YEAR 3 HOME LEARNING
Year 3 Weekly Update 18th May 2020
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Welcome from the team
It has been so wonderful seeing all your hard work through dojo so please do keep sending us your pictures and messages. Keep working hard and staying safe. We will see you all very soon!
We are hoping that we can all go back to normal soon but in the meantime please keep working hard and keep your brain working! Don’t forget to send in pictures of your work through DOJO to us or to [email protected] this way we can all see what you have been up to. Remember, by sending us your pictures, you are allowing us to put them on the school website so everybody in our year group can see what you have been working hard on.
You can also use BBC Bitesize. They are uploading daily lessons in lots of different subjects. Here is the link in case you want to have a look at it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-lessons/1
Ms Taylor and Ms Hyder
Maths Update This week’s lesson:
This week we would have been learning about perimeter. Perimeter is where we find out the measurement of the outside sides of a shape. To do this we have to measure
the sides of the shapes and then add them all together. So if I have a football pitch, we know this means that it is going to be a rectangle. Below is an example. See if you can work out the perimeter. Remember, all you have to do is add together each side and this will tell you the perimeter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zs7mn39/articles/zv677nb
If you have your Maths No Problem book then you can use pages 177-186 to practice some length word problems. If you don’t have your book then you can go around your house measuring the perimeter of different objects. A table, a TV, a laptop, the fridge, your bed these are just some of the objects you could find the perimeter of. Just choose one side and measure all the edges.
Maths Printables: Maths Sheets
Extra help:
This website is also allowing all primary school children to sign up for free and have 6 whole months of free maths lessons to help you while we are not at school. Please use it to help you.
https://www.themathsfactor.com/
English Update
Reading Skill: Inference What does inference mean?
Answer the questions below based on what you’ve just read: 1. What can you ‘infer’ from the phrase “...monstrous river...?”
2. The text on each page ends with “___million years ago.” What do you think the author is trying to do here?
3. The glacier is described as ‘roaring’ and ‘groaning’ what can you infer from these words?
LO: Compare different types of diary entries. What is a diary entry? Have you ever written one?
Have a look at this diary entry:
6:00am
It’s finally arrived! The day I’ve waited for all my life! I’m 12! Dad said I would be old enough to go hunting with him when I was 12! The sun is shining; the wind is still – a perfect day for hunting. My body is shaking with excitement! I will do my jobs as quick as the wind this morning! Talk to you later my dear friend.
10:00pm
What a day! It’s been like a dream! I’m so tired, but, my friend, I need to tell you all about my day before I go to sleep, I never want to forget anything about today, ever! I feel warm and fuzzy all over, just remembering today. This has been the best day, ever!
This morning started like every other morning. After getting dressed (twice so my trousers were on right), I went to the dark forest to collect wood for mum to make a fire to cook breakfast. After that, I went to search for eggs. Those stupid hens lay their eggs all over the place. it’s like a treasure hunt! I’m not sure if I found them all, but I had enough for breakfast at least.
Once breakfast was over, I went to the fields. It’s back-breaking work pulling all the weeds up, but dad says it has to be done, or the weeds will strangle the crops and we would have no grains to make flour. After 2 hours of weeding, I ached ALL OVER! But even this pain couldn’t dim my excitement of what was to come. Dad had promised I could hunt deer.
After dinner, we set off. I was so proud when dad handed me my first hunting spear! I puffed out my chest and showed it off to all the younger village children, they were so jealous. I felt 10 feet tall walking out to the forest at the side of my dad.
My prayer was answered, the spear struck true, the deer fell. Dad was proud and told everyone how I had killed the deer with my 1st throw.
Before mum had cooked the deer for our evening meal, I had my 1st sword fighting lesson. Dad is the best swords man in the village, so I was training with the best! Fighting is hard work, and I hurt so much from the hits, but dad assures me I will get better.
As my eyes are drooping, and my body aches, I will say goodnight my dear friend. Nothing will ever live up to today. I will talk to you tomorrow.
1. Who do you think wrote this? 2. What is it about?
3. Why do you think they wrote it? 4. How are they feeling?
You can either make annotations around this diary entry and answer the questions or answer the questions in full sentences.
Now, look at this one:
Answer the same questions.
Thursday 14th June 1942
Dear diary,
Well this has been the most scariest day of my life! Luckily, I'm still here to tell the tale and hopefully shall be from now on.
At about half past eight this morning life was going as normal: well as in we were all creeping around in our stocking feet so the workers below couldn't hear us. Then it happened. The clank of footsteps could be heard coming up the stairs. I knew they'd reached the third step from the top - it creaked like
grandmother's knees. Immediately we all stopped, stood still and held our breath. Mother went white as a
sheet and made that face at me- like don't you dare make a sound! As if I would be so silly. This was our hiding place, our only chance of not being caught, our one secret that must never be told.
