Wednesday 22nd April – Home Learning

 

Good morning, everybody. I hope today goes well.

Do as much as you can and if there’s a piece of your child’s learning you would like to share, please feel free to send me a picture or video at t.prior@southill.dorset.sch.uk. If you have any other videos or fantastic pictures to share with the school about anything else you are doing at home, simply email them to Mrs Symonds at media@southill.dorset.sch.uk.

Thank you to those parents who have already emailed me this week. If you haven’t yet, please remember to email me at some point to let me know that you’re all ok. I sent the second batch of reports out yesterday and I will be sending another lot out today as, sadly, we were not able to talk at parents evening – so stay tuned.

 

Mr. Prior 🙂

 

Spellings
 

Learn the five spellings below ready for Friday

 

address
answer
appear
arrive
believe

 

Challenge- find out what the spellings mean using a dictionary and try to use the words in your own brilliant sentence.

 

Reading

 

Please ensure your children reads daily for at least fifteen minutes. A combination of them reading independently, out loud to an adult and letting them listen to the story being told by the adult is advisable. Simply record any reading in your child’s reading record book. Remember to also quiz your books.

 

IMPORTANT REMINDER- we are still monitoring book quizzes on Star Reader so please ensure you are still doing them. Parents- you are more than welcome to read the question out loud for your child if it helps them.

 

Challenge- As you have already written a film review, why not have a go at a book review as well? Think about how you are going to introduce your review and how you are going to structure it using subtitles.

 

Writing Task- Relative Clauses 

 

The grammar train is fully operational! Our final grammar focus before applying this work to a piece of writing is based around relative clauses. This is where you drop extra information into a sentence. It tells us something else about the noun. For example, I started by writing the sentence:

 

One troll lived alone under the bridge.

 

I could add another bit of information in the middle using the word ‘who’.

 

One troll, who was very grumpy, lived alone under a wooden bridge.

 

Notice how I have used two commas. Top tip- You know that your relative clause has worked if you can take out the information you’ve added and the sentence still makes sense.

 

Watch the video below for more information. Warning- it may cause uncontrollable laughter.

So the relative clause that you drop into the sentence begins with – who, whose, that or which. 

 

Challenge 1- Can you think of an appropriate relative clause to finish off the sentences below

 

a) The brave soldier, who ____________________________, aimed his rifle at the other trench across No Man’s Land.

 

b) The ferocious dinosaur, whose teeth __________________________, charged towards the unsuspecting prey.

c) The wonky fence, which ____________________________, toppled over during the storm last night.

 

d) A frightened teacher, that _______________________________, entered the classroom full of excitable, terrifying children.

 

e) A rebellious girl, who _________________________________, pushed the rusty gate open and entered the abandoned graveyard.

 

Top tip- re-read your sentence. Do they make sense? If you take out the commas and the blue information, notice how the sentence still makes sense. For example, let’s look at d. A frightened teacher entered the classroom full of excitable, terrifying children. The sentence still makes sense if you take out the relative clause.

 

Challenge 2- Can you think of the main clause (a sentence that makes sense) to go around the relative clauses below. Top tip- on the first part of the sentence, end on the noun (fence, dog, cat, ogre, tiger, house etc.) 

 

f) _____________________, whose teeth were as sharp as knitting needles, __________________.

 

g) ___________________, who hated doing his home learning, ___________________.

 

h) ___________________, whose compass had stopped pointing north, ______________. 

 

Challenge 3- Can you create some of your own relative clauses? Perhaps use the video to help you or even some of the examples above.

 

REMEMBER- a relative clause must have a main clause (that makes sense on its own) and a relative (subordinate) clause which cannot stand alone as it’s own sentence. If you take the relative clause out, the sentence should still make sense! Don’t forget the two commas. 🙂

 

Mr Prior’s relative clause- The magical genie, that could grant three unbelievable wishes, decided to build a bunk bed inside his lamp.

 

Arithmetic Task- Times Table Twister

 

 

This game is amazing if you have a twister mat! If not, you can still play this game. Write the answers to 4x table questions on cards or pieces of paper, i.e. 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48. Stick them to the floor. Feel free to also include random wrong answers as well.

 

On some other pieces of paper, write down left hand, right hand, left foot, right foot and flip them over so that you cannot see them.

 

Flip over a card, e.g. right foot and ask the children a times table problem. They must then place their foot on the answer. Children to have 10 seconds to get the right body part in the right place. If they take longer than 10 seconds, they lose a life (3 lives in total). This will hopefully get the children thinking quickly and learning through play.

 

Top tip- if you do not have anything to stick the answers down, perhaps play on the table and just have right hand and left hand. The children must then just hit the correct answer before the timer reaches 10 seconds.

 

This is also a great game for the whole family to play. Get bigger brothers and sisters involved (and parents as well). I would love to see pictures of you all playing this game! Have fun 🙂

Maths No Problem Task- Changing Minutes to Seconds

 

Here are the answers to the questions you completed on the Tuesday (workbook page 50)…

 

 

In focus task (page 85)- Discuss how many seconds they think their are in 1 minute. Challenge- what about 2 minutes? What about 5 (5 x 60) and 10 (10 x 60) minutes?

