18.5.20

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Good Morning Y3,

I hope you are all well and had a restful weekend. It is Spirituality Week so alongside this blog there will also be a spirituality blog on our class page each day, with activities on.

Here is writing from Monica, Kian, Elle, Angela and Ela-Maria. Alfie shared his virtual hug with his grandparents.

Here is today’s learning.

Take care,

Miss Pringle

PE

 

 

 For PE today I would like you to play Lava Zone with your family. This video will help you warm up, learn how to play and help you develop control and balance. Remember to stay safe and have fun.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/physical-education-ks1-ks2-lets-get-active-lava-zone-balance-agility-coordination-skills/zdgqvk7
Spelling/ handwriting 

 

Copy the 10 spelling  into your handwriting books four times.

 

Remember to use the guidelines and use my example to check the correct letter formation.

 

 Word families based on root words ‘scop’ and ‘spect’

‘Scop’ means to watch and ‘spect’ means to see.

 

scope

telescope

microscope

horoscope

periscope

inspect

spectator

respect

perspective

spectacles

 
English

 

WALT use and identify prepositions

 

 A preposition is a word or phrase that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. Examples of prepositions include words like after, before, on, under, inside and outside.

 

Open this document and sort the prepositions

I will post the answers tomorrow so that you can self mark your learning. 
Reading 

 

Preposition detective.

 Read for 15 minutes and record any prepositions you spot in your reading record.
Maths

 

 I have set a Mathletics activities or tests for you to complete each day this week.

 
RE

 

Spirituality Week

The God who speaks through creation.

 

 Good Morning Y3

Please open today’s spirituality week blog. Theses will appear daily on our blog and contain activities, links and audios.

 

 

Spirituality Week: Monday, 18th May

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Spirituality Week 2020

Theme: The God who speaks

Monday, 18th May

The God who speaks through Creation

Tuesday, 19th May

The God who speaks at prayer stations

Wednesday, 20th May

The God who speaks through scripture

Thursday,  21st May

The feast of the  Ascension

Friday, 22nd May

The God who speaks through prayer

Monday 18th May  

The God who speaks through Creation..

Today is the start of our annual Spirituality week and the theme for this year is “The God who speaks.”

To begin our special week we are going to think and remember each other and look forward to when we can all see each other again in school.

We pray for each other today and remind ourselves that God loves us all and we are his unique creation.

God speaking through creation or the natural world means that when we look up at the stars or gaze at the bluebells, we see the fingerprints of God. The more we fix our eyes on the wonder of creation, the more we must conclude that these things could not make themselves.

Read by Liam, one of our Liturgy Leaders

 

Class Teachers to lead:

Remember your class friends today

“God loves you very much and you are his unique creation. Listen as you hear the names of all your class read out”.

……………………………………

Reception

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Activity One

Draw a large bubble on a piece of paper with the words “God Loves you” Then, write the names of everyone in your class inside hearts around the bubble.

Activity Two

Look at the power points of God’s Creation and God’s creation in Potters Bar.

Read the poem.

Poem read by Oliwia, one of our Liturgy Leaders

 

God who made the earth

By Sarah Bett Rhodes

 

God who made the earth,

The air, the sky, the sea

Who gave the light its birth,

Careth for me.

God who made the grass.

The flower, the fruit, the tree,

The day and night to pass.

Careth for me.

God who made the sun,

The moon, the star, is he

Who, when life’s clouds come on,

Careth for me.

 

 

Write a prayer entitled ‘God is Glorious’.  Here is an example to help you.

 

God is glorious in the falling of the green oak leaf.

God is Glorious in the rainbow in the evening sky.

God is glorious in the blackbird singing in the spring air.

 

REFLECTION ON MY DAY

How am I feeling at the end of today?

What have I most enjoyed today?

What am I thankful for today?

When was I most peaceful today?

What are my hopes for tomorrow?

 

Wednesday Word – 6th Sunday of Easter (A)

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Each week, a Year 6 Liturgy Leader will be guiding you through the Wednesday Word. Take the time to follow it as a family and reflect on each Sunday’s Gospel reading.

This week, Elysia has prepared a beautiful powerpoint to take you through yesterday’s Gospel. Click here to open it.

15.5.20

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Good Morning Year 3

Here are Elle and Kian’s virtual hugs and descriptive writing.

Kate has been busy leaning origami, winning silver in the bean bag toss and writing about the leaves in her garden, while Hebe wrote about the blossom she saw on one of her daily walks.