It was as if time stood still (though after I'm sure it was no more than five minutes) like the air had been sucked out from all around me! Nothing, no movement, no sound. Just waiting to hear if the steps would descend back down the stairs. My heart was beating like a drum; my ears were pounding as they listened for any sound that would indicate we'd been found. I stood like a statue staring at my mother, who was
doing the same, making no movement no sound. One minute, two minutes, three minutes, how many had passed? Still we stood, frozen to the spot.
After what seemed an eternity the footsteps turned, making that gritty sliding on floorboards sound. Voices could be heard getting fainter and fainter. Whoever it had been had finished their chore and had moved on. My mind filled with the most dreaded thought. Who could it have been? Gestapo? Workers collecting something? I stared wide-eyed at my mother. The all-clear signal to move was given to me by
my mother. I crept into my small, cramped bedroom at the back of the secret annexe and quietly pushed the door to.
Collapsing heavily, the biggest sigh ever left my chest! I was sure that was the closest we'd ever come to
being found. I can't even imagine what would happen to us if we did. How long do we have to live like this? There are so many things I miss: my school friends; visits to the park; theatre trips and just being outside!
It fills me with dread, what will tomorrow bring?
Anne
Task 2:
Create a table that shows similarities and differences between both diary entries:
Science Update
Last week you researched different types of soils. This week I would like you to go out and collect some different soil samples. You can get some from your garden, the park, anywhere that you can find it but remember to stay safe and to not get close to anyone. I want you to have a look at the different soils and describe what is similar about them and what is different. For example, the soil in my back garden is very
clay like with lots of stones but the soil in front garden is clay like but does not have a lot of stones and it is a lot softer. Here is a picture of my back and front garden.
Project Update- Geography
LO: To explain the cause of an earthquake.
Clink the links below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AArne-wh_Uc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ho6z32yyo&pbjreload=10
Task 1:
Using the videos above, write a paragraph explaining what causes an earthquake.
Task 2:
Challenge:
Research the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami. You can draw pictures and write some facts and figures.
Wider Curriculum Update
RE- LO: To explain how Jewish people celebrate Sukkot.
Click the links below to find out more about Sukkot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_W1pGtlRsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POsFxgv8qJM
Task 1: Answer the questions in full sentences.
1. What is Sukkot? 2. How long does it last?
3. What do Jewish people do during Sukkot? 4. What do Jewish people do in the Sukkah?
5. What is lulav and etrog? What do they do with it?
Task 2: Design your own Sukkah! (Send them through to me on DOJO!)
Challenge:
Browse this link and have some fun exploring!
https://www.chabad.org/kids/whatif/default_cdo/aid/989953/jewish/All-about-sukkot.htm
Music- LO: What is texture?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcbkcj6/articles/z9ffng8
Task: Can you create a piece of music that has texture? How did you create it?
French- This week we would have been looking at the story of Little Red Riding
Hood. Below are pictures of the characters and settings and the words in French. I would like you to try and match the correct picture to the correct word.
PE- This week we are going to do the banana banana meatball
workout! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ9q4U2P3ig Please do send us videos of you trying this work out. I guarantee that you will have some fun.
Computing- This week you are going to use scratch! You need to create your own
chase game. Maybe you could video your chase game once it is finished and send it to us. Step one: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted
Step three: Choose the tutorial that says Make A Chase Game.
Step four: Watch the tutorial and then try and create your own chase game.
Social Update
Hello Thyme class! Hope you are all staying safe and healthy. Please remember to log onto Mathletics, Spellodrome and Bugclub. I have also updated the activities on mathletics and have been monitoring all of you! This week, I have enjoyed writing in my journal while sitting in the sunshine! I have also been eating lots and lots cake! What have you been all up to? I know some children are feeling tired and missing their friends at school...remember we are all in this together! Don’t forget to share pictures and work on DOJO. Missing you all.
Ms Taylor-
Hi Tarragon class! Hope you are all staying safe and healthy. Please remember to log onto Mathletics, Spellodrome and Bugclub. I have loved seeing all your hard work so please do keep it up! This week I have made a white chocolate, raspberry and strawberry cheesecake (which was delicious) as well as doing some gardening. You can see the flowers I have planted in my pictures of my front garden in our science section. I hope that you are all helping your families out at home. I wonder what new skills you have learnt while being at home. Send me some pictures of you doing your new skill and I will post some pictures of the things that I have been doing on our class story for you all to see.
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