Hope you have all had a lovely Easter break and are staying safe and well. Below is your home learning for the next week- enjoy!

Reading comprehension
Read the text, ‘Healthy Eating’ and answer the questions on the following pages. If you would like to, there are a couple of longer activities linked to the reading to attempt.
Please note that there is a formatting issue on the answer page. **EDIT – The answer to Q4 is b)work. Q5 is a) necessary.**

Writing activity
Below is a link to a Viking village video- one where Boudicca herself may have lived all those years ago. Your writing task could be to-
•Describe the village using senses. (We have practiced this a lot)
•Create a commentary for the fly through.
•Choose a building and decide who lives there. Describe that character in detail.
•Create a map of the village and add still images from the film to illustrate.
You can do more than one if you wish.
https://www.literacyshed.com/vikingvillage.html

Spelling
This week we will be revising suffixes. Remember suffixes come at the end of a root word. So far in year 3 we have learnt- ‘ed’ ‘ing’ ‘s’ ‘es’ ‘ness’ ‘ful’ ‘less’ ‘ly’
How many different suffixes could be accurately added to these words-
Plan smile rub phone stop use bake
Which word could have the most suffixes added to it?
Can you now place these words in to different sentences- thinking about the tense of these sentences.

Maths
Complete these trial and error number questions- once completed the answers are on the next page to check if you were correct. If you’re struggling to count without any maths tools you could use resources from home like Lego bricks or your dolls shoes or teddies! Use the support section if you’re finding it tricky on the sheet. If you’ve completed the main task then complete the extension.
http://www.iseemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/24th-March-Y34-Three-Numbers-Challenge.pdf
REMEMBER TO ALSO USE TIMES TABLES ROCKSTARS, SUM DOG AND MY MATHS.

Topic
Investigate the food groups and then create your own Healthy Eating plate. Split the plate into sections and draw and label the types of food that you could find in each section. Take a photograph of a family meal that you have shared. Can you make your portion match the recommended amount of vegetables, protein and carbohydrate?
Healty-Eating-PowerPoint

Science – Fun family science ideas from Miss Stapley
Fizzy Bottle Rockets – click on the links below to view a video and download the information sheet.
https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/fizzy-bottle-rockets
https://www.rigb.org/docs/fizzybottlerockets_infosheet_v2_0.pdf

Questions to ask children:
When tablet is put in glass of water: What do you think is in the bubbles?
Where do you think the bubbles are coming from?
What do you think would happen if we used more than one tablet? Why?
What do you think would happen if we used warm water? Why?
Before making rocket:
What do you think will happen if we put some tablets and water in this bottle and close the lid? Why?
What things could we change to make the rocket go higher?
Going further:
Experiment with different sizes of bottle and different combinations of water and tablets to find out what combination gives you the highest flying rocket.
Does it matter how many tablets you use?
What about if you break the tablets into smaller pieces?
How does the temperature of the water affect things?
Watch a flame powered bottle rocket: http://bit.ly/FlamingBottleRockets
Learn more about propulsion by building a balloon powered car: http://bit.ly/BalloonCars

Music home learning from Mrs Sumba
Delia Derbyshire and Doctor Who
Go to the website below and watch Segun Akinola’s video about Delia Derbyshire.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-delia-derbyshire-doctor-who-theme/zfh792p
Why was she a musical trailblazer?
Can you use everyday objects to recreate the Doctor Who theme tune?
Challenge-can you play around with your sounds and find a way to record them?

Art home learning from Mrs Pearson
The title for your art this week is ‘NEW LIFE’. You can be as creative as you like. It could be a drawing of yourself as a baby, a baby animal made out of kitchen roll tubes, a photograph of a tree with buds, an Andy Goldsworthy inspired piece of art made out of natural things in your garden or when you have been on a walk. Impress me with your creativity!

