Week beginning Monday 1st June

Here are some links for this week’s home learning.

You will find links for more activities and resources

within the subject subpages on the website.

We’d love to hear how you are getting on at home.

If you need any help / would like any specific ideas

for your children please email us.

Please continue to read with Bug Club, log into

Purple Mash and practice your mental maths.

Useful Links for Topic

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/entertainer

s/harry_houdini.php

https://www.wizardingworld.com/writing-by-jk-

rowling/professor-mcgonagall

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

English

This week we’re going to look at a ‘The magic paintbrush’ by

Julia Donaldson. It’s a traditional tale from China. Mrs

Green has typed up the whole story but don’t read it all at

once!

Monday: I can recognise rhyme

Tuesday: I can find out what words mean (the definition)

Wednesday: I can remember important parts of a book

Thursday: I can use evidence from the book to explain my

ideas

Friday: I can describe a character using evidence from the

book.

The Magic Paintbrush - being read aloud

Maths

White Rose Maths Home Learning Summer 2

Week 1 – (WRM Home Learning week 6)

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-and-

p3-lessons/1

Lesson 1: The Ten Times Table

Lesson 2: Sharing

Lesson 3: Grouping

Lesson 4: Odd and Even Numbers

Friday : Maths Challenge (Please complete the Flashback 4

activities)

There are more activities on the pages below

Topic

This week for history, we would like you to find out about a famous magician from the past, they can real person or

someone from fiction. Some suggestions – Harry Houdini, Merlin or Professor McGonagall (yes, we know she is a witch but

she did perform magic).

Write a biography describing their life.

Research their most famous trick – how could you present your research? You could draw a labelled diagram or

record yourself making a report as if you’d watched the trick.

Some PE ideas for the week, try and do something different every day:

Check out Joe Wicks live on YouTube at 9am. Don’t sit on the sofa and watch, get up and get moving!

Try some athletics – go for a run and try and increase the time you spend running each time.

Set up a target area – a hoop, a large pan, an empty flower pot. Can you throw a ball or a scrunched up ball of

paper into it? How far away can you stand and still get the ball in your target?

Weekly Phonics / Spellings

This week please could you focus on

There are some ideas for activities on the phonics

page. There are now also national daily lessons on

YouTube linked to Letters and Sounds which are very clear and helpful. We have added weekly

spelling lists to the subpages.

We’ve added an information booklet about

phonics to the year group page. Please refer to it if

you are unsure of anything or would like some

more ideas for phonics activities. If you are unsure

what your child should focus on please contact us.

The Magic Paintbrush

Term 6 Week 1

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday (flashback Challenges to Spring and Summer Term lessons)

Monday Learning intention: I can recognise rhyme.

Read the first page of the story only. What’s special about this text? It’s rhyming

text. When you read it, the author wants you to read it with a rhythm. Have a go

at reading it out loud or listen to your grown up read it to you.

Looking at the first page, find the words that Julia Donaldson has used to rhyme

with the words below. When you have found them, look carefully at the word

and write the part of the word that rhymes. I’ve done one for you from a

different part of the book.

Word Rhyming word Rhyming parts

tree key ee, ey

fish

sea

hand

brush

poor

sand

Tuesday Learning intention: I can find out what words mean.

Read the whole of the story with your grown up. Do you know what all the

words mean? Write down the meaning of these words. Try using the sentence

first, if you can’t work it out use a dictionary or ask a grown-up.

Word Definition

shrimps

wealthy

crush

buffalo

Emperor

Majesty

scowls

seize

gracious

swiftly

gallop

distant

scowls

Wednesday Learning intention: I can remember important parts of a book.

Have a look at this picture taken from the book.

What is happening in this picture and why has it

happened? Explain it in your own words. Remember

to use full sentences, capital letters and full stops and

use your phonics to help you spell.

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Thursday Learning intention: I can use evidence from the book to explain my

ideas.

Read the text again. While you are reading think about Shen and what she is

like? Is she a good character or a bad character? What makes you think that?

Use evidence from the text to explain your answer.

I think that Shen is a _________________ character because

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Now write a short character description, describe what she looks like and what

she is like on the inside. Remember, capital letters, full stops, commas in a list

and it MUST make sense.

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Friday Learning intention: I can describe a character using evidence from the

book.

Read the text again. Can you hear the rhythm? This time I want you to think

about the Emperor. Is he a good character or a bad character? How do you

know?

