Year 3 Blog – Page 17 – Coundon Primary School

Topic Project

Firstly, we would like to wish you all the best wishes and hope everyone is safe and healthy. We are really missing you all and hope that you are still enjoying learning at home. Although a strange, worrying time we would like to still treat these next two weeks as an Easter break of sorts. Therefore, we are only suggesting a topic-based project, similar to what would usually be set over a holiday. This topic project is based on your ‘Tomb Raiders’ topic in school.

1. We would like you to complete some research into Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. You could complete your own research if you like, and we have suggested a few websites that may be of use for this below. Or you could read through the PowerPoint that we have provided for some relevant information.

Suggested websites:

2. Following this, you should create a fact file on a God or Goddess of your choice, either using the outline provided, or using your own paper/books.

3. Lastly, you should then design your own Egyptian God or Goddess. The God could be completely original in terms of looks, clothing and purpose or it could take inspiration from the Gods from your research. You should draw this God and describe it, ensuring you have included the following:

The God’s name
A description or origin of the God
What powers or controls they have
What symbols they represent
What does the God help Ancient Egyptians to understand? E.g. natural occurrences such as thunder or rain

You could even write the God’s name in hieroglyphics! Again, you could use the same template used for the first fact file for this information or you could create a poster/design of your choice!

We hope you enjoy this project and have a restful, enjoyable couple of weeks, despite the peculiar circumstances we find ourselves in!

Take care and stay safe,

Miss Griffiths, Miss Blowers and Miss Woodroffe.

Date set 20.3.20

Year 3 Home Learning Pack

In this pack your child will have everything they need to continue their learning at home for the next two weeks. Attached is the following:

English activity grid and Maths activity grid – select one of the tasks each day to complete. Any sheets needed are attached and there are also some websites to support them in their learning.
Guided Reading – Comprehension x 2
Science Home Learning Task
Creative Curriculum Home Learning Task
PSHE Home Learning Task
Spelling – Year 3 and 4 Spelling Words with suggested websites.

In addition, your child will have access to the following websites:

Spelling shed and maths shed – https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb

This link will give your child access to spelling shed and maths shed. Once logged in they can select a variety of games to play to practise their spellings and basic maths skills. Year 3 should select stage 3 and 4.

Fiction Express – https://en.fictionexpress.com/

This website will allow your child access to a huge range of fiction books. Year 3 should be selecting books from Level 1 and 2. Each books has 5 short chapters, which they can read online. After each chapter they are able to vote on what they think will happen in the next chapter and also answer a short quiz to check their understanding.

Times Tables Rockstars – https://ttrockstars.com/

Your child will already have a log in for this. Please encourage them to do this daily with a focus on Soundcheck. This will support them when they come to do the multiplication check in June.

Please find below a list of websites that your child may wish to use in addition to those above. Please encourage your child to keep a record of any websites they visited and maybe even write a small comment on what they thought of it and what they did.

Reading

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/reading

Variety of fun online reading material based around different reading skills.

https://worldbook.kitaboo.com/reader/worldbook/index.html?usertoken=Mjk5MzQ6MTpJUjA5MjAxNjoyOmNsaWVudDE2OTc6MTY5NzoyMjE2Mjg4OjE6MTU4NDM4MDExMzA2Mjp1cw==

Huge range of books including non-fiction

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home – Oxford reading tree books

http://oareadathon.ctml2.com/oa_readathonlz//lz.aspx?p1=MMcDU1MDMwMTFTMTcxMToyMUM4MTg4MTY2Q0FCQkVBODU3NTkzMTNDQTI4MDQ3Mw==-&CC=&p=0

Ideas of what children can do once they have read something or if they are unsure on what to read next.

Writing and Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar

Variety of games for recapping spelling, punctuation and grammar skills as well as story prompts, poetry and more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhrrd2p -A variety of games and activities linked to spelling.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html -A variety of games and activities linked to spelling and grammar.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/literacy/

A variety of interactive games linked to all areas of spelling, reading and writing. [link]

Select a variety of activities on the left hand side of the page. Activities are linked to word classes etc.

Maths

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing-numbers

Select the 7-11 category. Variety of fun interactive games to support the practise of basic skills. Daily 10 and hit the button are very popular in our classes.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/ – A huge range of games linked to each of the times tables.

https://www.transum.org/Software/Maths_Map/Default.asp

A range of problem solving and reasoning activities, to really challenge the mind!

https://www.mathplayground.com/ – Variety of maths games

Spanish

https://www.duolingo.com/ – Select Spanish and then basics. Fun way of continuing to learn the language.

Resources

Maths home learning

Statistics worksheet

Money worksheet

Column Addition worksheet

Column Subtraction worksheet