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Week 1 Homework

Year 3 Homework (AUT) –N.B. Homework book, reading book and reading record must be in school every

single day.Homework starts, due in

English:Reading:Read every day for at least 10 minutes. Please remember your child must have their book signed. Every fortnight children are expected to do a book review of a book they have been reading or have read, children can pick these up from the classroom and stick them into their homework books

Handwriting:Please practice: cdag

Writing:1. Ask your mum or dad, or someone else in your family what you were like as a baby.

2. Write some sentences about yourself in your book.

3. Draw a picture or stick a photo at the bottom of your writing.

4. Ask permission before using the photo!

5. Include these things in your writing:

What you looked like. What you liked. What you didn’t like! What your first or favourite word was? What your first memory was

6. Bring your work back into school to show your teacher and friends.

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: High Frequency Words from last year

A: girl, green looking, end, ever, most, we’re, fell, friends, last

B: morning, fell, friends, eyes, wish, tea, really

C: floppy, coming, why, box, please, granddad, stopped, plants, pulled, grow, jumped

Spellings should be practiced daily, please write them the homework book. Please also write them within sentences.

Maths:1. Work with a partner using the number cards provided.2. Share out the numbers 0-9 between you so that you have

five each – each write your numbers in front of you. 3. Use a book with at least 100 pages.4. Open the book at random.5. Look at the number on one of the pages.

6. Say this number aloud.

7. How much must be added to this number to make the next multiple of ten? E.g. the book page is 38, so 2 must be added to 38 to make 40.

8. Look to see which of you has the number you added, e.g. 2 – that person collects a point.

9. Keep playing like this, turning to different pages in the book until one person has collected a score of 15

Week 2 Homework



English:

Reading:Read every day for at least 10 minutes. Please remember your child must have their book signed. Every fortnight children are expected to do a book review of a book they have been reading or have read, children can pick these up from the classroom and stick them into their homework books

Handwriting:Please practice: bptd

Writing:1. Reading the word ‘said’ lots of times in a story can become a bit boring, can’t it?

2. With your helper, make a list of as many different ways of writing ‘say’ as you can (shout, whisper etc).

3. Can you think of more than ten?

4. Try talking in different ways to get some ideas (whispering, growling, roaring...) or look in a storybook if you get stuck.

5. Then write your ideas (neatly) in the enormous mouth below. 6. Bring it back to school to make a huge class collection!

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: i:y (middle)

A: could should house made day children from

B: myth gym Egypt pyramid mystery hymn crypt calypso crystal cygnet

C: gypsy lyric mystery oxygen physics symbol system symptom syrup typical


Maths:1. You will need: four 2p coins and two 1p coins.2. Play with a partner – one person collects heads, the other

collects tails.3. Tip four 2p coins and two 1p coins out of a cup. 4. Count up the amount in heads, e.g. 6p – one person scores this!

5. Count up the amount in tails, e.g. 4p – the other person scores this!

6. Write the sum: 6p + 4p = 10p.7. Put the money back in the cup and tip it out again.

8. Count up the amounts in heads and tails, e.g. 2p + 8p = 10p, record your scores and write the sum.

9. Repeat this twenty times. 10. Who has the largest score?

11. Bring all your twenty sums into class – we shall look to see if all combinations are equally likely!

Week 3 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice: fgry

Writing:1. What jobs at home do you hate doing most? (Tidying up? Washing dishes? Cleaning your room?)

2. What jobs do you quite like? (Feeding the fish? Setting the video?)

3. Use the table below to write your worst and best jobs.

4. Ask everyone else in your family or other people you know what their least and most favourite jobs are and write these in the table too.

