Ideas for home – 3.6.20 🔍

Place Value Game! 🎮

Taking turns, the children choose a question from the Place Value Sheet to complete. The first person to gain four counters in a row (vertically, horizontally or diagonally) wins! An interesting way to revise number and place value! Choose an appropriate difficultly level for your child and the answer sheets provided to check your answers!

Triangle Detectives! 🔍

Watch this online video and then read the information on the website to help you sort the triangles in these sorting triangles sheets into Venn or Carroll diagrams!

Year 3 spellings for Set 1 and 2

Hi year 3,

These are your new spellings for this week, they will also be added to Spelling shed and I will be keeping an eye on the leader board!  See if you can get your name up there this week.

The words this week end in -sion and the suffix -ous. There are also two words from your statutory spelling list for years 3 and 4.

Your spellings are:

mission

session

collision

poisonous

joyous

tremendous

profession

adventurous

strange

surprise

Some of these words are quite challenging so if you are not sure what they mean, you could look in a dictionary or ask an adult to help you. Also try putting them into a sentence to use them in context.

Well done, year 3!

Ideas for home – 2.6.20 🚦

Traffic Light Biscuit Recipes 🚦

A wonderful activity to do with your children! This fab set of Traffic Light Recipe Cards provide an easy recipe for traffic light biscuits (yum)! You can use this resource as part of an activity on how to make biscuits or as a useful visual aid for when you cover recipe writing.

Post your finished biscuits on the school’s FaceBook page!

Rainbow Wind-Chimes 🌈

Learn how to make wind chimes for children with this lovely outdoor activity resource. This Rainbow Wind Chimes Worksheet lists all the materials you will need to make Rainbow Wind Chimes, as well as step by step instructions for you to follow with children. This fun activity is a great way to get children outdoors and doing something creative.

Post your finished wind-chimes on the school’s FaceBook page!

Ideas for home – 1.6.20 🎆

Well-being Journal 📕

Use this Weekly Well-being Journal Pack to focus on the day ahead and channel thoughts in a positive way. This well-being journal is structured to have similar reflections and focuses from day-to-day but with slight variations on the reflection tasks. The different journals can be used each day to support children to have clarity over their thoughts and feelings and gain support where needed.

Science Experiment: Fireworks in a jar! 🎆

Lots of exciting learning can come from very simple science experiments. Use this Fireworks in a jar worksheet to encourage your children to explore what happens when you add colourful oil to water.

Post your finished jars on the school’s FaceBook page!

 

Biscuit Parachutes!

Today, the year 3 and 4 children in school were set a challenge. They each had 1 digestive biscuit, 30cm string, 1 A4 piece of paper, 3 bits of sticky tape (10cm each) and some pritt stick. The task was to create a parachute for the biscuit which was dropped from 120cm without it breaking! These are the attempts and the results.

Can you do any better?

Ideas for home – 22.5.20

Step by step guide to draw a bird

Teach your child how to draw detailed birds with the help of this template.

Drawing is an excellent activity for children as is offers all sorts of benefits, both physically and mentally. These included improving hand-eye coordination, heightened concentration and development of fine motor skills.

Post your finished pictures on the school’s facebook page!

Leaf necklace activity

Making a Leaf necklace is a fun outdoor threading activity perfect for young children in any educational setting. Children can collect the leaves for their leaf necklace during their outdoor play or on a visit to the local woods. They can then develop their fine motor skills whilst threading the leaves onto their very own leaf necklace.

Post your finished necklaces on the school’s facebook page!

Ideas for home – 21.5.20

Check your change!

A useful worksheet for practising adding and subtracting money to check amounts of change.

Symmetry – Numeracy

This handy Symmetry Powerpoint about symmetry with a particular focus on how symmetrical designs are used in Islamic architecture and design, along with two different worksheets to help consolidate your child’s learning.

Mosque Symmetry Activity Sheet

Prayer Mat Symmetry Activity Sheet

Ideas for children – 20.5.20

Draw your favourite move!

This BBC Children in Need Joe Wicks Draw your favourite move activity! is an ideal way to support your children to get more exercise. They can make up a move or use one they know and feel they are good at. They would draw this move and then say how they will make sure they carry on doing it. It might be that they will do their favourite move to help them to exercise first thing in the morning, after lunch or at some other time of the day.

Eight times table practise!

Follow this BBC Bitesize Link.

Use these 8 times table practise sheets to assist children with exploring and practising the eight times tables.

Print and play this 8 times table board game to consolidate your learning whilst playing a fun game at the same time.

Ideas for children – 19.5.20

Make your own board game!

The resources in this resource pack will give you everything you need to make a homemade board game.

Board games are a great activity to support your child’s learning of different subjects, or just to play for fun!

The templates include a range of different board designs you can make at home, cards to use for forfeits or questions, and even an instruction writing template.

Scavenger hunt!

Use this fun ‘Around the House Scavenger Hunt’ to teach your children about the simple properties of some common household objects. Can they find items that are soft, shiny or see-through in the home or garden?

What objects are made of metal or wood? Perfect for a fun, science-themed home learning activity while the schools are closed.

Activity ideas 8.5.20

Multiplication problems – Let’s put this times table knowledge to the test!

il – Can you spot the 9 words they’re looking for in the wordsearch?

VE Day – Along with your family, wear any red, white or blue clothes you have, paint your face or even dye your hair (probably a bad idea), and send a photo into school so that we can all celebrate together.