Year 3 Home Learning – Hazeldown Primary School

Year 3 Home Learning 13.3.2020

Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 13^th March 2020

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 25^th March 2020)

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.

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!

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.

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?

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!

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 28^th February 2020

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 11^th March 2020)

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.

Spellings

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.

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.

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.

Writing

This is an example of a riddle. Can you solve the riddle and make one of your own?

Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 31^st January 2020

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 14^th February 2020)

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.

Spellings

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 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.

15 points

10 points

5 points

Computing

Create 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.

Maths

Create 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/Art

Choose 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 Reading

Find a newspaper article that contains an element of hope. Print this out and bring into school.

Art

Collect some pictures/drawings to decorate your box with. Bring these into school ready to add to your box.

Art

Draw, 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 13^th December.)

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.

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.

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!

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.

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 4^th October

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 16^th October.)

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.

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!

Home Learning Menu

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 13^th September 2019

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 2^nd October 2019.)

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.

Spellings

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.

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

https://www.3dgeography.co.uk/river-facts

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 17^th May (All learning to be handed in Wednesday 21^st 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 4^th 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 4^th February, tested on Monday 11^th 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 21^st January; Tested on Monday 28^thJanuary 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			Year 3/4 Words
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

Group Specific Words			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 21^st 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 10^thDecember

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 10^thDecember

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 26^thNovember; Tested on Monday 3^rdDecember

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 19^thNovember; Tested on Monday 26^thNovember

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 12^thNovember; Tested on Monday 19^thNovember

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 12^thNovember 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 9^th 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 15^th October; Tested on Monday 29^th 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 29^thOctober

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.

Year 3 Home Learning 13.3.2020

Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 31st January 2020

Reading

Spellings

Home Learning Menu

15 points

10 points

5 points

Computing

Maths

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/Art

Guided Reading

Art

Art

Hazeldown Primary School

Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 31^st January 2020