Thursday 23rd April – Home Learning
Good morning, everybody. It’s Thursday! That means another day of learning in store!
Do as much as you can and if there’s a picture of your child completing or holding their home 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.
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 another lot out today as, sadly, we were not able to talk at parents evening – so stay tuned.
Mr. Prior 🙂
Spellings
Last day of learning your before the test on 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- 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!
You have today and Friday in order to complete this task in preparation for next week so best of luck. REMEMBER- it is only bullet points. Quick-fire facts in a shortened form.
Arithmetic Task- Multi-Multiplying!
Sometimes, you may get a question that requires you to multiply twice. For example-
5 x 4 x 3 =
To solve this problem, simply times two of the answers together, then times the answer by the final number.
5 x 4 = 20
20 x 3 = 60
Remember, you can use column multiplication or repeated addition to help you when the numbers get bigger. Have a go at the questions below
a) 5 x 5 x 2 =
b) 3 x 10 x 6 =
c) 4 x 3 x 5 =
d) 2 x 8 x 4 =
e) 11 x 6 x 3 =
I will post the answers to these tomorrow 🙂
Maths No Problem Task- Changing Minutes to Seconds
Here are the answers to the questions you completed yesterday (workbook page 52)…
Today’s task may be challenging for some! Remember, it is perfectly ok to work together on tasks (that’s part of learning). If you feel you are heavily taking the lead that is absolutely fine.
In focus task (page 87)- Cover up the ‘Let’s Learn’ and give children a bit of time to try and solve the problem independently. Ask them whether they think it is more than a minute. Then steer them in the direction of ‘Well how many minutes did the team take to solve the puzzle?’ The answer is 2 minutes. Ask how they know it is two minutes?
There are 60 seconds in a minute. So there are 2 minutes because there are two lots of 60. Encourage children to use the 6 times table and add the zero back on the end in order to count up in minutes
6 + the zero = 60 seconds = 1 minute
12 + the zero = 120 seconds = 2 minutes
18 + the zero = 180 seconds = 3 minutes etc..
The 6 times table can really help solve how many seconds there are in minutes.
Take a look at the ‘Let’s Learn’. Sometimes, the minutes might not perfectly match up with the seconds, therefore number bonds can really help. Count up in 6’s as high as you can then work out how many seconds are left.
For example- Question 2 is 100 seconds – how many minutes is that?
Well, I know that there are 60 seconds in 1 minute.
I know there are 120 seconds in 2 minutes so it’s less than two minutes
60 + ____ = 100 seconds
I would need to add 40 seconds therefore the answer is 1 minute and 40 seconds.
Guided Practice (page 88)- Again, your child may need support on this so feel free to help. Perhaps writing a key may help them…
Key
60 seconds = 1 minute
120 seconds = 2 minutes
180 seconds = 3 minutes
240 seconds = 4 minutes
300 seconds = 5 minutes etc…
Work through the problems using both the 6 times table and number bonds. For question 4, the children will need to turn one of the times into seconds or the other time into minutes in order to compare them. They will then see that they are in fact the same time.
Workbook (page 53)- Encourage children to take their time and use their 6 times table and number bonds in order to solve the problems. Again, if children need support, that is fine. Simply put a small ‘s’ next to the questions you have helped them with.
I will post the answers to these questions on tomorrow’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-Tooth Tigers were prehistoric animals. We only know about them because of cave paintings and skeletons
You have got the rest of the week for this task so take your time, present it in your neatest handwriting and remember to leave a line space between each glossary word.
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- It’s been an action-packed first week back. Perhaps you’re feeling a little tired and overwhelmed. Why not take a deep breath, relax and try some yoga. Trust me. It’s good for the mind and body. 🙂