Year 3 & 4 Homework

29 June 2020: Home learning

Posted on Sunday 28 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Good morning, all. This week, in school, we would have been enjoying one of our themed weeks, Being happy and healthy. Despite this, and as it is now even more important to look after our own physical and mental health, we’d like to share some ideas to look at the theme of being happy and healthy at home.  Start by watching this clip from BBC Bitesize and reading these top ten tips for families to keep healthy and happy at home.

Can you encourage your child to make a new healthy choice every day this week? Or think about one new healthy change your child can make? Try to help them make sure the choice is a realistic, achievable one, such as avoiding being on an electronic device after a certain time to help sleep, or adding one extra daily portion of vegetables to their diet each day.
Here are some links to support you with this learning at home which may be as well as or instead of some of your child’s home learning for this week.

Maths:

Year 3: In this BBC Bitesize lesson, you will learn how to add three-digit numbers together. You don’t need to print the worksheets if you don’t want to – write the calculations in your books. Be careful to line the columns up correctly.

Year 4: We are focusing on fractions this week. Here is your video lesson ,led by Mrs Alloway from Scholes, and worksheet. You can mark your work using the answers.

Reading: Our text this week is about social distancing. Here’s the video and text.

Art: Today we are focusing on shading and will be practising our techniques. Here is the worksheet and the lesson link. (You don’t have to print the sheet; if you wish you can draw straight into your home learning book.) I found this activity to be really relaxing – I hope you do, too! 

Spellings: For spellings this week, I would like you to practise words from the Y3/4 word list. You can use the handwriting sheet or any other method that will help you to remember these spellings.

 

 

Home learning: 26 June 2020

Posted on Thursday 25 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Good morning, Year 3 and 4.

It’s Friday – well done for completing another week of home learning.

Maths

Here are the answers to yesterday’s learning.

It’s challenge Friday – have a go at these challenges on BBC bitesize.

 

Reading

How did you do with the reading task yesterday? Here are the questions Joe wrote for his retrieval work. Can you answer any of them?

  1. Why did the character wish he’d worn jeans?
  2. Give me 2 reasons why it was so noisy?
  3. What did Emily plan to do later?
  4. What danced silently in the shaft of sunlight?
  5.  Were the water lilies pink, green, or white?
  6.  The main character was really into ponds? True or false.

In today’s task, we are going to answer these RIC questions based on this video about R L Stine, the author of the ‘Goosebumps’ books. The first question will be an opportunity to test the retrieval skills that you have been working on this week but in a slightly different way. Just like with a text, the answers to this retrieval question can be found in the video. We hope you enjoy getting to see and hear from the man who wrote the texts that we’ve been reading over the course of this week. Here is your reading video of Mrs Welsby explaining today’s learning.

 

Spanish

In this lesson, we will recap our knowledge from last week and we will build on our knowledge by learning the days of the week. We can then use this, as well as our previous knowledge of months and numbers, to say the date in Spanish! For this lesson, you will need some paper and a pen or pencil to write down your new vocabulary.

25 June 2020: Home learning

Posted on Wednesday 24 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Good morning, all. Have you ever tried yoga? Here’s a link to some great yoga moves for children (and adults too!)

Maths: Here’s today’s video lesson from Mrs Rowley, the task and the answers.

Reading: Today we are continuing working on retrieval skills. Here’s today’s video lesson with Mrs Welsby and the task.

RE: This is our third lesson in a series of four lessons on Christianity from Oak National Academy. This lesson, led by Miss Dhillon, is about the parables of Jesus.

24 June 2020: Home learning

Posted on Tuesday 23 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Happy mid-week. Yes, it’s another Wednesday! Keep going – you’re doing great!

Need some help with your times tables? Or know them and fancy a boogie anyway? Check these videos out: Supermovers BBC

x3 times tables song

x6 times tables song

Maths: Today we are doing work about 24 hour clock. Here’s today’s video lesson from Mrs Rowley, the task and the answers.

Reading: Today we are continuing working on retrieval skills. Here’s today’s video lesson and task.   We will go through the answers tomorrow, but here’s a copy.

Science: Here is our fourth lesson about plants from Oak National Academy. Throughout the lesson, Miss Roberts will ask you to pause the lesson to complete tasks.

 

23 June 2020: Home learning

Posted on Monday 22 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Good morning, munchkins. If you fancy the Bring Sally Up Squat Challenge for PE today, this is a fun way to get your legs stronger! Let me know if you have a go… my legs were burning after I did it! (Don’t forget, you can stop part way through!)

