Hello Year 3,We have got such an exciting week lined up. To celebrate World Book Day, there are lots of different activities for you to dip into this week. There are story reading sessions on Monday, Tuesday and Friday afternoon on zoom, a performance of Arabian Nights on Wednesday and the Reading Challenge. Please try to get involved – reading is not only a key to all your other learning, but also inspiring, fun, relaxing and informative. There are books out there for all ages, tastes and interests.I am beyond excited about our National Gallery Tour. Please read the instructions under

Thursday’s activities so you know what will be expected of you. Your parents will be sent the zoom link beforehand.

I can’t wait to see you all again in the classroom. Not long to go! Mrs Chaplin

Monday 1 st March Phonics/ SpellingsStep 1: Use the word bank to help you complete the sentences with a word that has the long ‘u’ sound.view cube stew huge tooth student glue costume uniform knew bruise euros rescue tube

1. When Johnny Trott was a bell boy, he wore a smart ………………..2. A …………… is a 3D shape with six sides.3. I …………………….. the man who came to the door. It was the postman.4. The clumsy child tripped over and now has a large blue ……………………….5. When you go on holiday to Spain, you have to pay for shopping using

………………….6. I went to the dentist because I had a sore ……………………………….7. If you climb to the summit of the hill, you will get a superb …………………….

of the countryside below.8. In the pantomime, the dame wore an outrageous ………………………………

Step 2: Spend ten minutes practising your spellings.

ICT – Keep working your way through the BBC Bitesize Dance Mat challenges to improve your touch-typing skills. This is the perfect time for developing a fast-typing pace to support all your fantastic work in class. Follow this link for BBC Dance Mats.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

Reading Activity - start or continue the World Book Week Reading Challenge. What will you read? A story, a recipe, a poem? Remember that you can log on to Oxford Owls to find books at your current reading band level. Or follow the link below to hear an author read her story about the Greek Goddess, Aphrodite.Discover Aphrodite with Xanthe Gresham-Knight - YouTube

Or2.30pm Log onto my zoom to hear me read extracts from a book about a famous lady scientist, called ‘Marie Curie and her daughters.’3pm Log onto Mrs Wilde’s zoom ‘All about food’

Tuesday 2 nd March PhonicsStep 1: Here are lots more words with the long ‘u’ sound. Choose one word from each list and use it in a super sentence. Try to challenge yourself by choosing words you wouldn’t usually write.

Step 2: Spend ten

minutes practising your spellings.ArtLO: Can I recreate a room from the Titanic? In our class book, Kaspar,Prince of Cats, Kaspar travels across the Atlantic ocean on the Titanic. But what was it like? What did it look like inside the ship? If you have a copy of the book, you might find some descriptions of the inside of the ship. Step One: Watch this video to find out more about the Titanic. Titanic For Kids - YouTube

Step Two: Follow the link below and watch this video to give you more of an idea of what the inside of the ship might have been like. https://youtu.be/UnQbFGut3bA

Step Three: Recreate one of the rooms from the Titanic on a landscape piece of A4 paper. Choose one of the pictures below as inspiration. Think about what the cabin or stateroom would have looked like. How much space would they have had? How many people would be sharing that room? Would there have been any furniture apart from the beds, would there have been paintings, carpet…?First Class (the most expensive)

Second Class

Third Class/Steerage

Extension or alternative activity:

Find a spare shoe box and use junk modelling to create a 3D version

of a room on the Titanic. Reading Activity – continue this week’s Reading Challenge. And log onto one or more of the following zooms to listen to one of our teachers reading to you.

2pm Mrs Reed reading Greek Myths3pm Mrs Bowman reading Science articlesYou could also listen to the author Michael Foreman reading his story about a soldier called Stubby. Follow the link below.Time for Storytime: Michael Foreman reads Stubby - YouTube

Wednesday 3 rd March PhonicsStep 1: Have a go at this wordsearch. It is full of words that use the long ‘u’ sound.

Step 2: Spend ten minutes practising your spellings.

Wordsearch – Words with the long ‘u’ sound

Arabian Nights Sign up for a spot on this activity by clicking on the link below. A link to the performance will be sent to your email. It starts at 1.30pmhttps://www.settlestories.org.uk/whats_on/world-book-day-2021/

Outdoor Learning

Idea! - create a 2D Titanic from natural resources.

Thursday 4 th March - World Book DayNo 10.30am zoom today.

Spellings – Spend ten minutes practising your spellings.

TopicHighlight – don’t miss it!

Virtual tour of the National Gallery, London1-2pm Click on this link to join the tour. Make sure you have a pencil and a few pieces of paper with you.

Zoom link - Please do NOT share this link with anyone outside your school https://zoom.us/j/94440805851?pwd=N0h5MUdCTjlRamI2MXdVV0ZGSEE0QT09 Meeting ID: 944 4080 5851 Passcode: 158893

Then 2.30pm Join Mrs.Price’s World Book Day Whole School Collective Worship

Friday 5 th March Reading ActivityComplete this week’s Reading Challenge and send in your entry to homelearning3and4@cds.school. There is a copy of the challenge at the end of this document if you need a reminder of what to do.And/orFollow the link below to listen to author, Myles McLeod, reading from his book, Knight Sir Louis and the Dreadful Damsel.Myles McLeod reads from Knight Sir Louis and the Dreadful Damsel - YouTube

And or log onto:2pm Mr Jackson and Miss Holdford reading The Highway Rat2.30pm Mr Mackriell reading from Revolting Rhymes3pm Mrs Brogan reading about Ernest Shackleton

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