Good morning!
I hope that you are keeping safe and well, and are still feeling able to complete some school work. It's really important for you to complete the tasks that I am setting (as long as you are not ill, of course!) so that you can stay up to date with everything that we are learning in school. Please send scanned copies or photos of your completed work into the school office via email at the end of each day, so that I can see how you are getting on.
Here are today's Home Learning activities. You will find the resources referred to in the Year 3 Home Learning Folder.
Literacy
In Literacy we are starting work on another book by Simon Bartram about the adventures of Bob, the Man on the Moon. This week's story is 'Bob and the Moontree Mystery' - if you don't have the book at home, don't worry, as I have put a pdf copy of my teaching slides in the 3V Home Learning folder, and these contain all the bits you need.
For our Big Writing this week, we will be writing a diary from Bob's point of view. This means we will be writing in the 'first person' - as if we were actually Bob. Please discuss what this means with children, and work through the teaching slides to practise changing sentences from the third person ('he did this') to the first person ('I did this').
We will then be exploring what a diary is, and what features it contains: a daily record of events, thoughts and feelings, a date etc.
Working through the slides, you will see that we will then be reviewing using different time openers to sequence events in a story, and making sure we put the events of the Moontree Mystery in the right order. Children in school will then be using the picture prompts to write sentences (as if they were Bob) about each part of the story, so please complete this activity at home and send the written work in to me.
Maths
On Mondays we do Big Maths! Please ask your child to complete the timed 'Beat That!' test in 60 seconds and then mark their scores. Please send me a copy of their completed sheet.
After the 'Beat That!' test, your child will need to complete the CLIC sheet independently. just as they do in school. Again, please send me a copy of their completed sheet.
When the children have finished their Big Maths, they complete the weekly Maths Challenge, and a copy of this week's challenge is in the folder for your child to attempt.
Science
On Monday afternoons we have a science lesson. We are continuing to look at our topic of plants, and this week's lesson focuses on the different adaptations that plants make to enable them to survive in their particular environment. We will be looking particularly at desert plants and rainforest plants. There are some teaching slides in pdf format, and your child should also watch the following videos to research information for themselves.
BBC Bitesize - Cacti Adaptations
Some further information about different plant adaptations can be found on this website. Children should make notes to help them remember the key facts about the different plants. They should then complete the factsheet about both rainforest and desert plants to demonstrate what they have learnt.
There is a lot of information for children to process and take in: this is a double lesson in school and should take up to one and a half hours to complete.
Reading
Your child will need to spend at least 15 minutes reading a book of their choice today. Please hear them read and ask questions about the characters and events in the story (or the facts they have found out for a non-fiction book) in order to check their understanding.
Many thanks
Mrs Vaqueiro
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