Year 3 remote learning

Week commencing 11.05.20

Dear Year 3,

It has been lovely to catch up with you all over the telephone

last week and hear about the fun activities that you have been

doing. We have been inspired to make more cakes and biscuits

at home, as so many of you are baking. It is lovely that lots of

you are learning a new skill.

Well done to those of you who are uploading your work onto

J2Write. The poems were brilliant. We were particularly taken

by the Rabbit in the tree and the Whale in the Pool. Do not

forget to look back on your work for your class teacher’s

comments. If you have not yet uploaded your work onto

J2Write, the instructions can be found on the school website.

Rather than art, this week I have included a picture of a

beautiful double rainbow that was over Crouch End last

Thursday during the NHS clap.

The Year 3 Team

Writing

Here are your English activities for the week: Like last week, we will be looking at non-chronological reports. Try to do these tasks in the order outlined, aiming to do one a day. Task 1:

This week, you will be writing your own non-chronological report about a different mythical creature. Start thinking about what you could write about. For example, it could be goblins, yetis, fairies, unicorns -the choice is yours! Now, look at ‘The Truth about Trolls’ and see how the various features of non-chronological reports have been identified. Using the key provided in the pack, highlight these features on ‘The Facts about Fairies’ text. Highlight at least one example of each feature. For more information on the features of non-fiction texts take a look at the following video- https://www.thenational.academy/year-3/english/instructions-identifying-and-understanding-the-features-of-a-text-year-3-wk1-3 Task 3:

Look at the underlying structure for ‘The Truth about Trolls’. Using your notes from last week on the organisation of the text, along with your new ideas for your mythical creature (task 2), plan your non-chronological report on the planning sheet in the pack. There is space for you to think of an extra sub-heading if you wish. Remember to use note form for planning- you can also draw pictures as well. Try to include expanded noun phrases (adjective + adjective + noun) to describe your mythical creature and fronted adverbials to add extra information (see task 2). Task 5:

Have a read over your plan. Does it make sense? Is there anything you have missed out? Once you are happy with it, write your non-chronological report using your plan as a guide. Remember to include all the features of a non-chronological report (Hint: each section on the plan should be a separate paragraph.) Challenge: Can you include a drawing or an image in your report with a caption underneath? Upload your non-chronological report onto J2write.

Grammar Task 2:

Adverbs are words that give information (modify) a verb, adjective, or other adverb. They can also act like conjunctions and link words or phrases together. When adverbials are used at the beginning of a sentence, they are known as fronted adverbials. For more information on this watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk-_LIc3dWA You should have now decided which mythical creature you are going to write about. Using ‘The Facts about Fairies’ and ‘The Truth about Trolls’ texts as inspiration think of various facts that you could write about your mythical creature. It could be where they live, what they like to eat etc. The sub-headings on the planning sheet will help you. Start by writing down a fact about your mythical creature. E.g., Fairies live in woodland areas. Then, using one of the fronted adverbials below, add an additional piece of information to the previous fact. In addition, furthermore, additionally, also

E.g., Fairies live in woodland areas. In addition, they can also

be found on hilltops. Can you write four sentences like this? Remember to use a comma to separate your fronted adverbial from the rest of the sentence. Challenge: Can you use the fronted adverbials interestingly, surprisingly or amazingly to add interesting information to

engage the reader further? E.g., Amazingly, fairies can live to up to 600 years old!

Speaking and listening Task 4:

Time for some role-play!

Pretend that you are an expert on your chosen mythical creature and you have been asked to give

an interview about your subject. Ask a member of your household or another family member to

interview you, asking you questions about your mythical creature.

You could give yourself a name like Professor Mystic and pretend that your interview is for a news

programme e.g. Newsround, or for a well-known newspaper such as First News or The Times. Use

the plan that you have written to answer the questions and feel free to make things up on the spot as

well!

Reading

Complete the First News comprehension in the pack. If you

can, discuss the news stories with someone else at home.

Complete the news puzzle as well.

Choose at least two of the ‘Four stories’ from the pack.

Throughout the week, read them and respond to the questions.

Answers will be uploaded at the end of the week.

