P3 Towerbank Learning@Home Week beginning Monday 11th January, 2021
Literacy and English
• Reading – This term we are setting you an ‘Around the World’ reading challenge. In this
challenge you move round the world by reading. 500 miles is 10 minutes spent reading
or sharing a book with an adult. The challenge is split into seven journeys and each of
which finishes at a ‘checkpoint city’. How far will you go? Use the sheets Reading Miles
to help.
• Writing – We would like you to write a short paragraph about your holiday. You could
describe some of your favourite activities and moments. Please use the planning sheet
to help. Remember to always check your writing so that it makes sense and is punctuated well. Challenge – can you use any wow (descriptive) words too?
• Spelling – their, there and they’re. These words all sound the same, but they are spelt
differently and have different meanings. Please see the Their, There and They’re
PowerPoint and Worksheet.
• Punctuation/Grammar – Complete the Editing Worksheet. Each sentence has a spelling,
grammar or punctuation error – can you spot the mistakes? For an extension activity, can you up-level the sentences by adding an interesting word (wow), sentence opener
or connective.
• Listening/Talking – See the activity below as part of Health and Wellbeing this week.
Numeracy and Maths
• Counting – mild
Mild
Start at 56. Count on and back in ones and tens till you reach the nearest 100 or 0.
Example: 56,57,58,59,60… and 56,55,54,53,52…
Example: 56,66,76… and 56,46,36…
Now try the same starting with 69, 75, 38, 44 and 37.
Spicy
Start at 547. Count on and back in ones and tens till you reach the nearest 100.
Example: 547,548,549… and 547,546,545…
Example: 547,557,567… and 547,537,527…
Now do the same starting at 633, 759, 477 and 846.
• Sum Challenge –
Mild
Write down as many sums as you can to make 10 such as 5+5, 6+4 and 2+8.
Now try the same with 20 and 30.
Spicy
Write down 3 numbers that add together to make 10, such as 5+3+2.
Now try the same with 20 and 30.
Hot
Write down as many sums as you can to make 50, 70 then 90, such as 24 + 26 = 50 and
42 + 28 = 70
• Rounding to the Nearest 10 –
Watch the PowerPoint Rounding to Nearest 10 and then complete the worksheet Rounding to
Nearest 10.
• Time – Clock Design Design and make your own clock inside or outside. Be as imaginative as you can! Look online if you are stuck for ideas or use the worksheet, Make a Clock Face.
• Time – Telling the Time – o’clock and half past
Watch the PowerPoint Telling the Time
Remember: the long hand points to the minutes and the short hand points to the hours.
If the long hand is pointing the 12, then it will be something o’clock.
If the long hand is pointing to the 6, then it will be half past something.
Now use your clock to show, for example: 3 o’clock, 10 o’clock, 5 o’clock, half past 2, half past
8, half past 9.
O’clock times in digital end in: 00 so 3 o’clock would be 3:00.
Half past times in digital end in: 30 so 3 o’clock would be 3:30.
Now try the worksheet What is the Time?
You could keep practising using http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/hickoryDickory/
Additional Curricular Areas
• Health and Wellbeing – Building Resilience - At the start of a New Year
we often think about the year that has just gone past and look forward to the New Year ahead. Sometimes we set a New Year’s Resolution which is a goal we hope to achieve. It could be something you want
to get better at or something new you want to try. Complete one of the following:
o Watch the Launch Assembly for Have a Goal and complete the sheet New Year
Balloons.
o Listening and Talking - Talk to your friend or family about the things you can do
now that you couldn’t do when you were younger, but you can do easily now. For example: writing your name or riding your bike. How many can you think of?
Draw and label 10 of them on the sheet What Can I Do?
• STEM – Our mini topic for this term is Weather and Climate Change and this week we are
setting you the challenge of becoming Weather Watchers!
o Watch the following Weather Watchers PowerPoint which introduces some key
facts about weather and explains the different instruments we use to record and measure weather.
o Now create your very own weather instrument or indeed weather station for recording the weather. Be as creative as you can. Keep a track of your results through the week. You may use My Weather Record Activity Sheet or record it in
different way.
• Social Studies – Using the blank map of the UK worksheet can you mark the key cities,
islands, rivers, mountain ranges and any of your favourite places to visit. Any day this
week, use the BBC Weather website to record the weather for these cities and towns. What differences or similarities do you notice?
• Expressive Arts – Antonio Vivaldi is a classical composer who wrote a famous piece of
music called the Four Seasons. Each movement sounds different and represents the
season they are named after, for example Spring is full of energy in a major key signature, whereas Winter sounds harsh and is in a minor key.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA
Listen to the music and using your imagination draw what you hear. Watch this BBC clip to give you some inspiration.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/thunder-jam-weather/zk6pxyc
• French – You can listen to a song about the weather here:
https://youtu.be/eBvJVOuBPXI . The French Weather PowerPoint will
help you to say the words. Using the information on the PowerPoint
complete the Draw the Weather sheet.
