Year 3 Distance Learning Week 4

Hello Year 3! We hope you are staying safe. We have put together our fourth week of activities that you can do at home. We’d love to hear how you have been getting on, tweet us any questions you have or pictures of what you have been up to.

Find us on Twitter @MissClayton9 or @Year3Kingsley

Also, keep an eye on Twitter for extra resources or activities you can do at home.

Spelling:

Read these 5 words carefully, then cover them and try to spell them. Once you have spelt all of the words, check to see how many of them are correct.

Century

Certain

Circle

Complete

Consider

Challenge- Use a dice to help you practice using your spellings.

Write this word in a sentence. SynonymWrite a word with the same

meaning.

Explain this word to someone in your house. Draw a picture of this word.

AntonymWrite a word with the opposite

meaning.

Write your word and a word that rhymes with it.

SPAG Challenge:

Speech Marks

Write these sentences and add speech marks in the correct places. Remember the speech marks show what the person is saying.

Here is an example to help you:

‘‘Buzz you can’t fly you are just a toy!’’ shouted Woody angrily.

1. I am the greatest defender of the galaxy, to infinity and beyond! exclaimed buzz excitedly.

2. Where is Andy? said Woody sadly, I hope he comes back soon, he’s my best friend!

Next, write your own sentence using speech marks. You might also like to use speech marks in the story you write this week.

Writing Task:

Brian bought some magic biscuits for his dogs, but he didn’t think they would actually do anything amazing. The next day the dogs became humongous giants!

Write a story about Brian and his dogs to explain what happens next.

Did Brian give the biscuits to anyone or anything else?

Have the dogs stopped growing?

How will Brian keep them as pets?

Are there any problems that happen now the dogs are giants?

Remember:

Paragraph 1 – Who? Where?

Paragraph 2 – Where next? Why?

Paragraph 3 – What goes wrong? Who helps?

Paragraph 4 – Where last?

Writing Checklist

Capital letters

Punctuation ( ! . , ?)

Do your sentences make sense?

Have you used adverbs?e.g. slowly, carefully

Have you used time connectives?e.g. firstly, next, after that

Reading Task:

Hansel and Gretel

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Hansel and a girl named Gretel. They were both very naughty. They never did what their parents told them. One day, their family ran out of food. Their mother took them into the forest to hunt for mushrooms. When they were far away from home, she turned and ran away. She knew that there wasn’t enough food for the children at home, but there might be in the forest.

The two children were annoyed by their mother. Hansel thought he knew the way home, but Gretel wasn’t sure. They tried their best but they were soon lost. Just before sunset, they stumbled upon a rather unusual house. The walls were made of chocolate and delicious sweets. The roof was made of icing and toffee. They were very hungry by this point and so they both ran straight to the house. It all tasted delicious and soon they were full of sugar.

Suddenly, they heard a cackling laugh from the doorway. ‘‘Two more children for my pot!’’ it was a horrible old woman. ‘‘There are even more sweet inside,’’ she said. Hansel had always been greedier than Gretel, and he sped into the house. Gretel followed him slowly. She didn’t like the look of the woman. By the time she was in the cottage, Hansel was already trapped in a cage. He was hanging above a boiling pot of water. The old woman was planning to eat him!

Gretel had a plan. She told the old woman that they had seen a dragon in the woods, and he might burn down the cottage. The old woman looked worried and fled outside. Quickly, Gretel reached up and released Hansel from his cage. There was an oven on the other side of the cottage, facing the door. The oven was very hot and now Hansel had an idea. He opened the oven wide and they both hid behind the cottage door.

A few minutes later, the old lady burst into the cottage. Hansel and Gretel jumped out from behind the door and pushed her into the open oven. They slammed the door shut and quickly fled into the forest. After a while, they found their way home. They told their mother and father about the gingerbread cottage and they never went hungry again.

Questions

Paragraph 1 1. What did the children go looking for in the forest?

Paragraph 2 2. How did the mother make the children feel? Find an example from the text.

Paragraph 3 3. Find two adverbs that are used to describe how the characters

spoke or moved.

Paragraph 3 4. Why do you think Gretel followed Hansel slowly? Find an example to explain your answer.

Paragraph 4 5. What did Gretel say they had seen in the forest? Why did she say this?

Paragraph 5 6. Why do you think the children never went hungry again?

Arithmetic Practice:

You should be using Times Tables Rock Stars every week to practice your times tables. If you can’t remember your login details, tweet us and we can send you these.

Can you work out the answers to these questions, either mentally or using written methods?

Remember we have looked at these types of questions in class.

1. 325 + 100 =

2. 52 x 4 =

3. 9 x 8 =

4.34 of 28 =

5. Round 72 to the nearest ten

6. 367g + 129g =

8. 610

+ 210=

9. 75 ÷ 5 =

7. 172+ = 182

10. 428 – 172 =

Measuring Weight:

1. This scale shows how much Chen weighs.

What is Chen’s weight? kg

2. Put these masses in order, starting with the heaviest.

3. This picture shows the masses of eight kittens.

What is the difference in mass between the heaviest and lightest kitten?

Which calculation do you need to use to find the difference? + - x ÷

Maths Challenge-

If you would like to try the White Rose Summer week 2 maths challenge, follow this link:

https://wrm-13b48.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Family-Challenge-Friday-1st.pdf

Science Task:

Grow Your Own Food

Growing your own food is fun and delicious. Cress heads is an easy way to grow plants and get creative with an indoor herb garden. It’s also the fastest growing herb that will be ready to enjoy in just 10 days! So, let’s get started: on your very own garden.

1. Decorate empty yoghurt pots or egg shells (the head) using paints. You could paint a funny face on the eggshell or yoghurt pot, so that when the cress grows, it looks like silly green hair.

2. Once your faces are ready, wet some kitchen roll and place it in the bottom of your head (then wet some cotton wool and place on top of the kitchen roll. Leave a 3 cm gap between the cotton wool and the top of the eggshell or pot.

3. Sprinkle a teaspoon of cress seeds (you can buy these from a garden centre or local supermarket) onto the wet cotton wool and press them down gently with your finger.

4. Place the cress heads in a warm, light place, like on the windowsill, and wait for your seeds to grown into tiny, delicious bushes of cress!

5. Remember to spray the seeds with a little water every day, to ensure that the cotton wool stays moist.

6. Once your cress has grown to about 10 cm, chop the cress and add it to a sandwich for lunch. Yum!

Please tweet any that you create.

Weekly Mindfulness Activity:

We know that everyone in 3C and 3H are all extremely talented!

This week we would like you to think of something you are good at! What skill do you have that you are really proud of?

Make a poster to share your skill.

It needs:

A title

A sentence to explain the skill

Pictures

We would love to see these fantastic posters, please tweet them to us!

Whole School Task :

Week 4: Even in these very strange and uncertain times there is a lot we can be grateful for.

Come up with a list of your five things in your life that you are grateful for accompanied by a small explanation as to why you have chosen each of these things.

E.g I am grateful for the sunny weather in lockdown because it cheers me up and means I can go outside for my daily exercise.

We would love it if you tweeted us some of the things you are grateful for, it would be amazing to fill twitter with lots of things to be grateful for.

Both Miss Clayton and Miss Parsons will tweet some of the things they are grateful for this week, keep an eye on twitter for these.