Happy first of May Happy Hippos and lovely Lions!

We have been very busy this week. Miss Shaw has been enjoying some lovely walks in the sunshine (before the horrible rain appeared) and went to a virtual baby shower! Maybe some of you remember Miss Whitehead? Well she is Mrs Rowley now and she is having a baby girl this month!

Mrs Atkins has continued to look after her garden before the rain decided to make an appearance! And is now trying to keep her two children occupied when being stuck inside (I’m sure everyone reading this can relate!)

This week it was Mrs Pike’s turn to give hairdressing a go… despite sharp scissors and a 17 month old that doesn’t stay still being a dangerous combination, Ollie looks quite good but its probably best that Mr Pike is in lock down for a while longer!

Here is your home learning for this week, we hope you enjoy it:

Topic: 

We hoped you loved the video of Mrs Pike’s farm last week! Imogen loved creating it for you. Now for your topic this week we were hoping you were inspired enough to create your own farm! This could be out of junk modelling, sketching on paper, designing on a computer, making it out of Lego- however you want to! Think of all the important parts a farm needs to function- look back at Mrs Pikes video and see what you need to include.

As an extra challenge you can film your own farm tour video of the farm you have created.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dtJEoNiC2A

Guided reading:

Below is a link to a variety of recipes-

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/category/family-kids

What do you need to make a ‘good’ recipe?

Rate which recipes were easier to follow/ read and why that was.

What must be included in a recipe?

Have you got a recipe at home you could follow and make something? Or use a recipe from the link.

English:

Below is a video on how to write a clear set of instructions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/how-to-write-clear-instructions/zrvtscw

Here are some examples of instructions – some are funny and silly- https://www.literacywagoll.com/instructions.html

Can you create your own fun instructions?

For example how to make magic slime or unicorn food or how to wash an elephant.

Have fun- we can’t wait to see what you write about!

Maths

Using containers at home explore if this question is true or false.            

Now try these-

Capacity challenge- if you have completed the above tasks and want to, here is a challenge for you to try!

https://nrich.maths.org/5979 

Science:

Attached are two PowerPoint’s. One of the PowerPoint’s explains in detail the difference between different types of food for example carbohydrates, protein etc.

Using this you can either plan your own menu for a three course healthy meal including a variety of food types

Or

we know you have drawn out a healthy plate but can you now make a fake healthy main meal, you could use play dough, Lego, junk modelling etc. There are some examples on the second PowerPoint.

LKS2_Science_Yr_3_Autumn_1_Keeping_Healthy_Session_2__PowerPoint LKS2_Science_Yr_3_Autumn_1_Keeping_Healthy_Session_2_Task_PowerPoint

Spelling

Apostrophes for contractions

Discuss- why is an apostrophe used for contractions?

Create a poster with the words below and how they are contracted using an apostrophe.

Challenge: can you think of a fun and interesting way to remember where the apostrophe goes- for example-

Music from Mrs Sumba

Florence   B. Price

Go to the website below and watch Naomi Wilkinson’s video

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-florence-price-symphony-no1/z48rscw

Why is Florence B Price considered to be a musical trailblazer?

Watch the video again and practise the Hand Bone Dance with one, then 2 hands.

Now watch the 2nd video. Can you perform the Hand Bone Dance in time to the music?

Science from Miss Stapley 

Other things to try – gently lay plain white paper on the surface and make a print of your colour swirls.

Other things to try – the shaving foam and sprinkles experiment. Squirt shaving foam onto a tray. Add coloured sprinkles over the top and watch how the colours mix as the sprinkles dissolve into the foam.

Further science experiments found at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

Have fun!!

Art from Mrs Pearson:

Portsmouth Naval Base is looking to mark the occasion of VE day and need YOUR HELP!  They have asked for you to draw pictures on the subject of WW2 & VE DAY and as an extra challenge try to incorporate a rainbow somewhere in the picture (even in the corner).  The pictures will be displayed within the Naval Base and once the day is over they hope to make contact with local nursing homes to distribute the pictures to help cheer our elderly community. If you would like your work sent to the naval base you will have to email it to me by Monday evening.  However, all work sent to me, even after Monday, will still be displayed, as usual, on the Art Blog.

