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YEAR 3WEEK BEGINNING: MONDAY 1st JUNE
WEEKLY MATHS TASKS(Aim to do 1 per day)
WEEKLY READING TASKS(Aim to do 1 per day)
Play Times Table Rock Stars and participate in the Year 3 Battle of the Bands: Bracken v-Hogweed!
Find out about mass and weight on:https://www.mathsisfun.com/measure/metric-mass.htmland https://www.mathsisfun.com/measure/weight-mass.html
Find five objects in your house that you would like to weigh. Try and estimate the weight and then check your estimate using kitchen scales. Then order the objects from the lightest to the heaviest.
How many objects can you find that weigh less than/more than 500g?
Play Mostly Postie to practise reading scales https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/mostlyPostie/index.htmlYou can also use https://www.teacherled.com/iresources/scales/mass/
Read a story together. (This could be a book where you read a chapter a day). Discuss what you have read.
Write five questions you would like to ask the author of your book.
Make up a song or a poem about the chapter you have just read. Make sure you include a summary of the main events in your song or poem.
Imagine you are a character from your book and write a short diary entry showing their thoughts and feelings.
Try BBC Bitesize Daily Book Club – You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum by Andy Stanton. (22nd May English). There are two video clips of Joanna Lumley reading extracts from the book with questions about the text and three activities. You can do one of these a day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkttpg8
WEEKLY SPELLING TASKS(Aim to do 1 per day)
WEEKLY WRITING TASKS(Aim to do 1 per day)
Words ending in -sion.E.g. division, confusion, television, decision, collision, mansion, invasion, explosion, occasion, conclusion.
Practise spelling these words correctly using look, say, cover, write, check.
Find out what each word means and use it in a sentence.
How many words can you find in your book that end in –sion?
Write the words using rainbow writing – a different colour for each letter.
Draw a spiral – write the words along the lines in your spiral!
Writing for Entertaining – Ancient Greek MythsOver the next few weeks we will be looking at Ancient Greek Myths and writing one.
What is a Myth? Read the story of Icarus. Discuss the story with someone at home. How does this differ from other texts/stories you have read?
What are similes? Can you write some similes for the Icarus story?
What is past tense? Use the Icarus myth to highlight words that are in the past tense.
Use the pictures to retell the myth orally to someone in your home.
Put the pictures from the myth in the correct order.PROJECT
(Complete some or all tasks during the week)History – What did the Ancient Greeks do for us? Watch the YouTube clip and then create a poster explaining the things that we have now, thanks to the Ancient Greeks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9keQHIG_EQ.History – How did the Ancient Greeks live? Watch the BBC Bitesize about Ancient Greek life. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z87tn39/articles/zc8yb9q Draw pictures to show what life was like in Ancient Greece times.Geography – Colour a map of Greece (attached) showing where the mountains are.Geography – What is the weather like in Greece? Research weather using books, talking to adults or the internet. Write a paragraph explaining the weather.
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Daedalus and IcarusLong, long ago an artist named Daedalus lived with his son, Icarus. Daedalus was very talented and designed buildings. His work was admired across the lands. One day, the king asked Daedalus to come to visit him. He showed Daedalus his most prized pet, the Minotaur. It had the head of a bull on a human body. It was a terrifying creature! Despite its terrible appearance, the king loved the Minotaur and wanted Daedalus to build it a beautiful place to live. Daedalus was very clever and decided to build a Labyrinth, or maze, around the Minotaur. He wanted it to be a hard maze so that the Minotaur could not escape, and the king would be happy. Icarus helped Daedalus build the Labyrinth. The king was delighted when it was finished because it was beautiful and challenging. The king was a very greedy man. He wanted Daedalus to work only for him. So, the king imprisoned Daedalus and his son. Daedalus dreamed of escape. He observed birds flying overhead and had a genius idea! He built wings out of bird feathers and wax so that he and his son could fly away. Before taking off, Daedalus reminded Icarus not to fly too close to the sun. The wings were made of wax, after all. Father and son rose into the air. They flapped their arms, and their wings allowed them to soar through the sky. They flew over the sparkling ocean, so happy to be free from prison and away from the king. Icarus dared to go higher and higher in the sky. Daedalus called to his son, warning him of the sun’s warmth, but it was too late. Icarus’s wings began to melt and the feathers quickly fell away. Icarus fell into the ocean. Daedalus had no choice but to continue his journey to safety and freedom alone.
The following pictures are not in the correct order.
Colour the water blue.
Colour the mountains brown.
Colour the land green.