Please email your artwork to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Thank you!
Keep creating and keep safe!
Mrs Pearson

RE home learning from Miss Honeywell
As part of your RE learning and reflection upon Easter, we would like you to complete ONE of the following activities, in order to develop your knowledge of this special time in the Church calendar…
• Design your own Easter Egg and include as many symbols for new life as you can.
• Create a comic strip cartoon of the key events that took place in the Easter story.
• Write a journal that includes the thoughts and feelings of Mary and the disciples, when they had discovered the empty tomb.
• Draw your own Good Friday crucifix and fill it with prayers for Jesus, as well as those around the world who have been working hard and making sacrifices for the good of others.
• Make a prayer station at home, for moments of peaceful reflection. Choose an Easter prayer as part of your worship, from https://cafod.org.uk/Pray/Prayer-resources/Easter-prayers
• Build your own Easter word search and include as many religious key words as you can, e.g. Resurrection, Sacrifice, Miracle, New Life, Tomb.
• Decorate your own Easter postcard with a Biblical image. Record your own Happy Easter message and spread the Good News to one of your friends!

We just wanted to say thank you for all of the hard work you are putting in Year Three. We have loved seeing everything you have been up to through email and hearing what you have been up to over the phone! It’s really important Year Three to keep up with the work and keep your mind busy. We expect you to have a lot more breaks then you do at school and that is fine! It’s a lot harder working from home (we’re struggling too!) so do what works best for you. We want you to learn new things too- from our phone calls children have learnt how to do different jobs around the house such as the dishwasher and cleaning the car. Be creative and make things, learn how to cook! Watch your family make dinner and write a recipe that you can keep for when you’re an adult! Lots of lovely things you can do as well as the work we set.

Jasmine has really been keeping herself busy with a variety of activities.

Ellen has also been completing lots of fantastic work- she even performed a concert to her grandparents over Skype with her family all playing an instrument in a band!

We have had lots of lovely photos through and thank you for those! Modern technology won’t always allow me to upload these to the blog so I am sorry if they’re not on here- we promise we have seen them!

Below is a wonderful poem created by Hope-

Don’t Worry By Hope P

Don’t panic

You can be one of the people who change how some act.

Thank you Hope for that inspiring message.
Look out on the blog tomorrow for next weeks homelearning!

We miss you Happy Hippos and Lovely Lions, stay safe.

Miss Shaw, Mrs Pike and Mrs Atkins

Happy Easter ‘holidays’ Happy Hippos and Lovely Lions. I know this may not be the usual Easter holidays you’re used to but I’m sure you will make the most of it!
We have loved all of your photos that have been emailed in and we have enjoyed speaking to you and finding out what you have been doing over the phone too.
Over the next two weeks we will continue to upload activities on to my maths, sumdog and times tables rock stars.
With lovely weather like this, take a book outside, build a reading den and have fun reading too!

As it is the Easter holidays we have RE themed homelearning for you to complete over the next two weeks.

Friday 3rd April

As part of your RE learning and preparation for Easter, we would like you to focus upon Holy Week – this is when Christians reflect on the final week of Jesus’s life. ​Can you complete ONE of the following activities, to develop your knowledge of this special time in the Liturgical Year?

•Create a PowerPoint that includes information about each station of the cross.
•Write prayer booklet, to thank Jesus for His sacrifice and offer prayers of strength and support to those who are suffering.
•Record the thoughts and feelings of Mary in a journal – how would she have felt at this time? Why?
•Make a stained glass window about ONE of the stations of the cross that means the most to you.
•Host a worship session with members of your household. Can you choose a special image or bible passage to use as part of your reflection on the events of Holy Week?
•Write the words ‘Holy Week’ in large bubble writing and include any relevant religious symbols, signs and Holy
colours to decorate it with.
•Look up the stations of the cross online and read the Bible story. Can you use drama or role play to re-enact each scene and remember what happened?

Friday 10th April

This week, as part of your RE learning, we would like you to focus upon Sikhism. ​Can you complete ONE of the following activities, to develop your knowledge of this faith further?

•A painting of all of the religious symbols found within this faith? Label what each one is called/used for.
•An information poster including 10 key facts about the religion.
•Write a diary entry for a follower of this faith – what would their day look like and how would they pray?
•Build a place of worship for your chosen faith ​(e.g. temple, Gurdwara, Mosque)
•​Create a piece of music that could be used for prayer by the followers of this religion.

•If you could make a set of rules or commandments for this faith, what would they be?
•Create a set of top trump, ‘snap’ or ‘pairs’ cards about this faith, to play with your family members.

Here is also some art inspiration from Mrs Pearson-

Leonardo Da Vinci did a famous painting of The Last Supper.