In addition to the drawings for the Naval Base,  I  would appreciated any art and craft linked to this important historic  occasion , such as

bunting, chalk drawings,  figures of soldiers, planes or medals. I know, as always, you will blow me away with your imaginative ideas and creativity.

Please email your artwork to me:

n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

Thank you

Keep creating and keep safe!

Mrs Pearson

History VE day home learning from Mrs Conlon

Friday 8th May is VE day celebrations so please take part in this home learning to engage with what the soldiers may have felt at this time.

Activity 1

Watch this video to learn about what VE day celebration means:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-ve-day/z7xtmfr

Read the extracts VE DAY and Belsen, VE Day in Germany and VE Day, As Seen from a Field near Venice.

Extracts to read

Then-

• Highlight in red the words and phrases that indicate happiness.
• Highlight in blue the words and phrases that indicate relief.
• Highlight in green the words and phrases that indicate sadness.

Activity 2

After reading the extracts and doing any other research using online resources about VE day, imagine you are soldiers being interviewed by the BBC news correspondent on VE Day. You need to portray how the soldiers felt about the end of the war and what they felt their role was in order to help prepare for peace. You will need to be reminded that they will need to consider the impact that fighting during the war would have had on these men.

If possible, record yourself speaking about your recount and email Mrs Conlon the video link to put it onto the school curriculum blog via her class email address:

starfishclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

If you would like to write a newspaper article instead of an interview then please do so and email me a photo of your work to add to the blog.

Have lots of fun learning all about this special celebration.

I am looking forward to seeing your great history learning.

Best regards

Mrs Conlon

(History lead teacher)

Below is a link to a bank of ideas on how you can use your baking/ cooking time as an opportunity for learning in lots of different subjects.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/learning_through_cooking

Have a wonderful week!

Miss Shaw, Mrs Atkins and Mrs Pike

Hello everyone! We hope you are well… What have you been up to this week? You can let us know by using the email addresses:

lionclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk and hippoclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

This week, Mrs Pike has been very busy on the farm. Together with her daughter, she’s been making sure that she captures every exciting aspect and incredible moment on film and has been working hard to edit all the clips together to make a video tour just for you! Make sure you watch their amazing footage here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dtJEoNiC2A

Mrs Atkins has attempted hairdressing this week. After using the clippers upside-down on Mr Atkins’s hair, cutting a wonky fringe for her daughter and lop-sided ears for Ziggy the dog, she has decided that she should probably stick to teaching!

Miss Shaw has been busy painting her hallway- what do you think?

Home learning for Friday 24th April

Topic :

Food has to be farmed, caught or grown at home.
Questions for the children to record their answers – can be presented anyway they wish – be creative.
• Have you ever visited a farm where animals live?
• What did you see?
• What animals live on farms?
• What do you think an animal needs to grow and stay healthy?
Virtual farm tour – we were going to go on a school trip this term to Mr and Mrs Pike’s farm on Hayling Island. As we can’t do this, Mrs Pike and her daughter, Imogen filmed this amazing video for us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dtJEoNiC2A

English:

Design a leaflet advertising the farm – try to remember our persuasive techniques to encourage people to go there. These include: amazing adjectives, rhetorical questions, key facts and special offers. This link has some nice ideas about what you might like to include… http://www.virtualfarmwalk.org/assets/pdf/getbusy-marketing.pdf

Guided reading

http://www.virtualfarmwalk.org/assets/pdf/how-precious-is-soil.pdf

Together with your child, read through the above text and if possible do the activity, noting that fruit and a knife are required! For those of you who have struggled with the guided reading over the past weeks, talking it through together and doing a practical activity like this should help vital information resonate with your children and mean that they can recall and retain it more easily.
Now skim and scan to find the answers to these questions in the text:
1. What fraction of our world is land?
2. Why is half of this land not suitable for farming?
3. Of what is left, how much can be farmed and why?
Remember you can present your guided reading however you wish – see if you can make it fun.
In addition, you can use this same text to complete your Geography.

