Friday 24th April – Home Learning

 

Good morning, everybody. I hope that you have that Friday feeling! That means another day of learning in store!

Do as much as you can and if there’s a piece of your child’s learning you would like to share, please feel free to send me a picture or video at t.prior@southill.dorset.sch.uk. I will be making a ‘home learning’ blog post at the end of the week so the more the merrier. If you have a picture or video associated with reading, simply email them to Mrs Symonds at media@southill.dorset.sch.uk. You only have until 12.00pm so get those pics and videos in quick.

Thank you to those parents who have already emailed me this week. If you haven’t yet, please remember to email me at some point to let me know that you’re all ok. I sent the next batch of reports out yesterday and I will be sending the final set out today as, sadly, we were not able to talk at parents evening.

Have an amazing day and a great weekend.

 

Mr. Prior 🙂

 

Spellings

 

The day has come to test your spellings. Again, I normally create a paragraph with the 5 spellings in it. It’s entirely your choice how you wish to test them.

 

address
answer
appear
arrive
believe

 

Here are the spellings for next Friday.

bicycle

breath

breathe

build

busy

 

Challenge- find out what the spellings mean using a dictionary and try to use the words in your own brilliant sentence.

 

Reading

 

Please ensure your children reads daily for at least fifteen minutes. A combination of them reading independently, out loud to an adult and letting them listen to the story being told by the adult is advisable. Simply record any reading in your child’s reading record book. Remember to also quiz your books.

 

IMPORTANT REMINDER- we are still monitoring book quizzes on Star Reader so please ensure your child is still doing them. Children are more likely to do well on quizzes if they are able to quiz the book straight after reading it. Parents- you are also more than welcome to read the question out loud for your child if it helps them.

 

Challenge- As you have already written a film review, why not have a go at a book review as well? Think about how you are going to introduce your review and how you are going to structure it using subtitles.

Writing Task-  Finding Fascinating Facts

 

 

Over the past few days we have been focusing on grammar. We have learnt about adjectives, fronted adverbials and relative clauses. I’m hoping that we will see these appearing in our piece of writing next week…

 

In order to prepare for our non-chronological report (which is a non-fiction piece of writing), we need to find some facts! I would like you to find out facts about three prehistoric animals. Here are a number of animals you can choose from-

 

Woolly Mammoth

Saber-Toothed Tiger (Smilodon)

Megabears

Quinkana

Direwolf

Woolly Rhino

The Irish Elk

American Mastodon

Megatherium (Giant Sloth)

Cave Hyena

 

Simply write the animal as the subtitle, underline it with a ruler and bullet point facts you’ve found about the creature using online sources (or books if you have them). Kiddle is a search engine specifically designed for kids so feel free to use this: https://www.kiddle.co/

 

You will need to find facts that you find interesting and the more you find, the more you will have to write about next week. There may even be some facts to get you started in the video above!

 

This is the last day on this task in preparation for next week. REMEMBER- it is only bullet points. Quick-fire facts in a shortened form.

 

Arithmetic Task- Are you even or are you odd? 

Here at the answers to the ‘Multi-multiplying task yesterday:

a) 5 x 5 x 2 = 50

b) 3 x 10 x 6 = 180

c) 4 x 3 x 5 = 60

d) 2 x 8 x 4 = 64

e) 11 x 6 x 3 = 198

 

Did you notice that it didn’t matter which numbers you multiply together first? That is because multiplication comes under commutative law. No matter which way round the numbers go, you will still reach the same answer.

 

Today’s task is simple. It’s called ‘Are you even or are you odd?’ and involves learning about even and odd numbers. Follow the instructions below…

1. Write down a variety of numbers on cards/pieces of paper.
2. Flip them over and spread them out.
3. Write the titles ‘EVEN’ and ‘ODD’ on two other pieces of paper.
4. Using a stopwatch, how quickly can children sort the cards under the correct headings.
5. Ensure children have 3 or more goes at this. See if they can get quicker each time.

 

Parents- this is another great task for you guys to get involved with. Why not give the stopwatch to your child and allow them to time you?

Teaching point- remember odd numbers end in 1 , 3 , 5 , 7 and 9. Even numbers end in 0 , 2 , 4 , 6 and 8.

Enjoy! 🙂

 

Maths No Problem Task- Finding Number of Days

 

Here are the answers to the questions you completed yesterday (workbook page 53)…

 

 

 

In focus task (page 89)- Look at what Ravi says at the bottom of the page. He thinks that every month has 30 days. Ruby isn’t so sure. Time to step in and find out! First of all, see if the children know the names of the months. Then, look at the calendars. Make a key showing how many days each month has…

 

Month             No. of days

January                      31

February                    28 etc.

 

Perhaps even help the children learn the rhyme…

 

‘30 days have September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31 (except for February which has 28). The LEAP YEAR, which comes once in four, gives February one day more.’

