Good Morning Year 2!
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I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Sadly, it wasn’t as sunny as we have been used to, so maybe you used all that time to do lots of reading! Please remember to update our class Reading Diary Blog to share what you have read. Don’t forget to see what others have read so you can get ideas or talk about your books together.
This week we are carrying on with our 50 Ways to Feel Happy book, focusing on pages 8-9. Scan the QR code to access the pages or click on the pdf link here:50 Ways to be Happy extract
Don’t forget that we are only reading pages 8-9 today so you’ll have to find the right pages in the extract.
Before you do the activity below, see if you can answer these questions on pages 8-9:
- What is the main heading for this page?
- What is one of the subheading on this page?
- Why do you think subheading are useful in non-fiction texts?
Now you can try this activity:
Please make your posters neat and colourful! You can make them on paper or on the computer. Please send in a photo of your posters so we can see all the ways that everyone is going to be kind this week.
For the extension, look at other people’s posters on the blog and then share the ideas with your family at home.
I can’t wait to see all the wonderful ways you are going to be kind this week 🙂
Well done Madeleine for doing extra handwriting practise 🙂
1. The main heading of the page is “key 1:Giving doing kind things for others”.
2.”Quick start: Make today a kindness day”.
3. The subheading tells you what you’re about to read and it makes the writing more organised.
Well done Luisa! I can’t wait to see your poster 🙂
What a great poster – good luck doing your three things to make others happy. Hugs are hard to give at the moment to people outside your house, so you’ll just have to give your family lots!!
Main heading: giving
One subheading: the many ways of being kind challenge
Why: because they helps the reader to know the topic of each part
Great answers Madeleine.
I love that you have been practising your handwriting 🙂 Keep it up!
Send me your poster when you have finished it!
1. Giving.
2. The “Many ways of being kind” challenge.
3. They are telling you what the information is going to be about.
We’ve sent our poster in too.
Well done Finley! I love your poster. If you manage to do all of those things on your list, it will definitely make others around you happy. I wonder what little gifts you’ll be able to give. 🙂
What is the main heading for this page?
‘Giving. Do Kind Things for Others’.
What is one of the subheading on this page?
‘The many ways of being kind challenge’
Why do you think subheading are useful in non-fiction texts?
Subheadings are useful because they break the whole thing down in to smaller bits . It makes me understand it easier.
Well done Sophia! I agree, subheadings help to make the text much easier to read.
Well done for making your poster. I’m sure your nanny will love receiving your home-made card 🙂
1. The main heading for this page is giving.
2.The power of kindness is one of the sub heading.
3.Sub headings are useful in non fiction because they explain what happening in the story.
Well done Rafael. You don’t often have subheadings in stories, then tend to be in factual books instead. Send in a picture of your poster when you’ve finished it!
Dear Miss Carruthers,
1. The main heading is giving.
2. One of the sub headings is the power of kindness.
3. Subheadings are useful because it puts the information in categories and tells us what we will be reading.
Well done Catherine. I love your poster – good luck doing all of you challenges this week. I’m sure you’ll make many people happy 🙂
1. Giving.
2. The power of kindness.
3. To tell people information.
Well done Layla! How do the subheadings help to tell people information?
miss I completed my work.
Well done Layla! I’m sure your family will love hearing you play the piano 🙂
10 things I can do to be kind to others:
1. I can open doors for people
2. Tidy my room without being asked
3. Help my mum with the cooking
4. Help to clear the table after supper
5. Draw people pictures or write quizzes for them
6. Give people presents
7. Give postcards or regular cards to others
8. Walk my dog
9. Phone my grandma and grandpa or anyone else so they don’t get lonely during lockdown
10. Do my work on my own when my parents are busy.
Well done Rex, these are really kind things that you can do! Good luck, I hope you manage to do everything on your list! 🙂
1. The main heading for the page is Giving.
2. Quick Start: make today a kindness day.
3. Because they tell you about what the next bit of the book is about.
I sent a picture of my poster.
Well done Nadine – you’ve got a busy week ahead if you’re going to do everything on your poster! Good luck! 🙂
1. giving
2. Do kind things for others.
3. Sub headings are useful for non-fiction texts because in non-fiction texts, there is a lot of information in it so it is much clearer to have sub headings to show what a paragraph or text is about.
Great answers Sophie!
Good afternoon Miss Carruthers,
We uploaded our homework and we enjoyed because we finished our posters together with Marisa on FaceTime!
Oh that is such a lovely way to do your work! I’m glad you were able to chat with Marisa 🙂
Your posters are excellent! You’ve both got a busy week ahead of being kind – good luck!
What a creative poster Marie! Good luck doing everything on your list 🙂
1. The main heading is Giving.
2. One subheading is The Power of Kindness.
3. Subheadings make it easier to learn.
Well done! I agree, the subheadings make it much easier to find information in the text. Great posters! I hope you have fun doing lots of kind things this week 🙂
What a great poster Joshua! Good luck doing all the kind things on your list, I’m sure you’ll make lots of people very happy 🙂
1 Giving.
2 Doing kind thing for other.
3 It break it down into sections.
Well done Joshua! You’ve understood how non-fiction texts are laid out to help us read the information 🙂
1. The main heading of this page is giving.
2.one of the sub headings is the power of kindness.
3. To help guide us through the page.