Year 3: Monday 13th July 2020

Theme: Dinosaurs.

Dear parents/carers,

We hope you’re all continuing to stay healthy and safe. Thank you for sending us all of your amazing

work – we’ve really enjoyed hearing from you and seeing what you’ve been getting up to at home! We’d

love for you to keep emailing us at year3@winns.waltham.sch.uk

Below are more suggested home activities that you might like to try – we hope you enjoy them.

The Year 3 team

Literacy:

This week we will be learning and researching about dinosaurs. Use the National History

Museum website and your own research to learn about the dinosaurs to help you with your

literacy tasks!

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dinosaurs.html

Use your research to create a non-fiction fact book about dinosaurs to help others to

learn about them. Remember to use true facts and pretend that you are writing this fact

book for an alien who has no idea what a dinosaur is. Don’t forget to include:

o Headings

o Subheadings

o Pictures

o Descriptions

o Paragraphs

o Captions

o Fact boxes

o Could you include a “Did you know?”

Pretend you are an archaeologist that has just discovered a fossil and report on your

findings.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-are-fossils-formed.html

Design a dinosaur and use expanded noun phrases to describe each part of the dinosaur.

Can you create an acrostic dinosaur poem? An acrostic poem is a poem where the first

letters of each line spell out a word or phrase. Take a look at this Ms Dodge’s example…

Guided Reading:

Read the piece of non-fiction below:

1. What key features can you spot in the non-fiction text?

a. Heading?

b. Sub-headings?

c. Pictures?

d. Captions?

e. Fact box?

f. Anything else?

2. What does a diplodocus and a giraffe have in common?

3. What kind of habitat does a diplodocus like?

4. What does a diplodocus like to eat?

5. What does a diplodocus have that is considered a dangerous weapon?

6. Where are the diplodocus’s nostrils?

7. How long ago did the diplodocus live?

8. What could the diplodocus reach which the smaller dinosaurs could not?

9. Find a word in the text that means big.

10. Why did the diplodocus have strange teeth?

Using the facts of the non-fiction text, pretend you are a teacher and teach your toys or

your siblings about the diplodocus dinosaur. Make sure you practice your fluency and

expression!

D inosaurs stomping ferociously all around.

I ncoming meteor is on it’s way!

N ow run away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex quickly!

O uch! Dinosaurs fighting scarily.

S hake your spikey tail side to side.

A wesome dinos are my favourite!

U nable to escape the fierce teeth.

R un away before you become a Dinosaur’s lunch!

SPAG:

Read the dinosaur sentences below. Write them out in your neatest handwriting and

underline the nouns, adjectives and adverbs.

1. The humongous scary dinosaur stomped loudly in the woods.

2. The fierce creepy Tyrannosaurus Rex roared furiously.

3. The Triceratops was a large plant-eating dinosaur and he had a sharp strong bite.

4. The long Gallimimus dinosaur ran quickly across the open plains.

5. Deinonychus was a small dinosaur. Fossils show us it was a fast, brainy and ferocious

animal.

6. The Stegosaurus had many large bony plates on its back and it moved slowly.

7. The Baryonyx dinosaur used its long sharp claws for snatching fish speedily.

Can you think of more exciting words for the word big?

Enormous

Large

Once you have come up with more exciting words for big try the following words:

o Small

o Scary

o Good

Maths:

This week in maths you will be focusing on your number bonds and your de-coding skills! You

need to use the calculations below to work out how much is each dinosaur is worth (The first

one has been done for you) and note these on a piece of paper. Once you have worked out

what each dinosaur is worth, you can move on to the trickier challenges. Write out the

calculations on a sheet of paper to help you solve them.

EXTENSION: Create your own dinosaur calculations and test your family!

Big

Computing:

Hit the button practice.

Create a dinosaur world on Scratch JR.

Research different dinosaurs and facts and make notes for your dinosaur fact book.

Topic/Science:

How do we know that dinosaurs existed? Fossils! We know that some dinosaurs turned into

fossils when they died, so although they died millions of year ago people are still discovering

fossils of the dinosaurs.

Watch the animation and read the information to discover how this happened and explore

the process in more detail:

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-are-fossils-

formed.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjw3ZX4BRDmARIsAFYh7ZKsrtPGRZfTUQABw9QdKc3XX_Tmfn

Q_cBZCxhvQU_8rvhkek2ReE7caAmgwEALw_wcB

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/360-fossil-hunting-adventure.html

Can you create an instructional comic book strip of how fossils form? Fold a sheet of

paper into 6 equal squares. Use the key steps below to draw your own cartoon with

pictures to show others how fossils form:

1. The animal dies.

2. Soft parts of the animal's body, including skin and muscles, start to rot away.

Scavengers may come and eat some of the remains.

3. Before the body disappears completely, it is buried by sediment - usually mud, sand or

silt. Often at this point only the bones and teeth remain.

4. Many more layers of sediment build up on top. This puts a lot of weight and pressure

onto the layers below, squashing them. Eventually, they turn into sedimentary rock.

5. While this is happening, water seeps into the bones and teeth, turning them to stone

as it leaves behind minerals.

6. This process can take thousands or even millions of years.

Research and draw different types of fossils.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/fantastic-fossils.html

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/dinosaurs-and-prehistoric-life/fossils/types-fossil/

Using the image below draw and label a dinosaur skeleton’s bones.

Challenge! Research and find a different dinosaur skeleton, then draw and label the bones.

Art/DT:

Create or draw your very own dinosaur world! Look at the examples below of the

different ways you can create the world. Can you think of a different way to make your

dinosaur world?

Paper plate dinosaurs. Look at the images below and make your dinosaurs out of paper

plates.

Using pasta or cotton buds or sticks can you create a dinosaur skeleton? Check out some

skeleton examples below.

Junk modelling. Build a dinosaur using junk around the home. Look at some ideas below.

Create a dinosaur silhouette.

How to draw a dinosaur. Follow the video to learn how to draw a Tyrannosaurus Rex!

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-to-draw-a-dinosaur.html