Year 2 worksheets
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Investigating animal homes
Think about all the ways our houses protect us. Now think about animals or bugs living in your garden or house. Where do animals and bugs like to live? Draw a picture and/or write the name of their home. Cut out all the cards and make two piles, one for creature cards and one for house cards; mix them up. Pick one card from each pile. Would a mouse like to live in a fish pond? Would a frog like to live in a bee hive? Why?
Bird watch
Have a look at the different trees in your neighbourhood and find one birds like to land in. Why might the birds have chosen that tree? Does it have a nest in? Then draw a picture of the tree and label your picture with all the reasons why you think this is a good tree for birds to nest in.
What is good food?
A cutting and sticking activity to help children understand which foods belong to which group.
How an electrical circuit works
A worksheet designed to illustrate the fact that a circuit must be complete for electricity to flow and a bulb to work.
Money addition: 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p
Have your child add up the coins shown on this worksheet, using the number line provided to help.
Calculating change
Work out how much change will you get from a £2 coin after buying different items.
Money word problems: Addition
Practise adding amounts of money together in this word problem worksheet.
Using addition to solve money word problems
Stretch your child's addition skills by having them work through these word problems about money.
Coin addition challenge
A fun game to help your child become more confident about adding up different coin amounts.
Descriptive writing practice
If you could be any animal, what would you be? Fill in the blanks on this worksheet to describe your favourite animal.
Reading comprehension: Swimming class
Read this short passage about going to swimming lessons, then answer questions based on the text.
Question marks practice
Have your child decide which sentences need question marks, and which need full stops.
Practise the -ing rule
In this worksheet, your child can practise the -ing rule and add it onto the ends of words.
Practise adding adjectives
Help your child get used to using adjectives by turning these plain sentences into ones that are interesting to read.
Reading comprehension practice: Growing vegetables
With this worksheet, have your child answer questions after reading about how to grow their own vegetables.
Practise -tion words
In this worksheet, your child can learn how to spell words that end in -tion, and write them in sentences.
Ice cream wordsearch
Whatever your favourite ice cream flavour is, you'll love our fun ice cream wordsearch!
Half-term wordsearch
Use this wordsearch during half-term to help your child with vocabulary and spelling while recognising words that are all about having fun!
Looking for the silent letter
Help your child learn tricky spelling words with this worksheet. Can they use the words in sentences of their own afterwards?
Writing the /e/ sound: ‘ea’ (Phase 5 phonics)
Use this worksheet to help your child recognise the grapheme 'ea', representing the /e/ sound, and then use those words in the sentences provided.
Giving instructions
Help your child understand how instructions are ordered by having them fill in the blanks on this worksheet to complete the recipe.
Calculating halves and quarters
Once your child has mastered halving even numbers they'll need to try quartering. Show them how to halve and then halve again to calculate a quarter of a number.
Reading the time to the half hour and quarter hour
In year 2 your child will be learning to read the time to the half and quarter hour. Help them practise both clock-reading and fractions skills with this worksheet.