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Home Learning Guidelines:

Use the grid below to help structure your child’s home learning. We would encourage children to complete at least 2 activities from each column and record their learning experience in their challenge book. This could be done in a variety of ways. For example, writing a few sentences about what they learnt, drawing a picture, sticking in a photograph, completing a thought bubble etc.

To support your child at home with reading we ask that your child reads at least 4 times a week. Remember there are lots of resources to support reading on our website.

There is no expectation that your child completes the home learning challenges if they are unwell or if circumstances at home are such that the completion of the tasks cause unnecessary stress and anxiety to the household.

Year 3 Week 9 - Home Learning Grid – Week Commencing 8th JuneWeekly theme: FoodReading English Expressive Arts

Using words, poetry, drawing, painting and other mediums to describe our

STEMScience, technology, engineering and mathematics.

People & CommunitiesPersonal and social development, well-being and religious education.

inner and outer responses to the word around us.

Understanding the world in which we live.

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Charlie Changes Into a ChickenCharlie McGuffin has an amazing secret – he can change into animals. The problem is, he cannot decide when it happens. It happens when he is worried about things and that gives him more things to worry about!Watch presenter and blogger Mehreen Baig read an extract from Charlie Changes Into a Chicken.Think about the following questions:

Do you think Charlie is in pain?

What do you think he is changing into?

Now watch Mehreen read another extract from Charlie Changes Into a Chicken and think about the following:

What do you think the phrases a well-known fact and a

Plan and write a menu for a special occasion. Decorate your menu when you have created it. You could make some of the food if you are able to.

Try to make some food art that you can eat. Don’t forget to take a photo before you eat it.

Growing MouldYou will need 4 slices of bread, some water, some disinfectant, a saucer, 4 plastic bags, 4 clothes pegs or 4 twist ties, 4 stickers and a pen.· Take the first slice of bread and hold it gently in one hand, then pass it to your other hand. Make sure you gently touch the bread with all your fingers.· Drip some water on the bread until it is damp.· Put the slice of bread in one of the plastic bags and make sure it is tightly closed by using a clothes peg of twist tie.· Label the first bag with a No. 1.· Wash your hands!· With the second slice of bread, drip some water on the bread until it is damp and place it in one of the plastic bags and make sure it is tightly closed as before. Try to touch the bread as little as possible.

Silly stories Instructions. This is a simple activity where each family member takes it in turns to add one word/sentence to create a silly story. This can be a fun way to get creative and can also help keep your mind off the news.• Everyone sits in a circle. The youngest member of the family can begin by saying the first word. As you go round everyone adds the next word, without repeating what has already been said.• Good starting words are ‘suddenly’ or ‘earlier’ to help build suspense and intrigue. What different techniques will you use to make the story funny?• Continue going round the circle as you try to build the funniest version, the more unexpected the better!• Why not add costumes and props made from things found around the house to help bring your family story

less-known fact actually mean?

What does predicament mean?

What does Charlie count?

· Label the second bag with a No. 2.· Spray the third slice of bread with disinfectant (check with your parent first). Place the bread in a bag and make sure it is tightly closed.· Label the third bag with a No. 3.· Wash your hands!· Place the 3 bags in a warm, dark place like an airing cupboard. Check with a parent first.· Place the fourth slice of bread on a saucer and leave out on a windowsill overnight. The following day, place the slice of bread in the last plastic bag, close it and label it with a No. 4. Place the final bag with the others in the warm dark place.· Wash your hands!· About a week later, take the bags out from the warm, dark place and look at the bread through the bag. Has any mould started growing on the bread? Is there a difference between the 4

to life.

bags. Before looking at the bread, make a prediction as to which slice of bread will have the most mould and which will have the least. Was your prediction correct? Write up your experiment. If possible include some photos or drawings.

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Read extract 1 (below) and try activity 1.Activity 1

1. Read extract 1 again, in which the writer explains in great detail how Charlie begins to change.

2. Retell what happens to Charlie in five steps.

You might want to point to, jot down or underline key phrases to help you to sequence the events.

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Activity 3Sam Copeland chooses language that aims to make his readers laugh. See if you can do the same.1. Read both extracts again

and think about how small Charlie is now as a spider.

2. Imagine that you have changed into something small. It may be an animal, a bird, something in the water or whatever you want to be. What would you do if you were small? Think about the benefits of

Create a paper collage showing your favourite food and drink. Use pens or coloured pencils to add details.

Can you find any parallel and perpendicular lines in your house / garden? Write down all the things you can find with parallel lines and then do the same for perpendicular lines. You could draw or take photos of the things you find.

Link to video on parallel and perpendicular lines:

Parallel and Perpendicular lines

Make a playlist.Everyone in your family picks an uplifting song. Then play the songs during the day.

Tip: you could use the Young Minds playlist for inspiration.Hello Yellow playlist

Use time adverbials to support you when you are retelling his change.Examples of adverbials include:

first next then after that finally

Top tip!You can do this activity verbally (by speaking) or you could write it down.Try to remember as much detail as you can about the event.

being really tiny. What could you do?

