Year 2 Writing

Hello everyone, Yesterday we looked at simple adjectives that are used to describe  or specify . Today, we are going to look at some adjectives that are a little bit trickier to spot. Have a look at my shoes. I'm sure you remember them from PE lessons as they are pretty hard to forget. There is a lot of adjectives to describe them; pink, bright, shiny, silver and there is also another adjective: running . Running looks like a verb and normally it is but in this example it describes the shoes by telling us what type they are; running shoes . There are lots of other examples; bowling ball, walking stick, climbing frame are all examples of use a word with an - ing suffix as an adjective . For your first challenge, have a look at the sentences below and see if you can spot the adjectives in them.  Warning! One is a trick! One of these sentences has no adjectives! 1. Bake a pie with cooking apples. 2. Don't fall off the climbing frame. 3. Make sure to wear...

Hello everyone, Today we are going to be learning about adjectives . Adjectives  are words that describe nouns . If you remember, nouns are people, places and things so we often need to use adjectives to give people more information about those people, places and things. For your first challenge, you're going to play a ten word challenge . Pick something in the place you are right now and use ten words to describe that thing. Remember; it can be a person, place or thing so you describe one of your grown-ups, your kitchen or even your television. See if a grown-up, sibling or someone else in the place you are right now can guess what thing you are describing using your adjectives. I chose something in my house and these are the words that describe it: Can you guess what it is? You can email with your guess to the school email ( yr2@grange.harrow.sch.uk ) small, cute, furry, cheeky, silly, fast, energetic, crazy, hungry, impatient All of the words you used there...

Hello everyone, Today we are going to try something quite challenging, Past Progressive Verbs . Past progressive verbs are things that happened in the past  but are continuous . When we are writing about these verbs, we are saying that they happened and happened continuously. For example, if I say ' The man fed the birds' it means he did just one action of feeding the birds, but if I say ' The man was feeding the birds' it tells us that he was doing this action continuosly.  You may notice that we change from using the past tense  to the past progressive tense by removing using the word was and using the suffix -ing . This is because the word was is used to tell us the action is in the past tense  and the suffix -ing  is used to tell us the action is continuous. Here are some examples. kicked - - - was kicking watched - - - was watching ran - - - was running For your first challenge; I have a list of past tense verbs that I'd like y...

Hello everyone, Today we are going to be learning about past tense verbs . Remember - verbs are those doing words that we worked on yesterday and past tense verbs are verbs that show something happened in the past. In the sentence you just read or heard I used the verbs happened and worked  as the past tense of happen and work. You might notice that each of those words has the suffix - ed . Adding this suffix is the most common way to show that a verb is in the past tense and happens with words such as crunch, jump, laugh and bowl which become crunched, jumped, laughed and bowled. For your first challenge, below is a list of words where all you have to do is add an -ed . Try using them in -past tense sentences. If you can use them in a funny sentence, even better! When you've written them you can email them to us using the school email ( yr2@grange.harrow.sch.uk ). if there's any verbs that are new to you - ask someone in the place you are right now to help you fi...

Hi everyone, A reminder to all that you can still access Class Charts , even though school is closed. You can use Class Charts to get home learning from the Year 2 team for Writing, Maths & Science. You can also send us pictures of your home learning or worksheets that you have filled in. It'd be great to have everyone visiting our Class Charts page. If you need your child's class charts login, please email us using the school email (yr2@grange.harrow.sch.uk). If you need any help at all, leave a comment with your name, child's name and email address and I will email you through the school email. Comments will not be published so anything you add will not be published. Thanks, Mr D.

Hello again everyone, Today we are going to learn about verbs. Verbs are often called 'doing words' because they are words that tell us what someone is or was doing. It can be things like running and jumping that are really easy to spot to things that are harder to spot like thinking  or getting . For your first challenge, I've got a game for you to play with a grown-up, sibling or someone in the place you are right now. You have 1 minute to act out as many different verbs  as you can. See how many you can act out and how many the person you are playing with can guess. You might have seen verbs with lots of different suffixes like -ed or -ing . Today, we are going to focus on root words . Root words are verbs without any suffixes so they aren't happening at a specific time like past tense verbs . Examples of this include jump, skip, hop, think, get, do. For your second challenge, we're going to play A to Z again, except this time you need to try ...

Hello everyone, Today we are going to be learning all about Plural Nouns . Nouns can be singular , meaning there is only one of them or plural , when there is more than one of them. For most words, we can show a plural by adding an s to the end of the word . For words like apple, pumpkin or pie we add an s and they become apples, pumpkins and pies. For words that end with s, ss, sh, ch, x or z adding an es to the end or the word . For words like bus, brush, church, fox or buzz we an es and they become buses, brushes, churches, foxes and buzzes. For some words, we use a completely different word altogether. For words like person and child, we change them completely and they become people and children. For your first challenge, look at the table I've made and make your own one in your Home Learning books or using the computer.  Then, add the nouns I've written in my list to the right categories. I've done some on my table already to show you how to d...

Hello everyone! We're going to start with some simple grammar. Today, we will be learning about nouns. Nouns are people, places and things . Have a look around you now and you will see lots of nouns. Some might be people, like your grown-ups or siblings. Some might be places like your kitchen or bedroom. Some might be things like your computer or water bottle. For your first challenge, see if you can find an A to Z of nouns where you are right now. That means you try to find one noun that starts with each letter of the alphabet (X is the toughest!). Make sure you get a grown-up to help you as you don't want to collect anything fragile or valuable. When you've found your A to Z, you can send us a list of your items or a photo to -   yr2@grange.harrow.sch.uk Good luck hunting for nouns! There are two types of noun: common and proper . Common nouns are nouns that are not specific, there's lot of them and they are not unique. These can be people like fi...

Hi everyone and welcome to the blog for Year 2 writing. I'm going to start posting some grammar lessons next week so we all have something to do to keep our brains working during our time away from school.  Mr D.