Nathalie been writing about the trees and flowers in her garden and her dog Kaiser.

 

I hope you enjoy the sunshine with your family this weekend. Here is today’s learning.

Take care,

Miss Pringle

PE

 

Pope Paul Olympics.

 Pope Paul Home Olympics – please open this link Home Olympics and complete today’s challenge 15.5.20.

Look back over the last two weeks and add up your medals to see where you and your family finished on the medal board! Let me know how you get on. You could even make yourself a medal and send me a photo!
Spelling Spelling test – put the short date in your writing book and the numbers 1- 10 in the margin then ask someone to test you on the words you have been practicing all week. Good luck.

Give yourself a percentage out of 100 just as we do in class.

10/10 = 100%      9/10 = 90 %
Reading 

 

 

  Another reading skill we focus on in Y3 is sequencing.

Sequencing means ordering events and identifying the beginning, middle and end of a story.

Read these cards and sequence them.

 
Maths

 

  In your maths  book ask someone to test you on the 3, 4 and 8 time tables. Remember to go up to x 12 facts. Good luck and don’t worry, you are still learning.
English and digital photography

Day 5

 

 Your photography and descriptive writing has been very creative this week – well done. Today I would like you to choose your favourite piece to edit, improve and publish in your best handwriting. If you have a blue handwriting pen please use it. Once completed please email it to me if possible and I will publish it on Monday’s blog.

14.5.20

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Good morning,

I hope you are all well and enjoying this week’s learning. Here are photo’s of Kate and Eric taking part in the Home Olympics, Sophie skating and writing and Max’s ‘flat’ photo. Ela-Maria, Max, Matteo and Ti have also been busy with their daily descriptive writing and photography projects.

Remember that you can share your learning with me by emailing year3@popepaul.herts.sch.ukHere are your tasks for today.

Take care,

Miss Pringle

PE

 

Pope Paul Olympics.

 Pope Paul Home Olympics – please open this link Home Olympics and complete today’s challenge 14.5.20.

Remember to record your scores and have fun.
Spelling Write each of this week’s spelling words into your writing book and highlight the root word ‘uni’ or ‘struct’ to help you remember how to spell the word. Ask someone to test you one last time before tomorrow.

instruct

structure

construction

instruction

instructor

unit

union

united

universe

university

 
English and digital photography Day 4

 

 You are all doing brilliantly with this daily writing and photography project.

 

Today is your last day of new writing and photography as tomorrow you are going to edit and publish your favourite one.

 

Remember to vary your sentence starters, use adjectives and edit your writing.
Reading 

 

 

  One of the reading skills we focus on in Y3 is inference.

Readers who make inferences use the clues in the text along with their own experiences to help them predict what is happening.

Read these statements and discuss with an adult what you infer.

When you are completing your daily reading, try to use the clues to predict what might happen next or why a character might be acting in a particular way.
Maths

Daily time table and division timed tasks.

Continue to practise your mental recall of multiplication and division facts ready for a test tomorrow.

https://www.mathschase.com/all-games/

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/544/Stone-Age-Stu-Times-Tables

Where you can select the 3, 4 and 8 times tables and division facts.

You are able to select the number of questions and the time in which you complete them. As you grow in confidence please challenge yourself by increasing the number of questions or decreasing the time in which you complete them.

Challenge

If you are confident with your 3, 4 and 8 times tables please try this time table grid activity.

http://maths-starters.co.uk/tables_torture.html You will need to select the size of your grid and set difficulty.
Art

 

Sending a hug in the post!

 As we are unable to see many of our friends and family still, I thought you might like to send them a hug in the post to let them know you are thinking of them. Here are some ideas for you to magpie. Don’t forget to write them a special message too.

 

 

13.5.20

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Good Morning Y3,

I hope you enjoyed your body percussion activities in yesterday’s music lesson? Here are some of the photos and pieces of work I received yesterday.

Max, Finn, Kate, Angela, Vihann, Monica and Eric have written some very descriptive pieces based on the photographs they have taken.

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Descriptive paragraph Handwriting

Here is Eric’s completed wordsearch and a photo of him playing tennis.

This is Finn’s very detailed evacuee diary entry and fact file.

Thank you for sharing your learning and news with me.

Take care,

Miss Pringle.

PE

 

Pope Paul Olympics.

 Pope Paul Home Olympics – please open this link Home-Olympics 2020 and complete today’s challenge 13.5.20.

