Welcome back to Year 3 – did you enjoy your visit to Space last week?
It’s transport week this week: aeroplanes, cars, boats and trains! It was lovely to have seen so many of you last week. The weather was a bit drab but I hope it’s going to be much better this week!
In school, The Mixabubble have enjoyed learning about The Earth, The Moon and The Sun as well as the planets of the solar system. Did you do any learning about space last week? Please do send pictures or videos of your work in: year3@eastbierleyprimary.com
It’s time to choo-choo on in to our challenges!
TT ROCKSTARS: Some of you have been getting some awesome scores on TT Rockstars! Well done! The highest weekly game total so far is 60! I wonder how many children can do 20 games this week?
TRANSPORT ART: Find a picture of your favourite type of transport and draw your own: you could use pencils, pens, charcoal, chalk, pastel, fabrics – any material you like! Perhaps you’ve got a photograph of yourself riding in a form of transport? I wonder how many different modes of transport have been travelled on in Year 3? Send in your photos as always!
TRANSPORT VOTE: In an imaginary land called MRSHARPWORLD, there is only going to be allowed one mode of transport but which mode of transport should it be? Can you produce a piece of writing explaining which mode of transport should be the one used in MRSHARPWORLD? Use conjunctions (if, as, when, because) in your work as well as diagrams!
Have another super week at home. It has been so lovely to see all the work you are doing at home as well as keeping in touch with you all as well. If you want to see me in person, Mrs Winder and I will be out on the school playground from 9:45am until 10:00am every morning. It would be lovely to see you!
Stay safe,
The Year 3 Team
Links
Weekly Reading Tasks
| Your child can listen to a free audiobook during their daily walk here. Talk to your child about how it made them feel listening to a book in nature. |
| Read ‘Downhill Racers’ using Oxford Owl. Encourage your child to answer the questions at the back of the book in full sentences. |
| Encourage your child to find a car advert in a magazine/newspaper and find the meaning of any new vocabulary, especially technical words! |
| Ask your child to read the poem Look at the Train! They can write their own poem about a mode of transport using onomatopoeia (when a word describes a sound and mimics the sound of the object/action) to evoke sounds and rhythm. |
| Challenge your child to complete an author study of one of their favourite authors. Can they create a list of their famous books and tick the ones they have read? Can they learn enough about the author to write a biography of their life? |
Weekly Maths Tasks
| Help your child to practise reading scales by measuring the mass and capacity of ingredients in a home baking recipe! Encourage them to use maths to calculate measurement totals or convert between units of measure. |
| Write out these measurements on pieces of paper or card, mix them up and ask your child to convert the units of measure to match them into pairs. |
| Using dough or plasticine, give your child 30 seconds to roll it into the longest worm they can. Repeat several times and order the worms from shortest to longest. Estimate the size of each worm in cm and mm e.g 54 mm, 5.4cm. Measure, then work out the difference between the estimate and the actual measurement. |
| Play Hit the Button - focus on number bonds, halves, doubles and times tables. |
| Ask your child to survey the transport which goes past your home. Tally the different vehicles/vehicle colours and then create a bar chart or pictogram. Write statements about the data e.g. Silver was the most popular colour car.
