Year 3/4 Resources for Phase 2

Y3s are to work their way through The Stone Trolls : download here
Y4s are to work their way through Amazing Aliens : download here
Each pack is roughly 1-2 weeks worth of work.

Maths

Y3s are to work their way through Money Week 5 : download here
Y4s are to work their way through Place Value Decimals Week 5 : download here
Each Power Point is roughly one weeks worth of work

For any pupils who finish there are also revision PowerPoints. These have a selection of questions on all of the areas of Maths the Y3/4s have covered since September.
Year 3 – What can you remember? : download here
Year 4 – What can you remember? : download here

English

Please see the T4W packs on the school website. Each pack is roughly 2 weeks worth of work. 

Y3s are to work their way through ‘The Truth about Trolls’ : Y3-Unit
Y4s are to work their way through ‘The King of the Fishes’ : Y4-Unit

Maths 

The Geometry PowerPoint is on the school website (Geometry Properties of Shapes Angles). It focuses on angles and is a mixed Y3/4 unit. This unit should take roughly a week.
w/c 11th May Year 3: Money Year 3 Week 4
w/c 11th May Year 4: Year 4 Place Value Decimals Week 4

Please continue to use My Maths to practise skills as well as the times table website. 

If you have any queries, please email your child’s class teacher via the class email. 

Pupils – if you can, interact with each other on your class Padlets. 

Year 3/4 Home Learning W/C 20.04.20

Tell us what you’ve been reading on your class Padlet page.

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The next units to study are:
Properties of Shapes: Lines/2D/3D Year 3 – Lines 2D and 3D (ppt)
Properties of Shapes: Geometric Shapes and Symmetry Year 4 – Geometric shapes and symmetry (ppt)

Please see the PowerPoints for each unit – broken down into steps. Each step is roughly one lesson. PowerPoints will be on the school website.

https://www.mymaths.co.uk/
https://www.timestables.co.uk/
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

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Year 3/4 summer term 1 units

Recreate a scene from your favourite book e.g. Podkin losing his ear, Arriving in the Land of Roar, Mowgli and Baloo in the jungle.

Collages can be made with so many different materials – paper, card, wool, tissue paper, scraps of material, string etc.

You can stick the materials down with glue onto paper or card or sew the pieces onto a section of material

Watch the clip below to see how to make a collage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/art-and-design-ks1-ks2-creating-a-collage-landscape/zfrfbdm

Can you make a dish inspired by one of Shakespeare’s famous plays or characters?Examples:

• A Witches’ brew from Macbeth
• Fairy cakes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Heart biscuits for Romeo and Juliet

OR

Making a mask

Can you make a mask for one of the characters in his plays?
Examples:

• Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Masquerade masks from Romeo and Juliet
• Lady Macbeth from Macbeth

How do we classify living things? What groups of animals do you know? What is the difference between a vertebrate and an invertebrate? Where would you find invertebrates? What animals live in your garden?

Ideas for learning – Living Things and their Habitats (PDF)

• Make a Guess Who game to classify animals
• Make a bug hotel in your garden

Useful websites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zn22pv4
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-nature/invertebrates/

This term we will be studying the life and times of William Shakespeare. What quirky facts can you find out about him? What plays and poems is he most famous for? What words in the English language can we credit to Shakespeare?

Ideas for learning

• Create a piece of artwork based on a play/poem by Shakespeare.
• Take one of the famous speeches from his many plays and turn it into a rap/song (Henry V for example).
• Make a shoebox theatre showing a scene from a play.
• Film yourself and your family recreating a scene/speech from a play.
• Make an animation of a scene/speech.

Useful websites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4w5xvV324jx463XyCyctnBs/shakespeare-in-shorts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/7jr5JlyMLXV3dq9TSDYZwv/shakespeare-resources
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/english-ks2-shakespeare-retold-index/zh4h2sg
https://www.rsc.org.uk/education/about-rsc-education/home-learning-with-the-rsc

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpdtsbk/articles/zrxxgwx

• What are the 5 pillars?
• Why are they important in the Islamic faith?
• How do Muslims pray?
• Where do they worship?
• Does regular prayer make life easier or harder?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpdtsbk/articles/zjc2bdm

• What happens during Ramadan?
• What is the significance of Ramadan for a Muslim?
• Do other faiths fast in the same way?
• How do they compare/differ?

If you can, read The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family.