Kirkstall St. Stephen's C of E

Year 3

Week Beginning 01.06.20

Hello Year 3!

We hope you and your family are well, it was lovely to talk to some of you on the phone over the last few weeks. You have been up to all sorts! Exploring your local areas on beautiful local walks, playing football with your siblings and getting creative with arts and crafts. We are both enjoying this wonderful sunshine!

There are a few more activities that have been uploaded to the website this week for home learning which are listed below:

Maths
White Rose Hub have now changed how we can access their activities. I have downloaded all of the weeks and uploaded them to this page. Please complete the weeks in order because each lesson builds up for the next. If you have kept up with White Rose Maths you may find you will be on the later weeks- that's fine, just pick up where you left off.
Remember, if you are finding White Rose Maths difficult, I have uploaded alternative activites underneath the White Rose lessons for you to complete.

English
You can still access the Oak National Academy Daily English lessons (Link) which I know some of you are enjoying or the BBC Bitesize lessons (Link). I have also uploaded another English resource as I heard lots of you enjoyed the 'Jumanji' topic! (If you haven't completed the Jumanji topic, it is still uploaded below) This new topic is all about aliens! It focuses on using inverted commas, also known as speech marks. Enjoy!

Reading
There are more reading materials uploaded below. Remember to access your correct group :)

Science
Our new topic is Rocks! You will find some reading comprehension activities in the reading section that you can enjoy. I have uploaded some baking activities you can enjoy to learn about this topic!

Topic
Our topic is still 'Far East Asia' and 'The Shang Dynasty'. All of the resources for this topic are below. Have you turned your bedroom into a travel agent's yet?

Packs Outside School
Every two weeks a new Home Learning Pack will be put outside school for you to collect, if you wish. You do not have to collect the pack but I know some of you are enjoying them! New packs are put outside on: 01.06.20, 15.06.20 and 29.06.20.

Remember Year 3, we are not expecting you to complete all of this work, pick and choose the activities which suit you best.

We can't wait to see you all soon.
From Miss Hawes and Mrs Matthews :)

Learning from Home

Which resources should I use?

Since the start of this journey many more resources have become available to schools and parents to support the ‘learning from home’ process, including the latest resources announced by the government on Sunday.

We have steered away from the term ‘home education’ as that is and should be a choice- this current situation is not a choice, just a necessary situation.

So what resources are the right ones?

Whichever resources interest and stimulate your child the most!

If you have already found a path that works with your child, well done, do not feel you have to change from it. It doesn’t matter what you are doing- if you are doing some work in any format than that’s brilliant. The main thing is to keep exercising their brains in some way- ideally both in English and Mathematics.

However, if you still haven’t found a winning formula then maybe try some of the following:

Suggested Daily Lessons

Maths: Use the ‘White Rose Maths Hub’. All lesson videos, activity sheets and answers are downloaded into the Maths section below.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

There are some work sheets here, however you can view most of them on the screen and complete the work in your books if you do not have a printer.
If you are finding the Maths work challenging, I have uploaded guidance in the Maths sections below with alternative activities which may help.

Literacy: Both the BBC Bitesize Resources and the Oak National Academy resources may be used for your child. I suggest you choose which one to try first by asking yourself the following question:

How has my child responded to the work I have asked them to do so far?

If your child has been reluctant, or struggling to work at home for whatever reason then I would suggest you go to the BBC Bitesize site for English. There are a series of child friendly videos with attached tasks which would suit most pupils.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons

If your answer is more in line with- ‘my child has loved every bit of work and wants more!’

The Oak National Academy work may be more suitable. I feel it is slightly more challenging and due to the lay out and set up feels more formal and requires greater concentration.

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom#subjects

Alternatively, if you would like to continue with the work uplaoded in the 'English' section below, please feel free.

BBC iplayer (including red button 9am onwards) - Primary Bitesize

On top of those options detailed above, there are also BBC programmes on I-player which are different to the bbc resources on the bitesize website. They are mostly 20 minute programmes for 5-7, 7-9, 9-11 year olds of which the first episode spent about 5 minutes on a maths concept, 5 minutes on a story time, 5 minutes on history, with some quizzes thrown in.

These might appeal to you if you have limited internet devices, or a super reluctant learner!

Physical Education-

There are many options for exercising from home, with many people doing daily exercise with Joe Wicks or Cosmic Kids Yoga on YouTube. However, any exercise that can be done at home- or safely in the neighbourhood is great. A walk, run, ride a bike, skipping. Aim to get some outdoor time each day.

Other regular activities:

Daily Reading and practise of key maths skills like basic addition and subtraction (most board games) the timestables (can use TTRS) are invaluable. There are also some prayer ideas on our website.
Music
Artforms Music Support services have compiled a section of online resources for Music learning and enjoyment.
The strings section includes ideas for those learning violin and there are links to Music and singing websites.
https://artformsleeds.co.uk/home-learning-resources/

Daily Tasks:

Complete at least one of the following:

Maths Task
Maths Arithmetic Practice
English Task
Reading Comprehension
SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) Task
Practical Task

Make sure you are keeping active everyday too! I've been doing Joe Wicks PE lessons. They are keeping me fit and most of all they are fun! Click the link below to access Joe Wicks PE Lessons live at 9am Monday-Friday.
Joe Wicks PE Lessons

Tasks to be completed 3 times a week:

Reading
Spellings
Times Tables Rockstars (Link)
Daily 10 or other games on the Top Marks website (Link)
Mindfulness Activities

Tasks to be completed once a week:

Projects and Science Experiments
Below is a list of the new topics we are covering this half term:

Science- Plants
History- The Shang Dynasty
Geography- Far East Asia
RE- Sikhism

DAILY TASKS

WHITE ROSE MATHS RESOURCES
Below are the downloaded resources for White Rose Maths as you can no longer access the activites through their website.

I have labelled the first few weeks in a different order to the website as they have not uploaded the lessons in the same order that was uploaded previously, so please don't be confused if you click on a video link and it says its a different week to what it's labelled on here! This is because they have removed the orignal videos and lessons and duplicated them later on. This is not the same in other year groups, so if you have other siblings in the school they can complete the lessons as they were uploaded previously.

If you find you have completed all of the weeks uploaded, please complete the alternative weeks uploaded beneath.

Also, you may find that some of the activities require you to learn your 8 times table. I have now added 8 times table to your TT Rockstars accounts for you to practice. Can you beat your score?!

White Rose Maths- Summer Term Week 1