Daily Calculation 1: 04230956 Daily Calculation 2: 05941520 Daily Calculation 3: 06611172 |
Weekly Spelling Tasks
| Your child can create an A-Z list of transport related words. How quickly can they complete this? |
| Dotty Words. Choose 5 Common Exception words and write them in a series of dots. Apply them into sentences about travelling. |
| Learn about word families here.Your child can show their learning by designing a word family reminder poster. |
| Practise spelling these words: invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion. Can your child think of other suffixes to add to the root words to alter the meanings e.g. invent+ing= inventing, invent+ed= invented. |
| Ask your child to mind map all of the verbs (action words) they associate with transport and travelling e.g steers, paddles, control. Which suitable verbs can they include in their writing tasks? |
Weekly Writing Tasks
| Visit the Literacy Shed for this wonderful resource on Ruckus. Or ask your child to design a ticket for their chosen mode of transport. This should include space for the destination, date, cost of ticket, expiry date and class. |
| Ask your child to write an advert advertising a job to work as a pilot, train driver or bus driver. Include persuasive language to encourage applicants. |
| Your child can plan and write a journey story. Where is the main character going and why? What happens on his/her journey? How does the main character overcome this? If you have access to a PC, your child can type up the final version of their story after they have proofread it. |
| Watch this video about The Orient Express. Your child can imagine that they have travelled on this beautiful train and write a recount about their journey. |
| Families should only be allowed to use their car 3 times per week. Can your child write a for/against argument about this, with adult support? They should consider the impact it would have on the family/environment.
KAHOOT: Vowel or Consonant (You can never have too much practice!) 04589236 A or An? Transport Edition: 07047998 Subordinating Conjunctions: 09784731 |
STEM Learning Opportunities
Brilliant Boats
- Using just 1 sheet of paper and some paperclips design a raft that will hold as many coins or marbles as possible. You can download the activity card here to help you.
Additional Learning Resources
BBC Bitesize - Lots of videos and learning opportunities for all subjects.
Classroom Secrets Learning Packs - Reading, writing and maths activities for different ages.
Twinkl - Click on the link and sign up using your email address and creating a password. Use the offer code UKTWINKLHELPS.
White Rose Maths online maths lessons. Watch a lesson video and complete the worksheet (can be downloaded and completed digitally).
Times Table Rockstars and Numbots. Your child can access both of these programmes with their school logins. On Times Table Rockstars, children should aim to play Soundcheck for 20 minutes daily.
IXL online. Click here for Year 3. There are interactive games to play and guides for parents.
Mastery Mathematics Learning Packs. Take a look at the mastery mathematics home learning packs with a range of different activities and lessons.
Y3 Talk for Writing Home-school Booklets are an excellent resource to support your child’s speaking and listening, reading and writing skills.
Learning Project - to be completed through the week
The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about transport. Learning may focus on modes of transport, transport in the past, the science behind transport, road safety and how to be safe around water.
- Transport Inventors - Ask your child to find out about famous transport inventors such as Henry Ford and The Wright Brothers. Create fact files about these inventors. Can your child draw sketches of different modes of transport then and now. Can they place different modes of transport on a timeline using their invention date?
- Colourful Collage - Ask your child to create their own transport collage. Encourage them to draw, colour or paint a variety of vehicles or make a large collage of one vehicle. Ask them to use bold colours to really make their vehicles stand out! The collage could be made using cut up squares from magazines and leaflets. Share the collages at #TheLearningProjects.
- Obstacle Course - Ask your child to find any toy transport (cars, trains, etc) they may have at home, then they can design an obstacle course for their vehicle to travel around. This could be on a track or floor involving ramps inside or in the garden. Another idea - get each family member to make a paper aeroplane and throw each one in turn and see whose travels the furthest. Ask your child to measure the lengths of the distance travelled and record these on a bar chart. Recommendation at least 2 hours of exercise a week.
- Let’s Talk Transport -Talk as a family about transport in your life. Talk about how you get to school and work. Do you get your food delivered? Does anyone in the family operate a mode of transport? Is it their job? Discuss the first family car owned. Ask your child to mind map all of the ways your family relies on transport and then to imagine a life without it.
- Transport Around the World - Ask your child to look at how people travel around in India. Buses, cycle-rickshaws, autorickshaws, e-rickshaws, tempos (big, brutal-looking autorickshaws), taxis, boats, tongas (horse-drawn carts), metros and urban trains provide transport around India's cities. Encourage them to compare this to Venice and how the people there travel around (gondola and sandolo tours all around the city). Can your child design a new vehicle suitable for each of these places thinking carefully about suitable and local materials?