I think the Emperor is a ______________________ character because

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Now write a short character description, describe what he looks

like and what he is like on the inside. Remember, capital letters,

full stops, adjectives, commas in a list and it MUST make sense.

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The magic paintbrush, by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Joel Stewart

‘Go and catch some shrimps, Shen

Go and catch some fish,

Go and gather oysters

To fill the empty dish.’

Shen sits on the seashore.

A stick is on her hand.

She sits there drawing pictures,

Pictures in the sand.

She draws a flower, a flying fish,

She draws a boat at sea,

A hen, a hare, a dancing dog,

A weeping willow tree.

The waves roll in and wash away

The pictures in the sand.

But on a rock there sits a man.

A brush is in his hand.

He looks around. He calls to Shen.

‘Come here!’ he whispers. ‘Hush!

We don’t want all the world to know

About this magic brush.’

He slips the brush into her hand

And tells her to be sure

Ever paint for wealthy folk

But only for the poor.

Did you catch some shrimps, Shen?

Did you catch some fish?

Did you gather oysters

To fill the empty dish?’

‘No shrimps, no fish, no oysters!’

Shen laughs and runs inside.

She paints a pot, then stands and waits

Until the paint has dried.

The paint dries on the paper.

The painting of a pot

Is not a painting anymore,

But rea’, and steaming hot.

‘The pot is full of shrimps, Shen!

The pot is full of fish!

The pot is full of oysters

To fill the empty dish!’

The village people hear the news.

Into the house they crush.

The young the old all want to see

Shen and her magic brush.

She paints a melon for a boy,

A ladder for a man,

A basket for a woman,

And for a girl, a fan.

And soon the news spreads far and wide

And people stand in queues

For blankets, boats and buffaloes,

For hats and coats and shoes.

The news spreads over fields of rice

And over desert sands,

Until at last, inside Shen’s house

The powerful emperor stands.

‘I order you to paint a tree

And make it very big.

Instead of leaves, paint golden coins,

A hundred on each twig.’

Shen shakes her head. ‘Your Majesty,

I promised to be sure

Never to paint for wealthy folk

But only for the poor.’

The Emperor scowls and stamps his foot.

He bellows to his men,

‘Seize the magic paintbrush

And seize the girl called Shen.’

Now Shen sits in a prison

Upon a cold stone floor.

She waits there till the Emperor

Opens the prison door.

He holds the magic paintbrush.

He orders, ‘Paint thet tree!

Paint me my tree of golden coins

And then you shall go free.’

Shen takes the brush, and bowing low

Says, ‘Gracious Majesty,

Come back here in the morning

And you shall have your tree.’

That night the Emperor lies in bed

And dreams about his tree,

While Shen is busy painting

A horse and then a key.

The key turns in the prison door

And Shen stands free outside.

She climbs on to the horse’s back

And swiftly starts to ride.

‘Where are my coins?’ the Emperor shouts.

‘Where is my golden tree?

Where is the magic brush?’ he sries.

‘Who let the girl go free?’

He climbs on to his fastest horse

And rides with all his men.

Over the fields and desert sands

They gallop after Shen.

‘Its Shen! Is Shen! She’s back again!’

The neighbours gather round.

But Shen is painting silently

While distant hoofbeats sound.

She paints a mighty river.

A river deep and wide.

The Emperor and all his men

Stop on the other side.

The Emperor scowls and stamps his foot.

He shakes his fist at Shen.

‘I’ll swim across your river,

And so will all my men.’

But Shen is busy painting.

A beast with scales and claws.

Its scarlet wings are open

And flames curl from its jaws.

‘My dragon needs a tail,’ says Shen,

‘And then it will be real.

Yes, ten it will be roaring

And ready for a meal.

‘Now shall I paint that tail?’ she asks.

‘Or would you rather go?’

She dips her brush into the pot.

The Emperor cries out, ‘No!’

He turns his horse and rides away.

Away ride all his men.

Shen takes the magic paintbrush

And starts to paint again.

She paints a mound of golden rice

And cakes like little moons,

And drums and flutes, till all the streets

Ring out with merry tunes.

The sun goes down. The moon comes out

And shines as bright as day

While Shen and all the villagers

Dance the night away.

The Magic Paintbrush, Written by Julia Donaldson, Illustrated by Joel Stewart, ISBN 978-1-5098-3046-6