Weekly Plan for Year 3 - Week 15

HOW TO COMPLETE TASKS: Please write all answers and work in your usual Home Learning Book. Maths tasks can be completed in the Maths Home Learning Book. If you have a printer at home, you are welcome to print but this is not necessary to complete tasks.

ENGLISH MATHS ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

MON Spelling Starter: Go to this link: tinyurl.com/turtlesdash This game will play on any device. You have to find the missing double vowels from the middle of each word. You’re playing against other children so you’ll need to be quick! Main Activity: Look at the Year 3/4 spelling list here: tinyurl.com/y34spellings Look at the first column, from interest to potatoes. Get an adult to read each one out loud and you write each one down. How many can you spell? Once you have done it, you know which words you need to practise. These are your Target Words for the week.

Times table focus:

By the end of the year, all Year 3 children need to know their 2, 5, 10, 3 and 4 times tables and ideally their 6 and 8 times table. Our year 4 children need to know all times tables up to 12x by the end of the year.

Please continue to focus on Time Tables every Monday and practise throughout the week.

Write down your target times table, in order, in your Maths Home Learning book.

Write down your target times table, out of order, in your Maths Home Learning book.

Ask a parent/carer if you can

recite your target times tables to them. E.g. “one six is six, two sixes are twelve, three sixes are eighteen” etc.

Ask a parent/carer to ask

your timetable target out of order, e.g. “What is five multiplied by six? what is nine multiplied by six”

If confident, ask a

parent/carer to give you an inverse question, e.g. “ 36 divided by 6 is…”

Geography: Watch the video at tinyurl.com/rockpoolvideo about animal and plant adaptations. Watch it again and jot down some of the adaptations. What were they for? (Protection, hunting, camouflage, to survive in their environment). Do they know of any other animal or plant adaptations? (Camels, nocturnal animals, etc.). What sort of animals live along the coast? (cliffs, beaches, rockpools). What sort of difficulties will they have to survive? (Weather, predators, tides, waves.) Look at some of the Wildlife Trusts information about rockpools. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife Research a coastal animal and create a little fact page about that animal. This can be completed either on a laptop, computer or paper. There are some ideas for animals in the RESOURCE 6 below. There is also an example template- see RESOURCE 7. Be as creative as possible and make it interesting, bright and detailed.

TUE STARTER: Practise your Target Words from yesterday. MAIN ACTIVITY: This week, we’re working on the exciting English booklet “Journey To The Jungle”! This is a separate download which was sent with this plan or can be downloaded from the school website. Alternatively, you can find it at tinyurl.com/junglejourney You can work through this booklet at your own pace but here’s a suggested breakdown for the week: Tuesday: p3 – 7 Wednesday: p8 – 9 Thursday: p10 – 14 Friday: p15 - 19 Note to parents: There is a lot of work in this booklet so please don’t feel like you have to complete every single task. The children have got a special task on Thursday and Friday so you may not have time to do the work from the booklet on those days. If you want to reduce the amount of work for your child, you could focus on either the poem writing (p8), the jungle log (p14) or the instructions (p19). Planning for these could be done through discussion.

Starter: 1- Times table speed test: www.timestables.co.uk/speed-test/ 2- Today’s maths problem: tinyurl.com/rocketrounding MAIN TASK: Today and tomorrow, we’re looking at 3D shapes. Have a look at RESOURCE 1 for a list of 3D shape names. It doesn’t have every 3D shape on, but it will give you the general idea of how they are named. Once you’ve had a look at that, try working through RESOURCE 2. As usual, there are three difficulty levels (A, B and C) so choose the one you think is best for you.

Science: Focus: Research

This week I’d like to conduct a little Scientific research. Sleep is very important. It helps us process information we’ve received in the day as well as let our bodies recharge and heal. How much sleep are we getting? Do we all need the same? Keep a little diary about the people in your household. What time is everyone settling down to go to sleep? What time does everyone wake up? What do you notice? Are you all getting the same amount of sleep?

