Year 3 Home Learning 13.3.2020
Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 13th March 2020
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 25th March 2020) |
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Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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Spellings
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the spelling focus in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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Home Learning Menu
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do four five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
Music
Listen to these 5 songs: Holding Out for a Hero We Don’t Need Another Hero Hero Wind Beneath My Wings I Can Be Your Hero Review the songs – Rank them 1 to 5 – 1 being your favourite. What sounds can you hear? Think about tempo(speed), dynamics(loudness), timbre(sound), Pitch (high and low) and duration(length) Listen to the lyrics (words) how do you know they are about heroes? What does the hero do?
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History
Historical Heroes – below is a list of historical heroes or you can think of one yourself. Can you research the hero and create and information piece about why they were a hero. Don’t forget to explain when and where they lived and what they did that made them a hero?
Florence Nightingale Ghandi Amelia Earhart Rosa Parks Mother Teresa Mary Seacole Martin Luther King Boudicca William Wilberforce Neil Armstrong
Or any one else from history as long as you can explain why they are a hero! |
5 points for each act.
PSHE ‘Paying it forward’ – Can you do a good deed for someone. It could be anything that is kind, helpful or thoughtful to someone else. It could be as simple as picking up something that someone else has dropped and returning it to them or something big raising money for charity! Write about it, photograph it, video it! Whatever you can think of to show how you are spreading kindness in the world!
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PSHE
Choose your favourite (or scariest). What do they do? Why are they good at being a villain? Why are they the most villainous villain? You could think about Darth Vader, Scar, Professor Snape. What about Tom from Tom and Jerry, is he a villain? |
Maths
TTRS – We are having a Battle of the bands with the other Year 3 class. It will start on Monday and run until Friday so don’t forget to pay every right answer counts!! |
Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 28th February 2020
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 11th March 2020) |
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Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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Spellings
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the spelling focus in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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Home Learning Menu
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
Maths
Have a go at cracking codes. On the website below you will see 6 different types of code breaking activities. Have a go at, at least 2 of these. Remember to bring in your coded message and the tool for solving it. We will be able to have some time to crack each other’s codes in school. https://www.melissaanddoug.com/blogpost?postId=6-secret-codes-for-kids |
Art
Sketch a portrait of your hero from photographs (think about your North Star, who inspires you?) |
Reading
Collect stories from newspapers and magazines everyday heroes and make a clippings board. Heroic acts might include saving people or animals from danger, fighting fires or donating organs to help another person. |
Literacy
Investigate 1920’s slang used by gangster of the a day. Can you find out what these mean: attaboy, bee’s knees, beef, big cheese, big house, caper, coppers, joint, let’s blouse, moll, rhatz, scram, sitting pretty, soup job, swell. |
PSHE
Make a list of 5 positive things that you and your friends could do to improve your school environment. Write your ideas on ‘helping hands’ and decorate them beautifully. |
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Design
Design a poster to advertise a charity that you are interested in helping. What do they do? Why are they important? How could people help them? |
Writing
Write a fact file about a real-life hero past or present. |
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Writing
This is an example of a riddle. Can you solve the riddle and make one of your own? |
Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 31st January 2020(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 14th February 2020) |
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ReadingPlease encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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SpellingsLike reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the spelling focus in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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Home Learning MenuOver the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen activity; a ten-point activity and a five-point activity or you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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5 points |
ComputingCreate a Powerpoint or Keynote to present what you have learnt about Ancient Greece/Greeks. Print pictures of this to go at the end of the topic in your SOLE book. |
MathsCreate a set of Top Trump cards using the template on the blog for 5 famous Ancient Greeks. Think about what your categories could be! Play a round with a friend or family and calculate how many points you have earnt. |
Next week, the children will be creating their own Pandora’s Box in class. They will be filling it with a range of items. These are some of the items they could make at home to add to their box in school.Each item below is worth 5 points. |
Literacy/ArtChoose one of the myths we have read in class and recreate in your own way. You could do this by making a comic strip, writing a diary entry or writing a narrative. |
Guided ReadingFind a newspaper article that contains an element of hope. Print this out and bring into school. |
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ArtCollect some pictures/drawings to decorate your box with. Bring these into school ready to add to your box. |
