Year 3 Home Learning Pack w/c 18/1/2021These are ideas of things that you could have a go at completing each day:

20 minutes of reading 20 minutes of times tables practice (Times Tables Rockstars or Hit the Button) 20 minutes of Spellings (Spelling Shed)

In addition, there are daily spellings to practise, 6 pieces of maths work, 3 pieces of writing work, 5 pieces of reading work and 5 pieces of topic work that you can complete during the week.

English Task 1 – Spelling: Practise these words 5 times each on a piece of paper everyday: disappoint, disagree, disobey, disable, dislike, dislocate, disadvantage, disapprove, dislodgeThese are the challenging words for this week to practice as well: earth, eight, enoughEnglish Task 2 – GrammarWe will learn about adverbs this week.An adverb is a word that describes a verb (an action or a doing word).For example: He ate his breakfast quickly.The word 'quickly' is an adverb as it tells us how he ate (the verb) his breakfast.Where to place adverbs?Adverbs can come before or after a verb.• He quickly ate his breakfast.• He ate his breakfast quickly.Activity 1

Help to make these boring sentences more exciting by adding in an adverb. Write each sentence down on paper.If you need some help, use the words in the word bank to help you.Word Bank: quickly, loudly, happily, carefully, greedily

1. The dog ran ____________________ after the ball. 2. Mike ate his cake __________________. 3. Lily ________________ cheered when she scored a goal in the football game.

In the next two sentences, you need to choose where to put the adverb. Top tip! Look for the verb (the doing word) and add an adverb before or after it to describe what they are doing.

4. The cat walked along the fence. 5. The baby cried when he dropped his teddy.

Activity 2: Circle all the adverbs in each sentence.1. Excitedly, Molly opened the present. She stopped briefly and looked inside.2. Sadly, the cat got knocked down. Happily, it wasn’t badly hurt.

3. Slowly, the girl walked home from school. Hungrily, she ate her tea.4. Quietly, the mouse scuttled into her hole and nibbled hungrily on the crumb of

bread.5. Angrily, the old man shouted at the boys as they rudely called him names.6. Cleverly, the children revised for their test. Happily, they all did well.

Activity 3: Circle the adverb and finish off the sentences so that they make sense.

The prince bravely _______________________________________________________________________

The exhausted man wearily ______________________________________________________________

The snake smoothly ______________________________________________________________________

The baby eagerly _________________________________________________________________________

The old lady nervously ___________________________________________________________________

English Task 3 – Creative writing:

Can you write a story based on this image? Can you use ambitious vocabulary to describe what you would see, hear, think or feel?

Reading:There are 5 different reading comprehension tasks for you to have a go at daily. Make sure you read the text first and then answer the questions on a piece of paper.

Stig of the Dump Pages 17 – 19

The next morning, Barney ate his breakfast as fast as he could. He had to go and see Stig! His Grandmother asked if he wanted to go into town but he asked to stay and play with Stig. He pulled on his boots and shot out the door.

Barney’s feet made dark prints in the dew as he headed across the lawn towards the chalk pit. He stopped. The sun was bright, yellow leaves fluttered down from the tree and a robin squeaked at him. Barney suddenly wasn’t sure he believed in Stig.

He felt the bump on the back of his head. Yesterday he had fallen and bumped his head before he met Stig. Funny things happened when you bumped your head. Perhaps you only saw Stigs when you fell and bumped your head. He didn’t want to do that again!

1. Why did Barney eat his breakfast very fast? 2. Which word tells you Barney went quickly out of the door? 3. What made dark prints in the dew? 4. What did Barney notice when he stopped on the lawn? (3 marks) 5. What did Barney feel on the back of his head? 6. Why wasn’t Barney sure if Stig was real anymore?

Stig of the Dump Pages 20 & 21

Barney didn’t want to go to the pit and find – nothing! He stood with his hands in his pockets, playing with something hard. He remembered something and pulled out the thing in his hand. Of course – the flint! He’d seen Stig make it! Of course Stig was real.

He started running. He stopped again. Maybe he had just found the flint and imagined everything else. He remembered flints were made by people that lived thousands of years ago and kept in museums. He told himself all he really wanted to do was to look at the place where he had fallen over yesterday.

He carried on. Something moved by his feet. His heart bumped but it was only a rabbit! He climbed over the fence and went carefully towards the edge of the pit.

1. What did Barney pull out of his pocket? 2. Why did Barney now think the Stig was real?3. What did Barney remember about flints?4. What did he decide he wanted to look at? 5. How did Barney feel when something moved by his feet? How do you know? Use evidence. (2 marks) 6. Find and copy the adverb that describes how Barney moved towards the pit.

