Year 3 and 4 Home Learning Pack 2

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Week 3

Monday Reading – All About Spring

Grammar – Weekly spelling list

Maths – Time YR3Money YR4

Science – Dandelion Flight

Tuesday Reading – The Train Mouse

Writing – Letter to a pen pal

Maths – Partitioning YR3Angles YR4

Wellbeing – Kindness poem

Wednesday Reading – Garden Birds

Grammar – Spelling confusion

Maths – Reading scales YR3Area YR4

Jigsaw – All a boot you!

Thursday Reading – St George’s Day

Grammar – Direct Speech

Maths – Ordering YR3Capacity YR4

Art &Design- Supermarket van designs

Friday Reading – A teacher’s day in bedRead for pleasure

Writing – Poetry writing

Maths – Angles YR3Shape YR4

Well being – I Spy

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Reading – Week 3 Monday – All About Spring

Grammar – Week 3 Monday – Weekly Spellings

Maths – Week 3 Monday – Time and money

Science – Week 3 Monday – Dandelion Flight

Reading – Week 3 Tuesday – The Train Mouse

The Train Mouse Author – Uwe Timm

Task – read the extract and then answer the questions – if you can use evidence from the text to support your answers.

‘Where did you go for all that time?’ ‘Did you really go to Paris?’ ‘Where did you hide on the train?’ I get asked the same questions every day, and then I have to tell everyone about my adventures all over again. I’m even receiving letters now, asking me the easiest way to travel to Paris. So, to save having to keep explaining it all, I’ve decided to write my story down. I’m an ordinary house mouse and my name’s Stefan. But everyone calls me Nibbles. How did I end up with such a funny nickname? Well, when I was very young, I had a habit of gnawing tree trunks, just like a beaver. My parents were puzzled. Sometimes my father wondered if I was even a proper mouse at all. But then, as I got older, all the gnawing suddenly stopped. I must have realised that my little mouse-teeth could never fell a tree. I was born in the city of Munich in Germany, on Paradise Street. In case you were thinking I made that name up, you can have a look at a map of Munich and then you’ll see: Paradise Street. It’s a real street. But, sadly, the house I was born in is no longer there. It was such a beautiful old house, surrounded by new, and very tall, buildings. Behind our house there was a little courtyard and, in the yard, there were two elderberry bushes. We, the mouse family, lived in the cellar of the house: my mother, my father, my grandfather and my brothers and sister. My brothers are called Big Tooth, Short Tail and White Paw, and my little sister is Lilyfey. Above us lived an old man whose name was Mr Ehlers, and he had a cat named Carlo. Sometimes you could hear a dreadful screeching and barking in the yard.That meant that Isengrim had come down and was chasing Carlo. Isengrim was a poodle and he lived in the attic with an artist called Mr Kringel. Mr Kringel painted pictures and liked to eat cheese and white bread. That made him very popular with us mice. Isengrim used to be in a circus and he’d seen a lot of the world. He could walk on two legs and sometimes, if we mice-children asked him, he’d do a somersault for us. He was very friendly to us mice and got on well with all kinds of creatures – except cats. He hated cats. And that wasn’t just because he was a dog. There was another reason for that. You see, Isengrim had spent two years performing in the circus with a cat. The cat lay in a pram wearing a baby’s bonnet and Isengrim, who was wearing a little white dress, had to push her around the ring. Although the cat would always hiss nasty remarks at him, no fur was allowed to fly: he just had to keep on pushing her around in a circle in front of the whole audience. Then, one evening, he could contain himself no longer. She’d whispered: ‘My goodness, Isengrim, you look so silly in that short dress with your crooked legs.’

Questions:1) Who is the narrator of the story and how do you know?

2) ‘I must have realised that my little mouse-teeth could never fell a tree.’ What is the meaning of the word fell?

3) ‘But then, as I got older, all the gnawing suddenly stopped.’ Use a dictionary to find the meaning of the word gnawing – try and use it in a sentence of your own.

4) ‘My brothers are called Big Tooth, Short Tail and White Paw.’ Why do you think Nibbles brothers were given these names?

5) What do you think is going to happen in the next part of the story?

Challenge: Can you find Munich on a map? Find 2 facts out about Munich.

Writing – Week 3 Tuesday – Letter to a pen palSince we are not able to go and visit our friends at present, it doesn’t mean that we cannot let them know we care, miss them and we can keep them up to date with what’s going on in our lives! Choose a friend who you would like to write to and let them know everything you have been up to since you last saw them. __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Maths – Week 3 Tuesday- Partitioning and Angles

Wellbeing – Week 3 Tuesday – Kindness Poem It’s always important to remember that little acts of kindness mean a big lot to people! Think about what kindness looks and feels like when you experience it for yourself. Perhaps you can draw a picture under your poem to show your ideas too!

Reading – Week 3 Wednesday –Garden Birds

Grammar – Week 3 Wednesday –Spelling confusions

These are words that we often use but regularly use the wrong spellings of them! They sound the same BUT the spelling is different and have different meanings. So let’s practice using them in the correct sentence contexts.

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Maths – Week 3 Wednesday- Reading scales and area

Jigsaw – Week 3 Wednesday – All a boot you!They say you have to walk in someone else’s shoes to truly know them…Well we want to walk in yours! So get designing a pair of boots that reflect who you are.

Reading – Week 3 Thursday –St George’s Day

Grammar – Week 3 Thursday –Direct Speech

Maths – Week 3 Thursday – Ordering and Capacity

Topic – Week 3 Thursday – Art &DesignCan you design a supermarket delivery van that would show how important our key workers delivering our food to us are and that we appreciate them?

Reading – Week 3 Friday – Reading for pleasure

Writing – Week 3 Friday- PoetryUsing the poem from your reading session today, can you write a poem listing all the animals that could take over if your teacher had a day in bed? Think carefully why you would choose the animal (it must be good at the specific job you are giving it).

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Maths – Week 3 Friday – Angles and shape

Wellbeing – Week 3 Friday- I spyCan you find an object/person/plant/animal in your house or garden for each letter of the alphabet? If you can challenge yourself to find a second one.