Year 3

Week beginning: 15.6.20

It is really important to make the most of all learning opportunities during this strange time.

To help you do this, we expect Year 3 children to do the following each day:

English – 20 minutes Times Table Rockstars – 15 minutes

Reading – 20 minutes Teacher activities – 30 minutes

Spellings – 15 minutes P.E. – 30 minutes

Maths – 20 minutes

As teachers are back in school now, you won't hear from us quite as much as you did before. We still

love to receive your home learning though so please continue to email us

(year3@hollylodge.kite.academy).

Best wishes,

Mrs. Rea, Mrs. Sykes and Mrs. Bannister

Maths Watch the videos and complete the activities from BBC Bitesize:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons/1

Monday – Ordering fractions

Tuesday – Adding fractions with the same denominator

Wednesday – Subtracting fractions with the same

denominator

Thursday – Problem solving with addition and subtraction of

fractions

Friday - Challenge of the week

When might you add or subtract fractions in real life? Can you make up your own problems involving

adding and subtracting fractions?

Keep practising your number bonds on NumBots or your times tables on Times Table Rockstars:

https://play.numbots.com/#/intro or https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school

English Improve your grammar and punctuation skills with BBC Bitesize:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

Monday – Exploring poetry

Tuesday – Sound words

Wednesday – Nonsense poetry

Thursday – Alliteration

Friday – Slime by David Walliams

Reading Your challenge this week is to look for interesting adjectives.

Each time you read this week look for examples of interesting adjectives. These give more detail

about the noun and help the reader to form a picture in their mind. For example; the towering cliff,

my faded t-shirt, a ghostly whisper.......

Task: 1. Write down any interesting adjectives you find (make sure that you copy them accurately).

2. Draw a picture of your favourite character from your book.

3. Label your picture using the interesting adjectives you have discovered - can you think of your

own interesting adjectives to describe your character?

Spelling Our spellings this week are words that use the short /u/ sound spelt with the letter ‘o’.

For example: other, mother, love, nothing, oven.

Say these words aloud and listen carefully to the sound made where the letter ‘o’ is written.

Your spellings are listed on the Look-Say-Cover-Write-Check list towards the back of this pack.

Choose one spelling activity each day from the “Spelling Menu” to help you practise and learn your

spellings each week. Perhaps you can have a test on a Friday?

You can use this grid to practise some Statutory Spellings or high frequency words every day too.

Topic - Volcanoes This week your task is to make a set of top trump volcano cards. Research 10 famous volcanoes and

make a card about each one. Then use your cards to play a game!

Science Amazing flowers

Flowers are amazing, delicate and beautiful. There are so many

different types, sizes, shapes and colours but they all have

certain things in common. Look carefully at a variety of

flowers, look inside at the structure of the flowers. Can you

draw or paint a flower and label the parts inside it?

Or you could even make your own model of a flower!

Look at the work of artist Georgia O’Keeffe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/science-ks1-ks2-ivys-plant-workshop-the-anatomy-

of-the-flower/zjmhkmn

Music

For this week’s music activity, you are going to keep a sound diary. Choose a time of

the day. At the same time each day, stop what you are doing and listen. Listen

carefully (for about a minute) to the sounds around you and draw a picture of or

write words to describe what you can hear. How do the sounds you hear make you

feel? Do you like the sounds you can hear?

What do you think is making the sounds that you can hear?

At the end of the week look at back at your sound diary. Did you hear the same sounds at the same

time each day?

PSHE Respect is one of our school values. Having respect for someone means you

think good things about who a person is or how he/she acts. You can have

respect for others, and you can have respect for yourself.

Showing respect to someone means you act in a way that shows you care

about their feelings and well-being.

(From: https://talkingtreebooks.com/definition/what-is-respect.html)

How can you show respect to other people even if they are different from you? Discuss this with

someone at home.

Use the sentence starter: “I can show respect for others by…”

Design a poster showing different ways in which respect can be shown.

R.E. For most fasting Muslims the day begins just before dawn with prayers and a meal. The day then

continues as normal. Just after sunset there is another meal called Iftar, where family and friends

come together. Often dates are the first thing eaten at this meal. There are 6 prayer times every

day during Ramadan. Ramadan is a time for Muslims to donate some of their wealth, known as Zakat,

to the poor and people who need it. Behaving well and giving up any bad habits such as lying or being

unkind are really important in Ramadan. Many Muslims will also try to read the Qur’an all the way

from beginning to end during the month of Ramadan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/religious-education-ks2-my-life-my-religion-

ramadan-and-eid-ul-fitr/zdv7pg8

You could try to make some hanging mobiles like this and/or create your own Mehndi design on paper

– draw an outline of your hand and decorate the outline.

Challenge: find out about why moon is important to Muslims during Ramadan.

