Please choose a reading comprehension to try below. Please also find time to practise your spelling list for this week.
Bessie Coleman Stage 3 Comp – Comprehension Pack
The Space Race Stage 2 Comp – Comprehension Pack
South America News
English 1.3.21
This week we will continue our work on instructions.
Here is a link to the plan for the week but I will also upload the links and resources to the website each day. English 1.3.21
Today I would like you to have a go at following some instructions to do some baking. Here is a recipe for flapjacks but you may choose to make something different. Flapjack Recipe
Please think carefully about each step you do and remember that you will have to teach others how to make it with your instructions. You may want to ask an adult to take some photos of the steps if you want to do your instructions on the computer that’s fine, or you could print some pictures to go on your work. You can always draw diagrams too so don’t worry if you don’t have a printer.
Have fun making something tasty I can’t wait to see what you make. Tomorrow we will work on the instructions.
Monday Maths 1.3.21
Maths
It’s time to look at fractions again! We have already looked at fractions before lockdown so hopefully for the children at home we will not be starting from scratch again. Today’s lesson is a recap on finding a fraction of a number or a set of objects through dividing. This is why knowing you times tables helps massively when it comes to fractions. You are finding 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3 of a number.
Please follow and look at the PP below as I have tried my best to explain fractions and how to find a fraction of a number.
Please look at the examples to the side of the page to help you and how to set out your answers. If you are struggling on finding a half or a quarter of a number, then please use the method we practised last week (look back at last weeks posts to help you!)
If struggling- If your child is struggling with today’s work then try this activity instead. It’s a little more broken down for them. Support sheet lesson 1- Fractions of objects
English Friday 26.2.21
Now we need to begin to write our actual steps. So for this bit we need to order our steps carefully. For this we can use numbered steps or time connectives, you may even want to use both. Time connectives are words like First, Then, Next, After that, Now, Finally,
They should be at the start of your step followed by a comma.
You then need an imperative or bossy verb. The is the thing you want your person to do
cut, press, put, get, dry, rub, fold, scrub
These are all examples of bossy verbs.
You will also need to include some adjectives and adverbs to help describe what your person needs and how you want them to do it.
Adjectives – warm, dry, fluffy,
Adverbs – carefully, thoroughly, gently
So Now I’d like you to have a go at writing your instructions. Continuing from yesterday.
Here’s an example of step one to get you started.
- First, you need to wet your hands with warm water and get a squirt of soap.
Read through all of your work to check it is clear and makes sense.
Advanced Warning for next week!
Next week for our English work we would like you to follow some more instructions and write your own. We would really like you to do this with some baking.
Our cookery unit in school this term was baking flapjacks, so I will provide a recipe for that if you are able to get the ingredients for next week. If you are unable to get the ingredients or wish to bake something else, that is fine, you will just have to adapt the instructions next week to whatever you have made. It doesn’t have to be baking you may be able to make a sandwich for your lunch or pizzas for tea. You will just need to do something that you can write instructions for to teach somebody else.
Mrs Hilditch and Mrs Davies x
Here is the link for a simple recipe but feel free to use your own, I know some of you are super bakers!!!
Friday 26.2.21 Home Learning
It’s Friday, which mean one thing. Time to test the old brain cells with our maths skills.
Maths
Time to warm up those brains. Practise your times table by playing Hit the Button. Can the children make sure that if they are on the x3, x4,x8 , x6, x7, x9 or x11 that they also practise the division side too.
They could always access their Times Table Rock Star Accounts to practise too.
Premiership If you emailed me your child’s score I will email you telling you whether your child has moved on to the next times table or needs to look at the same times table as last week. They are ordered below.
Mental Arithmetic
We always follow Premiership with a mental arithmetic test. Usually, I play them an audio clip of a lady reading out the questions. They are timed so all you need is hit play!
If you can’t get the audio above to play, then I’ll attach the questions and the answers below. With the first 10 questions, the children get 5 seconds to answer after the question is repeated. On the last five questions, the children get 10. We have tried to encourage the children to listen to the question the first time and jot down anything they think will help and once the question is repeated, then they can answer. If they have jotted notes down to help, then they can always return to the question if they have finished another question quite easily.
y3-spring-07-transcript FOR ADULTS
y3-spring-07-answerFOR CHILDREN
Afterwards, we mark it and go through some of the questions and talk about how we could answer them quickly.
