Year 3 – 4
thJanuary
Please use the following to support home learning during this time.
To help us feedback to your child, please can you email all your work to: [email protected] or drop off all your work at school if and when safe to do so.
A member of staff will telephone to talk to your child about their learning. Please continue to check the website: https://www.friarage.org.uk/ and Facebook page
www.facebook.com/friaragecpschool/ for all updates.
Writing
Tuesday – read ‘The Excellence Text’ (see additional reading/writing resources)
Think about how you can make the text ‘come to life’ by reading with good expression and paying attention the punctuation.
Wednesday - Look at the additional writing sheet called ‘Unpick the Vocabulary’. Do you know what all these words mean? If not, there are several things you can do: use a dictionary, ask a grown up, ask Alexa, ask google, find the word in the text and work it out based on how it used in the sentence.
Now write sentences with some of these words. Give yourself the points stated on the sheet. How many points did you achieve?
Thursday – Look at the additional writing sheet called ‘Writer’s toolkit’ Answer the questions by finding evidence in the text and filling in the boxes.
Friday – Look at the additional writing sheet with the pictures and key words from the story. Can you retell the story so far, using the pictures and words to help you.
Reading Please read every day.
Read the first part of Theseus and the Minotaur. The questions are based on the highlighted part.
Looking – What is Theseus’ plan? Clue – Did Theseus’ father want him to go?
Thinking – Do you think he should go?
Remember to add detail to your answers. The clue question should include a quote from the text to
support your answer and the thinking question should include several reasons.
Mathematics
Monday : addition in the hundreds Tuesday subtraction with renaming Wednesday addition and subtraction word problems
Thursday multiplication word problems
Friday: code breaker challenge
Oak Academy links
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lesso ns/recalling-the-3-times-table-c8tp4d https://classroom.thenational.academy/lesso ns/recalling-the-4-times-table-cmt64e Spellings straight painter fainted waist strainer chained claimed failure snail waiter
Maths
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrnfvk7
Internet Safety
How do you keep safe online?
National Literacy Trust Activities
https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/
Other Online and Offline Activities
Weekly Theme Project: Ancient Greece Knowledge
Organiser – What did the Ancient Greeks do for us?
Read the prior knowledge section of the knowledge organiser then answer these questions.1. Which two periods in history came before the Ancient Greek Empire?
2. What was happening in Britain at the time the Ancient Greek Empire started?
3. How was life different if you lived in Athens or Sparta? 4. How was life different for girls and boys, particularly in
Athens?
5. How was life different for Athenian slaves, compared to Spartan slaves?
If you cannot remember all these details, refer back to the previous terms knowledge organiser.
Virtual afterschool sports clubs https://www.youthspo rttrust.org/AfterSchool
SportClub
Have a go at reading these Phonic books at home.
https://home.oxfordowl. co.uk/
History
What were the great achievements of the
Ancient Greeks? (thenational.academy)
Science:
What are forces? (thenational.academy)
What is friction? https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=P6_VUfHzaa M
Make a timeline of your life. Include important events from your birth to
now. Include dates, a brief summary and a picture for each one.
Find a toy car or something similar with wheels. Push it on three
different surfaces – eg. Carpet, lino, concrete. On
which surface did it go fastest? Can you explain
why?
Think about all the things you want to achieve this
year. Write a list of resolutions and pin them
up somewhere. Share them with your family.
Monday Tuesday
For extra resources use page 6.
Maths
Wednesday Thursday Friday
For extra resources use page 8.
For extra resources use page 9
Please complete the arithmetic test on page 10?
Additional Maths resources Monday
Challenge
Answer the times table questions. Can you describe the pattern?
1 X 3 =3 10 X 3 =
2 X 3 =6 20 X 3 =
3 X 3 =9 30 X 3 =
4 X 3 = 40 X 3 =
5 X 3 = 50 X 3 =
6 X 3 = 60 X 3 =
Additional Maths Resources- Tuesday
Additional Maths Resources Wednesday
Challenge
Answer the times
table questions. Can
you describe the
pattern?
Miss Turney has 3
boxes with 15
doughnuts in each
box. Draw an Array
to show what Mrs
Turnery has and
what times table it
represents.
Greater Depth
Write some
instructions
explaining how you
would work out 25 X
3 =
Additional Maths resources- Friday
Year 3 Arithmetic Number 3
1. 5+2= 2. 14-9=
3. 3X3= 4. 27÷3=
5. 5X5= 6. 15-8=
7. Double 25= 8. 50+30=
9. 633-114= 10. 8X5=
11. 36÷3= 12. Half of 90=
13. Half of 30= 14. 64-18=
15. 18÷3= 16. Double 35=
17. 2X9= 18. 356+414=
19. 25+ ____=100 20. 18÷3=
21. Half of 50= 22. 100-37=
23. 362+253= 24. Half of 70=
25. Double 15= 26. 21+ ____=100
27. 15÷3= 28. Double 45=
Additional Reading/Writing Resources (The Excellence Text) Theseus and the Minotaur.
Part 1
King Minos of Crete was a powerful man, feared by the rulers of the lands around him. When he demanded goods or men for his great armies, they felt they had to agree. When he demanded they send tributes to honour him, they sent them without question. It was the
only way they could stop him going to war with them. But his demands on Athens became too much for them to bear.
King Minos had a great palace built for himself. Inside this palace, Minos had built a giant maze, a Labyrinth, and, at the centre of the maze, he kept a terrifying creature, - the Minotaur. Now this was no ordinary animal; it was a monster, half man and half bull. It was powerful, and savage and it loved to eat the flesh of the humans who had been shut into the labyrinth by King Minos. They would
wander through the maze, completely lost, until at last they came face to face with the Minotaur. Not a great way to die really. As for Athens, Minos demanded that every year the King send him seven young men and seven young women.
"Why do we send these young people to Crete every year?" Theseus asked his father, the King of Athens. "And why is it that none of them ever return?"
"Because if we did not send them, Minos would wage war on us and it is a war that we would not win," said King Aegeus. "And they do not return because they do not go to Crete as slaves. They go as food for the Minotaur."
"Father, this is terrible," shouted Theseus, "we cannot let this go on. We cannot sacrifice any more of our young citizens to this tyrant. When it is time to send the next tribute, I will go as one of them and I vow that it is the last time the Minotaur will be fed with the
flesh of any of our people."
Try as he might, his father could not persuade him to change his mind. Aegeus reminded him that every year, other young men had sworn to slay this terrible beast and they had never been seen again.
Theseus insisted that he understood the dangers but would succeed. "I will return to you, father," cried Theseus, as the ship left the harbour wall, "and you will be proud of your son."
"Then I wish you good luck, my son," cried his father, "I shall keep watch for you every day. If you are successful, take down these black sails and replace them with white ones. That way I will know you are coming home safe to me."
As the ship docked in Crete, King Minos himself came down to inspect the prisoners from Athens. He enjoyed the chance to taunt the Athenians and to humiliate them even further.
"Is this all your king has to offer this year?" he jeered. "Such puny creatures. Hardly even a snack for the mighty creature within the labyrinth. Anyway, let's get on with it. I am not a hard-hearted man, so I will let you choose which one goes first into the Minotaur's den. Who is it to be?"
Additional Writing Resources Unpick the Vocabulary
1 point
2 point
3 point
powerful
demanded
beast
citizens
savage
labyrinth
tributes
tyrant
vow
Additional Writing Resources
Writer’s Toolkit:
How does the writer:
Additional Writing Resources
