Welcome to our Willow Class page. Here you will find helpful links to inform you and help support your child's learning, as well as important dates and updates from our Twitter feed. When I asked Year 3 how we should introduce our website page, their response was "We love books, we are amazing at times tables, and we are the best class in the world"... so I think that speaks for itself!

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Home Learning (19th March 2020)

Compulsory Home Learning: Daily Tasks

These tasks will cover two weeks of home learning, and will be reviewed after that time period if necessary. Any paper resources needed to complete these activities will be provided along with this pack.

Linked Youtube videos, PurpleMash 2Dos or helpful websites may be suggested by your class teacher as appropriate, however all subject areas are still possible without computer access.

Reading

• Daily reading practice, and sharing stories with adults and/or siblings

• Listening to stories read aloud on YouTube (you will find most picture books on here!) or Google ‘BBC Bedtime Stories’

Spelling

• Use the attached sheet of spelling words: Common Exception Words
• I would suggest choosing and focusing on 5 of these words per week.
• Ideas for spelling activities/ games: spelling hangman, race against the clock (how quickly can you write the words correctly?), writing words in bubble writing/ rainbow colours/ typed, Spelling Shed (https://www.spellingshed.com/) - 14 day free trial

English

Week 1 – Writing defeating the monster stories	Week 2 – Writing newspaper articles
Monday create and describe your own monster. Can you use exciting adjectives and similes? Tuesday create the hero of your story Wednesday plan your story Thursday write your story Friday EITHER edit your story and write it up neat, in your best handwriting, OR type your story up using the PurpleMash template	Monday read and answer questions about a newspaper article Tuesday creative writing about an alien invasion (using the picture stimulus given). Wednesday plan a newspaper article about an alien invasion Thursday write your article Friday draw a story map and make up actions to retell your newspaper article or story from last week

Times Tables practice

• Daily practice counting in 3s, 4s and 8s
• Use Times Tables Rockstars to practise times tables set by your teacher (https://ttrockstars.com/)
• Hit The Button (https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button) and Daily10 (https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10) are also great websites for mental maths practice which we use regularly in class.

Maths

• Week 1: revision of addition and subtraction (numbered in order 1-5)
• Week 2: revision of multiplication and division (numbered in order 1-5)
• Each task is split into 3 challenges: children must complete at least one of these per day.
• See attached calculation guidance to better understand the methods that your child has learnt at school for the four operations.

Times Tables Rockstars own another website called Numbots (play.numbots.com) which is offering a free trial at the moment where children can practise arithmetic skills. Log-in with the same TTRS logins.

Topic Home Learning

• For each of these subjects, your teacher has suggested three different activities or projects for you to choose from. You must complete at least one from each of the 5 subjects over the next two weeks (but you are welcome to do more!).

• We do not expect adults to be teaching any new content at home: these activities have been chosen to reinforce key skills and continue topics already introduced at school.

• You will have the opportunity to share your work with your teacher and classmates when you return to school… and you can send Miss Brown photos of your work on Twitter! @EyePrimaryYear3

Science

• Forces and Magnets: how many magnets or magnetic objects can you find in your house? Make a list of these and what they are used for.
• Rocks: what kinds of rocks can you find in your garden/ along the way during a walk? Sort them depending on whether you think they are sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous (a guide is provided).
• Light and Reflection: Water Refraction Experiment (guide included)

History/Geography

• Stone Age to Iron Age: create a model of Stonehenge, using any creative resource you would like (I am thinking of lego, clay, building blocks, or even biscuits!).
• Natural Disasters: create a performance, artwork or piece of writing about a volcano. You could do some research, write a story, create a dance… it is up to you! (If you have a sibling in Year 5, you could do this together.)
• Historical enquiry skills: what is the oldest object in your house? Describe its history (where did it come from, how old do you think it is, what is it used for etc.) and sketch the artefact.