3. Write a list of five advantages of being really small. Call the list ‘The Top 5 benefits of being a ..........................’.

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs story animation

Watch the reading of the original ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ story. List the food that is mentioned in the story (as much as you can). What food would you like to rain down from the sky?

Think of a fruit or vegetable that begins with each letter of the alphabet. Find out which country each fruit of vegetable comes from.

Birthday cake tower tutorial

Draw a birthday cake tower with a folding surprise. You could make this into a birthday card to send to someone.

Have a go at the multiplication and division quiz below. Each answer has a special colour, colour each square to reveal a picture.

Colour in a food mindfulness picture. (Google food mindfulness colouring) or draw your own.

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to complete this task to complete this task to complete this task to complete this task to complete this taskCloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Film TrailerWatch the trailer for the film ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’Make a list of similarities and differences between the book and the film trailer. If you have seen the film, which do you prefer, the book or the film? Why?

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs story animationWrite a new ending for the book, in which the people don't leave the town. What might happen instead?

My favourite food poem

Michael Rosen Talking Poetry

Listen to Michael Rosen reading his poem ‘Chocolate Cake’Write a short poem of your own about your favourite food. You can use the writing frame and word bank below to help you.

My favourite food in the entire world is ....................... It looks …………..................... It smells ................................ When I take a bite it makes a ............................................ sound.It feels ...................... in my mouth.

WORD BANKshiny dull soft hard delicious sweet salty hot cold bitter creamy crunchy gooey yum gobble

Computing Lesson 2Use a web browser (such as Google) to search Hour of code Course 3. Click on the link Course 3 – Studio code.orgClick on lesson 2: Maze, puzzle 1. Do puzzle 1, 2 and 3.Watch the video called ‘Repeat Block with the zombie’.Complete puzzles 4 to 15.Remember to read the instructions at the beginning of each puzzle.

Temptationhttps://www.poemhunter.com/poem/chocolate-cake/

Michael couldn’t resist the temptation of eating the whole chocolate cake. Have you ever been tempted to do anything you shouldn’t? Have you ever resisted temptation? How can you resist temptation? Write down your answers or talk to someone in your family.

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Physical DevelopmentMonday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

The Blue Egg game

Video- How to play The Blue Egg game

Play the Blue Egg game with members of your family. You will need some blue and other coloured objects from around your house.

Jumping Beans

When someone shouts out a type of bean, everyone else has to do the action below. Baked bean: crouch down into a ballRunner bean: run on the spotJumping bean: jump up and downChilli bean: shiverJelly bean: wiggle aroundBroad bean: stretch out wideFrench bean: Say ‘Ooh la laMagic bean: freestyle move!

In the Box game

Video- How to play In the Box

Play the In the Box game with members of your family. You need 3 boxes and something to throw; balls, bean bags or balled up socks work well.

Watch PE with Joe Wicks on YouTube and join in with his routine.

Get your body moving!

Play a song for a few minutes, to shake off any tension and have a dance. You could get members of your family to join in too.

Tip: Use this time to practice your funniest family dance!

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Charlie Changes into a Chicken

Extract 1

The sound of his parents arguing downstairs rumbled through the house, low like thunder. Charlie closed his book. He couldn't concentrate.

Darkness had fallen outside and the street light outside Charlie's window was making uncanny shadows on his bedroom wall.

The silhouettes of the tree branches looked a little too much like log clutching witches' fingers for Charlie's liking. So, quick as a flash, he sprang out of bed and pulled his curtains together.

It was there and then that it first happened.

It began with a twitching in his eye. Charlie froze to the spot, feeling his eyelid blink manically. His eye had twitched before, when he’d been tired, but this felt different somehow. It felt like somebody had just plugged him into a wall socket. The twitching spread to his other eye, and both eyes were blinking and twitching.

A feeling burst through the whole of his body, like he’d just been shot through an electrical wire, like he was the electricity.

Every part of his body fizzed and hummed. The fizzing and humming became stronger, until he felt like he was on fire, but a fire inside of a never-ending tube, squeezed and vibrating.

His skin felt extraordinary. Alive. He looked at his arm and, with some considerable alarm, saw that hair was sprouting out of every part of his skin.

Weirdly the room was growing larger too.

But no, Charlie realized, the room wasn’t growing larger – it was him who was shrinking!

Extract 2

He reached up with one of his new, long, spindly black legs and carefully counted his eyes. There were eight.

Eight legs? Eight eyes? Veeery suspicious.

So Charlie looked at all the suspicious evidence and added small + hairy + eight spindly black legs + eight eyes together and got spider as the answer because it is a well-known fact that spiders are hairy and have eight legs and eight eyes. It’s a less-known fact that spiders also have eight bums, which is both disgusting and messy and also costs spiders loads of money in toilet roll.

Charlie sat on the floor and considered his predicament. He had turned into a spider and he had no idea how to spider. He’d had lots of practice being a boy, but zero practice spidering. After a short while just sitting there being a spider, Charlie came up with a plan. The plan had two simple steps. They were:

Step 1: PANIC!!!

Step 2: Shout to his mum to come and help.