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Year 3 Home Learning Activities - English

Monday 6th July – Friday 10th July 2020

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Useful Websites:The Body Coach - https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1Go Noodle Dance Activities – www.gonoodle.comCosmic Yoga Activities - https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYogaMathletics – www.mathletics.comTimes Table Rock Stars – https://ttrockstars.com/Bug Club - https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/Twinkl - www.twinkl.co.uk (see offer code for free resources)Spelling Shed - https://www.spellingshed.com/

Any log in details will be in your child’s homework diary.

This is an example timetable for you to follow. Feel free to adapt if you wish.

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Well-Being Friday

Exercise/activityof choice





English English English English English

Maths Maths Maths Maths Maths

Science Topic Art PE Well-BeingActivity

Reading Reading Reading Reading Reading

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1http://www.gonoodle.com/https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYogahttp://www.mathletics.com/https://ttrockstars.com/https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/http://www.twinkl.co.uk/https://www.spellingshed.com/

Monday – English

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LO: To write a book review.

We are on the final chapter of ‘The Chocolate Tree’. Today, you need to read or listen to the final chapter of the story.

To listen to the story being read, go to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17rKAVg38302yNvRlElWd-SYquN_DNrMB and click on Chapter 5.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17rKAVg38302yNvRlElWd-SYquN_DNrMB

Monday – English

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We have now finished the story of ‘The Chocolate Tree’ and are going to write a book review.

A book review is useful because it makes us think about the story we have read in more detail. They are also really useful because other people can read the book review to decide whether they would like to buy the book!

Have a look at this book review. Would you like to read the story?

Monday – English

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Your book review needs to include:• The name of the book and author• The plot of the story• The setting• The main characters• What you thought of the story• How the story made you feel• What you would score the book out of 5

You can either create a book review in your home learning book or you can print off the PDF on the website to help you!

We would love for you to email us some recommendations of books you have read whilst you have been learning from home. We can share these with all the children and hopefully find you some good summer holiday reads! Email us at [email protected]

This means explaining an event in the story and what happened because of that event.

mailto:[email protected]

Tuesday – English

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LO: To research places to visit in Yucatan, Mexico.

The story of ‘The Chocolate Tree’ is set during the time of the Aztecs and is centred around the temple of Chichen Itza.

Chichen Itza is in the state of Yucatan in Mexico and is a popular tourist spot. There are many other wonderful places to visit in Yucatan.

Today, we would like you to have a look through the information on the next few slides, watching the videos if you can, and choose three of your favourite spots in Yucatan. Write some bullet point notes about each of your favourite spots in your Home School book. You will use these tomorrow!

Challenge: Can you think of exciting descriptive vocabulary to describe the different places in Yucatan?

Tuesday – English

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This UNESCO world heritage site is a centerpiece of the Mayan archaeological scene in Mexico, and gets around 1.4 million visitors a year — the region’s 2nd most popular Mayan ruins.For over a thousand years Chichen Itza was one of the great cities of Central America – located here because of proximity to deep cenotes with access to fresh water. The modern site covers 5 square kilometres of exposed archaeology and impressive stone buildings, surrounded by dense forest.You’ve probably seen pictures of the temple of Kukulkan – also known as El Castillo – because it’s breathtakingly photogenic.

Visit Chichen Itza!

Watch the video

https://expertvagabond.com/chichen-itza-mexico/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpiCPxmpzCI

Tuesday – English

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LO: To research places to visit in Yucatan, Mexico. Visit the Pink Lakes

In a corner of the Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, about 3 hours from Cancun, you’ll find a magical place where sea water turns bright pink on an epic scale.It’s all down to salt production. The Las Coloradas pink lakes are used for industrial-scale sea-salt production. As the water evaporates, salinity causes an explosion in the growth of red algae, plankton and brine shrimp, tinting the water reddish-pink.You can visit the lakes and walk along their shores taking surreal photos of the pink water. It’s a really weird sight – and, curiously, the reason why flamingos are pink!You may even spot some flamingos hanging out in the area too.

Watch the video

https://expertvagabond.com/las-coloradas-pink-lake/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOVNxCZgG5I

Tuesday – English

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Snorkelling with sea turtles

Who doesn’t want to swim with sea turtles? Well you can at Akumal beach, just 30 minutes South of Playa del Carmen. This shallow blue-green water is home to 3 different kinds of sea turtles that you can swim with.

Watch the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNln8Cuuhck

Tuesday – English

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LO: To research places to visit in Yucatan, Mexico. Swimming with whale sharks on Isla Holblox

When you arrive on Isla Holbox, the first thing you’ll notice is the greeting party: Cotton candy-coloured flamingos wading in the shallow, six-mile-wide lagoon that separates the island from mainland Mexico.

Here you can go swimming with whale sharks.