Make sure you are reading every day, either independently or

with a member of your household. You can read in your head,

out loud, or even over a video call! See the Picture News

section on the school website for further weekly reading

activities.

Remember you should be reading very day either to a

member of your household or to yourself.

Spelling

Comparatives are used when expressing terms like more (than) or less (than). E.g., I am taller than you are. Superlatives are used when something is the best, least, most etc. E.g., I am the tallest.

Can you make the words below into comparatives using the suffix (ending) ‘er’? Write them in the

comparative column in the table. Do you notice a pattern? Are there any words where you have to drop a letter? Can you come up with a rule? Now, make the words below into superlatives using the suffix ‘est’? Write them into the superlative column in the table. Are there are any words where you must add another letter? Can you come up with a rule? quick, tall, long, nice, close, rude, big, hot, thin, happy, funny, lucky

Challenge: Are there any words where you do not add ‘er’ or ‘est’ to the root word? For example: bad worse worst Write three of these root words into the table and then change them into their comparatives and superlatives. Now practise these spellings by writing a sentence for each word as a comparative and then as a superlative. E.g., I am taller than my brother. My sister is the tallest in the family.

Maths Teaching

In our Year 3 Maths this week, we will be adding numbers

mentally and by using formal written methods.

When you add mentally, it is important to look for patterns to

support you.

For example, using number bonds to 10 and 20 and 100.

8+2= 10 6+4 =10

Therefore

18+2= 20 16+4=20

Therefore

80+20=100 60+40=100

Before you start the practice questions, write down the

number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. Challenge someone at

home to see who can write down the number bonds to 10 the

quickest.

When using formal written methods, you need to follow the

formal layout ensuring your columns line up.

See the examples further below in the resource pack for

further guidance.

Practice questions

Application

Teaching videos

You will need your child’s LGFL login details to access the

Following teaching videos:

http://mathsathome.lgfl.org.uk/y3_addition.html

http://mathsathome.lgfl.org.uk/y3_addition.html

Further practise and games

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

(Number bonds)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Extra challenge - see resource pack

Practical maths: Just one cut - Can any shape with straight sides be

made by folding a single piece of paper and by making a single complete cut? Watch the video and have a go! https://wild.maths.org/just-one-cut

Further revision:

Time

If you would like to refresh your knowledge of time here are a number of maths

games and videos to support your learning.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkfycdm

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock

Geography Your project for London and land use over time should now include a front cover, a completed map of the United Kingdom and history of the Thames and an overview of the history of the Borough of Haringey.

Over the next two weeks, we would like you to research one aspect of

Haringey’s history. What you research and write about is entirely up to

you but here are some ideas:

The history of football in Haringey focussing on Arsenal, Tottenham or

Haringey football club

The history of Lotus Cars in Hornsey

The Olympics and Haringey

The history of the Parkland Walk

Wood Green – Shopping City

Alexandra Palace

Your research should include pictures and key facts, such as dates of

when things were built, what was there before, why they were built or

why it happened there. Concentrate on what you find interesting and

why.

See the resource pack for some useful web links.

Word Bank: map, atlas, London, landmark, capital city, borough, local

area, location, direction, compass points (north, south, east, west),

human geography, physical geography

Science We are continuing our work on plants. This week we are looking at what plants need to survive and thrive. Task 1 Watch this video from BBC Bite size:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy66fg8/articles/zcmtk2p

All plants need water to survive.

● All plants need water to survive. Water is transported around all parts of a

plant. This process is known as ‘transpiration’,

To see this in action try out the Coloured Petals activity. Instructions:

https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/150-science-experiments/botany-

experiments/make-coloured-petals/

N.B. You can do this activity with a range of different plants including

daisies that you pick and even celery!

As we have already learnt, water is transported around plants to keep

them healthy and give them the nutrients they need. In leaves, the veins

transport the water.

● Watch this video and try to replicate it yourself to create leaf skeletons

which show each individual veins! Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW-6H-aP5ys

Task 2

What would happen to the plant without the water?

Write up what you saw in the videos.

Challenge:

Write up the steps you followed to complete the experiment and explain your

results.