Teaching tip- To solve 5 x 60, encourage children to do 5 x 6 and then add a zero on the end. Similarly, to multiply a number by 10, you simply add a zero to the number.

 

Textbook (page 86)- Guided Practice- Take a look at the questions presented. Children can use multiplication in order to solve the problem. The children can also use repeated addition, e.g. for question 3, you basically need to work out 60 x 3 so children could do:

  60

  60

+60

_____

_____

Whichever method works best for the question (and for them).

 

Workbook (page 52)- Children to have a go at the problems on page 52. Encourage them to either take the zero off, multiply the numbers then add the zero back on. Alternatively, repeated addition can also be used.

 

I will post the answers to these questions on tomorrow’s blog post.

 

Topic-based task – Tribal Tales – Glossary

 

A fun little Horrible History video to hook the children in…

 

In order to get as much out of this topic as possible (and to help the children with their understanding) they will need to familiarise themselves with the vocabulary below. Children will need to use a dictionary (or they can use an online dictionary- https://kids.wordsmyth.net/we/) in order to find out what the following words mean-

 

prehistoric

artefact

chronological

century

species

archaeology

evolution

carnivore (they may remember this word from our Predator topic)

herbivore (they may remember this word from our Predator topic)

Palaeolithic

Mesolithic

Neolithic

hunting

carving

 

Please write the word in your book, write the definition of what the word means next to it. If you really want to challenge yourself, why not have a go at writing some of the words in your very own sentence?

 

An example has been written below to get you going-

 

1. Prehistoric- A period of time before written history.

 

            Mammoths and Saber-Tooth Tigers  were prehistoric animals. We only know about them because of cave paintings and skeletons

 

You have got the rest of the week for this task so take your time, present it in your neatest handwriting and remember to leave a line space between each glossary word.

 

Other Fun Ideas and Activities
 

Keen to do more?  Not ready to call it a day? Then why not give some of the activities below a go (who knows, you might enjoy it)…

 

Science Experiments- Rummage around in the cupboards and you may like to have a go at some of these wicked science experiments!

 

Make a massive marshmallow, create a bouncing egg, make pepper swim (link to the importance of washing hands) create a tornado in a glass, create dragon eggs, make your own slime, make a hovercraft balloon or even a skittles rainbow.

 

Get the children making predictions as to what may happen then carry out the experiment. Want to know how to do these experiments? Visit some of the websites listen below…

https://www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk/blog/easy-cool-science-experiments-for-kids

https://sciencekids.co.nz/experiments.html

https://mashable.com/article/science-experiments-for-kids/?europe=true

 

JOKE BOOK- Did you enjoy video? If you haven’t seen Jester Prior delivering his all-time favourite jokes yet, then visit the Year 3 news page. Why not create your very own joke book? You could create a title page and note down some of the funniest jokes you can think of. I’m sure your parents could do with a laugh! 🙂

 

Audible- a great app which you can download and contains many free books (great to listen to before bedtime).

 

Prior’s Top Audible Picks – Kid Normal by Radio DJ Greg James and Chris Smith.

-Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney

-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

-The Gift of Dark Hollow (the sequel to Podkin One-Ear) by Kieran Larwood

 

Alternatively, if you’re a real keen Walliams fan, he is currently releasing a lot of chapters of his books for free! This includes an audio story from The World’s Worst Children every day for the next 30 days! Check out this link- https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses-catch-up/

 

Sumdog- Online maths and literacy questions delivered through entertaining games. Simply create a login totally free of charge, create an avatar and let your children explore and play. Mr Prior’s favourite game…JUNK PILE! It’s addictive- be warned. Parents- you can also set certain questions on there for your children to focus on. Any questions, please email me.

 

Maths Factor-  KEEN FOR EVEN MORE MATHS? Carol Vordeman has made her website free during this strange time…feel free to login and check out some of the activities- https://www.themathsfactor.com/

 

ICT- Fancy becoming quicker at typing and brushing up on your fine motor skills? Why not have a go at BBC Dance Mat Typing…Dancing for your fingertips…you know the drill…follow the link- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

 

French- Bonjour! Can you find out the names of the following colours in French?

 

Blue, Green, Red, Black, Yellow, Pink, Purple and Orange

 

Then can you explain what is your favourite colour…

Ma couleur préférée ________________

 

Challenge- Create a ‘French’ rainbow to stick in your window. Simply write the names of the colours in french inside each arch.

 

Lego Construction- Can you create Stone Henge or even a cave out of Lego?

 

Lexia- If you have a Lexia account, please feel free to login and try to do it for at least 15 minutes.

 

The Daily Mile- If you have a garden big enough (or a quiet field nearby) why not head out for the Daily Mile? 15 minutes…how many laps can you do?

 

PE- Missing your swimming lessons? Why not get onto your tummies and try to swim through the sea, avoiding the pollution! Make Sir David Attenborough proud!

Level one- 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/just-for-fun-blue-planet-ii-l1/zfkf7nb

 

Level two- 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/just-for-fun-blue-planet-ii-l2/zdnjbdm