WEEK BEGINNING: Monday 1st June 2020

Year 3’s thought of the week. ‘Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.’

Mary Lou Retton

Maths

Activity 1 – Multiplying a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number.

English The first pages of Cinderella of the Nile are at the bottom of this document. Read the beginning of the story then complete these tasks.

1. Put the words below into the spaces in the paragraph.

pyramids, syrup, mystery, Egyptian,

myth, symbolic, symptoms. Rhodopis had ______ of sadness but Aesop helped ease these through his friendship. When Aesop told Rhodopis the ______ fable of the reeds that bent rather than breaking, this soothed her like a ______ in times of need. Just like the ______ are a ______, whether the story of ______ Cinderella is a ______ or not remains to be decided.

Ongoing Activities:

Don’t forget to say your prayers throughout the day.

Keep on reading, can you add a short book review onto our Bookworm blog post?

If you are unsure about how to answer the questions this video may help https://vimeo.com/415086842 We DO NOT have a white rose subscription or the worksheets and DO NOT expect you to do the tasks talked about on the video.

Activity 2 – Word problems

1. A lorry driver travels 156km per day. How many kilometres will the lorry driver have travelled after 3 days?

2. There are 7 year groups in a school. There are 112 children in each year group. There are 112 children in each year group. How many children are there in the whole school?

2. Look at the map showing the

Mediterranean Sea, the Greek islands, Turkey and North Africa, including Egypt and the Nile.

Plot the journey from northern Greece to Samos.

3. Write a news report. A news report needs the facts - use the 5Ws to help plan your report.

Think of a catchy headline.

Write an introduction – briefly sum up what happened and try and grab the reader’s attention.

Tell the reader what happened. Include facts, quotes and eyewitness accounts.

Words with the long /ai/ sound spelt with ey. Practice these words every day, remember Say, Cover,

Write, Check

hey they obey grey prey whey survey convey disobey purvey

Get a member of your family to test you on these new words on Friday. Choose one of these words, write a sentence using it and add it to our Super speller blog post.

3. Mrs Greally buys a jar full of 555 sweets. She wants to get enough sweets to last her all year, so she buys another 4 jars. How many sweets are there in all 5 jars?

4. The farmer has 345 hens in each pen.

They have built a new pen and now

have 4. How many hens are on the

farm altogether?

5. A banana weights 140g. A pineapple weighs 345g. Bay A contains 8 bananas and bag B contains 3 pineapples. Which bag weighs more and by how much?

Activity 3 – Problem solving. Complete the problem on the next page Can you work out the value of each shape. Good Luck!

Write a conclusion – what can we expect to happen next?

E.g. YOUNG GIRL KIDNAPPED FROM NORTHERN VILLAGE! Yesterday, residents of a small village in northern Greece were shocked to discover that one of its residents, a young girl with red hair, has been kidnapped. It is thought that…

Keep practicing your times tables, maybe challenge yourself by looking at the related division facts.

Try to do some exercise each day.

Remember to Shine online! Share what you are doing through our school blog.

RE – Being a Christian

To be a Christian we have to:

Love God with all our heart;

Love our neighbours as ourselves;

Be ready to forgive over and over again;

Trust in god no matter what happens.

Make a spider diagram put loving god and others in the middle. Around the diagram put details of all the ways you help.

Art – Virtual Gallery

Take a virtual tour of an art gallery. Activity 6, page 10.

file:///C:/Users/georginan/Downloads/Creative-Learning-at-Home-April-2020-1.pdf

Music - Charanga

Congratulations to everyone who received a Music certificate from Mrs Cannon!

There are two packages to complete – Songs for Ages 7-9 and Bringing us together. Your personal login details were in the email we sent on Friday 24th April 2020 and you can login here

https://charanga.com/yumu/login

Travel the World We may not be able to travel far from home, but we can find out about people in other countries and visit the world from home. Chose a new country to visit, virtually, every day. Learn the things that are special about the new places you go to…. What animals live there? What is special about the place and its people? What do they eat? Which continent is it on? Identify its location on a map What is its climate like? Flag? What other interesting facts did you learn? There are some videos here that you might find interesting. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3fycdm

Loving

God

Wellbeing