Dear parents / carers
In case of school closure or the need for families to self-isolate, we have prepared the following learning for the children to complete.
Yours sincerely
Miss Foster and the Year 3 Team
Hamilton Trust Learning Packs
Hamilton Trust are providing free home learning packs for English and maths for Years 1-6 for parents to download and use at home. The packs provide an excellent learning resource, particularly for English as they link with reading and grammar.
20 Essential Skills
In the attachment below are 20 questions aimed at children in lower key stage 2 (y3/4) which are aimed at practising essential skills they need to build their learning.
Maths
Please could you look at these websites to continue your learning.
- Times Table Rockstars. Battles will be ongoing during the week.
- MyMaths. Please log on and complete the activities set.
- White Rose Hub has some short videos and some follow on questions.
Please could you continue learning 3,4 and 8 times tables. You also have your home learning tasks to complete.
In our latest Maths topic, we have been learning about weighing and measuring volume. Any opportunities to measure would be brilliant.
Top Marks.co.uk/ has lots of games and activities for weights and measures.
English & Guided Reading
These websites will be great to continue your English learning.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zv48q6f
Please continue reading and entering into your Reading Record Book 4 times a week.
Task:
Can you rewrite part of your favourite story? Try to make at least 3 changes, these could be; the characters; what they are doing or where the story is set. We are looking for you to use some excellent vocabulary, including adjectives and adverbials.
As a challenge don’t say what the original story was and see if somebody else can guess.
SPaG
Please revise and learn your Word Warrior spellings which can be found on p114 of your Reading Record Book.
Use these words to your own word search. If you can then scan these in and email them, we can collect them and send them out for other children to try and solve.
These sites include games and activities that can be used to support SPAG in Year 3.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?e=spelling-grammar01
https://gridclub.com/activities/comma-castle
https://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/learning-activities/languages/words/adjective-detective/Reading Comprehension
Read the passage below in the document below and answer the questions:
Below are 20 reading tasks that you can also have a go at completing:
Topic
Continue with local area work, can you add to it with some of these ideas:
Research all about Christchurch
You could:
- Create a fact file including information such as; the population, climate, wildlife, natural and man-made features.
- Produce a holiday leaflet persuading people to visit. Think about persuasive writing techniques, explain why Christchurch is better than the others places to visit and include tours/activities that are available there.
- Draw a map of the area and label key features/ places of interest. Can you include a key?
- Compare your Christchurch to another town. You could make a list of their similarities and difference. Perhaps you could display this information in a Venn diagram or graph.
- Design a new flag for Christchurch. What would be your choice of colours and why? Would it have an emblem? Write a description of your flag explaining your choices. What do they represent?
Art
Carry on drawing and creating! You might even want to explore a few digital sites:
https://www.scholastic.com/parents/school-success/learning-toolkit-blog/4-websites-where-kids-can-create-digital-art.html (This links to the websites below.)
http://scrapcoloring.com/ http://toytheater.com/category/art/
Science
Spend some time thinking about the Science we have covered recently.
- Whereabouts in your home would be a good place for a plant to grow? Why?
- Where would be a bad place for a plant to grow?
If you have any leftover carrot tops or apple pips, you could try growing them in different places and find out!
French
Week 2 “ Revision Greetings> Bonjour! ” (30 minutes)
- Intro video> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXn5BFye360
- Listening/Speaking > Click on each speech bubble and repeat https://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/french/sect01/no_2/no_2.htm
Writing activity> write in the correct expression in each speech bubble https://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/french/sect01/no_5/no_5.htm
Keeping Active At Home
Over the weeks ahead it will be more important than ever for children to keep fit and active. We would like to provide you with some challenges and resources for you to try at home.
- All young people should aim to be physically active for 60 minutes each day.
- Print off these sheets and keep a log or how active you have been.
- We would encourage you to do as many of these activities in your gardens, benefiting from the fresh air, as possible.
Please ensure you have enough room to do these activities and perform them in a safe manner.
Dorset School Games
From Monday 20th March Dorset School Games will be posting daily physical activity challenges on their Twitter feed and website for children/families at home.
Work Out with Wicks
The Body Coach, Joe Wicks, has offered to become the Nations P.E. teacher and will be hosting live PE/ fitness sessions on his YouTube channel Monday – Friday 9am.
Children need to stay active and positive and these short home sessions will really help.
Joe Wicks – The Body Coach TV
Please share this and let your friends and family know. Workouts will be hosted at youtube.com/thebodycoach1