Supporting Learning Ideas - Signpost of the Week:
• This week, we would like you to keep yourself fit and healthy by taking part in a workout
with Claire Roden, ‘Claire the Bear’ from Enjoy-a-Ball. Some of you will have met Claire before at Enjoy-a-ball classes or birthday parties. Take a photo and upload to Teams to
let us know how you get on! Enjoy! https://youtu.be/A2UtwQfHZL4
Reading Miles Passport
Name:
Class:
New York, USA
Home
Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
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Bem-vindo
ao Brasil!
Journey 1Home to New York City
Journey 2New York City
to Rio De Janeiro
10 minutes reading = 500 reading miles
Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
Nairobi, Kenya
Sydney,Australia
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Karibuni Kenya!
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Welcome to
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Journey 3Rio De Janeiro to Nairobi
Journey 4Nairobi to Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Beijing,China
Athens, Greece
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Huanyíng nín dào zhongguó!
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Kalós
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stin
Elláda!
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Welcome home!
Journey 5Sydney to Beijing
Journey 6Beijing to Athens
Final JourneyAthens to Home
Congratulations, you’ve read your way around the world!
New York
Rio de Janeiro
Nairobi
Home
Athens Beijing
Sydney
Reading Miles Global ChallengeRead your way... around the world!
1 NEW YORK CITY, USA
Welcome to the USA! Reading Miles fact: Native Americans use storytelling as a way of sharing their history.
Start/FiniSh: home
2 RIO DE JANIERO, BRAZIL
Bem-vindo ao Brasil!
Reading Miles fact: Many tribes of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil use pantomime to help tell their stories.
3 NAIROBI, KENYA
Karibuni Kenya!
4 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Welcome to Australia!
Reading Miles fact: The Australian Aboriginal people used to paint symbols and pictures on cave walls to help them remember their stories.
5 BEIJING,CHINA
Huanyíng nín dào zhongguó!
6 ATHENS, GREECE
Kalós ílthate stin Elláda!
Want to read a traditional Greek legend? Try the Tales of the Underworld eBook at www.oxfordowl.co.uk
Want to read a traditional Chinese story? Try The Magic Paintbrush eBook at www.oxfordowl.co.uk
Want to read a traditional African story? Try the Fables from Africa eBook at www.oxfordowl.co.uk
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Last Day
Rounding Numbers to 10 Here are some rules for rounding… If the number ends in 1,2,3 or 4, YOU NEED TO ROUND DOWN TO THE NEAREST DECADE / NUMBER ENDING IN 0 If the number ends in 5,6,7,8,9 YOU NEED TO ROUND UP TO THE NEAREST DECADE / NUMBER ENDING IN 0
For example:
23 is between 20 and 30 but ends in a 3, so we round down. It is nearer to 20 so 23 to the nearest 10 is 20.
38 is between 30 and 40 but ends in an 8, so we round up. It is nearer 40 so 38 to the nearest 10 is 40. Now try the examples in the next sheet.
Number Nearest multiples of 10
61 60 70
61 would be rounded down to 60 24
…… would be rounded…………to…… 45
…… would be rounded…………to…… 37
…… would be rounded…………to…… 19
…… would be rounded…………to…… 98
…… would be rounded…………to…… 73
…… would be rounded…………to…… 55
…… would be rounded…………to…… 92
…… would be rounded…………to…… 21
…… would be rounded…………to……
Make a Clock Face
1 2 5 7
4 8
11 10
12
6
3 9
Use a split pin to put the hands on the clock.
Name: _______________________ Date: _______________
Telling the Time – o’clock and half past What time is it?
Can you put the hands and numbers in the right place on the analogue and digital clocks?
6 o’clock 4 o’clock 11 o’clock
3 o’clock 5 o’clock 8 o’clock
1 o’clock 10 o’clock 12 o’clock
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: : :
: :
: : :
2 o’clock 7 o’clock 9 o’clock
Half past 10 Half past 8 Half past 12
Half past 9 Half past 3 Half past 5 Extra: Look around your house and see how many different clocks you can find. How many hours are there in a day? How many minutes are there in an hour? How many seconds are in a minute?
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: : :
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Building Resilience:
What can I do that I couldn’t do when
I was younger?
My Weather Record Activity Sheet Task: Keep a record of the weather during your week. Draw the weather symbol into the box for each day.
Morning (before lunchtime) Afternoon (after lunchtime) Evening (hometime)
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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Count: How many days were...
• rainy? _______________
• sunny?_______________
• cloudy?______________
• windy?_______________
• snowy?_______________
• icy?_________________
• stormy?______________
Map of the UK
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