Literacy

Have you heard The Twits want to come and teach at our school?! Can you write a character description of the sort of teacher you would like in Year 3?

Maths

We have been learning about money. How many 5ps are there in a £1.00? How many 2ps are in 34p? How many 10ps are there in £1.50? Use your time tables to solve problems like these.

RE

Find out more about Baptism. Were you baptised? What did you wear? What do people wear when they are baptised or christened? Why do they wear special clothes? Are they given gifts?

Phonics

How many of the first 100 high frequency words can you spell correctly? Put this sheet up on your fridge and challenge yourself to learn to spell a new one every day.

If you can spell all of them, practise other spellings you find challenging like where, were, wear, their, they’re and there.

Home Learning 8.6.15

Literacy

Not all schools use the 5Cs. Can you write a letter to Mrs Phillip’s new school persuading them to also use the 5Cs? What are all of the 5Cs? Why are they important? What do they help us to do?

Maths

Can you think of all the coins we use in England? Can you count how much money is in your piggy bank? If you had to buy an apple for 72p, what coins could you use?

RE

What is communion? Could you ask a family member? Could you Google it? Could you find a book from the library to look at?

Phonics

Miss Smillie’s Group– Practise changing base words to plurals e.g. tree – trees, baby – babies, half – halves. What different suffixes can you find?

Miss Hele/ Mrs Wickes’ Group– Use the Ikea website or catalogue. Can you read the alien names of some of the furniture? Can you make up your own alien words? Test yourself and your family on the words you have made!

Miss Stinton’s Group– Continue to make your own alien words using the phase 5 sounds which you find trickiest to remember. Test yourself and your family on the words you have made! Could you use the sound /oo/ from this week?

Home Learning – Half Term

Next half term we will be starting our new and exciting topic ‘Exploring Science’! Through this topic we will be learning all about plants, flying machines, everyday materials, famous inventors and fair testing.

Over half term, you have the opportunity to invent and design something that will help an object to fall more slowly e.g. parachute.

After half term you will have the opportunity to pitch your invention, Dragon’s Den style!

Good luck!

Home Learning

Literacy

Write your own magic key story where a glowing key can take you on an adventure. Make sure you use lots of description, connectives and exciting sentence starters!

Maths

Practice these skills:

–      Telling the time to the nearest hour, half hour and quarter of an hour.

–      Can you find any 3D shapes around your house and name them? You also should be able to describe their properties (e.g. 12 edges and 8 vertices [points])

–      Use a ruler to measure things in your kitchen. Can you read a set of weighing scales in grams and kilograms?

RE

Write a character description about doubting Thomas. Describe what you think he looked like. What was he like? Write about how you know, using his behaviour.

Phonics

Please carry on practising the next 200 high frequency words and practice any words you find tricky to spell. Remember, you should be able to spell correctly all the words you can read by sight.

Literacy

What other nocturnal animals can you find out about? This will help you write facts in literacy and topic work.

Maths

Start with a 2 digit number e.g. 23. What happens if you add 10? What about if you take away 10? Could you add 20 to the number? What happens if you add another multiple of 10? Can you experiment with other 2 digit numbers?

RE

How did other people remember the Easter story? Can you find more than one recount of the Easter story in the Bible? What is similar? What is different? Could you record the similarities and differences in your home learning book? Can you be creative in how you do this?

Phonics

Please look at the next 200 high frequency words and practice any words you find tricky to spell. How could you remember how to spell them? Could you make up a song? Could you write the word down several times? What else could you do?

5.1.15

Literacy: I could write my own letter to the Queen and send it to Buckingham Palace.

Numeracy: I could write and work out some of my own word problems e.g. The Queen had 32 corgis but 3 of them ran away. How many corgis did she have left?

RE: I could retell the story of the Magi (Three Kings) in a creative way.

Phonics

Practice spelling some of the topic words for the Royal Family e.g.

Buckingham Palace, Queen, King, Prince, Royal, Corgi, Princess, fairytale, castle…maybe you could find some of your own in the fairytales you read or online.

Bug Club, Abacus

Happy New Year to you! We are excited to be back at school and start our new topic about the Royal Family. Here is an overview of our learning context this term:

In RE we will be learning about Revelations, Lent and Easter. Please look at the RE pages in the yellow home learning log. These will give you ideas on how you can support home learning in RE at home.

In maths we will be focusing on number, looking at money, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as well as ordering number and thinking about how much a number is worth e.g. 12 = 10 + 2.

In literacy we will be learning about fairytales and comparing common themes beteen different stories. We will be describing villains and innovating our own version of a well know fairytale.

In science we are focusing on what humans need to stay healthy and grow. We will be using our topic of the Royal Family to compare the lifestyles of people in different times and understand how lifestyles affect life expectancy.

In PE we are excitedly going to be learning a traditional court dance linked to our topic. We will be performing this dance at the ‘Queen’s birthday party’ at the end of term.

In ICT we are practising our typing and mouse skills. The more you are able to practice at home, the better! We know children are very confident at using tablets and Ipads, however they seem to lack confidence and skill at using a keyboard to type with and being able to use a mouse to navigate successfully on a computer.

French and music will be continued to be taught by subject specialists alongside ‘Listen to me’ where Hampshire County Council have provided a music teacher to teach tuned percussion to Year 2 over the Spring term.

In history and geography we will be focusing on our Royal Family topic, looking at Royalty in Britain throughout history as well as looking at where they lived and their castles and palaces. We will be comparing ways of life at different times, of different Monarchs, and what changed over time. We will look at the people of those times and find out about their quality of life. We will be celebrating British values through watching the Queen’s speeches and learning how she promotes justice and freedom.

During art lessons, we will be exploring a variety of techniques and materials to create different portraits of Monarchs.

PDL will include learning about how to play an active role as citizens and living in a democracy and having the right to vote.

As usual, the children will have a Bloom’s Taxonomy from which they can select different home learning activities to steer their own project. We would like to remind you that it is not necessary to complete all tasks and you are able to be creative and imaginative by thinking up tasks of your own.