Person Favourite Job Worst Job

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: u: ou

A:by, day made, her, there, what, was she, is, for

B: young touch double trouble country young enough couple cousin

C: trouble country young enough couple cousin rough tough southern nourish courage


Maths: (please practice times tables by writing them in your book along with your number bond either 10,20,50 or 100)

1. Draw round your hand with your fingers outstretched so that you draw round each finger.

2. Use damp string, lay it along the outline.3. Cut it to the exact length of the hand outline.

4. Stretch out the string and measure it in centimetres using a ruler.

5. How many centimetres long is it all the way around your hand?

6. Find someone in your home with very big hands or with very tiny hands and draw round their hands.

7. Use string to measure the length.8. Bring your drawings and the strings back into school.

(please practise times tables by writing them in your book along with your number bond)

Week 4 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice:hfwa

Writing:

Write a diary entry pretending to be a spaceman. Imagine shooting off into space and what it would be like flying around there. How would you feel?

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: k: chA: chemist chord choir asked saw looked very your

B: stomach ache anchor schedule arachnophobia mechanic hypochondriac chaos character choir Christmas

C: chemistry chemical chorus chrysalis chronic architect orchestra scheme technology



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Week 5 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice: jusg

Writing:1. What hobbies or interests do you have?

2. It could be football, dancing, reading, video games, cycling, drawing, playing music etc. 3. Pick your favourite hobby.

4. You are going to make a poster telling other people about this hobby.

5. Write the name of your hobby at the top.6. You should include information boxes on your poster saying:

• When you do it • Why you like it • How long you’ve been doing it • What equipment or things you need to do it

7. Around the boxes, draw pictures of you doing your hobby.

8. Decorate the poster.

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: sh: ch

A: was, that, then had, with like, but,

B/ C: chef chalet machine brochure chaise cached parachute moustache different because however


Maths: (please practice times tables by writing them in your book along with your number bond either 10,20,50 or 100)1. Take a medicine spoon. It should say 5ml on it! 2. Find your favourite mug or cup.

3. Estimate how many medicine spoons it will take to fill your cup.

4. Ask other people in or around your home to estimate – collect and record at least five guesses.

5. Now measure by counting how many 5ml spoonfuls it takes to fill the cup – you can use lentils or dried peas instead of water if you like!

6. Bring all your guesses and the correct number into class.

Week 6 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice: dlnmc

Writing:1. Imagine a story set in a house.

2. The main character is ALWAYS disagreeing with his parents!

3. Draw a cartoon strip, the main character’s mum is telling him/her to go to bed, but he/she keeps making excuses, starting with ’But Mum..’

4. Finish off each cartoon with an excuse, drawing pictures to match.

5. You can make the excuses as normal or as imaginary as you like!

6. Draw 6 boxes with different excuses. If you would like go to http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/ and make them on the computer, then print them into your book!

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: g: gue

A: wanted, going, things, shouted, I’ll, again

B: analogue league colleague catalogue dialogue plague vague

C: fatigue intrigue vogue rogue monologue prologue synagogue before suddenly


Maths: (please practice times tables by writing them in your book along with your number bond either 10,20,50 or 100)1. Write the months of the year and next to each one write the number of days – your partner can help you!

2. Together, work out how many days it is till your birthday.

3. Now work out how many days from your birthday to your birthday... Christmas day

.4. Perhaps work out how many days until Mum/Dad/Nan’s birthday…

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

Week 7 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice:ioxav

Writing:1. In the Three Little Pigs and the Big bad Wolf, Mother Pig suggests her children go out and build themselves new homes.

2. How do you think they feel about this?

3. Are they pleased or annoyed?

4. How do you think you might feel?

5. Write a short playscript on how you think the conversation in the 3 Little Pigs house went!

6. Don’t forget to lay your writing out like a playscript.

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: k: que, Words ending with the /k/ sound spelt –que (French in origin)

A: mosque, tree, round, magic, live, soon, away water

B: technique cheque unique critique antique torque plaque mosque picturesque

C: picturesque baroque grotesque physique mystique opaque boutique oblique


Maths: (please practice times tables by writing them in your book along with your number bond either 10,20,50 or 100)1. Look in the Radio or TV Times or a newspaper with television times in it.