Can you draw, colour or paint you own Last Supper picture?
Fancy something different:
Make a stained glass window about ONE of the stations of the cross that means the most to you.
OR
Create your own Easter Garden, include a simple cross, cave/tomb, add flowers and/or seeds that will grow over Easter.
Email your art work to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

Have a lovely two weeks Hippos and Lions, stay home and stay safe, we miss you.

Miss Shaw, Mrs Pike and Mrs Atkins

Happy Easter ‘holidays’ Happy Hippos and Lovely Lions. I know this may not be the usual Easter holidays you’re used to but I’m sure you will make the most of it!
We have loved all of your photos that have been emailed in and we have enjoyed speaking to you and finding out what you have been doing over the phone too.
Over the next two weeks we will continue to upload activities on to my maths, sumdog and times tables rock stars.
With lovely weather like this, take a book outside, build a reading den and have fun reading too!

As it is the Easter holidays we have RE themed homelearning for you to complete over the next two weeks.

Friday 3rd April

As part of your RE learning and preparation for Easter, we would like you to focus upon Holy Week – this is when Christians reflect on the final week of Jesus’s life. ​Can you complete ONE of the following activities, to develop your knowledge of this special time in the Liturgical Year?

•Create a PowerPoint that includes information about each station of the cross.
•Write prayer booklet, to thank Jesus for His sacrifice and offer prayers of strength and support to those who are suffering.
•Record the thoughts and feelings of Mary in a journal – how would she have felt at this time? Why?
•Make a stained glass window about ONE of the stations of the cross that means the most to you.
•Host a worship session with members of your household. Can you choose a special image or bible passage to use as part of your reflection on the events of Holy Week?
•Write the words ‘Holy Week’ in large bubble writing and include any relevant religious symbols, signs and Holy
colours to decorate it with.
•Look up the stations of the cross online and read the Bible story. Can you use drama or role play to re-enact each scene and remember what happened?

Friday 10th April

This week, as part of your RE learning, we would like you to focus upon Sikhism. ​Can you complete ONE of the following activities, to develop your knowledge of this faith further?

•A painting of all of the religious symbols found within this faith? Label what each one is called/used for.
•An information poster including 10 key facts about the religion.
•Write a diary entry for a follower of this faith – what would their day look like and how would they pray?
•Build a place of worship for your chosen faith ​(e.g. temple, Gurdwara, Mosque)
•​Create a piece of music that could be used for prayer by the followers of this religion.

•If you could make a set of rules or commandments for this faith, what would they be?
•Create a set of top trump, ‘snap’ or ‘pairs’ cards about this faith, to play with your family members.

Here is also some art inspiration from Mrs Pearson-

Leonardo Da Vinci did a famous painting of The Last Supper.

Can you draw, colour or paint you own Last Supper picture?
Fancy something different:
Make a stained glass window about ONE of the stations of the cross that means the most to you.
OR
Create your own Easter Garden, include a simple cross, cave/tomb, add flowers and/or seeds that will grow over Easter.
Email your art work to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

Have a lovely two weeks Hippos and Lions, stay home and stay safe, we miss you.

Miss Shaw, Mrs Pike and Mrs Atkins

It has come to our attention that Amazon today cancelled the subscription of books and audio stories for children and students of all ages as long as schools are closed, children everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.

All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet using the following link

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen.

Below is all of the learning we would like to be completed next week. As well as all of this, be creative, go outside in the garden and be active, but most importantly stay safe and enjoy spending quality time with your family. 

We miss you already Happy Hippos and Lovely Lions. 

Miss Shaw, Mrs Pike and Mrs Atkins. 

Reading comprehension
Please see below the non- fiction report on the Romans. Answer the questions at the bottom of the sheet. Challenge- can you think of your own questions to ask about the text?
In addition, please continue to read 20-30 minutes daily. Try and read a range of texts too.

The Romans Middle Ability QAs

Writing activity
Below is a link to a picture of the mad hatter. As we have been creating character descriptions about Boudicca this week please can you apply those skills to write a character description about the Mad Hatter. Remember to include- fronted adverbials, similes and descriptive language. http://www.pobble365.com/the-mad-hatter

Spelling
This week your spelling is to spell the phoneme ‘k’ spelt with a ‘ch’. For example-
anchor, ache, choir, echo, school. Can you think of any others? Pick strategies from your strategy sheet.
Extra -To consolidate our learning on homophones, have a play on the following website…
http://homophonemachine.allaboutlearningpress.com/
The Homophone Machine gets kids excited about homophones.
See how many homophones you can include in a sentence or paragraph.

