Year 3 Home Learning Activities – Topic/Science

Monday 23rd March – Friday 27th March 2020

Useful Websites:Go 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.

Have a good week

Tuesday – ScienceL.O. To explore pushes and pulls.

Forces are pushes and pulls. These pushes and pulls usually change the motion of an object. They can make an object start to move, go faster, stop moving or go slower.

Challenge 1:

Go around your house and find 10 examples of pushes and pulls. Draw these and label the direction of the force and whether it is a push or a pull.

Here is an example:Push

Extra Challenge:Sort the pushes and pulls you have found into which required less force and which required greater force.

Greater force Lesser force

Pulling out a chair from the table

Pushing the TV remote

Wednesday – PE

Let’s have a go at a 5 minute warm up from Joe Wicks.

Click on the link to follow along!

If you can’t access the video. Do some of the activities you did with Mr Hampton at school.

• Press ups• Mountain climbers• Explosive star jumps• Quick feet• Up down• Squats• Burpees

Watch a video

For today’s PE lesson, we are going to be looking at different yoga poses. For each yoga pose, you need to read the information on the slide and then have a go at the pose.

Watch out! The poses get more difficult as you move through the presentation!

Success Criteria:

Meet It: I can copy a range of yoga poses from the models I have seen.

Beat It: I can carefully follow a range of written instructions in order to complete a range of yoga poses.

Smash It: I can identify ways in which the poses are challenging/easy and discuss their suitability for a range of different purposes.

Wednesday – PE

Tadasana

Mountain Pose

Benefits

Improves posture, strengthens core

muscles and legs.

Stand tall with your weight balanced

evenly on your feet.

Firm your thigh muscles and pull in your

tummy.

Press your shoulders back and hang your

arms beside your torso.

Breath deeply and hold as long as needed

(at least two breaths).

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Utkataasana

Chair Pose

Benefits

Strengthens legs, stretches shoulders and

chest.

Start in mountain pose. (Standing with

your feet shoulder width apart and arms

by your side).

Exhale, and bend your knees as if you

were sitting in a chair.

Reach your arms towards the ceiling with

your palms facing each other.

Hold this pose and breathe.

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Elephant Pose

Benefits

Stretches legs and back, relieves stress

and calms the mind.

Bend at the hips.

Let arms hang low then clasp fingers

together.

Swing arms from side to side like a trunk.

Swing your whole body from side to side

to walk like an elephant.

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Rainbow Pose

Benefits

Stretches arms, abdominals, spine and

chest; calms the mind.

Start on your knees. Raise both hands

over your head.

Drop one hand by your side, exhale and

arch your arm over your body.

Hold this position.

As you bring your dropped arm back over

your head, straighten your body.

Repeat on the other side.

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Vriksasana

Tree Pose

BenefitsImproves balance, strengthens thighs, calves and ankles,

stretches legs and chest, develops concentration.

Begin in mountain pose. (Feet shoulder-width apart, hands

at your sides.)

Lift your right foot, turning your knee out; place your foot on

your leg wherever feels comfortable.

Press your hands together.

Raise your arms over your head and look up to your hands

if possible.

Return hands to your chest and lower your right leg.

Repeat with left leg.

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Bhujangasana

Cobra Pose

Benefits

Strengthens spine, backs of arms and

legs; stretches shoulders, chest and belly,

improves posture, helps relieve stress.

Begin by lying on your tummy.

While exhaling, lift your head and upper

torso off the floor.

Gaze forward or slightly upward.

Hold this position, then release.

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Your Task:

Meet It: Draw a picture/take a photo of you doing your favourite yoga pose (make sure you include the title).

Beat It:Draw a picture/take a photo of you doing your favourite yoga pose (make sure you include the title). Next to your picture, describe how you formed the pose (make sure you do this in your own words!)

Smash It:Complete the Beat It challenge above. Then answer the following questions:-• Which of the 6 poses did you find easiest? Why?• Which pose did you find most challenging? Why?• Which yoga poses would you recommend to someone who is looking to improve their

posture?• Which yoga poses would you recommend to someone who is stressed?

Thursday and Friday – TopicL.O. To explore Roman food and drink.

What do you think the Ancient Romans ate?

Look at the pictures of the food below.

Do you think they belong in Group 1? (food the Romans ate) or Group 2? (food the Romans did not know about)

Eaten

• Apples

• Grapes

• Broccoli

• Walnuts

• Bread

• Eggs

• Honey

• Oranges

• Lemons

• Coffee

• Chocolate

• Potatoes

• Tomatoes

• Sweetcorn

• Pasta

• Sugar

Unknown

Oranges, lemons, coffee

Chocolate, potatoes, tomatoes, sweetcorn

Sugar

Pasta (Middle Ages)

Watch the video and answer the questions.

(The answers are on the next slide)

+ What live bird did Elegabalus apparently ask his guest to eat?

+ The feet of which desert animal may have been served at one of the Roman feasts?

+ What underwater creature may make an appearance?

Watch a video

Answers

+ What live bird did Elegabalus apparently ask his guest to eat?

Parrot

+ The feet of which desert animal may have been served at one of the Roman feasts?

Camel

+ What underwater creature may make an appearance?

Jellyfish

These are some of the unusual foods the Romans ate.

Live parrots

Camel feet

Jellyfish

Flamingo brains

Sows’ udders

Dormice

Rotten fish guts

Bees

Watch a video

What about the poor?

Main foods

Bread

Wheat porridge

Wheat

Poor Romans also ate…Eggs

Fish

Cheese

Honey

CHEAPER THAN MEAT!

Poorer Romans ate food from

Roman Taverns

It’s the Ancient Roman equivalent of ‘fast food’

Kebab –style foodWine diluted with water

Your Task

Meet It: Design a 3 course menu (starter, main and dessert) using what you’ve learnt from the video as well as the lists of foods shown in the following slides.

Beat It: Complete the ‘Meet It’ menu but add more detail to show how the ingredients might be prepared.For example, Boiled jellyfish (served in honey and sprinkled with poppy seeds).

Smash It: Complete the ‘Beat It’ menu and then answer the questions on the last slide.

Feel free to lay out your menu in whichever way you choose!

Sumptuous Starters

Design a starter using the following ingredients:

olives cheese bread

fruit salad

Fun Fact

Food was cut into

bitesize chunks so

that Romans could eat

with their fingers.

Marvellous Mains

Stuffed meats

•goose

•duck

•boar

•goat

•lamb

•hare

•peacock

•pheasant

Fish

•eels

•oysters

•mackerel

Create a main meal using the following ingredients:

Fun Fact

Roman banquets would last for

hours and lavish entertainment

was provided between each of

the courses.

Make your

menu extra

special by

including

delicacies

like snails

and dormice!

Delectable DessertsCreate a dessert using the following ingredients:

fruit honey

Fun Fact

Food was served to

guests whilst they

reclined on couches

surrounding small

tables.nuts pastries (e.g. tarts)

Smash It:

Would you rather eat the food of a rich Roman or a poor Roman? Why?

Which strange Roman foods would you dare to try? Why?

Why do you think we view these foods as strange?