Word Bank plant, flower, stem, leaf, leaves, root, male, stamen, anther, filament,

female, carpel, stigma, style, ovary, photosynthesis, grow, growth, water, light,

oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, xylem, transportation, pollen, pollination,

pollinate, seed, formation, disperse, dispersal

Art and Design

This week we are continuing our art and design project. You should now

have started your model.

Task: Continue making your model of a local landmark. How could

you improve the model you started last week? What do you need to do to

complete it?

Keeping active

We hope you are keeping active and have been really pleased to hear about lots

of you taking part in PE with Joe Wicks, going for walks and riding your bikes.

Here are some more exciting ideas to try at home;

Keeping active (Week 4) We hope some of you have downloaded the TopYa! Active app and are taking part in the challenges to get yourselves on to the leader board. For something different, you could try the active learning videos at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers Imoves have a variety of free videos including Pilates and meditation: https://imoves.com/the-imovement Try exercising like a superhero with this Avengers workout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYi1kyMeFHQ

Olympic athletes

Just because the 2020 Olympics have been postponed, that does not mean we cannot still look to Olympic athletes for inspiration to keep us moving! You can find out what Olympians from around the world have been doing to stay active. Athletes from a variety of sports have shared their home workouts. See what they have been up to - some of them have some very interesting ways of working out at home! https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/stories/news/detail/sport-share-home-workouts-coronavirus/

If you would like to share your artwork, you can ask an adult

to email it to the school office on admin@rokesly-

jun.haringey.sch.uk so that it can be sent to your teacher.

Please write the name of the year and class in the subject

line of the email. If your parent/carer is also happy for your

artwork to be included on our Instagram page/website, they

can send an email or a message on our Instagram account

@rokeslyjunior stating the following: “I give permission for

you to post this artwork on Instagram and on the website.”

Word Bank:

design, audience, purpose, materials, methods of construction, structure Stable, design, design process, proportion, shape, texture, colour

Weekly Wellbeing

Stay positive and look after yourselves. Try this week’s wellbeing

challenge.

Week 4 – Have an extra healthy day with limited screen time! Make sure

you eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables, be physically active for at least 60 minutes and go to bed an hour early. If you can, try to get everyone in your home involved and see how energised you feel.

Interesting things to watch or listen to:

The Kid Should See This website – Here you can find videos for curious minds of all ages with a focus on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and maths) https://thekidshouldseethis.com/

Bedtime stories read by actor Tom Hardy https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/tom-hardy-returns-to-bedtime-stories On-line games to play at home, including battleships, chequers and

chess https://www.learn4good.com/games/board.htm

Help out in the kitchen and try out some new

recipes: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/kids-cooking

Planning sheet:

Underlying structure New ideas

Heading/Title

Introduction

What do _______________look like?

Where do ______________live?

What do _________________eat?

_____________________________

____________________________

Did you know?/ Other interesting

information:

Spelling

Root word Comparative – ‘er’ Superlative- ‘est’

quick

tall

long

nice

close

rude

big

hot

thin

happy

funny

lucky

Maths – further guidance

Adding with renaming

Maths Challenge

Take three numbers that are 'next door neighbours' when you count. These are called consecutive numbers.

Add them together.

What do you notice?

Take another three consecutive numbers and add them together.

What do you notice?

Can you prove that this is always true by looking carefully at one of your examples?

Getting started

Try starting with three easy numbers like 3, 4 and 5. Add them together and what do you get?

Can you find three equal numbers with the same sum?

Now try three more and see if there is a similar answer.

Geography Web links

Olympics in Haringey

https://www.haringey.gov.uk/libraries-sport-and-leisure/culture-and-entertainment/visiting-haringey/archive-and-local-history/carrying-torch-haringeys-olympic-

history#creating_a_splash

Lotus Cars

https://hornseyhistorical.org.uk/hornsey-birthplace-lotus-cars/

Alexandra Palace

https://www.alexandrapalace.com/our-history/overview/

Football in Haringey

https://www.footballhistory.org/

The Parkland Walk

https://www.parkland-walk.org.uk/history