Morning Afternoon For Monday’s link, you will need to login to discovery espresso: Discovery Espresso: U/N: student31661 P/W: meadows1 www.discoveryeducation.co.uk

Mon

ENGLISH Today’s lesson is about using the prefixes (mis,dis, un,in) https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

MATHS Today’s lesson is: Drawing lines and shapes accurately https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

MATHS CHALLENGE—if you fancy testing your maths problem solving skills with an additional challenge, have a go at this: Biscuit decorations Problem—solutions are on website—Follow the decorating rules, how many biscuits have no / all the decorations?https://nrich.maths.org/154

Significant Person 1) Mary Seacole was an inspirational nurse and businesswoman — follow this link to read about the life of Mary Seacole https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/news/telegraph/pshe/031015_mary_seacole.html?source=search-all-all-all-all&source-keywords=florence%20nightingale afterwards, watch this information video about Mary, making notes as you watch it: https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/video/item1086708/grade2/module1085706/index.html?source=search-all-all-all-all&source-keywords=florence%20nightingale Activity 1— complete the PurpleMash Mary Seacole quiz (2do) Activity 2 — complete an information report about the life of Mary Seacole (2do)

Activity3 — order the Mary Seacole timeline cards (see next page) to create a chronological sequence of her life.

Serial Mash— Choose a story from the either the diamond or emerald section of serial mash and read chapter 1 and complete quiz 1.

Tue

ENGLISH Today’s lesson is: Coordinating conjunctions https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

MATHS Today’s lesson is: Recognising 2D shapes https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

MATHS CHALLENGE—Today’s maths problem involves adding to 15. Add pairs of numbers in a pyramid to end up with 15 at the top, can you choose the correct starting numbers?https://nrich.maths.org/10592

Significant Person 2) Florence Nightingale is better remembered for her work in the Crimean war as a nurse than Mary Seacole. Watch this video clip that tells you all about Florence nightingale’s life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jONlz7vaMnU Activity 1) Complete the storyboard (see attached page below) and recreate Florence nightingale’s story as a comic/storybaord . Each box should have a picture and a short sentence to describe this part of the story. You have to decide which 8 sections of her story to include. Remember to keep your chosen events in the right order! Activity 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5pSbe-9bNQ Florence Nightingale has always been celebrated and remembered for her work during the Crimean war. Unfortunately, Mary Seacole was, until more recent times, was largely forgotten for her work. Do you think this is fair? Write a letter explaining why Mary Sea-cole deserves to be remembered just as well as Florence Nightingale, how do you think we should remember and celebrate them both together?

Serial Mash— Continue with the story you chose yesterday and complete the next 2 chapters along with the chapter quizzes.

Wed

ENGLISH Today’s lesson is: Writing a letter https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

MATHS Today’s lesson is: Recognising 3D shapes https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

MATHS CHALLENGE—Today’s maths problem involves adding odd numbers to create 35—you can play this with someone at home, who will be the winner? https://nrich.maths.org/10328

ART ACTIVITY — see the pages attached below for some different significant artists. Have a go at trying to use as many different styles as you wish. You may want to think about what resources you have at home that would go well with these artists.

Copy the links on these pages to find out more information about these artists.

Serial Mash— Continue with your chosen story and complete the next 2 chapters along with the chapter quizzes.

Thur

ENGLISH Today’s lesson : Bullet points https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

MATHS Today’s lesson is: Telling the time to nearest 5 minutes https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

MATHS CHALLENGE—Today’s maths problem is a toughie! Can you find the cor-rect route through the maze, adding the numbers you step over to get to exactly 100 by the end of the maze? https://nrich.maths.org/91

Significant Person 3) Rosa Parks is remembered for showing great bravery in fighting for the rights of black people who were treated unfair-ly and had to do many things separately because of the colour of their skin. Watch this BBC video and learn about the life of Rosa Parks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iQVMWGE3_s&list=PLcvEcrsF_9zJtaNnk1mrgsVyaGah6H922 Activity 1) Create a newspaper report about the fateful day Rosa was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. Make sure you include lots of detail in your news report and as the reporting journalist, don’t forget to give your opinion on what happened. Was she right to fight against the unfair rules? (2do) Activity 2) Rosa parks interview. Put yourself in Rosa Park’s shoes. Com-plete the interview questions, giving answers to each question as you imagine Rosa would answer them herself. Just try to imagine if you were told you had to give up your seat and were made to feel bad because of the colour of your skin. If you are unsure of an answer to a question, you can leave it blank but try to answer as many as you can as if you are Rosa herself — try discussing what happened with an adult if you need help completing this task.

Serial Mash— Continue with your chosen story and complete the next 2 chapters along with the chapter quizzes.

Fri

ENGLISH Today’s reading lesson: Reading lesson: Agents of the Wild: Operation Honey hunt by Jennifer Bell and Alice Lickens https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

MATHS Today’s lesson is: Challenge of the week https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

MATHS CHALLENGE—another tricky challenge, can you put 4 digits into the grid to make 4 2-digit numbers that equal exactly 100? https://nrich.maths.org/1130

Significant person 4) Dr Martin Luther King Jr is remembered around the world for his work in trying to improve the lives of black people across America and beyond. Learn about his story here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbdv382 Activity 1) Dr Martin Luther King JR famously spoke about his dream that one day his children would live in a kinder and more fair world than he did. Complete the writing task on purple mash (2do) about how you think the world could continue to be an even better place. You may wish to think about our current situation in lockdown: how

would you like the world to be fairer, kinder and better for everyone after lockdown ends? Activity 2) Create a dream cloud for the world you would like to live in. See attached pages for ideas. Consider our human rights and think about what can be done so that everyone on Earth has access to our inalienable rights as humans.