Art/D&T

• Learn to draw Prince Grogbah from The Nothing To See Here Hotel with the illustrator himself, Steven Lenton! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou4M9EY5YqU or search “draw prince grogbah” on Google.)
• Do some cooking or baking with a member of your family.
• Continue learning how to draw a self-portrait. Videos with step by step instructions of eyes, lips and nose are on the “RapidFireArt” Youtube Channel. You can then use a mirror or a photo to have a go at drawing your own face or a family members face!

PE

• Create a fitness circuit which you can practise in your house or garden, including lots of different exercises.
• Go for a long walk in the fresh air with your family. Can you make a map of where you walked?
• Do a yoga routine, following along with “Cosmic Kids Yoga” on YouTube.

RE

• Watch a video on the Easter story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3UKd6LQKng/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PSgoPdKQFQ Pick out the key stories: Palm Sunday, Cleansing the temple, Last supper, Arrest of Jesus, the trial, his crucifixion, his burial and resurrection.
• Draw 6 pictures on the provided net cube from the Easter story.
• Decorate a cross (see provided resource) with pictures from any Bible story

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500 Word challenge –

We have been writing our own suspense stories this week, inspired by our model text...

 

Teacher

 

Day-to-day in Willow Class

Reading Records

Children should be reading at home each night, and reading should be recorded in their reading record by an adult or the child themselves. It has become an important part of our morning routine in class to check that reading records are in school – and as a result, I have been able to award so many team points for frequent readers, so well done Willow Class! Keep up the great effort at home.

Homework and Spellings (PurpleMash)

• As always, paper spellings will be given out each Thursday and tested the following Thursday. Spelling homework should be returned in your child’s homework folder.
• The children seem to be really enjoying using PurpleMash, both at school and at home, so a second piece of homework will continue to be set on PurpleMash this half term.

PE

This half term, Year 3 will have PE on Tuesdays and Fridays. PE kits should be kept in school all week, in case of timetable changes.

Curriculum Maps

 

Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS)

To increase our confidence with times tables in Key Stage 2, the children have been enjoying using TTRS at school, competing against their friends and against other classes! Please remember that your child can also access TTRS at home (using a computer or the app on a phone or tablet) - if you need another copy of their login details, please ask their teacher.

PurpleMash

We are currently using PurpleMash to develop our computing skills in lessons. This is also where you will be able to find your child's weekly online homework task - please contact Miss Brown if they have lost or forgotten their login details.

Year 3 – Reading

 

Other recommendations for Year 3

Fortunately, The Milk, Neil Gaiman
Mr Popper’s Penguins, Richard & Florence Atwater
Woof! Allan Ahlberg
The Giant Baby, Allan Ahlberg
Ms Wiz Series, Terence Blacker
Whizziwig, Malorie Blackman
Mrs Armitage, Quentin Blake
Freckle Juice, Judy Bloom
Flat Stanley, Jeff Brown
Utterly Me, Lauren Child
Clarice Bean, Lauren Child
The Sea Piper, Helen Cresswell
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Despereux, Kate DiCamillo
Diary of a Killer Cat, Anne Fine
Bill’s New Frock, Anne Fine
The Day I Swapped my Dad for a Goldfish, Neil Gaiman
The Iron Man, Ted Hughes
How the Whale Became, Ted Hughes
The Hodgeheg, Dick King-Smith
The Golden Goose, Dick King-Smith
The Dog who changed the World, Robert Leeson
Pippi Long Stockings, Astrid Lindgren
The Stowaways, Roger McGough
The Butterfly Lion, Michael Morpurgo
The Dancing Bear, Michael Morpurgo
The Worst Witch, Jill Murphy
Hansel and Gretel, Jane Ray
Freaky Friday, Mary Rodgers
The Hundred mile an hour dog, Jeremy Strong
My Mum’s going to Explode! Jeremy Strong
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, Jon Sciezwa
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark, Jill Tomlinson
Daisy May, Jean Ure
No Worries! Marcia Williams
Cliffhanger, Jacqueline Wilson