Maths
Below is a link to a fun addition game. Think systematically to be effective. If you are finding this tricky- change the numbers to 1-6 and try and reach 50. If you would like a challenge add two extra boxes and try and reach 1000!
https://nrich.maths.org/1130
Now can you create your own addition game.
Remember that sumdog and times tables rockstars have also been updated with activities.

Science
Our next science topic is growing. See below for a link to start a discussion about what plants need to grow. If you are able to, this would be a great opportunity to get some seeds and start growing your own flowers, herbs, vegetables. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z9f87hv

Topic
Following on from our school trip last week, please see the following link for some art and history fun linked to The Romans.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/romans_mosaic.pdf

We hope you all had a lovely and restful two weeks off for Christmas, it may seem like a distant memory now! Thank you all so much for our lovely presents, we really appreciate your generosity.

We have jumped straight back in to learning this week focusing on our new topic the rainforest!

Already in geography we have used an atlas to identify the rainforests around the world and investigated the equator and the effect it has. We then compared the rainfall and temperature in Britain to the rainforest in Brazil using bar graphs and interpreting data. We looked at the water cycle and completed a science experiment where we created our own cloud (it has been a very busy first week back!).

In English this week we created our own new species of animal discovered in the rainforest. We will document and explain this new species habitat, diet and appearance in David Attenborough style.

In maths we have focused on fractions of amounts using bar models to equally spilt the amounts. We have problem solved what could be in the missing boxes.

Thank you to everyone who has given us a house plant to water and look after over the next few weeks, we appreciate it, please keep them coming.

Have a wonderful weekend

The Year Three team

This week across the school we have been celebrating heroes week!

The children have enjoyed attending many assemblies, led by inspiring heroes.

Today we were lucky enough to have our own special heroine into Year Three, Kristopher’s auntie! She has been a nurse in different A and E departments for 23 years!

She spoke to us about all of her experiences as a nurse and brought lots of interesting items from the hospital. We all had a go applying a sling to each other too. She then applied a plaster cast to Kristopher’s ‘broken’ arm, it was very interesting.

Thank you so much to Andy for coming in and sharing her heroic experiences with us.

Also a big thank you to everyone at home who helped the children with their costumes- they all look fantastic!

Have a lovely and restful half term Year Three- only one term left with each other, let’s make it the best yet!

Miss Shaw and Mrs Stewart

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First of all, apologies for not posting on the site for a while- there was a technical issue in which no one could log on and post! However it is all sorted now 🙂

We have enjoyed welcoming the children back after a well deserved rest over the two weeks Easter holidays.

We have dived straight into our new topic- DRAGONS!

All of Year Three are very excited about our new topic, it  has inspired new learning already!

St George’s day is this Saturday the 23rd April, in honour of our topic we will be taking park in a St Georges fun day- completing activities based on Saint George and finding out all about him.

The new homework pyramid has now gone home- but of course if you are inspired to create anything else from the topic please feel free to do so! We are looking forward to your creations.

I hope you are looking forward to this half terms learning as much as we are Year Three!

Miss Shaw and Mrs Stewart

Wow, what a busy Friday we have had today in Year Three!

This morning, we all went over to Oaklands in groups to plant a variety of seeds in their vegetable patch and green house. Year Three and some children at Oaklands are going to take good care of the seeds to help them grow into some yummy vegetables. We would love to cook for our parents, using these ingredients we have grown, during our healthy living topic in the summer term.

After a whole morning of science, it was time for a historical afternoon. Again going over to Oaklands, we were lucky enough to be taught by Mrs Masson (Joshua’s mum!) and her history club. They set up SIX activities all based on the Romans for us to learn from. We learnt about Roman fashion, made mosaics, taught to speak Latin, ate Roman food and more,  it was amazing! The children learnt so much from the Oaklands students.

We would like to say a big thank you to everyone at Oaklands involved in our wonderful day of learning!

Due to such a busy day, we didn’t manage to look at everyone’s homelearning- you have an extra two days to complete any homelearning Year Three and we will share homelearning on Monday afternoon next week. If today inspired you- you create a piece of home learning based on it!