Serial Mash— Can you complete your chosen book and try out each chapter quiz as you read through.

This week’s topic is … Significant People

Summer Term

Week 4 29.6.20

TOPIC/CREATIVE ACTIVITES FOR THIS WEEK

Art

Think about which significant people you admire today. It could be your favourite sports player, a singer, someone who has helped lots of people, someone trying to help change the world for the better, it may even be someone you know! Create a poster to celebrate this person and explain why they are special to you and why you admire them.

See the attached pages below, choose an artist you like the look of and copy the links on the pages to find out more about their work.

Computing

A famous scientist from history is Sir Isaac Newton who discovered the force of gravity. Work through the 2code challenge to recreate his famous discovery by coding a sequence. (2do)

Research 5 other famous people from history and create a quiz about who they were and what they are remembered for (2Quiz 2do)

Can you develop your balance and coordination by trying out some yoga poses? (see sheet attached). Work on a carpet or mat, leaving enough space to stretch out your arms and legs.

Take a look at the daily challenges on the #StayInWorkOut grid. You will find it on our Shark & Dol-phins website page. Also try looking at the children’s sections on https://www.sportengland.org/

stayinworkout

Science

Pick a sunny day and investigate what happens to objects’ shadows as the sun moves across the sky. You need to place a small object somewhere where the sun will shine on it for most of the day. Take pictures of its shadow every hour to see how it changes throughout the day. Can you write up exactly what happened in your experiment? Did the shadow get longer or shorter as the day went on? Does the size change at all? Does the shadow’s position change?

French

French revision: Purple Mash quiz covering numbers, body parts, animals and colours. See below to read the information about the book ‘Comme un Million de Pappillons Noirs’. If you feel like a challenge follow the link (on the French page below) to listen to the story read in French. Bonne chance!

Other

Remember to keep up your daily times table rock stars practise and to practise your spell-ings every day. Every Thursday, Espresso Newsbites refreshes its content: keep up to date with everything happening around the world and have a go at the weekly news quiz! This year, Virgin Radio are launching a special 500 words competition open for children aged 5-13. Have a read of the information attached below and follow the link to find out more in-formation.

KEY WEBSITES AND LINKS

PurpleMash/SerialMash: use child logins provided https://www.purplemash.com/ql/52b07575e72c3

Discovery Espresso: U/N: student31661 P/W: meadows1 www.discoveryeducation.co.uk

Edshed (spelling shed & maths shed): use child logins provided https://play.edshed.com/login (or app)

Times Tables RockStars: use child logins https://ttrockstars.com/ (or app)

Oxford Owl: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Topmarks: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/

Class e-mails

Each class has had a new email address created to allow children and parents to email their class teacher about any work or fun activities they have been doing or to get in touch if they are struggling to access any of the work that has been set.

Remember, each class also has a class blog on purple mash which is a great way for children to communicate with each other.

Dolphins@meadows.worcs.sch.uk Sharks@meadows.worcs.sch.uk

Year 3 Spellings

PE

• Create a timeline of Mary’s life by cutting out these pictures and putting them in the correct order.

• CHALLENGE: Using the information you have learnt, can you add any other events from her life?

Mary Seacole lived more than 150 years ago and had an adventurous life travelling across many lands to run businesses and help people in need.

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

The life of Florence Nightingale

Dr Martin Luther King said he had a dream that life for his children could be different from how it had been for him. He didn’t believe in using violence to change things. Instead, he gave powerful speeches and led peaceful protests. He never gave up the fight for equal rights, and made a real difference.

Can you create your own dream cloud for the world you would like to live in?

Try looking at the human rights on the next page to help you with some ideas.

L ve comes in different colours

Read some of Martin Luther King’s wise words beside the heart.

Can you create a version of your own, with each colour representing a person who is important to you?

A special edition of the 500 Words competition for children, focusing on themes related to the Black Lives Matter movement, was announced on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio UK this week.

500 Words is the world’s largest story-writing competition for kids. More than a million stories have been submitted since 2011, in response to everything from technology to climate change. Now, they’re asking children to write about themes and issues emerging

The competition is inviting children aged between five and 13 to respond with a story of no more than 500 words. Children should draw on their own experiences and feelings to create a story that can be as imaginative as they like.

The competition opens at the start of The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio UK on Monday 29 June at 6.30am. Entries will be accepted until 11.59pm on Friday 3 July.

For more information go to https://www.virgin.com/news/500-words-black-lives-matter-competition-announced

breathing

stretching

balancing

coordination

If you fancy a French challenge, listen to the full story read in French. It’s ten minutes long but even if you don’t understand all of it you may well under-

stand some of the words. Listen out for ‘les cheveux’ (hair) and ‘papillons’ (butterflies) Maybe you can figure out what is happening in the

story, the pictures may help you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBH1Qdzk7w

Synopsis en Francais:

Adé adore les éclairs au chocolat, les papillons et

poser des questions. Elle a aussi de magnifiques

cheveux mais ses camarades d'école s'en moquent,

simplement parce qu'ils sont différents.

Synopsis in English:

Adé loves chocolate éclairs, butterflies and ask-

ing questions. She also has magnificent hair that

some of her classmates make fun of, simply be-

cause it's so different to their own.

Comme un Million de Papillons Noirs; Like a Million Black Butterflies.

This is a French story about a little girl who, at first, is not happy with her hair be-cause of some unkind words from other children. With the help of her family she learns to love her hair and be proud of who she is. It is written by the French author Laura Nsafou and beautifully illustrated by Barbara Brun who is also French.