W.B. 18.05.20
Friday 22nd May 2020
Good morning Year 3!
Today's Over and Above Star is...
Luke
You have been made Star of the Day because your teachers are so impressed with the fantastic effort you are putting into your Home Learning tasks! We are especially proud of how hard you have been working on your maths tasks. Keep up the hard work!
We have something to share with you all…
Miss Marriott and Miss Youldon received this lovely message of kindness from the wonderful Rebecca!
Book of the Day
‘A Bad Case of Stripes’ by David Shannon. https://www.storylineonline.net/books/a-bad-case-of-stripes/
Let’s Doodle Together!
Draw a book and pencil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Yprq6F8l8
Warm up Your Bodies and Brains
Have a go at this fun cardio workout! See if you can convince any of your family to join in with you.
Remember to warm down after doing any intense exercise.
Reading
Read The Boy Without a Name by Idries Shah. You may notice that the story is written in two languages. The other language is Spanish but you can just focus on the English version of the story.
When you have read the story, choose one of these tasks to complete:
Task 1 - Choose the eight most important events in the story and draw a storyboard to summarise what happened in the story. You might want to use this template to help you.
Task 2 – Read pages 28 and 29 again. What do you imagine the dreams looked like? What might they have been about? Show me what you think the dreams were like. You could do this by drawing a picture or writing a description of the dream.
Maths
Get your brains into gear for maths with the Number of the Day challenge. Choose your level of challenge by picking the range for the number.
Scrub up on your times tables knowledge by playing Granny Prix.
Main tasks:
Miss Marriott, Miss Fernandez and Miss Aldridge’s Maths groups:
Follow the link for today’s task.
Miss Youldon’s Maths group:
Watch this video and then click here to complete your job.
Writing
Choose one (or a few) of these Pobble Spread Kindness activities to complete.
SPaG
Complete an activity on SPAG.com.
If you have completed all of the SPAG.com tasks, follow the link. Complete a Spelling Tiles activity and then check how much you can remember by clicking Practice / Test.
Get active with today’s sporty spellings:
Topic
Science:
Follow the link and complete the task.
PSHE:
Click on the link for the Mental Health Awareness Week task for today.
Miss Youldon, Miss Marriott and Miss Mullett
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Thursday 21st May 2020
Good morning Year 3!
Today's Over and Above Star is...
Angela
You are our star today because you have been putting an incredible amount of effort into your home learning! We are very impressed by all the maths work you have been completing- well done!
Warm up Your Bodies and Brains
Stretch and refresh your bodies so that you are ready for the day with this relaxing stretch routine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELgfiXSw-s
Book of the Day
Our book today is another kindness book for Mental Health Awareness Week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAo4-2UzgPo
Let’s Doodle Together!
Draw a guinea pig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ-NqE9Uhxc
Reading
Play this game.
Choose your favourite book and read it to someone in your house.
Create some questions for the person to answer.
Maths
Practise your times tables and one other maths skill on this game.
Main tasks:
Miss Marriott, Miss Fernandez and Miss Aldridge’s Maths groups:
Click on the link and complete today’s task.
Miss Youldon’s Maths group:
Listen to this story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVaxiJB6Fls .
Watch this clip https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z6bq6sg .
What do you now know about a half?
Test your knowledge:
http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/interactive/halfornotimm/halfornotimm.htm
Click here for your job.
Writing
Click here to go to your Pobble lesson.
SPaG
Complete an activity on SPAG.com
Choose your Sporty Spelling challenge:
Topic
French
The next topic is food! Go through the Fruit and Veg ppt to listen to the words and look at how they are written down. Are there any words/parts of words that don't look like you expected them to?
Once you think you know them, practice by playing the Fruit and Veg sound splat game, either by yourself or with someone at home.
Music
Watch the videos below. Have a go at writing your very own lockdown song. Can you perform it to the people in your house?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5O37KJRXBk
Miss Youldon, Miss Marriott and Miss Mullett
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Wednesday 20th May 2020
Morning everyone – we miss you all!
Today's Over and Above Star is...
Levi
Levi, we are so proud of the way that you have been working on your Home Learning tasks! We are blown away by your resilience when tackling challenging tasks. Keep up the hard work - you are a superstar!
Book of the Day
‘Please Please the Bees’ by Gerald Kelley. https://www.storylineonline.net/books/please-please-bees/
Let’s Doodle Together!
Draw a bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDrfxrnjNts
Warm up Your Bodies and Brains
Try and keep up with the Wonder Park characters in this GoNoodle Move N’ Groove.
Watch this video to learn some new animal workout moves. Then, mix-and-match the moves to make your own HIIT workout!
Reading
Read pages 1 – 13 of Axle the Freeway Cat by Thacher Hurd aloud to a grown up.
When you have read pages 1 – 13 aloud to a grown up, answer the questions in your Home Learning book.
If you are in Mrs Matley’s SFA group, you do not need to write down your answers – talk about your answers with a grown up.
1. Where did Axle the Freeway Cat live?
2. Look on page 5. Where did Axle put his shoes?
3. What was the first thing that Axle did every morning after he woke up?
4. What did Axle do after breakfast?
5. Read the extract from the story.
Over, under and around they whizzed.
