In Science, we are looking at Rocks and Soils. Below are some useful resources and links to look at home.

Read: These are children’s books that detail the story of Mary Anning – ‘The Fossil Girl’ by Catherine Brighton and ‘Mary Anning and The Sea Dragon’ by Jeannine Atkins.

Go Online: https://geologistsassociation.org.uk/children/

The Natural History Musuem has permanent exhibits on dinosaurs, fossils, rocks and minerals. There is lots to look at on the website: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/

Listen: Join Finley as he travels around the world and back in time to explore everything from fossils to volcanoes, and even how rocks helped form our planet! https://www.funkidslive.com/learn/geology-rocks/#

Go Online: Lots of resources (worksheets, presentations and activities) that can be downloaded and used at home – https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Education-and-Careers/Resources/Activity-Sheets-And-Presentations

Good morning.

Here are some activities for you today.

Literacy – Reading 

Improving Your Reading Skills with Predicting Pip

Prediction

The Fox and the Wolf Prediction

Numeracy 

Missing number problems

PSHE

Today is International Day of Families.

Held on 15th May every year, the International Day of Families was established by the United Nations in 1993 as a way to raise awareness of issues faced by families throughout the world.

Activities you could do:

• Draw a portrait of your family.
• Write a description about your family.
• Think of all the things you love doing with your family.
• Best memories.
• Have a special dinner to celebrate being a family.

Have a good day and a lovely weekend.

Good morning 🙂

Numeracy

Subtract mentally word problems

Literacy 

The Big Wheel

Art Ideas

Write your name creatively

Draw along lessons with author and illustrator Rob Biddulph (KS1/KS2)

Draw with Rob

Have a lovely day.

Good morning 🙂

Here are some activities for you today.

Literacy – Writing 

Letter to a friend

Numeracy 

Subtracting numbers mentally

Science 

Have some fun with these Science Investigations.

Dissolving

Intriguing Ice

Watch this short video looking at what happens to different liquids when they are frozen. After watching, choose some everyday liquids and freeze them, then observe what happens to them

Intriguing Ice

Have a lovely day. 🙂

The National Numeracy team together with partners & National Numeracy Day Heroes are hosting a day of online events to help with numeracy while the nation is at home:

• Helping children with maths
• Improving your own self-confidence with numbers
• Getting to grips with finances.
• Visit numeracyday.com and follow updates via social media.

Happy Numeracy Day

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Good morning year three 🙂

Here are some activities for you today.

Numeracy 

Adding Mentally Word Problems

Literacy 

A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word, but its spelling or meaning is different. 

This document has a range of worksheets to practise.

Homophones

History 

Today, it is Florence Nightingale’s Birthday. Here are some things you could do:

• Research who Florence Nightingale is.
• Create a fact file about her.
• Draw a portrait of her.
• Compare Victorian and Modern hospitals.
• A day in the life of Florence Nightingale

Have a lovely day 🙂