Hi,
Hopefully, you have all been able to access the week’s home learning and like the range of tasks provided. I believe that the website Twinkl has changed their access rights. I’ll be looking for other resources that are still free to download.
Remember, if you have any comments on the work, want to send anything to me or just share work with your classmates then feel free to email me at
c.chiverton@shawburystmarys.co.uk
PE
I hope you are enjoying, and keeping up with your daily Joe Wicks.
Reading
An excellent resource for reading has been provided by Cornerstones. I’ve used them a lot in the past and they provide good reading materials. Perhaps you could review something that you have read recently.
Spellings
I hope you managed to practise your spellings from last week. See if you can work through the spellings below. At the end of the week see if someone in the family can test you on them.
This week we will be looking at words ending in the prefix -anti.
- anticlockwise
- antiseptic
- antisocial
- antifreeze
- antibody
- antislip
- anticlimax
- antimatter
- antismoking
- antislavery
Maths
I hope you have been enjoying the White Rose Maths. Don’t forget, if you get stuck on any of it, BBC Bitesize is a good place to find help.
Video links
Lesson 1 – Right angles in shapes
Lesson 2 – Compare angles
Lesson 3 – Horizontal and vertical
Lesson 4 – Parallel and perpendicular
Year 3 Tables Tests
The times tables sheets are for 3 weeks. Just complete the first one.
The answers for the White Rose maths are too large to upload so are shown as screen grabs at the bottom of this page.
Literacy
BBC Bitesize continues to have some useful activities that are usually linked to punctuation and grammar. However, some of you might like the chance to do some story writing. There are so many ways you could take your writing that I wouldn’t like to restrict you by saying you have to do it in a particular way. There are a few ideas to start you off from talk4writing but then it’s up to your fantastic imagination and creativity.
Topic
Unfortunately, a lot of resources on the Twinkl website now have to be paid for. As a result of this, I have tweaked the home learning for the Mayans.
This week I’d like you to learn about the Maya numerals, their maths system and the Dresden Codex; use sticks, stones and shells to represent Maya numbers.
Before the session, watch the video clip on the Maya Base-20 Number System. If possible collect shells, small stones and sticks of uniform length or lolly sticks, or use the symbols from the presentation on Maya numbers (session resource). If you can, print and cut out the number cards 0-20. Spread them out on the tables to indicate that they are Maya numbers. Look at the cards and think about them.
Try and put them in order. This is the Maya way of counting. Try and crack the number code. What do the different symbols mean?
The oval shape (or shell) is a zero, the dot (or pebble) is a 1 and the line (or stick) is a 5. Now you know this, can you quickly put the cards in order in a Maya number line on your table? Keep the cards on the table whilst you access the internet, and search for ‘Living Maya Time’ to find the Smithsonian weblink. Play the games on the maths games part of this website. Explore the practice rounds before moving onto ‘Start Game’. Watch the short video clip about the discovery of the Dresden codex and look at presentation on The Dresden codex. I would like you to write your birthdays in a Maya way! This section shows numbers placed around serpents. Let’s have a go at drawing a serpent with the right numerical symbols to represent your birthday.
The Dresden codex
Can you see the serpents on this section of the Dresden codex? It is thought that they represent birth dates.
Can you see that the number just to the right of the tail of the right-hand serpent consisting of three bars and four dots? That’s a 19 (3×5+4×1=19) – the largest Maya “digit”. There are a lot more numbers than we would record for a birth date because the Maya calculated dates differently.
Can you draw your birth date?
Draw a serpent in the Maya style. Serpents were revered as magical creatures so make your serpent elaborate and intricate.
Here are some examples:
When you draw the serpent, stretch it out a little to make room for your numbers. Don’t worry about calculating your birth date using the Maya calendar. First write your birth date using normal numbers.
For example:
21st September 2011 would be 21.9.11
Weblinks
The Maya number system and how to teach it using sticks, stones and shells – YouTube clip
Games to help children understand the Maya number system from maya.nmai.si.edu
The discovery of the Dresden codex – YouTube clip
Science
- Observe a range of different flowers closely using magnifiers.
- Record observations using pencil and watercolour.
Activities
- Find out some interesting facts about flowers and the people who have hunted, studied and painted them.
- Learn about the work of the artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
- Closely observe a variety of flowers with magnifiers and record this in the form of a watercolour painting.
- Press flowers to preserve them.
- Create a model flower and begin to know and label the male and female parts within it.
Flowers are amazing, delicate, beautiful, mysterious and powerful! We will be learning not just about flowers but also about the mysterious power that they hold. First let’s recap on some of the clue facts about flowers and we’ll also find out what you already know about them. Make a list or mind map of what you already know about flowers, e.g. make pollen, attract bees, have petals. In our new topic we will discover all about flowers, and how they are crucial in making new plants – this is called reproduction.
We will stage our own stunning art exhibition on the theme of Flowers, Fruits and Seeds. We will make paintings, drawings and sculptures as we learn. Select a specimen to paint and place it on a piece of white paper so the shape and colours are clearly visible. Botanical illustrators and artists spend a lot of time looking before they draw and paint. Look particularly at the structure of your flower – the arrangement of petals and the inner structures. Mix colours to match the shades you see and build up layers of colour from light to dark.
Investigation – observation/analysing secondary sources
Study a variety of different flowers, making botanical paintings. Use hand lenses for close observation. Discover that flowers usually have male and female parts.
Vocabulary
Botany, botanist, botanical, petals, reproduction, male, female, stigma, style, stamens
Art
If you get a chance, look at the art of Georgia O’Keeffe. Use this to help you with your Science.
Computing
If you can, take a look at Scratch
Explore some of the tasks to familiarise yourself with how to use the programming software.
Remember, if you want to send any of your work through to Miss Taylor or me, we would really like to see it.
Keep smiling,
Mr Chiverton:)
Maths answers
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4