2. Find the times of your favourite programmes this weekend.

3. Write these times as digital clock times using a 12-hourclock.

4. Draw clock-faces and draw the hands to show each of the times as analogue times.

Week 8 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice:wqytzm

Writing:

1. Write these words into your homework book: good, small, big, bad, nice, happy, sad, angry, tired2. Use a thesaurus online or in book form to find different words which could be used3. Write sentences in a mind map to show the different words and how they could be used.(see below for explanation)

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: s:sc Words with the /s/ sound spelt sc (Latin in origin)

A: king, baby, through, baby, fish, us, after, wanted, began.

B/ C: discipline fascinate crescent abscess adolescent ascend scenario scene scenery science scientist scissors



1. How old are people in your family?2. How many years old is that in total?3. Can you add up the ages of friends and family to make 100?

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Week 9 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice: vyurd

Writing:1. Verbs are words which tell us about actions – what someone is doing or feeling.

2. Make a list of the actions/verbs that you do at school (talk, write, listen, run, etc).

3. Include things you do in the classroom, in the playground, at assembly, when you arrive etc.

4. Make the list as long as you can

5. Now read through the list. What are your favourite things to do at school?

6. Put a small smiley face beside each of these.

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: ay/ei, ay/ey or ay/eigh

A: hey obey

B/ C: vein abseil beige feign feint rein reign surveillance veil weigh eight neighbour sleigh neigh inveigh freight eight hey obey


Maths: (please practice times tables by writing them in your book along with your number bond either 10,20,50 or 100)1. Use the grid provided.2. Take turns to play.3. Roll a 1p coin across the grid.4. Look at the number it covers when it lands.5. Double that number – you may make a jotting to help! 6. If you are correct you colour that square on the grid. 7. Let your partner have a turn.8. If your coin lands on a coloured square, roll again!9. First person to colour 15 squares wins!

Week 10 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice: hjus

Writing:1. Some books are set in schools, some in jungles, some on imaginary planets!

2. Stories can be set anywhere!

3. Imagine you have just landed on a planet in outer space.

4. What would it be like?

5. Use the boxes to draw quick sketches of what you think you might see, hear, smell, feel and say on that planet.

6. Write one or two words to match these ideas.

7. Then, using proper sentences, write a short start to a story, using your ideas.

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: possessive apostrophe The apostrophe is placed after the plural form of the word; –s is not added if the plural already ends in –s, but is added if the plural does not end in –s (i.e. is an irregular plural – e.g. children’s).

A: narrator, say, three, head, kind, town, around,B/ C: girls’ boys’ babies’ chicken’s monkey’s week’s chair’s head’s car’s narrator’s teacher’s


Maths: (please practice times tables by writing them in your book along with your number bond either 10,20,50 or 100)1. Write down your telephone number – it could be a landline or a mobile number!

2. Repeat this for the telephone numbers of several other people who are close to you!

3. Add up all the numbers in the telephone number. What is the total?

4. Repeat this for all the other numbers you have written down. 5. Whose telephone number gives the largest total?6. Whose give the smallest?

Week 11 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice: uoerd

Writing:1. When we pull open Christmas crackers, a joke usually falls out!

2. What is your favourite question and answer joke? (e.g. What smells worse than a pig in a sty? Two pigs in a sty!)

3. Ask your friends and family what their favourite question and answer joke is.

4. Pick the one you like best. (It mustn’t be rude!) 5. Write it out carefully on a piece of paper.

6. Read it through so that you know it makes sense (Have you got a question mark?).

7. Practise reading it out loud.

8. Bring it into school to share with your teacher and friends.

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: un- prefix the prefix un– has a negative meaning

A: unable unhappy unwanted find bear water things

B: unaccompanied unachievable unannounced unappealing unarmed unashamedly unattached unattainable