Geography:

Can you use a globe, world map (from an Atlas or online) to be an explorer? Can you discover the names of as man seas and Oceans as possible? Now name the continents? Where do you live? What Town, City, Country, Continent? Can you find it on a map?

Science:

To know that people can grow their own food at home.
Talk to your child about what can be grown at home:
• Do you grow any food at home?
• Does anyone you know?
• What sorts of things can be grown at home?
• Where about are things at home grown? (Allotment, greenhouse, garden, window sill.) Can you find 3 different places where you think would be a good place to grow food where you live? Draw a picture / take a photograph of these places and label it telling us why they’d be good
• Can you use this time to grow some food of your own? I know some of you have started this already and we can’t wait to hear all about it when we call you.

Science from Miss Stapley
STATIC MAGIC

The activity: Make objects move without touching them by charging them with static electricity. ExpeRiment: with different objects to see how static electricity affects them. Learn about charged particles like electrons and how things gain or lose charge.
https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/static-magic – for a video clip about the experiment and a full version of the activity information sheet.
What you will need:
• A balloon • A cotton towel or T-shirt or a woolly jumper • Some scrap paper • A paper/plastic drinking straw (optional) • An empty 500ml plastic drinks bottle (optional) • A hard plastic comb or ruler (optional) • Other household objects to test.
What to do:
• Charge up a balloon and try picking up scraps of paper with it.
• Investigate whether the amount you rub the balloon affects how much paper it can pick up.
• Investigate whether the size of the scraps of paper makes a difference.
• Find out how close you have to be to the paper before the balloon makes it move.
• Try bending a stream of water like Hector does in the video.
• Try balancing a straw on top of a bottle lid and seeing if you can make it spin like in the video.
• Find out which objects are attracted to the charged up balloon and which are repelled by it.
• Try holding a charged balloon near your hair or your skin.

Going Further:
Try rolling an empty soft drink can along the ground using a charged up balloon http://bit.ly/StaticCanRoll

Try lighting up a fluorescent lightbulb with a charged up balloon – as described here: http://bit.ly/LightBulbBalloon

Try tying two balloons to strings and seeing if you can charge them up with static electricity then hang them up so they repel each other.
Read more about static electricity http://bit.ly/MoreStaticScience
HAVE FUN!

Maths

Below is a link to a maths activity focusing on arrays. Remember arrays need to be neat and in lines to help count accurately.
https://maths.hias.hants.gov.uk/pluginfile.php/5413/mod_resource/content/2/Year%203%20Home%20Resources%20Problem%202.pdf

Below is a pack of pea themed array activities- see which one works best for you!
T2-M-1694-Year-3-Differentiated-Pea-Pod-Arrays-Activity-Sheets

Remember My maths, sum dog and times tables rock stars is updated each week too.

Spelling

Look at the below matrix. Practice saying the root words on the left and then try to say them with the addition of the suffix –ly. Most of the new words sound like normal (with the exception of the words ending in –le) but they may be spelt incorrectly if you don’t adapt them.

Using a dictionary (and a grown up – this is a toughie!) come up with rules or conventions for how to accurately add the suffix -ly to words with different endings. One has been done for you as an example:
Ending in ‘y’
Ending in ‘le’ Change the ‘le’ to ‘ly’.
Ending in ‘ic’

Practice these words – and any others you can apply the rules to – using your favourite strategies. As a challenge, can you find any 1 syllable words ending in ‘y’ that do not follow the rule when the suffix ‘-ly’ is added? Can you find the one exception (that we know of) that ends in ‘ic’ but doesn’t follow the rule?

Art from Mrs Pearson : UNDER THE SEA challenge

The title for your art this week is ‘Under the Sea’. This can take the form of a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, a collage or anything else that you would like to create. As always, I’m sure you will impress me with your creativity!
Here are some ideas

However, if this doesn’t appeal to you can still send any other art work to me and I will post that on the Blog too.
Please email your artwork to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Thank you
Keep creating and keep safe!
Mrs Pearson

Music from Mrs Sumba

Steve Reich and Music for 18 Musicians

Go to the website below and watch Naomi Wilkinson’s video about Steve Reich. Try to answer her questions and join in with the activities she sets.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-steve-reich-music-for-18-musicians/zk44y9q

Have a wonderful week, stay safe.

