Happy Wednesday 🙂

Hope you are all okay and keeping safe!

Here are the activities for today…

Phonics – /OW/

Today the digraph is /ow/ ‘brown cow’ – we have looked at the /ow/ diagraph before but it sounded different, it was ‘blow the snow’, do you remember?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxDCayCEjCA

Grab a pencil and join in!!

Maths – Interpret Pictograms (2’s, 5’s and 10’s)

Well done for all of your Maths work yesterday – I am so pleased with how well you are doing these topics from home! Here is today’s:

Remember if you do not have access to a printer please just use a pen and paper and have a go as best as you can!

https://vimeo.com/504484570

Interpret pictograms (2,5,10s) – wednesday worksheet

Literacy – The Tiddler 

Well done for your wonderful story plans yesterday, they really were great! I cannot wait to see the finished stories!

Today I would like you to write the start and the middle of your story.

(If you did the whole storyboard it will be box 1,2 and 3).

You need to use your plan to start to write your version of the story. Have a good opening sentence, for example: One day, in the deep dark ocean there was a cheeky clownfish called Sid…

Adding those WOW words will really make your readers want to read on!

Use the notes of your plan as a guide but remember you have to extend those sentences and make them more exciting. Try to ‘use’ ,’and’, ‘or’, but and ‘because’ to extend your writing and make it interesting.

If you need some more ideas, re-read the story or have another listen to the video.

Science – Materials (Why do we change materials?)

This is the last science lesson of the materials topic! You have all worked so hard.

In this lesson, you will be learning about why you need to change materials. You will learn how raw materials can be changed to make synthetic materials and you will think about how the properties of these materials are different before and after the change. You will need a piece of paper and a pencil to join in! Happy learning 🙂 .

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/why-do-we-change-materials-cgu62c

Enjoy your day!!

Best wishes and big smiles 🙂

Miss Shadbolt.

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 count money in pence (recap) 

Video introduction: https://vimeo.com/497343674 

Worksheet – https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Y2-Autumn-Block-3-WO1-Count-money-pence-2019.pdf

Answers- https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Y2-Autumn-Block-3-WO1-Count-money-pence-2019.pdf

Tuesday –Learning objective: To count money in pounds (recap) 

Video introduction – https://vimeo.com/497344241

Worksheet – https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Y2-Autumn-Block-3-WO2-Count-money-pounds-2019.pdf

Answers – https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Y2-Autumn-Block-3-ANS2-Count-money-pounds-2019.pdf

Wednesday- Learning objective: To find totals in pounds and pence 

Video introduction-https://vimeo.com/497345587

Worksheet –https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Y3-Spring-Block-2-WO1-Pounds-and-pence-2019.pdf

Answers-https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Y3-Spring-Block-2-ANS1-Pounds-and-pence-2019.pdf

Thursday – Learning objective: To convert pounds and pence 

Video introduction –https://vimeo.com/497942634

Worksheet-https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Y3-Spring-Block-2-WO2-Convert-pounds-and-pence-2019.pdf

Answers-https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Y3-Spring-Block-2-ANS2-Convert-pounds-and-pence-2019.pdf

Friday – Y3-Arithmetic-Half-Test-4a[1]– when this is finished, the children can mark it with an adult and correct any mistakes that they made.

Good morning everyone!

How are you all? Did you have a nice weekend? Did you get up to anything nice? 🙂

We have made it to the last week of term, I know it has been tricky and far from normal but I am so proud of each and everyone of you and am so impressed with how well you have been working! Lets keep up the hard work for the last week and then all enjoy a well deserved week off! 🙂

Phonics – The sound today is /ur/ ‘nurse with a purse’. Grab a pen and pencil and join in, you are all doing so well with these new sounds!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VqTTnhE2LQ

Literacy – We start the last book of the topic today, it is The Tiddler! This is a lovely story about a little fish who is very late for school!

Listen to the story below or if you have the book at home, give it a read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBRT5vsfE3U

The task today is to think of some new excuses to why Tiddler could be late for school, this is a really important job that will help you out later on in the week! Write all of your ideas down and make sure to include some adjectives to help with the description.

Maths – Pictograms

Today we are looking at pictograms again, this time we are looking at interpreting the data and answering the questions.