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ArtDraw, paint or collect items that represent good things. This could be – a drawing of Aphrodite, Philophroyne or a photograph of a family member or friend. |
Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 22nd November
(All learning to be handed in by Friday 13th December.) |
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Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes, at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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Christmas songs
Please start learning your Christmas songs ready for the Christmas Carol Concert. The year 3 song is Calypso Carol and the Team 2 song is Santa Claus is Coming to Town. |
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Spellings
Like reading, spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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Home Learning Menu
Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do four five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
Geography
Match pictures of unusual foods to their country of origin using a world map to locate them Note: Examples of foods to locate on a paper or online map could include deep-fried tarantula from Cambodia; durian from China; escamoles from Mexico; lutefisk from Norway; raw blood soup from Vietnam; casu marzu from Italy; escargots from France or haggis from Scotland. |
Science
Have a go at making your own dye, using a strongly coloured fruit or vegetable. Try beetroot, carrot, tea, spinach or strawberry. Try dip-dying an old white T-shirt or handkerchief into your coloured dye. Write a reflection to explain what happens and what you learnt. Did some fruits/vegetables work better than others? |
Maths
Using a dice, or selecting some digits, make up some different 2/3-digit numbers. Can you then add these together using the different methods we’ve learnt, including the number line, partitioning and the column method. |
1 hour of TT Rockstars/ and or Numbots. | ||
Science
Eggsperiment! You will need: An egg, white vinegar and a glass jar. Method: Carefully place the egg in the jar. Pour the vinegar over the egg until it is completely covered. Watch as the eggshell starts to bubble (take photos if you like?). Check on your egg regularly and record how it is changing. After 24-48 hours, gently remove the egg from the vinegar and rinse it with water. Compare how the egg feels and looks to an intact egg. Write a reflection of what you found out! |
Art
Create a real or imaginary fruit. You could draw this, create it out of clay, create a potato stamper, or anything else you can think of! Colour your fruit with interesting patterns to make it look weird and wonderful. You could then make up a bizarre or funny name for the fantastical fruit and describe how it would taste. Before you start, have a look at some interesting fruits such as: Sharon fruit, dragonfruit, starfruit and lychees. |
Spellings
Choose 5 of the year 3/4 words and use different strategies to practice spelling these words. You could practise by: Word pyramids Rainbow letters Look, cover, write, check Challenge yourself by putting each of the 5 words into a sentence to show you understand the meaning. |
Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 4th October
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 16th October.) |
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Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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Spellings
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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Home Learning Menu
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do four five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
Music
How many songs can you find that mention water or rivers? Make a list of these, and choose one to write out the lyrics. Have a go at singing your chosen song! Write a reflection. |
Raindrops
Watch the raindrops race down your window. Choose one to watch and see what happens when it meanders down and comes into contact with other droplets. Then, sketch your observations of the droplets on the window. |
Maths
Have a go at some addition/subtraction maths games, to recap our learning this week.https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/addition-and-subtraction |
Times tables 1 hour of TT Rockstars. Or try place value basketball https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball | ||
Puddle expedition
Put on some wellies (or any shoes you don’t mind getting wet!) and go for an explore around your local area with a member of your family. How many puddles can you find? Where do you find the biggest puddles? Take some photos of this for your SOLE book! Write a reflection. |
Art
Find a poem about the rain/water/rivers and draw a picture to show what happens in the poem. Make sure you include the poem too, as this will be for your SOLE book! |
Letter Join
Spend at least 30 minutes on Letter Join to practise your handwriting! Desktop: Username: hazel Password: down Tablet: Username: hazel Swipecode: L shape |
Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 13th September 2019
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 2nd October 2019.) |
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Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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Spellings
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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Home Learning Menu
Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 20 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do four five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
River Nile Study
We will be studying rivers- both here and around the world. We will be thinking of the importance, and impact, rivers have on human populations as well as wildlife. |
Make a river fact file
Use the website below to discover amazing facts about rivers |
Art work Have a go at drawing, painting or sketching your own river. There are some very good tutorials on line |
Times tables 1 hour (split into at least three chunks) each of TT Rockstars. Or try place value basketball https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball | ||
Visit a river.
