Monday 20th April - Home Learning - Southill Primary School

Monday 20th April – Home Learning

Good morning, everybody. I hope you all had a fantastic Easter and you are all safe, well and not completely filled up with chocolate!

We recommend that children need to at least be doing a little bit of reading, writing and maths each day and you are more than welcome to support your child in any way that you can. I will also include a ‘topic-themed’ activity (linked to our new topic) which needs to be completed by the end of the week. At the bottom of the page, I have included other fun activities which you are welcome to do if you have time, such as: fitness videos, science experiments and even some French!

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. If you have any other videos or fantastic pictures to share with the school about anything else you are doing at home, simply email them to Mrs Symonds at media@southill.dorset.sch.uk.

Please email me at some point during the week just to let me know that you’re ok. I will also be sending a report all about how your child is getting on at some point this week as, sadly, we were not able to talk at parents evening – so stay tuned.

Mr. Prior 🙂

Spellings

Learn the five spellings below ready for Friday

address

answer

appear

arrive

believe

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 you are still doing them. Parents- you are 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- Adding Adjectives

Over the next few days, we will be focusing primarily on grammar-based tasks which will help us write a non-chronological report by the end of the week. Today, our focus is describing words. Adjectives can really help paint a picture for the reader and help us visualise nouns. They can describe the size, shape, colour or even feel of something. Feel free to watch this ‘Frozen-themed’ video to find out more…

Title- Awesome Adjectives

Today’s task has been split up into three challenges…

Challenge 1- Using online sources and books, can you list a couple of adjectives under each heading. This will help you with the other two challenges. One has been done for you to get you going.

Colour Size Shape Feel Feelings

crimson ginormous round smooth courageous

Challenge 2-Write out the sentences below in your neatest handwriting and fill in the blanks with impressive adjectives

a) The ________ ogre had a __________, __________ nose.

b) Quietly, the ___________ boy crept inside the ____________, _____________ house.

c) As quick as a flash, the ___________ superhero flew over the _________, _______ city.

d) Without warning, the ___________ police officers darted towards the ___________, __________ criminal.

e) The ___________ teenager stomped up the ____________, ___________ steps.

Challenge 3- Sentence of 3

Below, you can see that 3 features have been used to describe a troll…

‘The troll has beady eyes, a bulbous nose and yellow teeth.’

As you can see, you need a comma after the first of the three things. Then use an and after the second thing you are describing.

Now have a go at doing a sentence of three about the following creatures…

f) The troll has _________, __________ and _________.

g) The unicorn has ________, __________ and ___________.

h) Strangely, the lady had ___________, ___________ and ______________ in her handbag.

i) The mammoth had ___________, ___________ and __________.

Challenge- Create your own sentence of three from scratch

Creative challenge- Choose one of the creatures you’ve described, draw them and label its features using the adjectives you have chosen.

Arithmetic Task- TT ROCKSTARS

15 minutes on TT Rockstars. This website is excellent for really mastering your times tables. If you are having problems logging in, please do let me know and I will try to help in any way that I can.

Maths No Problem Task- Measuring Time in Minutes

Here are the answers to the questions you completed on the Friday before we broke up for Easter…

We have a couple more lessons on time then we will be moving on to picture and bar graphs.

A Pointer from Prior- we will not be doing every single lesson on time in this chapter as time (funnily enough) is against us. If your child wishes to complete these extra activities at any point or you would like to do some more work on time, please feel free to complete these additional activities in the chapter.

Refresher- If you haven’t looked at time for a couple of weeks, perhaps go through the basics using the yellow clock. Ask questions such as:

What does the small hand tell us?

What does the big hand tell us?

How many minutes are in an hour?

What does quarter past, half past and quarter to mean?

How do we work out 24 hour clock?

What do AM and PM mean?

If it is 3:20pm and it takes me 2 hours to get home, what time will I arrive at my house?

In focus task (page 78)- Cover up the ‘Let’s Learn’ part below. Elliott is painting a picture and it shows two clocks. How long does it take him to complete the picture?

Discuss possible ways of counting round the clock in minutes- ones, fives, tens. Some children may be smart and start at half past because they know that is 3o minutes or quarter to because they know that is 45 minutes. As long as children are accurate then whichever way they choose to do it is fine. The answer is 50 minutes.

Challenge question- If Elliott was painting the picture past midday (PM) what time would he finish using the 24-hour clock?

Textbook (page 80)- Guided Practice- Take a look at the questions and see if the children can calculate how many minutes have passed using pictures of the clocks. To help with their understanding of how long things take, have a go at Ravi’s question ‘suggest what each activity could be’. Ensure children read the time on the first clock to begin with, then count the minutes.

Workbook (page 49)- Children to solve the problems by calculating the amount of minutes that have passed. Feel free to model how the minute hand moves round using the yellow clock. There is no harm in supporting your children if they need it. Simply put an ‘s’ next to the questions you have helped them with.

For question E the children will need to understand that there are 60 minutes in an hour so they will need to count on in minutes to the next hour then add on the additional 4 minutes.

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

Topic-based task – Tribal Tales – Asking Questions

Our topic this half term is based around the Stone Age (see curriculum plans for details). Below are a number of pictures which the children simply need to generate questions they have in order to find out more later on during the topic. Encourage children to think of open-ended questions which would require a more detailed response rather than a one word answer.

Stone Age pics

Here are two questions to get you going…

What were the tools used for?
How did people start a fire back then?

Think of as many as you can and don’t forget the capital letter and question mark. We will aim to answer your burning questions by the end of the topic.

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…

Super Simple Science Experiments

https://www.coolkidfacts.com/5-fun-and-simple-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 dwnload 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

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- David Walliams

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- DanceMatTyping

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- Remember to tune into Joe Wicks in the morning. If you still have energy to burn, then why not have a go at the dance routines below!