Year 3 Home Learning
Week Beginning 4th May
We hope that this home learning letter finds you all well and
that you are doing okay in the ‘new normal’.
You are all doing extremely well with your home learning and we
are thoroughly enjoying our communication with you, whether that be
a phone call or a dojo message. Many of you are continuing to
demonstrate the fundamentals of ‘The Berrywood Way’; you are
determined, respectful and resilient children who always try your
best. Keep going; we are all very proud of you. Be kind and look
after each other.
Please continue to submit your home learning using Purple Mash,
you can find reminders of how to do this attached to previous home
learning letters.
Thank you, Year 3
English
Daily Deliberate Practice
1) Reading (on your own or to an adult). Don’t forget to record
your reading in your reading log. You can always share what you
have read with us on Purple Mash – keep earning those reading at
home dojos!
2) Practise spellings on Spelling Shed. We are going to be
updating the assignment every Monday for you to work on throughout
the week. You might also like to practice the Year 3 and 4 common
exception words which can be found in your reading log using many
of the strategies you have learnt, for example, rainbow letters and
pyramid words (these can be found in your home learning books).
Activity
Again, watch the reading of The Great Kapok Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw0arFtHeVw and think about the
inspiring language used in the book.
For example:
‘Moments before, the forest had been alive with the sounds of
squawking birds and howling monkeys.’ ‘…the sun streaming through
the canopy. Spots of bright light glowed like jewels amidst the
dark green forest. Strange and beautiful plants seemed to dangle in
the air.’
‘…the fragrant perfume of their flowers…the steamy mist rising
from the forest floor.’
How do these sentences make you feel? What do you imagine as
your read them?
Today, we are going to be looking at using adjectives, adverbs,
verbs and synonyms to give a different impact to a sentence.
For example, you could change this sentence:
‘The birds flew in the sky.’
Into this:
The dazzling birds soared gracefully through the clear, blue
sky.
Or:
The devious birds cunningly swooped across the deathly black
sky.
How do you feel reading those two different versions of the
sentence? How do the words which you have chosen give a different
impact? We would like you to have a go yourself, using these two
sentences:
The birds flew in the sky.
The trees around me were tall and green.
Challenge!
Let’s try it the other way around. Can you change these
sentences back to a simpler version?
Moments before, the forest had been alive with the sounds of
squawking birds and howling monkeys. Spots of bright light glowed
like jewels amidst the dark green forest.
Strange and beautiful plants seemed to dangle in the air.
The steamy mist was rising from the forest floor.
Maths
Weekly Learning – Addition and Subtraction – find the sum and
difference
Objective – To solve sum and difference questions using bar
models
Activity One – Solving sum and difference questions
Watch the video ‘Sum and Difference Challenges’, from Friday
27th March from the beginning (it will recap last week’s learning)
You’ll find it here:
http://www.iseemaths.com/lessons34/
Then have a go at these two sets of questions using your own
equipment and drawing the bar models. You could use lego, or dried
pasta or any object you can find for your equipment.
Set A
Set B
Activity Two
Now try these questions, again using your equipment and drawing
out bar models.
Challenge! - Strike it out!
There are more instructions here and a video guide on how to
play:
https://nrich.maths.org/6589
Want more maths?
Try this extra challenge on the nrich website:
Sums and Difference 2
https://nrich.maths.org/10488
Remember you can use jottings or the formal methods to do the
addition and subtraction calculations.
Project
What is palm oil?
Palm oil is a type of edible vegetable oil that is derived from
the palm fruit, grown on the African oil palm tree. Oil palms are
originally from Western Africa, but can flourish wherever heat and
rainfall are abundant. Today, palm oil is grown throughout Africa,
Asia, North America, and South America, with 85% of all palm oil
globally produced and exported from Indonesia and Malaysia.
First, we would like you to visit the following website using
this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/39492207
Read and digest the information Newsround shares about palm oil
– do you think it is a good or a bad thing?
Activity
We would like you to have a look at different products and
packaging which you can find in your home; this could include
toiletries and food packaging. Can you find palm oil listed on the
products ingredients list?
Now, watch ‘The Problem with Palm Oil’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSumTLrJzdU
Have another look at the packaging. Now you know that palm oil
can be written under many different names, can you identify anymore
which include it?
Alternative names:
1. Elaeis guineensis
9. Palm stearine
17. Sodium kernelate
2. Etyl palmitate
10. Palmate
18. Sodium lauryl lactylate/sulphate
3. Glyceryl
11. Palmitate
19. Sodium lauryl sulfate
4. Hydrogenated palm glycerides
12. Palmitic acid
20. Sodium palm kernelate
5. Octyl palmitate
13. Palmitoyl oxostearamide
21. Stearate
6. Palm fruit oil
14. Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-3
22. Stearic acid
7. Palm kernel
15. Palmityl alcohol
23. Vegetable fat
8. Palm kernel oil
16. Palmolein
24. Vegetable oil.
Science
How do plants get their food?
Last week we began to think about how plants feed themselves. We
learnt that plants use their roots to absorb water and minerals
from the soil.
Activity One
This week we are going to learn about how plants use their
leaves to help feed themselves. Watch this video clip about a
plant’s leaves.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy66fg8/articles/z9gcdxs
Activity Two
Now, we would like you to have a look at a leaf by doing a leaf
rubbing.
1. Pick a good sized leaf from a tree or plant.
2. Lay your leaf upside down on the table and place a piece of
paper on it.
3. Next, rub the area of paper that is on top of the leaf with a
pencil or crayon.
Can you see lots of little lines on your leaf rubbing? These are
the tubes on the leaf where the food travels.
Activity Three
We have already learnt that plants' leaves are very important
and help take water to the parts of the plant that need it.
However, this isn’t their only job! Leaves also provide food
and air to help a plant stay healthy and grow. When plants make
their own food, this is called photosynthesis. It means light
(photo) used to make something (synthesis). Through
photosynthesis, leaves turn light energy into food.
Leaves “breathe” in carbon dioxide and “breathe” out oxygen through
tiny pores on their surface called stomata.
Visit these websites to learn about Photosynthesis.
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-nature/plants/how-plants-make-food/
https://www.scienceforkidsclub.com/photosynthesis.html
Now, write down 3 facts you have found out about
photosynthesis.
Challenge!
Do plants need leaves to grow?
Based on what you have found out about plants so far, write an
answer to this question or draw a labelled diagram. Can you explain
why you think this?
If you have access to two plants of the same species, you may
like to carry out an experiment to find out what happens if you
remove the leaves. (Please make sure you check with your parents
that they are happy for you do to this.)
Take two plants of the same species. Carefully break off all of
the leaves completely from one plant, making sure that you don’t
damage the stems. Leave the other plant to grow normally. Water
daily and compare how they grow. What do you notice?