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

This week’s Literacy tasks for home learning will be based on a short film clip of a story called ‘The Tiny Crusader’, I have attached it below.

Monday – LO: To explore the story of ‘The Tiny Crusader’

Before today’s task, you will need to watch the video of ‘The Tiny Crusader’ it is only very short so you may want to watch it twice. You will only need a piece of paper and pencil for this task. 

Task – Discuss what happens in this story with someone else in your household and record your thoughts as a mind map. Write the title ‘The Tiny Crusader’ in the middle of your paper and fill the page around it with your ideas and perhaps the answers to these questions: What is the elderly man’s job ?, Is Ulric (the man) happy? why/why not?, Do you think this story is true?, What is a ‘crusader’?, Where do you think the Knight came from? – Record any other ideas, questions or comments that this short story made you think of. 

Tuesday – LO: To write a diary entry of ‘a day in the life of Ulric’ 

Today I would like you to write a diary entry as if you were Ulric the blacksmith. The diary entry is going to be about Ulric’s day in the film when a tiny knight turns up at his workshop. Write the diary entry as if you are Ulric and you are writing about this day.

Your diary entry will need to be written in first person, using the pronouns I, me, myself as you are imagining you are the blacksmith. You will also need to write in past tense, imagine that it is the end of the day and you are writing about what happened earlier on. Here are some Diary writing helpful hints-  Helpful Hints

Here is a video of Michael Rosen (Author) talking about recount writing and the features that are included when writing about past events (you may have already watched this for the previous diary home learning task a few weeks ago so you won’t need to watch it again). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re0pCqUZu9w

Wednesday – LO: To write a character description for Ulric or the ‘Tiny crusader’. 

Today’s task is to think about the characters in more detail and write a description about one or both of them. You will need a piece of paper and a pencil or you may print and use this Character profile template if you would like to.

A character description should be about the character’s appearance (what they look like) and their personality traits (what they are like). You may want to watch the video clip again and pause it to get a good look at the character you would like to write about.

To describe either character’s appearance, you will need to choose powerful adjectives to describe what they look like – here are some adjective ideas  Character description adjectives

Writing about the character’s personality is a little more difficult as you don’t know much about them from just a short video, however you can use your imagination to write about what you think they would be like. Use adjectives and perhaps similes to describe the character. Put them together as descriptive sentences to make your writing interesting and powerful, e.g. The Knight is extremely brave, although he is petrified of spiders and runs away as quick as a flash if he hears their footsteps.

Thursday – LO: To rewrite the story of ‘The Tiny Crusader’ as a comic strip 

Today’s task is to rewrite the story as a comic strip, print and use one of these templates if you would like to – Comic strip or you can use plain paper.

A ‘comic strip’ tells a story using pictures of its main events and uses ‘snippets’ of writing that help to tell the reader what is happening in each part.

For your comic strip, you will need to decide what parts of ‘The Tiny Crusader’ you will be writing about. What needs to be at the beginning? perhaps a drawing of Ulric and a short description about him. After that, perhaps a picture of Ulric’s blacksmith tools and a sentence or two about his job, then continue drawing and describing the key events to make sure that your comic strip still tells the full story.

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

Literacy: We have now finished our mini topic that was based on the book ‘You Choose’. This week in Literacy (at home), the children will be starting with a Roman research task and will then choose 1 ‘Literacy and communication’ task to complete each day this week from their new  ROMAN ACTIVITY GRID (Please click the link to view/print grid)

The Literacy and communication tasks on the grid are based on our new topic ‘The Remarkable Romans’. Normally, the children would have started their topic at the very beginning of term so by this point would know a little bit about the Romans already. As that wasn’t possible this year, Monday’s Literacy lesson this week will be a research task to gather useful information. 

Please see this week’s Foundation/Science home learning post to see how else you can use the activity grid for home learning.

Monday – Learning objective: To research and gather information from non-fiction texts (The children may need reminding that non-fiction texts provide information, they are ‘not false’) 

Task 

• Pick 3 questions that you would like to find out about the Romans – perhaps questions like: ‘How did the Romans begin?’, ‘When/Where did the Romans begin?’  ‘Who or what did Romans believe in?’, What were Roman soldiers and battles like?. Write your chosen questions down – you can use this template if you would like to. My_Powerful_Questions[1]
• Then, read the information here –The_Romans_Fact_File[1]  or  use the internet/books to try and find out the answers to your questions. You can write down your answers or any information that you find interesting on this Research map The_Romans_Map[1].

Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday – Please choose 1 Literacy and communication task per day from the ROMAN ACTIVITY GRID.

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

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

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 will be 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.

Science : At the end of last term, Class 3 had just begun a Science topic that focussed on animal’s (inc humans) diets and nutritional needs.  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.  

The link below will take you to the next online Science lesson called ‘How do we classify the diets of animals?’ The children had just begun to learn about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores last term so they may remember this vocabulary and what they mean. This lesson includes a quiz to start, a teaching video with tasks (you can download and print the worksheets) and a quiz to finish. https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-do-we-classify-the-diets-of-animals-6rup2c 

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

PSHE: Our PSHE topic at school would be a unit called ‘Money Matters’, it explores the ‘world of work’, discusses roles and responsibilities of children and the people around them and introduces the  children to why and how money is used in the world. 

Task- This week, I would like the children to ‘interview’ an adult or older sibling in their home about their current job or dream job. Encourage the children to write a list of questions down that they would like to ask first of all and to think carefully about what they would like to know about the ‘world of work’ before the interview. Perhaps they could ask ‘why did you want to become a_______?’ or ‘what qualifications did you need to get your job?’, ‘what tools or equipment do you need?’. The children can write down the answers that they get from the interview and could perhaps compare it to what they thought the answers might be. Remind the children that paid jobs provide an earning for people, unlike chores around the home, but unfortunately, household tasks still need to be done!

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 ‘How are volcanoes made?’ (some of the children that have been coming to school may have done this lesson in school already) here is the online link to this lesson –https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-are-volcanoes-made-71h3cd There is a quick quiz at the start of the lesson to check what the children have remembered from last week, then the new learning video and activities for the children to have a go at.

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

Thank you, Miss Taylor