We are carrying on with our ‘Remarkable Romans topic this half term so the children can continue to choose tasks from their Roman activity grid (as little or often as they would like) to complete alongside their daily home learning lessons (Maths/Literacy/Foundation/Science)– The tasks on this grid are ‘optional extras’ for the children to do while they are at home, as normally I would be sending this grid home as homework. Here is the link to the ROMAN ACTIVITY GRID

As well as the Roman activity grid, I will still continue to post foundation subject and Science lessons for the children to choose from during the week.  At school, we would normally do Maths and Literacy in the morning and then a foundation subject or Science in the afternoon.

PE : Joe Wicks is doing new online PE lessons again during this ‘lockdown’ that will be available on his Youtube channel –  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ The children can join in with these daily or weekly.

Also Change4Life and Disney have teamed up to create 10 minute activity games to get children moving – these are linked to popular Disney films and will count towards the children’s recommended 60 minutes a day of physical activity – https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups Science : The Science topic for the next few weeks is ‘Light’. Here is the next lesson for this unit on Oak Academy – This lesson looks at reflective and non-reflective materials and their uses and different types of reflection. You will need a piece of paper, a pencil and a ruler. https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-reflection-and-how-can-we-use-it-6mt3gd

Art & Design: Please choose a creative Arts or design activity from the Romans activity grid or the children at school have been researching, designing and will be creating a miniature Roman chariot, perhaps the children at home would like to do this too?

PSHE: The topic for PSHE this half term is ‘Emotions’. If you haven’t already, watching the film ‘inside out’ may be a good way to begin this topic.

This lesson is mostly about having a discussion with your child/children or between siblings about positive emotions and encouraging each other to think positively when things get a little difficult. Positivity is one of our whole school values so we aim for the children to adopt a ‘can do’ approach to learning and life skills. 

The children can have a go at creating a ‘positivity spin wheel’ if they would like to, see template – Positivity spin wheel

History: – This half term, the home learning History lessons will focus on the Romans. 

This week’s lesson is explores some of the reasons of how the Roman army became so successful. The Romans were protective, and wanted to keep what was theirs, theirs and what wasn’t theirs, theirs.

• Have a look at this website https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwmpfg8/articles/zqbnfg8 and write down some interesting facts about the Roman army. There are a couple of videos to watch. One video focusses on a Roman soldier’s equipment which leads onto the activity below.
• Activity – Roman soldier information and worksheet
• Have a look at this website and video to see how the Roman soldiers protected themselves during battle – https://www.romanobritain.org/8-military/mil_roman_battle_tactics.php

I would love to see what the children create, please send any work to Class3@shawburystmarys.co.uk.

Thank you, Miss Taylor

We are carrying on with our ‘Remarkable Romans topic this half term so the children can continue to choose tasks from their Roman activity grid (as little or often as they would like) to complete alongside their daily home learning lessons (Maths/Literacy/Foundation/Science)– The tasks on this grid are ‘optional extras’ for the children to do while they are at home, as normally I would be sending this grid home as homework. Here is the link to the ROMAN ACTIVITY GRID

As well as the Roman activity grid, I will still continue to post foundation subject and Science lessons for the children to choose from during the week.  At school, we would normally do Maths and Literacy in the morning and then a foundation subject or Science in the afternoon.

PE : Joe Wicks is doing new online PE lessons again during this ‘lockdown’ that will be available on his Youtube channel –  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ The children can join in with these daily or weekly.

Also Change4Life and Disney have teamed up to create 10 minute activity games to get children moving – these are linked to popular Disney films and will count towards the children’s recommended 60 minutes a day of physical activity – https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups Science : The Science topic for the next few weeks is ‘Light’. Here is the first lesson for this unit on Oak Academy – You will need a piece of paper and a pencil https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-light-c4w30d

Art & Design: Please choose a creative Arts or design activity from the Romans activity grid or the children at school have been researching, designing and will be creating a miniature Roman chariot, perhaps the children at home would like to do this too?

Miss Parker has also posted a ‘tableau’ activity on the website encouraging children at home to create ‘a living picture’ using fabrics/props of something that links with each year group’s topic, so for us it would be the Romans.  Please see Miss Parker’s ‘Art Day’ post to see an example of what you could create. Please email any completed tableau pictures to me by the 25th of February 🙂

PSHE: The topic for PSHE this half term is ‘Emotions’. Watching the film ‘inside out’ may be a good way to begin this topic or by getting the children to have a go at guessing the emotion in the following clip – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkyKyVFnSs

Begin this lesson with a discussion about emotions, ask the children what do they think an emotion is? Encourage the children to talk about the different emotions they have experienced (if they would like to) and any others that we can feel. What situations trigger which emotions? e.g worried before coming back to school, or for an interview etc.