Whale sharks are the largest fish in the ocean, growing up to 40 feet long and weighing up to 20,000 pounds. And, you can swim with them! However you don’t have to worry about them eating you, as they prefer plankton. Swimming next to a 30-foot long sea creature, the size of a bus, is a wild experience.

Tuesday – English

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Izamal is built on a series of hills that once housed Mayan pyramids (and much of the town still speaks the Mayan language). There is still one big pyramid overlooking the town that you can actually climb.

Almost every major expanse of wall and building facade was painted a deep golden yellow for a special visit from Pope John Paul II in 1993, and they just never changed it.

You can walk around the town or get around by hiring horse-drawn carriages.

Go on a horse and carriage in Izamal

Tuesday – English

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Swim through caves in Rio Secreto

Come with us on a magical journey through the crystal museum that is Río Secreto, where the history of our planet is

written on the myriad geological formations, and where floating in its clear fresh water will change your life forever.

Río Secreto could very well be one of the great world wonders. Experience this stunning underground river with thousands of dramatic stalactites and stalagmites. It's like stepping back in time to witness something mysterious and truly spectacular.

Watch the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ColIX9vjVQw

Wednesday – English

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LO: To write a tour script.

Often, when people visit new places, they will hire a tour guide who will take them to visit all the best attractions in the area. They will give them key facts about the place they are visiting and explain different activities they can do there.

Today, you are going to imagine you are a tour guide showing tourists around Yucatan, Mexico. Yesterday, you chose your three favourite places to include in your tour script.


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These are some of the features we need to use in our tour script.

Appealing adjectives: we want the places to sound fantastic so that our customers want to visit!

Facts: We need some facts about the places included

Time-based openers: We need to use words like firstly, after that, next to show what order our script is going in

First person: We are running the tour so we should ‘I’ and ‘we’.


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Have a look at this example of a tour script to help you. Can you spot some of the features?

Good Morning and welcome to Wardito’s Wonderful Tours! Today I will take you on a spectacular adventure across Yucatan, a state in the south-east of Mexico, on the shores of the gulf of Mexico.

Our first stop on this awesome adventure is the Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, about 3 hours from Cancun. Here we can explore the shores of the Las Colarados Pink Lakes, where the water is a magical shade of pink! This is because of the high levels of salt in the water. Get your cameras ready for some fantastic photos to share with your friends. If you’re lucky, we might find some flamingos paddling in the water too!

Next, we travel further inland to the crystal caves of Río Secreto. Change into your wetsuits ready for an adventure through this stunning underground river. As you wade through the crystal clear water, you will be able to spot stalactites and stalagmites. A series of smaller tunnels make this trip unforgettable!

Finally, it wouldn’t be a trip to Yucatan without a stop at Chichén Itza. Once the land of the Aztecs, Chichén Itza is now a UNESCO world heritage site. Gaze at impressive stone buildings and exposed ruins. Of course, your visit wouldn’t be complete without staring at the spectacular El Castillo, the temple of Kukulkan. Our guide will make sure you return with a fabulous photo of you with this world-renowned landmark.

What a superb adventure. We look forward to welcoming you on Wardito’s Wonderful Tours again soon!


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Your task:

Write your tour script including three of the landmarks you chose from your research.

Make sure you include all the features on the list and use the word bank to help you.

Challenge: can you include some of the conjunctions we looked at last week?

Word Bank

Feature

Appealing adjectives

Time-based openers

Facts

First person

Challenge: use conjunctions

breath-taking remarkable spectacularawe-inspiring tourist stunningimpressive world-renowned imposingYucatan Mexico magical

Thursday – English

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LO: To perform a tour guide

Read over your tour script from yesterday. Use the checklist to make sure you haven’t forgotten any important punctuation. Using a coloured pen or pencil, make any changes you need to Now, it is time to perform your tour script. You could take a family member on an imaginary trip to Mexico or if you would like to, you could record your tour as a video!

We’d love to read, watch or listen to your tour scripts and imagine we are all on holiday in Mexico! Send them to [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

Friday – Wellbeing Choose ten of the spellings from our year 3 and 4 word list. Try to choose words that you know you find tricky. Then, pick an activity from below to practise them!

• Spelling wordsearch. Create your own wordsearchusing the layout on the next slide. See if someone in your house can solve it! You could even create a wordsearch online -http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp

• Use crayons, coloured pencils or felt tips to make a colourful flashcard for each of your spellings

• Draw a picture and hide all of your spellings inside it!

• Write each of your spellings forwards and then backwards

• Put each of your spellings into a silly sentence• Write each of your spellings using dots and then join

them together with a different colour• Use chalks to practise your spellings on the patio or

pavement (make sure you check with an adult first!)• Sing your spellings, spelling out each letter as you

go!

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp

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