Remember to record your scores and have fun.
Spelling

 

 

 Please read these sentences and write them into your handwriting book with the correct spelling from this weeks spelling list.
English and digital photography Day 3

 

 Continue with your daily photography and descriptive writing task. If you are finding it difficult to find inspiration for your photos, here are some pictures you could use.

Remember to use commas and different sentence starters.

 
Reading 

 

 

  One of the reading skills we focus on in Y3 is compare and contrast.

To compare means to identify the similarities and differences between two things, and to contrast means to identify only the differences between two things

Look at these pictures discuss what is similar and what is different with an adult.

When you are completing your daily reading, try to think about the similarities and differences you notice.
Maths

Daily time table and division timed tasks.

Continue to practise your mental recall of multiplication and division facts.

https://www.mathschase.com/all-games/

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/544/Stone-Age-Stu-Times-Tables

Where you can select the 3, 4 and 8 times tables and division facts.

You are able to select the number of questions and the time in which you complete them. As you grow in confidence please challenge yourself by increasing the number of questions or decreasing the time in which you complete them.

Challenge

If you are confident with your 3, 4 and 8 times tables please try this time table grid activity.

http://maths-starters.co.uk/tables_torture.html You will need to select the size of your grid and set difficulty.
Science

Big Question

 

WALT ask questions.

Copy this Big Question into your writing book and list what would be positive and negative about having bendy bones.  You might like to think about the following questions to get you started;

  • Have you ever felt a bone and what did if feel like?
  • Why do we have bones?
  • Have you ever broken a bone?
  • What words would you use to describe a bone?
  • Could you walk if your bones were bendy?
  • What could you do if you had bendy bones?

12.5.20

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Good Morning Y3,

Once again I have been very impressed with your learning. I hope you are enjoying this week’s writing and photography task.

Here are photos of Max’s sunflowers and Star Wars photo, Kate and Nathalie’s writing and Sophie’s VE day celebrations and Morse Code.

Here is today’s learning.

PE

 

Pope Paul Olympics.

 Pope Paul Home Olympics – please open this link Home Olympics and complete today’s challenge 12.5.20.

Remember to record your scores and have fun.
Spelling Open this word search and hunt for this week’s spelling.

‘struct’ and ‘uni’ root words wordsearch

 
English and digital photography Day 2

 

 Take a different photo or write a descriptive paragraph about something you have seen in nature today.

Use your writing targets that were set home last term and try to use the conjunctions listed as well as adjectives and noun phrases.
Reading 

 

 

  One of the reading skills we focus on in Y3 is cause and effect.

A cause and effect relationship is when something happens that makes something else happen. In other words, the cause creates the effect.

Read these sentences and discuss the cause and effect with an adult.

·         The dog’s water bowl was full of ice.

·         The doorbell rang.

·         I couldn’t find my coat.

·         George forgot his P.E. kit.

When you are reading try to think about the cause and effect of different actions or events in your book.
Maths

Daily time table and division timed tasks.

For the rest of the week I would like you to practise your mental recall of multiplication facts.

Please go to https://www.mathschase.com/all-games/

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/544/Stone-Age-Stu-Times-Tables

Where you can select the 3, 4 and 8 times tables. You will need to select the number of questions and the time in which you want to complete them in. As you grow in confidence please challenge yourself by increasing the number of questions or decreasing the time.

Challenge

If you are confident with your 3, 4 and 8 times tables please try this time table grid activity.
Music

WALT understand and use pulse and rhythm

 

 Pulse is a steady beat like a ticking clock or your heartbeat.

Rhythm is the pattern of long and short sounds that fit with the pulse as you move through the song.

Follow this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6mmxyc to watch a video about pulse and rhythm then complete the two body percussion activities at the bottom of the website.

11.5.20

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Good Morning Y3,

I hope you had a lovely weekend. I celebrated VE day by having a BBQ in my garden and listening to 1940s music, which was fun. Did you do anything to celebrate? I hope you are enjoying the online learning. Thank you for the messages and photos you have shared with me. Remember that you can contact me at year3@popepaul.herts.sch.uk

Here are Nathalie and Violet’s excellent evacuee diary entries.

PE

Pope Paul Olympics.

 Pope Paul Home Olympics – please open here and complete today’s challenge 11.5.20.

Remember to record your scores and have fun.
Spelling/ handwriting 

 

Copy the 10 spelling  into your handwriting books four times.

 

Remember to use the guidelines and use my example to check the correct letter formation.

 

 Words families based on root words ‘struct’ and ‘uni’

 

instruct

structure

construction

instruction

instructor

unit

union

united

universe

university
English and digial photography.