WED STARTER: Practise your Target Words from Monday. MAIN ACTIVITY: Continue work on Journey To The Jungle

Starter: 1- Times table speed test: www.timestables.co.uk/speed-test 2- Today’s maths problem: tinyurl.com/comparethedecimals For today’s game, you draw the greater than / less than symbols in the space between the two decimals. Use your finger on a phone/tablet or use a mouse/mousepad on a computer. MAIN TASK: RESOURCE 3 THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES As usual, there are three difficulty levels (A, B and C) so choose the one you think is best for you.

It’s VIRTUAL SPORTS DAY!

How many of the Virtual Sports Day activities can you complete? Remember to tick off all the activities you complete from your checklist and send it to starling.120@educ.somerset.gov.uk. A copy of this checklist is in RESOURCE 8. Mr Woodley is making a video for the school Facebook page too- would you like to send in a video of you doing the activities? Your parents have been emailed a letter showing them how to do it!

THU EXTRA SPECIAL JOB JUST FOR YEAR 4!

Can you record a short video message for the Year 4 Virtual Leavers Service?

Here’s an example of what you could say:

“Hi everyone, hope that you’re all okay. I’ve really missed all of you and I can’t wait to see you all at Maiden Beech. Thanks for being great friends at St Barts and have a super summer!”

Some tips: - Record your clip in landscape not portrait - Talk about children as a group (Year 4, Wagtail, Chaffinch), don’t say individual children’s names or I won’t be able to include your video! - Speak clearly and look into the camera Send your video to wagtail.120@educ.somerset.,gov.uk or use We Transfer if it’s too big to send normally!

Starter: 1- Times table speed test: www.timestables.co.uk/speed-test/ 2- Today’s maths problem: tinyurl.com/numberlineflag

MAIN TASK: RESOURCE 4 PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS Something a little different for the rest of the week! As usual, there are three difficulty levels (A, B and C) so choose the one you think is best for you.

R.E. Watch the video about Zacchaeus based on Luke 19:1-10 tinyurl.com/zacchvideo What happened in the story? Why do you think Jesus chose to stay with Zacchaeus? What did the people learn from this? What was Zacchaeus message?

FRI EXTRA SPECIAL JOB JUST FOR YEAR 4!

For our Virtual Leavers Service, I would like two photos of you.

A photo of you when you were in Reception. If you could find one from your first day at school, that would be AMAZING but any photo from your first year at school will be fine. If you started at a different school, that is absolutely fine, I would love to see your Reception photo!

A photo of you now. Something smiley and grown up, no daft faces or silly stuff please.

When you have got these two photos, get an adult to email them to me at my usual class email address: wagtail.120@educ.somerset.gov.uk I can’t wait to see your pics!

Starter: A TREAT FOR FRIDAY!

tinyurl.com/grandprixmaths

Mr Woodley’s favourite game for the week!

MAIN TASK: RESOURCE 5 NUMBER PROBLEMS AND PUZZLES As usual, there are three difficulty levels (A, B and C) so choose the one you think is best for you.

PCSHE It’s Friday, let’s relax before the weekend. Complete the mindfulness for kids meditation.

tinyurl.com/mindful030720

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Some Coastal animals and plants and their adaptations

Shore crab

They have a tough shell that prevents them from drying out

and protects them from predators and crashing waves. Their

shells are well camouflaged for hiding from predators in rock

pools. They can bury themselves to avoid being washed

away.

Bladder wrack

seaweed

This seaweed is able to firmly attach itself to the rocks to

prevent it from floating away. It also has lots of air pockets,

this means that when the tide is in and the weed is covered

with water, it is able to float on the surface therefore gaining

maximum sun exposure.

Bedlet anemone

They can stick to the rocks of the pool with their large sucker.

To stop them from drying out when the tide goes out, they

can fold their tentacles in.

Starfish

They can stop themselves being washed away with the tide

by gripping the rock with their tiny tube feet.

Guillemot

Their eggs are conical so that they do not roll

off the high, narrow cliff face where they nest –

safe from predators.

RESOURCE 7 - FACT FILE EXAMPLE TEMPLATE

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Virtual Sports Day 2020

Checklist of Events

Name:

House: (If unsure leave blank, we can find this out for you)

Event Tick if Completed Score/Time/Distance

Sprint

Long Jump

Egg and Spoon Race

Welly Boot Toss

High Jump

Superstrong Challenge

Marathon Challenge

Obstacle Course