 

Take a look at the ‘Let’s Learn’. Test the children to see if they can remember how many days are in each month.

 

Guided Practice (page 91)- Have a look at the questions together. Remind children that they can use the key that they created if the need to in order to solve the problems. On question two, the children need to choose two months that are next to each other, e.g. March and April. and add them together in order to solve the problem. Can they do this with various combinations and explain to Charles whether it matters which two months they choose?

 

Workbook (page 54)- Children need to connect the months on the outside with the correct number of days in the middle. Remind children to use a straight edge when connecting the dots.

You may need to help the children calculate which years that a leap year appears for February. Apart from that, they should be able to do this confidently.

 

I will post the answers to these questions on Monday’s blog post.

 

Topic-based task – Tribal Tales – Glossary

 

A fun little Horrible History video to hook the children in…

 

In order to get as much out of this topic as possible (and to help the children with their understanding) they will need to familiarise themselves with the vocabulary below. Children will need to use a dictionary (or they can use an online dictionary- https://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/) in order to find out what the following words mean-

 

prehistoric

artefact

chronological

century

species

archaeology

evolution

carnivore (they may remember this word from our Predator topic)

herbivore (they may remember this word from our Predator topic)

Palaeolithic

Mesolithic

Neolithic

hunting

carving

 

Please write the word in your book, write the definition of what the word means next to it. If you really want to challenge yourself, why not have a go at writing some of the words in your very own sentence?

 

An example has been written below to get you going-

 

Prehistoric- A period of time before written history.

 

Mammoths and Saber-Toothed Tigers  were prehistoric animals. We only know about them because of cave paintings and skeletons.

 

This is your last day on this task so get searching. We have some art to get stuck into next week which I am very much looking forward to.

 

Other Fun Ideas and Activities

 

Keen to do more?  Not ready to call it a day? Then why not give some of the activities below a go (who knows, you might enjoy it)…

 

Science Experiments- Rummage around in the cupboards and you may like to have a go at some of these wicked science experiments!

 

Make a massive marshmallow, create a bouncing egg, make pepper swim (link to the importance of washing hands) create a tornado in a glass, create dragon eggs, make your own slime, make a hovercraft balloon or even a skittles rainbow.

 

Get the children making predictions as to what may happen then carry out the experiment. Want to know how to do these experiments? Visit some of the websites listen below…

https://www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk/blog/easy-cool-science-experiments-for-kids

https://sciencekids.co.nz/experiments.html

https://mashable.com/article/science-experiments-for-kids/?europe=true

 

JOKE BOOK- Did you enjoy video? If you haven’t seen Jester Prior delivering his all-time favourite jokes yet, then visit the Year 3 news page. Why not create your very own joke book? You could create a title page and note down some of the funniest jokes you can think of. I’m sure your parents could do with a laugh! 🙂

 

Audible- a great app which you can download and contains many free books (great to listen to before bedtime).

 

Prior’s Top Audible Picks – Kid Normal by Radio DJ Greg James and Chris Smith.

-Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney

-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

-The Gift of Dark Hollow (the sequel to Podkin One-Ear) by Kieran Larwood

– Slime by David Walliams

 

Alternatively, if you’re a real keen Walliams fan, he is currently releasing a lot of chapters of his books for free! This includes an audio story from The World’s Worst Children every day for the next 30 days! Check out this link- https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses-catch-up/

 

Sumdog- Online maths and literacy questions delivered through entertaining games. Simply create a login totally free of charge, create an avatar and let your children explore and play. Mr Prior’s favourite game…JUNK PILE! It’s addictive- be warned. Parents- you can also set certain questions on there for your children to focus on. Any questions, please email me.

 

Maths Factor-  KEEN FOR EVEN MORE MATHS? Carol Vordeman has made her website free during this strange time…feel free to login and check out some of the activities- https://www.themathsfactor.com/

 

ICT- Fancy becoming quicker at typing and brushing up on your fine motor skills? Why not have a go at BBC Dance Mat Typing…Dancing for your fingertips…you know the drill…follow the link- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

 

French- Bonjour! Can you find out the names of the following colours in French?

 

Blue, Green, Red, Black, Yellow, Pink, Purple and Orange

 

Then can you explain what is your favourite colour…

Ma couleur préférée ________________

 

Challenge- Create a ‘French’ rainbow to stick in your window. Simply write the names of the colours in French inside each arch.

 

Lego Construction- Can you create Stone Henge or even a cave out of Lego?

 

Lexia- If you have a Lexia account, please feel free to login and try to do it for at least 15 minutes.

 

The Daily Mile- If you have a garden big enough (or a quiet field nearby) why not head out for the Daily Mile? 15 minutes…how many laps can you do?

 

PE- Well, what a week! Why not finish it off in style…