 

 Each day this week I would like you to take the best photograph you can of an animal or of something in nature. This could be of your pet, a flower, tree, insect, cloud or a rainbow for example.  Remember you can enhance the colours with filters but for this task do not use text or emojis on your photograph. Once you have taken your daily photo you need to write a descriptive paragraph about it.

If you are unable to take photographs please just write about something you see in your garden, out of your window or during your daily exercise.

Remember to apply the skills we have been using in our writing over the past few weeks; noun phrases, compound nouns and past or present tense.

Here is a photo I took on one of my daily walks and an example of a descriptive paragraph.

As I crept through the ancient woodland, I was surrounded by perfumed bluebells. These wild flowers seemed to have burst through the mossy ground and were dancing is the gentle breeze. Treading carefully, I stepped closer to the swaying blue carpet and listened to the birdsong that echoed through the wood. Bees hopped from their sapphire trumpets, collecting pollen for their hives.

 

I look forward to seeing your different photographs and reading your descriptive paragraphs each day.
Reading 

 

 

 Read to a member of your family and log your reading in your reading record.
Maths

 

Please complete this tasks online.

I have set a Mathletics shape activity about different types of lines and a shape test, revising the learning from last week.

 

Types of line

 

 

Take care,

Miss Pringle

7.5.20

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Home Olympics Please complete day 4 (a plank challenge) of the Pope Paul Home School Olympics and keep a record of your time. There is an activity set for you to complete tomorrow too (speed bounce). I look forward to hearing how well you are doing.

 
Spelling/ handwriting 

 

 

 As this is a four day school week, please ask someone to help you revise this week’s spelling list in the morning and then test you in the afternoon.

Remember to put the short date in your writing book and the numbers 1- 10 in the margin. Give yourself a percentage out of 100 just as we do in class. Good luck.

10/10 = 100%      9/10 = 90 %
English

 

 

 Here are the answers to yesterday’s learning correct the tence answers wk3

I have set you two SPAG.com activities on verb tenses.
Reading 

 

 Visit this website https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html

and explore their free books. Remember to record what you have read.
Maths

 

 I have set you some shape activities on Mathletics.

A diagonal is any line that goes between the corners of a polygon. So a square has two diagonals. A right angle is 90 ˚ and can be found in the corners of a square or rectangle.
History / PE

 

 The Lindy Hop was a popular dance in the 1940s and as I know some of you are having VE day parties in your gardens I thought it might be fun to learn some of the steps.

 

Here is a tutorial and two videos of people dancing the Lindy Hop.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wgjmy

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013h6hv

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zwn4wmn

Dance party in the 1940s – KS2 Music – BBC Bitesize

We attend a dance in a church hall in the 1940s. The live band is playing jazz. Energetic, athletic and full of fun, the Lindy Hop evolved with the jazz music of the time.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

 

6.5.20

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Good Morning Y3,

 

I hope you are well. Thank you for your messages and for sharing your learning with me. I’ve really loved seeing your ‘flat photos’ and all the things you are enjoying, while at home.

Here is today learning;

 

Spelling

 

 

 Continue to learn this week’s spelling and explore other words with a short /u/ sound spelt with ‘ou’ on spellzone. https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-520457.htm
English

 

 Open this document and correct the tenses. Don’t forget to complete the challenge too.

correct the tense sentence wk3

I will post the answers tomorrow for you to self mark your writing.
Reading 

Log your daily reading in your reading record and then using the Morse code alphabet, try to read the secret message.

 

  Morse code was used in WWII to send messages. It is written using dots, dashes and spaces instead of numbers, punctuation and letters of the alphabet. Using this Morse code key try to read the Morse code message. You might like to create your own Morse code messages and see if someone in your family can read them.
Maths

 

Mathletics

  

I have set some 3D shape activities for today’s maths. Please visit this website to support your learning. https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-are-the-properties-of-2d-and-3d-shapes

Remember that faces are the flat parts of the shape.

The edges are the lines where two faces meet.

The vertices are the points where two or more edges meet.
History / English

 

WALT understand what evacuation means and write a diary entry.

What is an evacuee? What would life have been like for evacuees? Write a diary entry as if you were an evacuee?

Use these links and my example to help you.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/evacuation.htm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-an-evacuees-adventure/zk7hy9q

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/history-ks2-world-war-2-clips-news-report-on-evacuation/z74q8xs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/history-ks2-world-war-2-clips-interviews-with-evacuated-children/zdcjkmn

Evacuee-Diary-Entries