What do you think the word whizzed means in this sentence?
6. Find and copy the two adjectives used by the author to describe the harmonica that Axle found.
7. Turn to page 13. How do you think Axle felt at this point in the story and why?
Maths
Warm up your brains ready for maths by having a go at Cube Dash.
Scrub up on your times tables knowledge by completing the Daily 10 (Level 3, Multiplication, x4).
Main tasks:
Miss Marriott, Miss Fernandez and Miss Aldridge’s Maths groups:
Click on the link for today’s task.
Miss Youldon’s Maths group:
Click this link, watch the video about equal parts until 4.20.
Pause the video and then click here for today's task.
Writing
Click this link to continue with your 'Unexpected Adventure' writing.
SPaG
Complete an activity on SPAG.com.
If you have completed all of the SPAG.com tasks, follow the link. Complete a Spelling Tiles activity and then check how much you can remember by clicking Practice / Test.
Get active with today’s sporty spellings:
Topic
D&T:
Your D&T tasks today are to make and then evaluate your mini-greenhouse!
Click on the link to find out more.
PSHE:
Today’s Mental Health Awareness task is to write a message of kindness to someone (or perhaps more than one person!) to brighten their day.
Follow the link to find out more about your task. Complete the activities for children aged 7 – 11 and 7 – 19.
Have a magnificent Wednesday!
Miss Youldon, Miss Marriott and Miss Mullett
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Tuesday 19th May 2020
Good morning Year 3!
Today's Over and Above Star is...
Tyler B
You are our star today because you have been putting an incredible amount of effort into your home learning! We are extremely proud of you Tyler- well done!
Book of the Day
Our book of the day is ‘Kindness Grows’ by Britta Teckentrup. We have chosen this book as it is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme is ‘kindness’.
Let’s Doodle Together!
Draw an emoji: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKwwkkU7Rak
Warm up Your Bodies and Brains
Click on the link below to join in with the fun but tricky workout!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Bh0ukDHwY
Reading
- Click on the link.
- Watch the clip.
- Join in with the song.
- Complete activity 1 only and then return to this page.
- Click here to complete your second task.
Maths
Play Archery Arithmetic. Practise your times tables and one other maths skill.
Main tasks:
Miss Marriott, Miss Fernandez and Miss Aldridge’s Maths groups:
Click on the link and complete today’s task.
Miss Youldon’s Maths group:
Click here for your first job.
Click here for your second job.
Writing
Click here to go to your Pobble lesson.
SPaG
Complete an activity on SPAG.com
Choose your Sporty Spelling challenge:
Topic - Computing
- Click to here learn about the different methods of online communication.
- Then log on to Purple Mash, go to '2Dos' and click on the 'Using Email safely' task.
- Send us an email to tell us what you have been up to.
Can you change the font?
Can you change the colour of the font?
Can you change the size of the font?
Add some emojis!
Miss Youldon, Miss Marriott and Miss Mullett
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Monday 18th May 2020
Hello Year 3 – we hope you enjoyed your weekend!
Today's Over and Above Star is...
Samira
Samira, we are so proud of you for the way that you have been applying yourself to your Home Learning tasks! Well done for challenging yourself every day and working hard on new topics. You have impressed your teachers with your positive attitude!
Book of the Day
‘A Tale of Two Beasts’ by Fiona Robertson. https://www.storylineonline.net/books/tale-of-two-beasts/
Let’s Doodle Together!
Draw a squirrel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBE5EIJxxTg
Warm up Your Bodies and Brains
Have a go at following this Super Mario workout. When you have finished learning the moves, how about mix-and-matching your favourite moves to make your own workout?
Reading
Follow the link. Choose a story to listen to on Oxford Owl. Listen carefully!
When you have finished, retell the story to a grown-up.
Use these questions to help you:
What kind of book was it? Fiction or non-fiction?
Who were the main characters?
Where and when was the book set?
What were the most important events in the story?
What was your favourite moment in the story?
Maths
Warm up your brains ready for maths by having a go at the Number Bonds to 100 quiz. How many questions can you answer in 3 minutes?
Scrub up on your times tables knowledge by playing Snake Attack.
Main tasks:
Miss Marriott, Miss Fernandez and Miss Aldridge’s Maths groups:
Follow the link to complete today's maths task.
Miss Youldon’s Maths group:
Click on the link for today’s maths task.
Writing
Follow the link to complete today’s writing task.
SPaG
Complete an activity on SPAG.com
If you have completed all of the SPAG.com tasks, play Mark wants chicken to become a direct speech superstar. You will need your Purple Mash login for this.
Topic
D&T:
Your D&T task this week is to design and make your own mini-greenhouse using recycled items that you have at home.
Today, you will design your mini-greenhouse and on Wednesday you will be making it!
Click here to complete today’s task.
Take a look at this link if you would like some extra support.
PSHE:
This week is Mental Health Awareness week! The theme for this year is kindness - something that Moston Lane children are known for having in bucket loads.
We will be setting you a few different tasks this week to remind you of the importance of kindness and to help you to think of ways you can show kindness.