you would like your own copy of the book it is available to buy online. Pause this video and watch the author reading his book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy0FB2jFrFc&list=PLFtPjIfGAyJxRik7kNvW4Jc5rnad2nx7r&index=10 Today, we are going to make our own story map of 'Shh...We have a plan'. You'll need to write your date and LI, pause on the next screen to copy it down. Monday, 27th April LI - I can make a story map We need a success criteria for making a story map. Can you remember what it is? Pause on the next screen and see if you can remember the success criteria for a story map. If you think about story maps, we need to show what happens, what order it happens in and who it happens to. That's our success criteria. Pause

Hello everyone! Today we are going to work on another feature of writing that is simple but we can sometimes forget: full stops. We all know what full stops are - They come at the end of sentence to show us when it is finished. Sometimes we forget how important they are. On the next screen I have written some instructions for you without full stops. Pause on the next screen and try to follow them. Did you get a pencil and write the correct date and LI in your home learning book. If you did, well done! I'm sure you found it harder to follow the instructions without full stops though. That's what they are so important. If you haven't written the date and LI, pause on the next screen and copy them. Friday, 24th April LI - I can use full stops How do we know when a sentence is finished? It's a tricky question. If we are writing statements, a sentence is one thing that happened or a piece of information. I like carrots. That is a sentence with one piece of infor

Hello everyone! Today we are learning about something that is quite simple but easy to forget: Capital letters. Before we start you will need your home learning books and a pencil, so grab those now. Now you will need to write the date and LI. They are on the next screen, so pause and you can copy them down. Thursday, 23rd April LI - I can use capital letters Now, you are ready for a starter challenge. I would like you to write all of the capital letters correctly from A all the way to Z. They are on the next screen so you can pause it and copy if there are any you are not sure about. If I asked you where you use a capital letter I think you could tell me; at the beginning of a sentence and for a proper noun. For your first challenge, we will practise using them at the beginning of a sentence. I have done some writing on the class charts page, blogpost and description that needs capital letters. I would like you to copy them out and add the capital letters where I forgot the

Hello again! Today, we are going to learn about a different type of apostrophe. These apostrophes don't show us where someone owns something and they can't be confused for plurals. Did you spot them in that last sentence? Pause the video on the next screen to see if you can spot them. Of course, we are talking about contractions. To contract means to make smaller, we use them to put two words together and make them smaller. Here are some of the phrases you can turn into contractions. Do not Can not Should not Does not I am You are We are When we put two words together we remove one letter and replace it with an apostrophe. This is to show that a letter has been taken away, otherwise people might think it's a new word with a completely different meaning! Here are some examples, pause on the next screen to see them. Do not - - - Don't Can not - - - Can't Should not - - - Shouldn't Does not  - - - Doesn't I am  - - - I&#