Pages 22 & 23

Barney walked carefully to the edge of the pit, kept near the big tree and peeped over. He could see the patch of earth that had given way under him, the dangling creepers lower down, and a scatter of broken chalk at the bottom.

He craned over to try and see the hole he had made in the roof of the den. Not a sign of a hole, of a roof, of a den – of a Stig. He began to walk away and think hard.

He remembered crashing through a sort of roof and leaving a big gaping hole. And yet there wasn’t a hole. So he couldn’t have made one. Suddenly, he gave a big jump as the answer came to him. Stig must have mended the hole!

1 V) Find and copy the word that means Barney looked quickly.

2 I) Why do you think Barney was keeping near to the big tree when he was looking over the edge?

3 L) Write 3 things did Barney see when he looked over the edge of the pit. (3 marks)

4 L) Could Barney see the hole he had made the day before? Yes or no.

5 V) Find a copy the word that means the hole he had made was wide.

6 I) How do you think Barney felt when he realised that Stig must have mended the hole? Use evidence to support your answer. (2 marks)

Stig of the Dump Pages 24 & 25

He set off running back to the garden. He looked round for a present to bring Stig. He picked up some big apples and stuff them into his shirt. He heaved up a few good-sized carrots. He was allowed to pull them up because they were good for his teeth!

Then he ran to the shed and found a ball of string. Back he ran all the way back to the edge of the pit. He sat himself comfortably on the truck of tree that curved out over the pit like the neck of a camel.

He tied a bunch of carrots to the edge of the string and then began to pay out the string, with the carrots dangling on the end, towards the bottom of the pit.

1 V) Find and copy a word that means he ‘pulled’ the carrots.

2 L) What was Barney looking for in the garden?

3 L) Why was Barney allowed to pull up the carrots?

4 L) What did Stig find in the shed?

5 V) Find and copy the simile that describes how the tree curved out over the pit.

6 V) ‘then he began to pay out the string’ What does this tell you about how Barney was moving the string?

1. What

is the name

of the world’s largest weed? 2. Which animals can move pollen around in a flower? 3. What are the dark coloured objects that you can see in a dandelion clock? 4. What is a good thing that nettles can be used for? 5. What makes dandelion seeds good at floating in the air? 6. How tall can a largest weed grow? 7. In paragraph 1, the author has used the contracted word it’s. Write the full words without the apostrophe. 8. What happens when you blow on a dandelion clock and how does that help the dandelion?

Maths TasksThere are 5 different sets of questions for you to have a go at daily. There are also some times tables for you to have a go at too.

Challenge:

Afternoon task 1 – German from Mrs Lees

Likes and dislikes

Use the vocabulary on this slide to practise asking if your partner (you can use a lego figure or a cuddly toy if you wish) likes the different fruits. Eg, Magst du Birnen? (Do you like pears?) Ja, das ist lecker! (Yes, that is delicious). Write 3 mini conversations asking if they like different fruits, using Magst du...? . Challenge: make a fruit salad (you will need an adult to help you). Can you name all the fruits you use in German?Afternoon task 2 – HistoryIn history, we are going to learn about how life was during the Stone Age. Read the following information and then fill in the table attached underneath.

Afternoon task 3 – Science – parts of a flower This week we will be looking at different parts of a flower and explain their role in pollination and fertilisation.The flower’s job is to create seeds so that new plants can be grown.

Flowers are made up of lots of parts that work together to make seeds.

Afternoon task 4 – Art – background for your Stonehenge picture

In our next few Art lessons, we will be creating/making our own Stonehenge picture. This lesson is the first step towards it where we will be getting our background ready. You will need an A4 size plain paper and you are going to create an ombre effect.

Ombre effect is the gradual change or transition from a light colour to a dark colour and vice-versa. For our background, we will go from white, to light blue and gradually towards darker shades of blue. Look at the picture above . You start with a white paint in the middle of the page. Make it circular in shape. For the second circle around it, mix a bit of blue colour to white to make very pale blue, almost white, for the 3rd circle, add slightly bit more of blue and so on and so forth. By the end, you will see how gradually your page which started with a small white circle in the middle, now has different shades of blue. Now leave it to dry. Once dried, put it somewhere safe till our next Art lesson.Afternoon task 5 - PSHE

Discuss

these questions with an adult and write down your answers:1. Do you know any soldiers?2. What is a soldier?3. Have you seen soldiers working before? What were they doing?4. Do you think you would enjoy being a soldier? Why?5. What do you know about the role of the Army? 6. Did you know that the Army did so many different things?