Year 3 Home Learning 19th November 2020

Date: 18th Nov 2020 @ 3:29pm

Thursday 19^th November 2020

Good morning Year 3. I hope you are all doing OK at home and finding plenty of things to do that make you happy. Maybe today you could focus on doing something nice for the people in your house and make them feel happy. Mrs Wood put a big smile on my face yesterday by delivering a lovely pink bunch of flowers to my doorstep J and my sister delivered my favourite lunch – sushi.

As I was feeling a bit better yesterday, I took the time to do some puzzles and read some of my book, and of course watched the next Harry Potter movie, one more to go. I love doing arrow words and Sudoku. I haven’t listened to any Christmas songs like Ms Hodson yet but I do like the idea of dancing in the kitchen to some. You know how much Ms Hodson likes to dance in her kitchen – it makes me smile to think of her doing that… and hopefully some of you have taken her advice and had a go.

I am really looking forward to seeing the work that you have been doing at home. I have been on Sumdog every day and I can see that you are working so hard, I am very proud of you all.

Don’t forget to keep all of the work that you are doing at home so you can bring it in and show me when we are back on 24^th November.

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody at home today for 20 minutes. Tell them what you have read in your own words.  

Spelling

Your spellings for this week all end in ‘–il’

pencil, fossil, nostril pupil, April, gerbil, lentil, evil, basil, stencil

Ask somebody at home to test you on your spellings. If there are any words that you struggle with, practise them a bit more and then have another go.

Times tables

Ask somebody to test you at home on your x tables. Ask them to read them out twice and in a mixed up order.

Here is a bonus question: 34 x 10

Writing and computing

I have been talking a lot about things that make us happy. I have based today’s writing activity on a video that makes me laugh a lot. The video is below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUC1VZQE1E

The video includes sloths. Sloths are creatures that live in tropical rainforests.

I would like you to do some research and then create an animal fact file about sloths.

Below are some ideas for websites you might want to use for research and for examples of fact files. Attached to this blog is a blank animal fact file you can copy and use if you want to.

https://www.chesterzoo.org/schools/resources/?search=animal+fact+files

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sloth

https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/why-are-sloths-slow-and-six-other-sloth-facts

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/sloth/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/34C4dGp1kqnbs5MT7TZQN44/10-incredible-facts-about-the-sloth

Maths

There is a new Sumdog challenge where you will be practising some of the Year 3 skills. This challenge will end on Sunday evening.

I would like you to have more practice at telling the time today.

Write a list of different things you do throughout the day – look at the time for each of them and write it down. Try to write the time like this if you can -  5 minutes past 8, 20 minutes past 9, half past 12, etc.

You might write the times for the following:

• Woke up
• Had breakfast
• Read my book
• Had lunch
• Did some writing
• Went on Sumdog
• Tidied my room
• Watched TV
• Had tea
• Went to bed

Geography

Use an atlas or an online map to find out where sloths live. It might be interesting to have a look on Google Maps and Google Earth.

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