Miss Shaw, Mrs Atkins and Mrs Pike

Here are some links to some fun maths games you may enjoy…

https://nrich.maths.org/7431

https://nrich.maths.org/6589

https://nrich.maths.org/7281

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

If you need a little inspiration for completing either the Stations of the Cross or Sikhism presentations, take a look at these brilliant examples completed by three of our lovely year groups…

Catholicism – Stations of the Cross

Sikhism – Gurdwara

Well done and thank you for sharing them 🙂

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

This week I would like you to create something with a paper plate.  Please don’t worry if you do not have one at home you can just draw around a plate and then cut it out.

I would like you to link it to China, the country that your Year Group is studying, so here are some ideas.

However, any creation would be wonderful.

Please email a photo of your artwork to me and I will share it on the Art Blog.

Keep creating and keep safe!

Mrs Pearson

n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

Hello everyone 🙂 We hope you’re all keeping well.

We have received, via the school office, a couple of lovely updates this week. These updates, though not compulsory, have inspired us to share with you a little bit of what we have been up to as we miss you all so much!

Mrs Atkins has made the most of the beautiful weather and has been out in the garden planting seeds with her children. The only problem is that cheeky, little Aubrey took out some of the labels which showed what seeds were planted where! Amazingly, two of the three plants have sprouted already after just two days. Can you predict which is which out of lettuce, radish and chilli?

Mrs Pike and her family have also been enjoying the good weather and have been on a ‘Nature Listening Walk’ where they used their senses and did some sketching.

Ollie enjoyed the feel of the grass and the daisies.

Miss Shaw has turned her dining table into a home office so that she can continue to plan very exciting, creative learning opportunities for you! She’s also taken up running and is really enjoying getting out each day for some fresh air.

HOME LEARNING

The home-learning which we would like for you to have a go at this week is…

Reading comprehension

Please read the newspaper report, ‘Roman Coin Surprise for Mrs Ship’. The related activities are:

1. Write 5 questions that you could ask someone to find out if they have read this book carefully.
2. Write a postcard from one of the characters to another person, telling them what has been happening (use your knowledge of the story).
3. Copy out a passage from your book. Make sure you include all the punctuation. Colour all the full stops red, commas green, question marks blue, and exclamation marks yellow. Colour any speech marks orange.

Writing activity

Below is a link to the Fishbourne Roman palace website. Your writing activity this week could be –

A script for a tour guide leading people around the museum.

A brochure/ leaflet advertising the museum

A diary entry from your trip to the museum.

An adventure story based on a school trip to the museum ‘gone wrong’

You can complete more than one if you want to!

https://sussexpast.co.uk/properties-to-discover/fishbourne-roman-palace

Spelling

This week you are practicing specific spellings from the year 3 / 4 spelling list. What part of these spellings below makes these words tricky? Explain why.

Eight                                                                              

Eighth

Experiment

Experience

Extreme

Exercise

Enough

Now write these words in a spelling pyramid.

Challenge- can you write silly sentences including these words?

Maths

Below is a link to multiple fraction tasks. Once you have answered the questions you can check your answers against the answer sheet.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Below is a link to a fraction card game you can play online. Could you create your own paper fraction cards to play with your family?

https://nrich.maths.org/2729

Science

This week we would like you to complete a science experiment! We would like you to plant two separate plants in different places- expecting one to grow and one not to grow- looking back on last weeks learning to help you. Complete the sheet in the link and explain what is going to happen.

What does my plant need to grow well?

Topic

Research Roman villas on the links below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z7k8q6f

https://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/Roman_villa

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/houses/Roman/features.htm

Design and draw your own Roman villa and label your layout using terms such as peristilum for indoor garden, galleria for kitchen, slave quarters, dining rooms etc.

Then create an estate agent poster to try and sell a Roman villa. What would its selling points be? (views, safety, amenities such as baths, amphitheater nearby etc.)

We hope you enjoy these tasks and that the children are continuing to love learning about the Romans, amongst all the other lovely things you’re no-doubt getting up to as a family!

Take care,

Mrs Atkins,  Mrs Pike and Miss Shaw.