YEAR 3 FEB 2021 HOME LEARNING WEEK 7
Lesson outline: Watch the video of your teacher introducing a new book and reading the blurb and giving a lesson introduction – pause the video at the correct points when asked.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UArIjpvXaMM
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2FZa6fGW_g&t=33s
Have a think about a time you have swapped things with other people, can you remember a time someone swapped with you and then changed their mind? Did it cause problems?
Write 1 or 2 short recount sentences about a time you swapped something and the problem it might have caused. Try to use first person and past tense.
Think about the illustrations – they’re in an unusual style, what do you like about them? What do they add to the book?
Think about the pros and cons of swapping things and write some down.
Task: Your task is to imagine you have lost something precious to you. You are going to make a lost poster and write a short description of the item, using adjectives, commas and clauses.
Spelling
RWI spelling special focus "the short i spelt y".
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IFVCpmtrHw
Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2FZa6fGW_g&t=33s
Have a look at the list of prefix words (attached resource) and read through them. See how we can turn each word into its opposite by using a prefix. We are going to have a think about what we think might happen in the end of the story. Jot down 2 sentences with your predictions, try to use the language of possibility (perhaps, maybe, possibly, might, could)
Today we’re going to listen to the rest of the story and you are going to make up your own short swapping story - this could be based on real life or made up.
Spelling
RWI spelling unit 9. Spelling rule: adding the suffix -ion.
Speed spell words: correction, attraction, collection, education, celebration and action.
Lesson outline: Watch the video of your teacher – pause the video at the correct points when asked.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMquEantt1o
Today we are going to look at different tenses. The spellings of verbs change depending on whether they are written in the past or the present tense for example, walking / walked.
You are going to look at The Diary of a Wimpy Kid pages attached and take notes about the diary layout and features.
Task: Your task today is to write a few sentences explaining why certain tenses are used in diary writing.
Take notes about a diary layout and features and diary characters. Underline examples of past tense and first person.
Extension: Do you know any other diaries? Can you compare them? How are they similar/how are they different?
Spelling
RWI spelling unit 9. Spelling rule: adding the suffix -ion.
Science
Lesson objective: I can learn about different types of rocks.
Follow the PowerPoint to find out about all the different types of rocks.
Write a definition of what igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks are (natural) and a definition for what brick, concrete and mock rock is (man made).
Complete the cut and stick activity sheet for sorting rocks, or if you don't have a printer, draw your own table and write in the different rock names to sort them. There are 3 different sheets, easier, medium or hard. Choose which you are most comfortable completing.
- Activity Sheet Natural or Man-Made Rocks.pdf
- Natural or Man-Made Rocks Picture Sheet.pdf
- Lesson Presentation Types of Rocks.ppt
Lesson outline: Watch the video of your teacher – pause the video at the correct points when asked.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m36_jkVpKcU
Today we are looking at using adverbs and adverbials. Can you remember what these are?
Adverbs - modify verbs/tell us more about the action. If the verb is crawled, then the adverb ‘slowly’ helps us see HOW.
Y3 Your task today is to add adverbs to sentences taken from ‘The day I swapped my dad for a goldfish”. You can use the sheet to support you.
Y4: I’d like you to complete 5 of the sentences from resource A adding an adverb to the sentences, and 5 from resource B, adding an adverbial to the sentences.
Extension: Underline your adverbs in a coloured pencil.
Spelling
RWI spelling unit 10. Spelling rule: adding the suffix -ian.
Speed spell words: magician, electrician, musician, optician, mathematician, politician.
Art
Research some different kinds of Anglo-Saxon jewellery and sketch a couple using pencil. Remember we use light strokes when we sketch so mistakes are easily corrected.
Lesson outline: Watch the video of your teacher – pause the video at the correct points when asked.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odx-V6xIrLA
Today we are going to continue looking at adverbs.Year 4 you’re going to continue looking at adverbials too. Look at the sentences in the video and see if you can pick out the adverbs.
Task:
Your task today is to look at the sentence examples and re write each sentence 3 times, each time changing the adverb.
Y3: Just use the 2 adverb sheets
Y4: use the first adverb sheet at the adverbials sheet.
Extension: Can you make up any of your own?
Spelling
RWI spelling unit 10. Spelling rule: adding the suffix -ian.
Speed spell words: magician, electrician, musician, optician, mathematician, politician.
RE
Lesson 1 Christianity with Oak Hall Academy
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/christianity-90fd
Extra Resources
Please try and complete 1 – 2 reading comprehensions a week at your chosen level (1, 2 or 3 stars indicated at the bottom left of the pages)
Please complete the grammar sheet every week if you can.
Have a go at the extra maths problems for some extra maths practise and keep practising your times tables.
For reading books online please use: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ using your child’s accelerated reader log in.
To try some languages while you are at home try: https://www.duolingo.com/
Please learn your spellings every week and get your parent or carer to give you a test on a Friday!
Extra PE lessons: https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/athletic-activity-run-jump-and-throw-1-4b0c
Big Sing
We will be taking part in the Big Sing Big Sign for sign language week, to promote awareness for issues effecting sign language users in the UK. If you would like your child to take part and have any videos of your child, please send these to school. The songs to learn can be found here https://bit.ly/2MlvJxJ
- Chinese New Year Reading Comp
- Alice in Wonderland Reading Comp
- SPAG problem solving
- Improving sentences