P.E. Try the "Strike a Pose” (balance) challenge from the Virtual Surrey School Games.

http://www.activesurrey.com/activesurrey/uploads/School_Sport/school_games/Virtual_SSG/Wee

k_2_-_Strike_a_Pose.pdf

If you want to enter either of the competitions, you will need a parent to enter for you.

Parents: These competitions are not run by Holly Lodge. More information (including terms and

conditions and online safety information) is here: http://www.activesurrey.com/events/games/VSSG

Art Creating a Nick Rowlands inspired volcano artwork.

Materials:

A4 or A3 piece of paper, black or dark card if possible. White is also

fine.

Acrylic paint and a paint brush.

Chalk pastels. Pencils, watercolor paints or crayons would also work.

Smock and some newspaper or cardboard to lay underneath and around

your artwork when you’re getting messy with the paint.

Create a Background First, we need to create the background for your picture.

1. What colours will you use for the volcano? Just like the pictures on the

left, use your pastels (or alternative materials listed above) to draw a

volcano. Use your materials to create a layered effect. If you are using

brown, try and use 2 or 3 different browns.

2. What colours will you use for the night sky? If you have white or a light

colour card, try and fill the entire space with a background colour to

emulate the night sky. The Eruption

What technique could we use to create the eruption?

You will need to find a safe place in your house or garden to be creative (this could

get messy). Make sure you’re wearing a smock and lay some newspaper or

cardboard under and around your artwork to protect your surrounds.

1. Choose at least 3 acrylic paint colours for your eruption lava.

2. Decide on what techniques you will use for your lava.

a. Dripping/running

b. Splatter

c. Splodging

d. Flicking.

Make sure you send us in your finished piece of artwork. We hope you had fun creating your own

Nick Rowlands inspired volcano artwork.

Keen to learn more? Try some of these activities: https://www.thenational.academy/online-

classroom/year-3

Want to get outside? Try some outdoor learning activities with Learning through Landscapes (under

the home learning activities or here)

Spelling Menu Choose how you want to practise your weekly spelling rule/words.

Try to choose a different activity each day.

Look-Say-Cover-Write-Check Look at the words on your spelling list and say

each one aloud. Copy each of the words. Cover

the word then write the word. Repeat for each

word in your list. Check that you have spelled

the words correctly. If incorrect, write out the

words correctly.

Book Search How many of your spelling words or

words that follow the spelling rule

can you find in your reading book?

Write out each word that you find.

Word Parts – Syl-la-bles Write out your spelling words in pencil. Use

different colours to divide each word into

syllables. Remember to count the syllables in a

word, count the number of “jaw drops” or tap

the beat of the word.

jumping jump-ing

amazing a-ma-zing

petrified pet-ri-fied

Spelling Pyramid Write out each of your spelling words one letter

at a time in the style of a pyramid.

w

wh

whi

whil

while

Blue Vowels and Red Consonants Vowels are the letters: a e i o u

Consonants are all the other letters of the

alphabet.

Write out each of your spelling words using blue

for vowels and red for consonants.

Words on Back This is an activity for two. Ask an adult at home

to sit with their back to you. Now use your

finger to ‘write’ one of your spelling words on

their back. If you spell it correctly, you get a

point. If it is incorrect, write out the word

three times correctly. Swap roles. 😊

Spelling Artist Draw a very simple scene or a series of 2D

shapes. Now use coloured pencils to ‘colour’ the

scene or shapes with your spelling words. To do

this, simply fill up each image you have drawn

with your spelling words written over and over

again.

Silly Sentences/Write a Story Have a go with using each of your spelling words

in a silly sentence. Alternatively, can you write a

100 word or less story using words from your

spelling list? Underline each of your spelling

words.

Cut-out Words (Ask for permission before using any magazines

or newspapers.) Cut out letters from an old

newspaper or magazine and use them to spell

your words by gluing them onto a piece of paper.

Rainbow Spelling First write each of your spelling

words in pencil. Then trace over

each word using a different coloured

pencil or felt tip for each word.

Alternative: Trace over each individual letter

using a different coloured pencil or felt tip.

Mirror Image Write out each of your spelling words correctly.

Next to each word, write the word again, but

this time in reverse.

measure erusaem

Beat the Clock Set a timer for 2 minutes. How many

times can you neatly write each spelling

word within that time?

Look – Say – Cover – Write - Check

Look at the words. Say the words aloud. Copy the words. Cover the words.

Write the words. Check the words. Correct the words.

Spelling Rule: words with the short /u/ sound spelt with the letter ‘o’.

Underline the short/u/ sound in these words.

Word list Copy your spelling

words.

Cover the words and

write them without

looking.

Check and correct.

woman

wonder

month

govern

brother

another

shovel

above

Monday

discover

NB: This activity could be completed on a piece of paper divided into three columns if

you are unable to print it.