LEARNING FROM HOME - WEEK 8, TERM 3 2021

Year 3 Overview

Monday 30 August and Tuesday 31 August

Good morning Year 3 students,

Welcome to Week 8 of at home learning.

Again this week there will be 2 booklets. The first one is for Monday and Tuesday. The second one is forWednesday, Thursday and Friday.

This week we will be having three Zoom sessions with your teachers, one on Monday, Wednesday andThursday. Your class teacher will send you the links for these; look out for them in your school email.Remember to bring your prop to Monday’s Zoom lesson for a game of Guess Who.

Please only submit the work requested by your teachers on Seesaw. These activities aremarked with a star in the overview so you can clearly see which ones to submit.

On the last page of this booklet you will find a mini project to complete. Please read theinstructions carefully and complete it throughout this week when and if you have time.

Please remember to keep all your work together with your booklets. Answers will be sent out each Fridayby your class teacher. You will bring your completed booklets back to your teacher when you return toschool.

We look forward to seeing you very soon.Lots of love,Year 3 teachers :)

Monday 30/8/2021

Morning English

Independent Reading - ( 20 minutes)

Instructions:

1. This week you have been assigned 2 separate readers.

2. One of these readers you will focus on for Monday and Tuesday and the other reader you

will focus on for Thursday and Friday.

3. Choose which reader you would like to read first and second.

Task(s):

1. Login to the PM website using your same username and password from last week.

2. Your password will be 1234 but you will need to remember your username.

3. Today you are going to independently read your first book all the way through.

4. Spend 20 minutes reading your text today, don’t worry if you don’t finish it, there will be

time for you to do that tomorrow.

https://app.pmecollection.com.au/login

Shared Reading - (20 minutes)

Instructions:

1. Open this link: https://www.pobble365.com/dreams

2. If the link doesn’t work use this link ‘Pobble 365’ -

choose the ‘pick a day’ and then choose ‘August 20’.

Task(s):

1. Have a good look at this picture

2. Complete the ‘Senses Chart’ page in your booklet.

3. Write at least one sentence in each box using interesting

adjectives to describe how the bird would be feeling.

4. The middle box is for you to do a little picture of the bird.

SpellingInstructions:

1. Look at the page in your booklet titled ‘Spelling Week 8’.2. This week we are looking at the long ‘A’ sound.3. Think of as many words as you can with this sound and the 4 different spelling patterns.

Challenge yourself to think of words with more than one syllable.

Task(s):1. Complete the Seesaw activity: Long ‘a’ Word Sort2. Go to the ‘Spelling Week 8’ page in your booklets. Add some of the

‘long A’ words you discovered on Seesaw and all the words from thegrid at the bottom of the page to make up your spelling words for theweek.

3. Don’t forget to add these to your ‘Look, Cover, Say, Write, Check’ table in your workbooklet.

Zoom Meeting - 10:30 - 10:55amJoin a Zoom meeting with your class teacher and the rest of your class.Your teacher will send you an email with details.

RECESS

Middle MathsWarm Up: Number of the dayhttps://mathsstarters.net/numoftheday/3digit

Lesson: Watch Mrs Forrest’s video on Division

https://youtu.be/6sAuID_xGgs

Watch the video on Division using Arrays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPHq-GkerVc

Complete the ‘Division Using Arrays’ worksheet in your booklet.

Optional Mentals:Complete your Monday Maths Mentals column in your booklet

Brain BreakIt’s time to take a break and stretch our bodies! Click on the link below and learn a fewnew yoga poses.https://fit.sanfordhealth.org/resources/fit-workout-yoga-flow-video

History - Writing TaskToday, you will write the historical recount you planned during your Zoom last

Thursday.

‘Cammeraygal child living in the Turrumburra valley 500 years ago’.

Listen to the instructions on the Seesaw activity.

● Begin with a sizzling start, follow with the backfill.

● The three middle paragraphs should give details about 3 important events in the day.

● Finish with a memorable, thoughtful ending.

● Handwrite your recount on the lined pages provided in your booklet and take a photo to

submit to Seesaw.

LUNCH TIME

Afternoon Science - (60 mins)This week’s lesson has been assigned in Seesaw for you tocomplete: ‘Week 8 Science’.

1. Work through the template to learn how to comparethe life cycles of different living things.

2. Use the information checklist to help you in your comparisons.

3. Complete the three tasks.

4. Save and submit your work.

Tuesday 31/8/2021

Morning English

Independent Oral Reading (20 minutes)- https://app.pmecollection.com.au/login

Task(s):

1. Finish reading the book you read on Monday from the PME website.2. Complete the ‘Making Connections’ worksheet in your booklet.3. Think of at least one example of text to self, text to world and text to text.4. There is an extra box if you are feeling tricky and have an extra idea 😊

Shared Reading (20 minutes)-

Task(s):1. Open your booklet to ‘before, during and after’ reading question page.2. Have a look at the still image of the story before clicking play and write down one

question that you have in the first box3. Watch ‘The Present’ on Literacy Shed.

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-present.html

4. Pause the video at 1 minute and 37 seconds (this is right after the puppy runs into

the shelf) Write a question in the second box.

5. After viewing the video, write your final question in the third box.

Writing - explanation texts

Look at the page in your booklet titled ‘Writing an explanation’. Have a look at what’s onthat hamburger - don’t forget any of the ingredients.

Task(s):1. Using the pages in your work booklet, complete this task.2. Turn that sample text on how rain forms into a much better example of an

explanation text.

Pay attention to all the ingredients….. There’s some space there for a drawing that showsthe process of rain forming. (maybe like your life cycle diagrams)

Grammar -Sequential EventsSequential events can be shown visually by a series of images.You may find these sequential events within explanation textsthrough flow charts, timelines or procedure diagrams.

Task(s):1. Complete the ‘Unit 22 Sequential Events’ sheet in your

booklet.

RECESS

Middle MathematicsWarm Up: Number of the Dayhttps://mathsstarters.net/numoftheday/3digit

Lesson:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vg27Q1dZFc

Complete the ‘Using Repeated Subtraction to Find Division Quotients’ worksheet in yourbooklet.

Optional Mentals:Complete your Tuesday Maths Mentals column in your booklet

Brain BreakLet’s move our bodies! Click on the link and follow along with this shortworkout video.https://www.youtube.com/embed/oc4QS2USKmk

Resilience Project - Responding to Others

1. In Seesaw complete the activity “The Resilience Project - Year 3 -Lesson 10 Responding to others”.2. Watch the short video and guess the emotions. Complete thesentence “Today I feel..”3. Read about empathy and answer how empathy may look and sound like in the scenarios.

LUNCH TIME

Afternoon Visual Arts - Appreciation and Creation

Today we will be appreciating an artwork created by American artist Andy

Warhol and creating our own PopArt artwork.

Task(s):

1. Open the assigned Seesaw activity.

2. Look at the artwork from Andy Warhol and answer the art appreciation questions.

3. Watch the video from Mrs Foreshew and create your own PopArt artwork.

4. Upload a photo of your finished work to the Seesaw activity.

You will need:

● Template from the booklet

● Pencil or artliner (remember to have a piece of scrap

paper underneath if using artliner)

● Bright coloured pencils, textas

Upload a photo of your finished work to the Seesaw activity.