Find out facts about it- include source of the river and outflow (what does the mouth of the river flow into). You can choose how to present your research. |
Research river dolphins
https://kidzfeed.com/pink-river-dolphin-facts/ Present your findings in a form of your choosing- ready to share your new learning in school. |
Vocabulary
Choose 5 words from our river vocabulary list and practise spelling them and apply into a sentence: Flow, meandering, channel, valley, ocean, spring, source, sediment, erode, river bank. |
Year 3 and 4 Home Learning – Friday 17th May (All learning to be handed in Wednesday 21st May.) |
Reading Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
Spelling Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday. |
Maths and Literacy In maths we have been learning how to measure a range of things – time, length, capacity and mass (weight).This week can you apply this new learning by following a recipe which involves measuring something. If you can, take a picture of what you have made (you can email it to us if you wish, admin@hazeldown.devon.sch.uk and mark for the attention of the class teacher) and write a reflection explaining what you needed to measure, how you did it and any problems you encountered. |





Spelling Group B and C
Spring Term week 4 – Focus:
Handed out on Monday 28January; Tested on Monday 4th February 2018
- cell
- city
- rice
- grace
- fence
- face
- defence
- appear
- arrive
- decide
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Year 3 – Miss Davies’ spelling group!
Handed out Monday 4th February, tested on Monday 11th February.
Words 1-7 focus: ‘ou’ digraph, words 8-10 are from the year ¾ spelling list.
- cloud
- proud
- loud
- count
- mouth
- out
- found
- learn
- often
- arrive
Spelling Group B and C
Spring Term week 2 – Focus: -sure endings
Handed out on Monday 21st January; Tested on Monday 28th January 2019
- measure
- pleasure
- treasure
- closure
- enclosure
- pressure
- leisure
- natural
- naughty
- occasionally
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you!
Please click on the following link to view: Home learning 11.1.19
Group C Spellings Revisit and Review
Over the Christmas holidays, please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise to those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Monday, 14 January 2019
Group Specific Words
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disadvantage | disobey | disappoint | therefore |
subheading | subway | submarine | though |
return | rebuild | hurtful | although |
amazement | rewrite | beautiful | centre |
improvement | recycle | deceitful | century |
excitement | replace | wonderful | circle |
entertainment | replay | powerful | different |
encouragement | reunite | careful | continue |
achievement | antibody | hopeful | consider |
government | antibacterial | nation | earth |
supersonic | antidote | location | early |
superstar | antibiotic | donation | exercise |
superior | antisocial | station | experience |
supermarket | anticlockwise | relaxation | extreme |
unfair | antiseptic | invitation | imagine |
unlock | misplace | plantation | mind |
unlucky | mishear | various | treasure |
unknown | mishap | curious | everybody |
unable | misunderstanding | envious | whole |
undone | mislead | serious | usual |
unusual | misunderstood | furious | knowledge |
disagree | mistake | obvious | learn |
disturb | discover | glorious | length |
breathe | disappear | disbelief | caught |
actually | breath | build | separate |
Group B Spelling Revisit and Review – Mrs Tierney’s group
Over the Christmas holidays, please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise to those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Monday, 14 January 2019
Group Specific Words
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Year 3/4 Words | ||
way | little | fancy | knee |
delay | brittle | city | edge |
Monday | sizzle | cell | watch |
holiday | bottle | knot | magic |
came | needle | knife | change |
gave | edge | kneel | race |
retake | badge | known | clothes |
dropped | dodge | gnat | station |
Married | bridge | gnaw | careful |
walked | trudge | nation | knee |
taking | nudge | location | world |