Maths: Here is today’s lesson from Mrs Rowley, the task and the answers.

Reading: We have the next part of Goosebumps. Here is today’s video learning and task. We will go through the answers tomorrow but here is a copy if you want to mark yours today.

Writing: Today we are going to revise apostrophes for contractions. Follow the Bitesize link to watch the video and do the activities. Can you make your own matching game with two words and their contracted word?

22 June 2020: Home learning

Posted on Sunday 21 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Hello all. We hope you are feeling relaxed after the weekend and are raring to go. Don’t forget to share what you’re doing at home – we love to hear from you! Thank you to those of you that have emailed in. Our email addresses are here.

kerensawelsby@spherefederation.org            and           beckyrowley@spherefederation.org

Maths: How is this mini topic on time going? Are you impressing everyone with your time-telling skills? Here is the next lesson from Mrs Rowley, the task and the answers.

Reading: This week we are reading part of a Goosebumps book. Today we are thinking about ambitious vocabulary. Here’s today’s video lesson and text.  (These are some suggested answers.)

Art: Today we are going to be doing some sketching and shading.

Spellings: This week we are looking at words containing the sh sound. Here is a link to spelling strategies.

 

Home Learning: 19 June 2020

Posted on Thursday 18 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Happy Friday!

Maths:

We’re continuing our learning about telling the time. Today, have a go at learning to tell the time to the nearest minute. Watch this video and answer these questions.

 

Reading:

Love of reading
In class, we’d usually have a Love of Reading session each week where we read something
that we love. Adults use the time to read with children.
Today, I’d like you to…
● Get really comfy: wear some thick socks, a dressing gown or wooly jumper. Sit somewhere soft and relaxing.
● Turn all electronic devices off: TVs, radios, computers, phones, tablets, etc.
● Spend some quality time reading with each other. Read aloud, take it in turns, put on voices for characters, re-read things to improve how you’re reading them.
● Talk about what you’re reading. Which are the best bits? Why? Does it remind you of other things you’ve read or watched? Do you know anything about parts of it from other knowledge that you have? What do you think of the characters? What will happen next? Why do you think that?

 

Spanish

Have you enjoyed learning another language?

In this lesson, we will recap our numbers and alphabet, as well as saying our name and age in Spanish. We will then expand our number knowledge to learn the numbers up to 31 and the months of the year in Spanish, so that we can say the date of our birthday in Spanish! For this lesson, you will need some paper and a pen or pencil.

 

Home Learning: 18 June 2020

Posted on Wednesday 17 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Good morning, Year 3 and 4.

Maths:

Here are the asnwers to yesterday’s challenges. (Challenge 1 and challenge 2.)

Today in maths, you’re learning all about telling the time to 5 minutes. Watch this video and then answer these questions. There’s no need to print – you can just write the answers in your home learning book.

Reading: 

Here are the answers to yesterday’s comprehension.

By now you’ve read the text for three days so you should be very familiar with it. Please read it again out loud for excellent fluency.  Today, write some of your own comprehension questions for Mrs Rowley and Mrs Welsby to
answer. Try and include some retrieval, interpret, and choice question – like we have in our RIC style questions. Please send them to us for us to answer.

Geography

Follow this link below to a fun geography-based lesson which explores the differences between weather and climate. There are two clips to watch, photos to study and three activities to do. Try to complete the quiz and the second activity (see sheet attached). Click on the link on the webpage to
access the third activity, if you’d like this challenge.

Enjoy!

17 June 2020: Home learning

Posted on Tuesday 16 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Happy Wednesday! Are you feeling fit and full of energy?  This mountain bike exercise helps with reaction times and core strength.

Maths: How are you getting along with our Time topic? Here’s today’s  Y3/4 lesson with Mrs Rowley.

Reading: Today we are reading Growing seeds from space again. Each time you read it, you will become more fluent. Today’s video and text.

Science: Here is our third lesson about plants from Oak National Academy. Throughout the lesson, Miss Roberts will ask you to pause the lesson to complete tasks.

 

 

16 June 2020: Home learning

Posted on Monday 15 June 2020 by Mr Roundtree

Hello everyone. If you need a wake-up jump about, head to Supermovers. You can wake your body up and revise your 3x table. Win, win!

Maths: Here is our second lesson on Time with Mrs Rowley.

Reading: Today we are looking at our newspaper article again. Here’s the video learning and text.

RE: This is our second lesson in a series of four lessons on Christianity from Oak National Academy. This lesson, led by Miss Dhillon, is about the Holy Trinity.