C: undisturbed ungrateful uninterested unmistakable unofficial unpleasant unpopular unqualified unsociable unusual



Answer these questions within your homework book:42-12= 32+5=56+121= 1+321=43+4= 540-65=124+65= 236+6=94+5= 40+40=21-5= 43+43+43=456-90=Look

Week 12 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice: fsacv

Writing:1. Adverbs are excellent sentence starters2. They can explain how something is done3. Look at these sentences, write them into your books then add rewrite them using different adverbs to change their

meaninga. The dog walked to the shopsb. The boy hit the ballc. The gorilla jumped from tree to tree.

4. an example for the first one could be ‘Slowly, the dog walked to the shops’5. Once you have done this write your own sentences6. Finally improve some with some adjectives (words which describe the noun)

Spellings:This week’s spelling pattern is: dis- the prefix dis– has a negative meaning

A: new, took, who, didn’t home, ran, know, knew

B: disembark disembowel disfigure dishearten dishonest disinfect disinterested disjointed disobedient disqualify

C: disgrace dislike disobey disorder disown displease disrepair distrust disuse disadvantage disallow disappear



Write down what time you do different things within the week.These can be things within school like lunch or home time, or things at home like swimming lessons.Write down all the timings you can think of for the week beginning with Monday, draw an analogue clock to show 5 of those times. Look

Week 13 Homework



English:


Handwriting:Please practice: hgyfd

Writing:1. When we pull open Christmas crackers, a joke usually falls out!

2. What is your favourite question and answer joke? (e.g. What smells worse than a pig in a sty? Two pigs in a sty!)

3. Ask your friends and family what their favourite question and answer joke is.

4. Pick the one you like best. (It mustn’t be rude!) 5. Write it out carefully on a piece of paper.

6. Read it through so that you know it makes sense (Have you got a question mark?).

7. Practise reading it out loud.

8. Bring it into school to share with your teacher and friends.

Spellings:Spelling Revision Week

Please practice your group’s spellings over the whole term, you will be tested on two words from each spelling test. We don’t expect 100% here, but it would be great, however we do need to check you have picked up that spelling pattern.


Answer these questions within your homework book:42-12= 32+5=56+121= 1+321=43+4= 540-65=124+65= 236+6=94+5= 40+40=21-5= 43+43+43=456-90=Look

Week 14 Homework



Have a go at these Christmas Maths word problems. Write your working out and answers in your book.

1. Father Christmas has 10 sacks of presents on his sleigh. Each sack contains 36 presents. How many presents are there altogether?

2. He must give 4 presents to each child. How many children can get presents?

3. He gives each of his 8 reindeer 2 apples. How many apples does he need?

4. He has 6 elves to help him load the sleigh. He gives hem £5 each. How much money does it cost?

5. Father Christmas arrived at Tom’s house. He had 4 presents for Tom, 4 presents for Tom’s sister, Kate, 2 presents for Mum but only one present for Dad. How many presents did he leave under the tree?

6. On the tree there were 16 blue baubles, 6 golden fir cones, and 12 red and white striped candy canes. How many things were on the tree?

7. There was a box of chocolates on the table. There were 3 rows of chocolates and 4 columns. There were 2 layers. How many chocolates were there?

When Mum came downstairs in the morning, there were only 13 chocolates left. She thought Father Christmas must have been hungry. How many chocolates did he eat?

Christmas English

Think about the journey of the three wise men. What do you think it would have been like?Write a diary entry about how you think this would have felt and what they would have seen.

Spellings:Spelling Revision Week

Please practice your group’s spellings over the whole term, you will be tested on two words from each spelling test. We don’t expect 100% here, but it would be great, however we do need to check you have picked up that spelling pattern.

Week 15 Homework



Please note, not homework will be set over the holidays, however it is essential that your child still read at least every other day. They also need to keep

practicing those times tables and number bonds.

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