Please watch the video below and then complete the worksheet. If you don’t have access to a printer please just use a pen and paper.

https://vimeo.com/501674074

Interpret pictogram worksheet-min

Geography – How is the ocean different at the North Pole and the Equator? 
In this lesson, you are going to be comparing the oceans surrounding the North Pole and the Equator. Firstly, you will be focusing on what the equator is. You will then be learning about some animals which are able to survive in the cold waters of the Arctic, where many other living things cannot. Grab a pencil and piece of paper and enjoy!

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-is-the-ocean-different-at-the-north-pole-and-the-equator-c5jp2r

Have a lovely day!

Happy learning, Miss Shadbolt.

This week is Children’s mental health week, the theme this year is ‘EXPRESS YOURSELF’. On Friday the 5th February in school, we will be having a ‘Dress to Express yourself day’ and doing some activities that focus on the importance of ‘being yourself’.

At home, it would be nice if the children could join in with ‘Dress to Express’ day on Friday – I have organised another Class 3  Zoom call (invite link below)  if any children at home would like to join in wearing the outfits they have chosen. 

If you could also email me any photos of the children in their expressive outfits or ‘being themselves’ at home so that I can share them with the children in school that would be great.

Here are some ‘Express yourself’ activities that the children could do at home – Express Yourself Activities

Here is the Zoom invite for Friday. 

J Taylor is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Dress to Express – Class 3
Time: Feb 5, 2021 01:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98169576617?pwd=eUZxY1JQVUNvdjFpQnhRcE1RTU5LZz09

Meeting ID: 981 6957 6617
Passcode: Class31

Our last Zoom call went really well and it was lovely for us at school to see your smiley faces. Microphones will automatically be ‘muted’ on entry to the Zoom call, to ensure all children get a fair chance to contribute to the video call, please keep them turned off until asked to turn them back on. Here are the Zoom Etiquette rules to follow while we are online.

I am looking forward to seeing you all in the outfits that you have chosen that represent YOU 🙂 (please don’t worry if you don’t want to dress up or talk on the Zoom call).

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.

Monday- Learning objective: To divide 100 into 2, 4, 5 and 10 equal parts 

Activity video (no worksheet today) – https://vimeo.com/489848691

Tuesday –Learning objective: To divide with remainders 

Activity video (no worksheet today)- https://vimeo.com/492449125You may need counters/cubes/objects to divide with later on in the video. 

Wednesday- Learning objective: To divide 2 digits by 1 digit 

Video introduction-https://vimeo.com/494126561 

Worksheet –https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Y3-Spring-Block-1-WO7-Divide-2-digits-by-1-digit-3-2019.pdf

Answers-https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Y3-Spring-Block-1-ANS7-Divide-2-digits-by-1-digit-3-2019.pdf

Thursday – Learning objective: To scale numbers (amounts)

Video introduction – https://vimeo.com/494127943

Worksheet- https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Y3-Spring-Block-1-WO8-Scaling-2019.pdf

Answers- https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Y3-Spring-Block-1-ANS8-Scaling-2019.pdf

Friday – Y3-Arithmetic-Half-Test-3b[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 understand why Producers are so important, this week’s objective will be to ‘construct a food chain’.  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-chain-6mvp8t?step=3&activity=worksheet

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

PSHE: This week is Children’s mental health week, the theme this year is ‘EXPRESS YOURSELF’. On Friday the 5th February in school, we will be having a ‘Dress to Express yourself day’ and doing some activities that focus on the importance of ‘being yourself’. 

At home, it would be nice if the children could join in with ‘Dress to Express’ day and hopefully we can organise a class Zoom call to see all of the outfits. If you could please email me any photos of the children in their expressive outfits or ‘being themselves’ at home so that I can share them with the children in school that would be great.

Here are some ‘Express yourself’ activities that you could do at home – Express Yourself Activities

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 a Volcano erupts?’ ‘https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-happens-when-a-volcano-erupts-cmtp8r

It would be great to introduce a discussion after this lesson about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii in 79 AD. This event in History links to our topic of the Romans as its location is in an ancient Roman city, destroyed and buried under a layer of volcanic ash. Here is some information about Mount Vesuvius’ famous eruption that you could use as a discussion starter – Mount Vesuvius

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

Thank you, Miss Taylor