Task – Design an Emoji (see template) – the children could design a new emotion or create an emoji for an existing emotion.

History: – This half term, the home learning History lessons will focus on the Romans. The first lesson in this unit is to explore the legend of twin brothers Romulus and Remus and the tale of how Rome was founded. Have a look at this Romulus and Remus comic strip and then create your own to retell the story of Romulus and Remus – you can use one of these templates if you would like to – Comic strip template

I would love to see what the children create, please send any work to Class3@shawburystmarys.co.uk.

Thank you, Miss Taylor

Maths home learning will continue to follow the ‘White Rose’ maths scheme that we use at school. The daily ‘lessons’ will continue to follow the objectives that the children would be covering at school so that they can continue developing and gaining confidence in their mathematical skills.  Each lesson includes a teaching video and a worksheet that can be downloaded and printed if preferred.

This week’s lessons are based on money. 

Monday- Learning objective: To add amounts of money 

Video introduction:https://vimeo.com/498286318 

Worksheet – https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Y3-Spring-Block-2-WO3-Add-money-2019.pdf

Answers-https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Y3-Spring-Block-2-ANS3-Add-money-2019.pdf

Tuesday –Learning objective: To subtract amounts of money 

Video introduction –https://vimeo.com/498297373

Worksheet –https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Y3-Spring-Block-2-WO4-Subtract-money-2019.pdf

Answers – https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Y3-Spring-Block-2-ANS4-Subtract-money-2019.pdf

Wednesday- Learning objective: To work out remaining change amounts 

Video introduction-https://vimeo.com/499227948

Worksheet –https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Y3-Spring-Block-2-WO5-Give-change-2019.pdf

Answers-https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Y3-Spring-Block-2-ANS5-Give-change-2019.pdf

Thursday – Learning objective: To add/subtract amounts of money from a ‘budget’

Today’s task is a money challenge to design a theme park/beach front or a spring fair.  Both challenges require lots of ‘money skills’ such as budgeting, spending, calculating totals and working out remaining amounts. The children can choose Challenge 1 or challenge 2 (or both if they would like) from this sheet to complete – Theme park and spring fair challenge

Both challenges require careful addition and subtraction of money amounts, the children may find using number lines helpful to add total spends and subtract from their remaining budget amount. I look forward to seeing the design that spends the least amount of money from their budget, but still includes the essential items and perhaps some extras.. Have fun ! 

Friday 

Arithmetic – Y3-Arithmetic-Half-Test-5a[1] when this is finished, the children can mark it with an adult and correct any mistakes that they made.

Like last term, I have created a grid of activities that link to our Spring topic (The Remarkable Romans).The children can choose tasks from the grid (as little or often as they would like) to complete alongside their daily home learning lessons (Maths/Literacy/Foundation/Science)– The tasks on this grid are ‘optional extras’ for the children to do while they are at home, as normally I would be sending this grid home as homework. Here is the link to the ROMAN ACTIVITY GRID

As well as the Roman activity grid, I will still continue to post foundation subject and Science lessons for the children to choose from during the week.  At school, we would normally do Maths and Literacy in the morning and then a foundation subject or Science in the afternoon.PE : Joe Wicks is doing new online PE lessons again during this ‘lockdown’ that will be available on his Youtube channel –  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ The children can join in with these daily or weekly.

Also Change4Life and Disney have teamed up to create 10 minute activity games to get children moving – these are linked to popular Disney films and will count towards the children’s recommended 60 minutes a day of physical activity – https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups 

Science : At the end of last term, Class 3 had just begun a Science topic that focussed on learning about animals including humans.  Science home learning tasks will be linked as best as possible to the curriculum units that would be being taught at school, as well as recapping on the children’s prior knowledge and previous learning.  

Last week’s home learning lesson objective was to learn how to construct a food chain, this week you will learn how to construct a food web.  You will need a piece of paper, a pencil and a ruler for this task. Here is the link to this lesson https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-do-we-construct-a-food-web-c4vk0c

Art & Design: Please choose a creative Arts or design activity from the Romans activity grid.     

PSHE: I hope that last week the children took some time to think about what makes them each so special and that they continue to remember to be the best version of themselves 🙂 

This week’s PSHE lesson is the last lesson of our ‘Money’ unit. The objective this week is to understand saving and budgeting. These may be things that the children have begun thinking about if they are earning their own pocket money.

