Dear Parents,Please find below a suggestion of learning tasks for the coming week. We as a school, want to reassure you that a high priority of ours is well-being. Particularly the mental well-being of the children, yourselves and our staff at such a tough time. Therefore we do not want the activities below to become a source of extra stress for you. Please know that the teachers are available by email to provide support, if needed. The most important activities for you to complete with your child(ren) is daily reading and language development through conversation. We also recognise that activities you do with your children such as craft, baking, playing games, etc have many educational benefits and would encourage you to continue completing activities both you and your child enjoy doing together.

Year 3 Home Learning Menu Week beginning 20.04.20P.E. Creative

(Music, Art, Drama)Joe Wicks has become the UK’s PE teacher. Go on you tube at 9.00am everyday to follow along.If you have not access to You tube, can your child make up their own workout for you and the rest of the family to have a go at.

L.O – To create an obstacle course and create instructions to complete it

Create an obstacle course or take chalk and make a course outside. See if it can involve different ways of moving e.g. balancing, jumping, crawling, hopping etc

There are some online classes being offered for example Emma Scott runs an art session online at 2pm every day.

L.O – To conduct research about Hokusai’s work and replicate his workThis half term we are looking at an artist called Katsushika Hokusai. See if you can conduct some research about him. Can you find any pictures of his artwork? See if you can have a go at recreating some of his work.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai's most famous print

Weekly Subject Focused Project:Geography

Big Question: What makes the Earth angry?

Focus: Describe and understand physical geography, including volcanoes and earthquakes.

Key Tasks:- Create a dictionary using this key

terminology:volcano, earthquake, molten, lava, magma, tsunami, geyser, fault, epicentre, Richter scale, seismometer, active, dormant- To understand the structure of the Earth. Watch

these videos to support understanding https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zwwxn39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MFr2cC3erk

Addition suggested tasks: This website includes key information about earthquakes

and involves a quiz! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z849q6f/articles/zj89t39

This website includes key information about volcanos https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z849q6f/articles/zd9

cxyc Create your own volcano

Create a diagram showing the structure of the Earth. Children can choose how this is represented.

Spelling and GrammarThis week’s focus is words ending in -ary

Library, February, dictionary, salary, summary, primary, secondaryTry out some of the strategies we have been using in school to try to learn these words at home. Make sure you know what each work means

- Draw around the word to show its shape:

- Draw a picture using the word to show its meaning:

Find the Scrabble Value of each of these words: accident answer actual appear address

Which word has the highest value? Which word has the lowest value? Challenge Try to add a suffix or prefix to any of the words above to increase their scrabble score.

- Rainbow writing to show sounds or parts of the word:

L.O – To identify when an apostrophe is being used for omission This means that an apostrophe is being used to show that one or more letters have been omitted (missed out) from a word, often when joining words together (contractions).

Spot the contractions:The boys ran away. They’d left their coats behind but wouldn’t come back.

Look at a book or a newspaper. How many contractions can you find? What is the word short for?

ReadingRead for 15 minutes a day. Then use some of the sentences stems below to come up with questions about what you have read. Select a different focus for each day. Alternatively, if you would like a change from coming up with your own questions go to www.pobble365.com and there are pictures and a story starter with questions to answer.

- Have you read a good book recently? Can you write a recommendation and send it to me? I love reading new books!

Vocabulary ExplainThe word/phrase ______________ shows that…A synonym for __________ is…The word(s) ______________________ suggest that the character is feeling... A definition for the word ___________ is…

The most interesting/exciting part was... because…I think the text is arranged in this way because... The best structural/literacy feature was ... because... The author engages the reader by...

Inference RetrieveThe description of (character) shows that they are... The following word(s)/phrase makes the reader feel... My overall impression of this text is... because…I can tell that... because....The character behaved in this way because....

The key characters in the text are…The story takes place in a/near to a …The genre of this text is horror/fantasy/ historical fiction/adventure. I know this because…With adult support, consider appropriate responses to: How did...? How often...? How ... is ...? Who had...? Who is...? Who did....?What happened to...? What does ... do? Where did ... go?

Prediction Summarise Based on the front cover, I think this text will be about... I think this story will be about...because…In the next chapter, I think (character) will... because.... The story is set in.... this makes me think that...I think (character) will change their mood/behaviour/feelings in the future because…

The first thing that happened in this chapter was... The main theme of this story/chapter/page is…The key events in chronological order are…A Heading for this chapter could be... because...At the beginning... In the middle… At the end...

We have been reading the Hodgeheg by Dick King Smith during guided reading time. Here is a link to a PDF of the story if children would like to finish reading the story https://www.barhamprimary.co.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=764&type=pdf

Recommended books to read or listen to:

Writing

L.O – To create a setting description and use a range of preposition as sentence openersCreate your own setting. Is it a creepy setting? Is it a happy setting? It is an imaginary land? Collect ideas about what it might be like there. Use the senses to organise ideas e.g. see, smell, hear. Pupils to write a setting description of a scrap metal yard. Use prepositions to vary sentence starters.

Prepositions tell us where something is (for example, beside, under, on, against, beneath or over) or when something is happening (for example: until, during, after, before or more specifically 'on Christmas Day', 'at twelve o'clock' or 'in August').

https://www.pobble365.com/ is good for inspiration!

MathsL.O – To use the column method to add a 3 digit number to another 3 digit number1. 345+233=2. 456+313=3. 436+245=4. 457+367=5. 679+243=

SummitThe total at the top (the summit) is found by adding the two numbers below

- If you have access to a computer, use: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

Here you will be able to access a lesson a day of Maths, there is a video of what to do.

- Practise times tables regularly (2s,3s,4s,5s,8s,10s)

it. You will need: paper and pencil.Challenge: to investigate how 4 given numbers can be arranged in the bottom row to create:a) The highest value summit b) The lowest value summit.Support: remove a block from the bottom so that there are 3 base blocks; simplify numbers.Challenge: add a block to the bottom row so that there are 5 base blocks;

ScienceHumpty Dumpy experiements

Start by hard boiling 6 eggs and set them aside to cool. Once the eggs are cooled, use a permanent marker to draw faces on them to represent Humpty Dumpty. Then gather 6 sandwich bags and fill them with different materials, e.g. marbles, a piece of foam padding, bubble wrap, feathers, shredded paper and beans. Then make a prediction about whether the egg would crack when dropped in the different bags. Now comes the fun part! Put the eggs into the bags and as you repeat the nursery rhyme, drop a bag from the table when Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall. Repeat with every bag. After dropping all of the bags, remove the eggs and record the results. Were the results surprising?

Additional Suggested Activities

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52149055 - Just because it made me smile

- Create a quiz for your family about all the things you have learnt this week. You could have

different rounds, for example you could have a round of questions based on earthquakes and volcanos.

- Amazon are offering free audio books to get us all through this difficult time, it’s a fantastic opportunity for children to listen to high quality, exciting books! It’s also very good for adults!