English- Please see Mrs Hilditch’s post .
Spellings
There were no spellings set over Half Term but if you want, please go over some of the spellings from the Year 3/4 word list I gave on the Friday (12.2.21) to check how your child is doing with learning these. In particular, look at the first and second column.
New spellings- Below are a new set of spellings to learn over the next week.
Group 1/ Group 2 – Group 1 and 2 Week 1
Group 3 – Group 3 Week 1
Reading
Usually on a Friday we don’t do a whole Guided Reading session but rather get the children to have 20-30 minutes of quiet, independent reading. It allows the children a little down time and is considered a mindful activity. Perhaps, even play some some calming music in the background to help them relax during this strange time. If you want, send us in a photo of the children reading and we can print it off and stick them to our reading journal wall!
RE
We are continuing with out topic of Judaism but this time we are specifically focusing of a Jewish holiday known as Passover.
LO: To understand the importance and the story of Passover.
Have you ever been or shared in a special celebration? How did you know it was a special celebration? Did you have to wear particular clothes or eat a special meal? Were there lots of people there? Did you watch or do something a little unusual that you wouldn’t normally do? Have a talk with someone at home. What made it special?
Just like Hanukkah, Passover is a special Jewish festival celebrated in Spring. As well as sharing food together a symbolic meal is shared which helps the Jewish community remember the story associated with the festival and how Moses was a significant person in this story.
Please work your way through the the PP below. There are a couple of weblinks to follow to help the children fully understand the story behind Passover and what Jewish people do to celebrate this festival.
Activity
I have attached a very simple story version of Moses, the problem being is that the story is muddled up. Please sort the story boards and put them into the correct order. The story is differentiated so please select a level appropriate to your child. The answers are also on the pages.
World Book Day – Virtual Book Fair
Hello Everyone,
Next week we will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 4th March, we will post some activities that you can take part in at home, but the first thing we are really excited to present to you is our Virtual Book Fair.
We are so happy to have worked with Louise Chadwick, formerly of Button and Bear Bookshop. She now runs Everybody Reads CIC, a community interest company who help to provide books to those who need them most in the community.
Louise has worked hard to put together lists of wonderful books for each year group that you can order and have delivered to school for collection. Every book purchased will help to provide free books to school. Please be sure to scroll down to the bottom of each page and select ‘Load more’ as there are lots of lovely books on each page.
This year, and last, have been particularly challenging for the school and our FOPPS (Friends of Pontesbury Primary School) group to hold any fundraising events for the school. We would normally have had a Summer Fair, a Christmas Fair, non-uniform days and so on. We were planning to hold a sponsored readathon for World Book Day but this would not be possible with collecting sponsor money and will just be one extra thing for families to worry about. So with this in mind, we would like to take the opportunity to ask our wonderful community to donate some lovely books to our classrooms. The virtual book fair contains a section called ‘Donate a book to school’. In this section each teacher has put together a wishlist of a few books they would love for their classroom. When you click on this link you will see the titles for each year group. The books will go directly to your child’s classroom for shared class story time and for their class libraries. Louise has also supplied these books at a discounted rate and we will place a bookplate into each book to acknowledge and thank you for your donation.
Please visit the Book Fair using this link
Please also share this link with any grandparents or family members who may wish to also donate a book to school.
https://www.everybodyreads.co.uk/give-a-book
We hope you find some lovely books and we really will appreciate any donations that are made.
Thank you
English 25.2.21
Today and tomorrow we are going to write a detailed set of instructions for washing our hands. So today we are going to do the title, introduction and a list of equipment.
So the title will be
‘How to …’
Now for your introduction you will need to start with a rhetorical question. This is a question to the reader that is just there to make them think. Look back at the How to Wash an Elephant sheet if you need a reminder.
This could be COVID related – For example
Are you fed up of coronavirus? Do you wish this virus would go away?
You then need to explain that your instructions can help them to solve this problem and persuade them to have a go…
Then you can help fight those germs by washing your hands very carefully. Follow these simple instructions to see how you can be a germ buster and keep yourself healthy.