Introduction – Begin this lesson by sharing this video as a discussion point – Talk about what ‘saving’ is and what ‘budgeting’ means in day to day life.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8yv4wx/articles/zs3b2nb  

Task –  ‘Money rollercoaster game’ (it needs printing out if possible). The game encourages the players to think about amounts of money, spending and earning money and saving and budgeting.  You will need a dice and a counter or item to mark each players place on the board. If you have any play money then it might be useful for each player to use it to keep track of what they earn and lose throughout the game

Each player starts with a budget of £5, players then take it turn to roll the dice to move around the board, facing different money scenarios along the way. Money matters game

Geography: – The focus for Geography for the next few weeks you are at home will be ‘Mountains, Volcanoes and Earthquakes’. There is a teaching video and one or more activities for each lesson.

Task – This week’s lesson is called ‘ What happens when an Earthquake occurs?’ – https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-happens-when-an-earthquake-occurs-6xhp2t

I would love to see what the children create, please send any work to Class3@shawburystmarys.co.uk.

Thank you, Miss Taylor

This week’s Literacy focus is Poetry – based on a poem called ‘The Garden Year’, written by Sara Coleridge – Here is a copy of the poem – Months of the year poem

Monday – LO: To read and identify interesting vocabulary in ‘The Garden Year’. 

Task 1- Read ‘The Garden Year’ and underline/highlight any words that you don’t recognise or understand. Use a dictionary or the internet to find out what these words mean – Can you put these words into your own sentences to see how you can use them in a different way? 

Think/talk about – What has the poet used to make the poem interesting? How does it express feelings ? What does it make you think about? What poetic features can you find? (e.g powerful adjectives, any similes or metaphors?, rhyming words?)

Task 2 – Write out the poem in your neatest handwriting and add illustrations to the poem, try to link your drawings and the colours to specific lines of the poem.

Tuesday – LO: To identify rhyming words 

Task 1 – Write down or talk about the answers to these questions using ‘The Garden Year’ poem:

• Why is the daffodil dancing?
• Why has the poet used the word scatter to describe the daisies?
• Which three flowers does June bring?
• Name three things that happen in the winter months.
• Which month do you like best? Explain using evidence from the poem.

Task 2 – Find and highlight the words in the poem that rhyme. Where are these words positioned on the line? (at the end, in pairs ) Write down a rhyming string for some of these words to see how many rhyming words you can think of for each one e.g. rain, again, refrain, lane, pain, shame, name

Wednesday – LO: To write rhyming couplets 

Think back to yesterday’s lesson when you were looking at the rhyming words in the poem and recognised that the rhyming words were at the end of the line in pairs. These are called Rhyming Couplets.

Think/Talk about other events that the months of the year bring. Include colours or noun phrases associated with them. e.g. January brings dark nights, February brings Valentine’s Day, March brings a hint of spring.

Task – Turn each month into a rhyming couplet and write them down. The first line of the couplet should tell us the months and what they bring. The second line gives us more detail about the month and the event. Put the easiest word to rhyme at the end of the line.
e.g. January brings dark nights
Hats and scarves and woolly tights. February brings us pancake day, with lighter evenings along the way 

Thursday – LO: To write my own rhyming poem 

If you managed to write a rhyming couplet for each month of the year yesterday, then  your poem could be completed already ! Today’s task is to write your own poem about months of the year, using rhyming couplets to add impact for the reader.

You can use all or some of the rhyming couplets you wrote yesterday to write a final version of your own poem today. If you want to change the description content for your poem then you can. You might want to only write about the flowers that each month brings, or perhaps the weather? The focus of the poem is up to you but your ‘Must haves’ are that it must include a rhyming couplet for each month of the year.

Write out your poem in your neatest handwriting and add some illustrations that link to specific lines in your poem. I can’t wait to read them 🙂

Friday

Friday’s lessons every week will be for Free writing (children’s choice of how and what to write about) –  They could write a poem, story, recipe, list, diary etc. If any children would like a writing focus and haven’t completed them all already, then they can choose a Literacy task from their ROMAN ACTIVITY GRID.

Spellings – If you would like to continue with spelling practice at home, I will attach our spelling words – Year 3 Term 2A Spelling Overview for this term.Reading– I would encourage the children to continue reading as much as they can while they are at home (however I understand it may be a little more difficult at the moment). I posted a reading challenge on Friday for the children to complete over the next few weeks if they would like to, I thought it might give them a bit of motivation to continue reading 🙂 I have also attached some useful comprehension questions for adults to ask their child/children as they read to develop their understanding – Reading questions

Again, please send any work that the children complete or if you have any questions, please email Class3@shawburystmarys.co.uk

Thank you, Miss Taylor