Year 3

Welcome to the Year 3 Home Learning page

Hello Year 3! We hope your first week of home learning went well. We've missed you all! Thanks to those of you who have sent us emails of what you've been doing - please keep in touch with us by emailing yearthree@stokenchurchprimary.bucks.sch.uk with any questions, comments or photos. Let us know how you've found your first week and we will try to support you as best as we can from afar! (We will only reply to emails during school hours).

Happy Birthday to Betty and John whose birthdays are this weekend!

Below are the tasks for this coming week (week commencing 30th March). Any updates we make during the week will be highlighted in red. 

Thanks once again for your support, understanding, kind words and gifts over a very difficult few weeks. It has been so appreciated!

From the Year 3 Team

NEW STORY TIME!
Come and watch the Stokenchurch Primary staff reading bedtime stories! 

TT Rockstars

The results are in from the first TT Rockstars 'Battle of the Bands'. In Elm vs Elder, Elm won by just under 5000 points! Well done to Siana, Joshua, William, Alfie, Flynn M and Hayden who all scored over 2000 points each!

From Monday 30th March, the new'Battle of the Bands' will be Elm vs Cherry and Elder vs Prunus. Don't forget, any Rockstars games you play this week will count towards the final score. Find out the winner on 5th April at 6pm!

Year 3 Work – week commencing 30^th March 2020

This work is already photocopied in your folder. The majority of answers can be found in the Answer section. If you're stuck for other ideas, there are lots of links further down in the 'Home learning helpful websites' section. As you may be aware, many celebrities are offering daily videos and we have tried to link as many of these as possible! If you need a few minutes to refocus, why not join in with our 'Stokie Second' - a recording of this is on the Home Learning page.

Monday:

• Maths – Unit 8, week 3, lesson 1 Perimeters of rectangles (page 52) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mopAgqjkVM&safe=true - watch this video first to find out how to find a perimeter
• English - Spellings – Unit 22 – ly ending (page 48-49)
• Music - Garsington opera #MondayMotivation - live 15 min workshop each Monday morning at 10am for families to join in with
• Topic – Keep working on your Ancient Egyptian topic – pick an activity from the grid.

Tuesday:

• Maths – Unit 8, week 3, lesson 2 – Drawing and calculating perimeters (page 53) – you can use normal squared paper for all of the challenges.
• English –  Comprehension - Unit 8 – Writing about Books (page 46-47)
• Topic – Keep working on your Ancient Egyptian topic – pick an activity from the grid.

Wednesday:

• Maths – Unit 8, week 3, lesson 3 – Regular perimeters (page 54)
• English - Grammar – Unit 16 - Nouns (page 36-37) Helpful video explaining the different types of nouns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkMkNIogXRs&safe=true
• Topic – Keep working on your Ancient Egyptian topic – pick an activity from the grid.

Thursday:

• Maths – Unit 8, week 3, lesson 4 – Perimeters of 2D shapes (page 55)
• English – Workabook – Thinking task T25 (page 71)
• Topic – Keep working on your Ancient Egyptian topic – pick an activity from the grid.

Friday:

• Maths – Mathletics activities set by your teacher
• English – Big write: write a letter to someone you haven’t seen for a while e.g. a grandparent. Tell them what you have been doing, what signs of spring you can spot in your garden or through your window. What questions might you ask them? Remember to think about how a letter is set out. Remind yourself with the letters you looked at in Tuesday’s reading comprehension task.
• Spelling test - Good luck! How did you get on? (New summer term spellings will be uploaded soon into the Spellings page).
• Enjoy your family time – feel free to email us with what you’ve been doing in this time so we can share with other families.

Have a great week and keep safe!

Year 3 Work – week commencing 23^rd March 2020

All these activities are photocopied in the red folders. Click here for the Answers section!

Monday:

• Maths – Unit 8, week 2, lesson 1 - Pizza Puzzle (page 48) UPDATE - For resource 39/40/41, you just need to draw a few circles split into 4 (Challenge 1), 8 (Challenge 2) and 10 (Challenge 3). If you want to view/print the sheets, please go to the Maths links section.
• English – Unit 21 - un/de/re/pre/non (page 46-47)
• NEW Music - Garsington opera are going to stream live a 15 min workshop each Monday morning at 10am for families to join in with - click here

Tuesday:

• Maths – Unit 8, week 2, lesson 2 - Subtracting fractions (page 49) UPDATE - See Powerpoint in Maths links section for examples of how to solve these problems. For Challenge 1, instead of interlocking cubes, why not use lego bricks, or Smarties!
• English –  Unit 7 - The Village Dinosaur (page 44-45)

Wednesday:

• Maths – Unit 8, week 2, lesson 3 - Equivalent fractions (page 50) UPDATE - This great video at Khan Academy explains what equivalent fractions are
• English – Unit 15 - Singular and plural (page 34-35)

Thursday:

• Maths – Unit 8, week 2, lesson 4 - Fractions wall (page 51)
• English – Workabook – Practising Language 7abc (page 30-31)

Friday:

• Maths – Mathletics activities set by your teacher UPDATE - Tasks will be available to be completed from 7am (for the early risers!) each Friday and will not have a due date. We highly recommend that you complete the Maths work from this week prior to doing the Mathletics tasks.
• English – Big write: write a story set in the Ancient Egyptian times. (Think about your beginning, build up, problem/dilemma, resolution and ending.) UPDATE - Why not watch a bit of Horrible Histories first to inspire you?

The Year 3 Team

Miss Morris            Year Leader and Elm Class Teacher

Mrs Whelan            Elder Class Teacher (Mon-Wed)

Mrs Curzon            Elder Class Teacher (Thu-Fri)

Mrs Harris             HLTA and Lunchtime Supervisor

Mrs Reason            Teaching Assistant and Lunchtime Supervisor

Mr Newell              Governor