Now write your introduction.
When you have finished your introduction, you need to think about what equipment the person will need.
You can use a bullet point list like this…
You will need:
- a sink with warm water,
Please write your equipment list.
We will work on the steps to follow tomorrow.
Thursday Home Learning 25.2.21
Maths– LO: To solve word problems
Today, we are going to be applying what we have learnt over the past couple of days and apply it to answering some worded problems. Some problems will involve use using multiplication and division to answer and other will need addition and subtraction.
I’ve created a small PP for people to follow and go through a couple of examples for how to visualise the problem in you head to work out which operation (+ – x /) is needed to answer.
Lesson 4 worded problems using reasoning
Please all start on Challenge 1 to get you warmed up. Challenge 2 is where we would like you to focus on. Look at the key vocabulary. What operation does the vocabulary suggest you need to do?
Activity-
English– See Mrs Hilditch’s post.
Guided Reading – A fact file based on the popular children’s author David Walliams. I bet most children have at least one or two of his books! It’s differentiated so please select an appropriate level. There are no questions to this fact file but I thought it would be nice to read. Maybe an adult could ask you some questions and you have to find the answers in the text!
Science
We are starting a new Science topic for this half term. It’s an exciting one because we will be looking at moving and growing in humans and animals. We will be particularly focusing on the skeleton and the muscles.
Below, I’ve attached the knowledge organiser for this unit of work. This is an information page containing a basic overview of the information and key vocabulary the children will be exposed to over the course of the unit. Please use it to refer back to when you have completed a lesson etc.
Science knowledge organiser – Animals including humans Year3
Before we start a new topic properly, we always ask the children if they already know anything about the topic already. We write down anything the children say, right or wrong. We always come back to it at the end of the unit and add to the original in another colour. That way it’s easier to see how much we have learnt over the topic. Below is our new one. I’ve asked a few questions to help steer you to the areas we will be looking at. Have a go at filling out as much as you can. Remember, if you don’t know much that doesn’t matter because we will have a chance to learn it together.
Pre-Assessment Animals Including humans
Prior Learning: Children will have learnt about healthy eating in their science learning in Year 2.
LO:To understand how living things get food and why nutrients are important.
Ask the children to discuss why living things need food. Reveal the pictures on slide 3 and check if all the main reasons have been covered. Using the PP, explain that plants are able to make their own food. (We have talked about this in our unit of plants. The children should hopefully remember that plants make their own food called glucose in the leaves of a plant through a process called photosynthesis.) Ask them to consider what would happen to animals if they tried to obtain food in the same way as plants. Address any misconceptions. Do children understand the difference between how plants and animals obtain food?
Lesson Presentation Types of Nutrition
Food Groups: What kind of foods do humans need? Can your child label the sections from the Eatwell Guide. Reveal answers on the next slide. Using the Lesson Presentation, explain that the Eatwell Guide provides guidance on how people can make choices about what they eat. Can children name the different food groups?
Types of Nutrients: Using the PP, explain what each of the nutrients are, share examples of foods which provide a good source of each nutrient and what each provides for human beings. Explain too that within each food group, there are many foods which contain more than one type of nutrient.
Activity- Children only need to complete one of these. They are pitched at different levels so please pick one appropriate to your child.What Do Nutrients Do for Us Activity Sheet
- *=Children draw lines to match the nutrients with what they do.
- **=Children cut out and match the nutrient type and why we need it. They give another example of food for each category in the blank box.
- ***=Children cut out and match the nutrient type with the reason why we need it and the type of food we would get it from. They also provide an additional example of a food which provides each nutrient in the blank box.
Nutrients for Animals: Using the Lesson Presentation, explain that different animals require different types of nutrients in different amounts. Whether an animal is a carnivore, herbivore or an omnivore can give some clues about the types of nutrients that will feature highly in their diets but animals’ diets within each of these categories still vary significantly. Do children know that different nutrients and balances of nutrients are required by different animals?
For fun and consolidation on the learning watch this video and have a go at the quiz after. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zfmpb9q/articles/zxwvp4j
Reading Comprehension
Please try one of the Reading comprehensions below. Please also find time to practise your spelling again.
