Year 3

Home learning

w/c 29.06.20

Dear Parents,

We have made a weekly pack that coincides with the learning that the key worker

children will be doing in school for Year 3. Our theme this week is beaches. We have

included a suggested timetable of daily tasks including the Zoom lessons for maths and

English Monday - Friday next week.

Monday

English – Zoom lesson based on ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker

Maths – Zoom lesson about angles

Topic – Design an ice-cream sundae or cone

Tuesday

English – Zoom lesson based on ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker

Maths – Zoom lesson about angles

Reading – ‘All about Beaches’ comprehension

Wednesday

English – Zoom lesson based on ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker

Maths – Zoom lesson about angles

Topic – Research seasides during the Victorian era

Thursday

English – Zoom lesson based on ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker

Maths – Zoom arithmetic

Spelling – choose 6-10 words from either the Year 2 or Year 3 spelling list. Practise

using ‘Look, cover, write, check’ and put words into sentences. Topic – Create a paper plate beach

Friday

English – Bees Knees/share writing

Maths – Bingo/ maths games

Handwriting – Copy ‘A Seashore Song’ in your neatest, joined handwriting

Topic – Finger puppets

English – Narrative

This week we will continue to base our writing around the picture book ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker. You do not need to prepare anything ahead of time as we will share the

relevant pictures in the Zoom lessons. Just make sure you have a pencil and paper and

are ready to be a writing superstar!

Maths

Monday – making angles/ angles in shapes

Pages 135 - 138

Page 139 - 141

Page 142 - 144

Tuesday – right angles

Angle hunt – how many right angles can you find

around your house?

Pages 145, 146

Page 147, 148

Wednesday – Comparing angles (acute)

Angel hunt – can you find angles smaller or bigger than

a right angle?

Page 149 - `154

Draw your own angles or shapes and identify whether

that are acute or obtuse angles

Thursday – Arithmetic quiz

Friday – Bingo/ games

(Making turns will not be covered in the zoom lesson due to the confusion of teaching

clockwise and anti-clockwise turns over a mirrored, but please feel free to complete

pages 155 and 156 in your workbooks if you want to)

Cross-curricular (computing) Direct a BeeBot using directional instructions

https://www.terrapinlogo.com/emu/beebot.html

Angle eater (you could use this on your angle hunt)

Reading

Please read out loud to an adult every day. Below are possible questions to discuss about

your book.

Can you read the text ‘All About Beaches’ and answer the questions?

Handwriting

Copy the poem ‘A Seashore Song’ by Lenore Hetrick in your neatest, joined handwriting.

Spelling

Year 2 spellings – https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-5157-new-year-2-common-

exception-words

Year 3 spellings –https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-e-3099-statutory-spellings-

word-mat-years-3-and-4-word-mat

SPaG

Can you match the contracted form to the correct expanded form?

PE

- Go Noodle or Joe Wicks- get up and move every morning!

Topic – Beaches

Design an ice cream sundae or cone. Can you invent your own ice cream flavour? What

would your ultimate ice cream sundae look like? Can you create a collage?

Create a paper plate beach. Can you design a beach? What natural and physical features

would you find?

Victorian Seaside – research about the seaside in the Victorian era. What is the same

and what is different? Can you draw a picture or write a diary entry? You could focus

on one British seaside like Brighton, Blackpool or Scarborough.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/audio-stories-victorian-seaside/zfxjkmn

Make finger puppets

https://www.redtedart.com/easy-bird-finger-puppet-origami/