smiling | ridge | donation | quiet |
stopping | age | station | write |
cleaned | cage | relaxation | travel |
babies | rage | invitation | dropped |
cities | huge | plantation | many |
carries | fringe | various | should |
stories | large | curious | happily |
cries | village | envious | travel |
bodies | race | serious | write |
flies | face | furious | pencil |
. middle | mice | obvious | because |
visible | slice | glorious | child |
Year 3 and 4 Home Learning- Friday 21st December 2018 |
Reading and Spelling
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes over the holidays as reading is a key priority this year. Remember, you can practise spellings using Spellodrome and times tables by using TTRockstars and/or Hit The Button on line. |
Please note, there will be no homework set during the Christmas holidays, as outlined in the school’s Home Learning Policy. The only expectation is to revise the spellings covered during the Autumn term, ready to be tested on the second Monday of the new term. See attached review list. We thought you would like to know that next term, we will be starting an exciting new learning journey called “Exploring China.” Have a happy, healthy and safe Christmas from all the staff in Team 2 |
Spelling Group B
Autumn Term – Focus: Suffix –ment
Handed out on Monday 3 December; Tested on Monday 10thDecember
- movement
- payment
- treatment
- enjoyment
- pavement
- amusement
- statement
- knowledge
- learn
- length
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Spelling Group C
Autumn Term – Focus: ous
Handed out on Monday 3 December; Tested on Monday 10thDecember
- various
- curious
- envious
- serious
- furious
- obvious
- glorious
- knowledge
- learn
- length
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Spelling Group
Autumn Term – Focus: Suffix –ation
Handed out on Monday 26thNovember; Tested on Monday 3rdDecember
- nation
- location
- donation
- station
- relaxation
- invitation
- plantation
- mind
- treasure
- imagine
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Group A spellings this week!
Group B and C Spelling Group
Autumn Term – Week 9 Focus: Suffix -ful
Handed out on Monday 19thNovember; Tested on Monday 26thNovember
- hopeful
- careful
- powerful
- wonderful
- deceitful
- beautiful
- hurtful
- everybody
- whole
- usual
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 word list.
Handed out on Monday 12thNovember; Tested on Monday 19thNovember
- happiness
- loveliness
- kindness
- fairness
- fearless
- hopeless
- painless
- famous
- forwards
- guard
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mrs Tierney’s Spelling Group B Week 8
Handed out on Monday 12thNovember 2018
- knot
- knife
- kneel
- known
- gnat
- gnaw
- gnaw
- pretty
- half
- people
Note: Spellings 1 to 7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8 to 10 are from the Year 3 word list.
Year 3 Home Learning- Friday 9th November |
Reading
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes. |
Spelling
Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday. Remember to play on Spellodrome and TTrockstars |
Maths/Literacy
Please can you create a 2D shape robot! If you would like a challenge, can you include an octagon and hexagon somewhere on your robot? Can you explain how many different shapes you have used? E.g.: Miss Tickell’s robot I have used 6 circles and 4 squares. For my robots mouth I used a triangle with no right angles to make it look like the shape of a happy smile! |
- government
- achievement
- amazement
- encouragement
- entertainment
- excitement
- improvement
- exercise
- experience
- extreme
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Handed out on Monday 15th October; Tested on Monday 29th October
- submarine
- subheading
- subway
- supersonic
- superstar
6.superior
- supermarket
- caught
- early
- earth
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mrs Tierney’s Spelling Group B Week 6 Focus: -ge
Handed out on Monday 15 October 2018. Tested Monday 29thOctober
- age
- cage
- rage
- huge
- fringe
- large
- village
- change
- climb
- brother
Note: Spellings 1 to 7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8 to 10 are from the Year 3 word list.