​Hi Year 3!
How was your half term? I'm still missing you dearly. I want to keep encouraging you to keep doing your best. Also, a reminder: if you have anything you want to share you can email it to [email protected]. I would love to see more of your work!

Thank you Korey - your PowerPoint all about Robin Hood, was amazing! Zoe I loved seeing images of Oreo

Look what I have been doing! This is proof - you are never too old to learn! ​I have been gardening - I planted geraniums and look how they have begun to flower. I also had a go at planting ivy and a palm. I had to make sure they had: water, light, the right soil and plenty of nutrients. ​

Keep persevering my lovelies!

Maths is still being set by the White Rose Maths Hub! You will find the link to the right of this screen. Remember: Follow my lead - not the website. Look at the lessons I have set.

Continue Daily:

• PE With Joe (30 Mins)
• Reading (30 minutes)
• Complete Times Table Rockstars (30 Mins)

English: You have another great new English activity booklet called A Tale of Stone trolls" See daily posts for help on the pages to complete.

Take a look at the end of the week's posting. I have gone a little bit wild and have given you some more Golden Time ideas!
​
Here is another one of my favourite affirmations and a motivational song which I think suits at this very moment. I cannot express how much I am proud of you all year 3 and how much I miss you. 

• Stay good
• Stay safe
• Stay positive
• and...

"It's getting better" year 3. Remember you are special.

God Bless
​Mr Crow

Maths
The Friday Challenge! Clue Dough!
Activity: Complete Summer Term Week 3, W/C 4th May, Lesson 5  @ White Rose Maths. Link on the right! There, you will be diverted to The BBC super link!

Topic/Science
Recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by a solid object
Activity: What is a shadow? Watch the video and read up on this here
Find 5 things in your home that are very different - e.g. a ball, a glass, some cling film, yellow paper, plain paper. Which will make the best shadows and why??
Complete the two sheets - answers at the end

Art!
Describe the work of an artist
Activity: Look at the work of Jan Pienkowski – silhouettes. Which ones do you like? Which ones do you dislike? Can you try and make one? Heres a link to all the Meg and Mog Books if you want to buy them and read them.

Hi Year 3!
Welcome to another week's worth of home learning! I very much enjoyed chatting to you last week. It was so nice hearing your voices. And yes - I am still missing you all very much. Stay strong. Hang on in there! 

Maths is still being set by the White Rose Maths Hub! You will find the link to the right of this screen. Remember: Follow my lead - not the website. Look at the lessons I have set.

Continue Daily:

• PE With Joe (30 Mins)
• Reading (30 minutes)
• Complete Times Table Rockstars (30 Mins)

English: You have a great new English activity booklet called "The Truth about trolls" See daily posts for help on the pages to complete. Your teacher Mr Bird will be teaching you. He does look suspiciously like me with grey hair. Obviously lockdown hasn't been very kind!

Take a look at the end of the week's posting. I have gone a little bit wild and have given you some more Golden Time ideas!

Now, next week is officially May Half term. So. Have break from learning, have some days off (if you haven't had enough already) and practise your creative skills by baking, cooking, drawing, art/dt.
​
As a final thought, I leave you with one of my favourite affirmations and a motivational song which I think suits at this very moment. I cannot express how much I am proud of you all year 3 and how much I miss you. 

• Be good
• Be safe
• Be positive
• and...

"Make your own kind of Music" year 3. Remember you are special.

God Bless
​Mr Crow

Maths
Subtract Fractions 
Activity: Complete Summer Term Week 2, W/C 27th April, Lesson 2, Subtract fractions  @ White Rose Maths. Link on the right! ​

RE
RE
The Season of Pentecost
Activity: Set up your altar in your home, to reflect the season of pentecost. 50 days after Easter. You will need something red! Can you find out why?
Find out about the season of Pentecost 
What is it? When is it celebrated? How is it celebrated? What gift is given to Catholic Christians?
Key Vocab
Holy Spirit, Pentecost, Greek, fifty

Don't Have a bible?
Order one here @ Amazon UK
Read the Scripture here @ Bible Gateway - Check this is the Good News Translation (GNT)

RE
Pentecost: Acts 2:1–31
Activity: Listen to the story of Pentecost using the YouTube Video and a bible version. 
Choose an activity:

1. Write a reflection on it - use the key questions to help you. Then you can colour in the Pentecost picture.
2. You could make a tissue paper lamp (See idea here)
   ​You could make a flame headband or just the flame (See idea here)
   You could colour in the flame image
   You could paint your own version of fire.
3. Maybe you can take a look at this piece of art and paint/draw/create your own interpretation

​
Key Questions: Who are the Main Characters? Where are they? What happened? What special gift was given?

Hello Year 3.
Welcome to another week's worth of home learning! How are you all keeping? Are you enjoying your online learning??? I have seen some fabulous work and progress. Keep it up! 

Maths is still being set by the White Rose Maths Hub! You will find the link to the right of this screen. Remember: Follow my lead - not the website. Look at the lessons I have set.

Continue Daily:

• PE With Joe (30 Mins)
• Reading (30 minutes)
• Complete Times Table Rockstars (30 Mins)

I am very much still missing you all and hope to see you soon. Please keep positive and let's keep praying that we will see each other soon.

As a special treat, Miss Kangal Nurse and I have set you a fun PE active challenge. Take a look at the end of the week's posting.

As a final thought, I leave you with one of my favourite affirmations and a motivational song which I think suits at this very moment. I cannot express how much I am proud of you all year 3 and how much I miss you. Please:

• stay home
• stay safe
• stay strong

"We'll always be together, together in Year 3 electric dreams! 

God Bless
​Mr Crow

English
Sequencing
Activity: Carry on sequencing the story of Robin Hood

RE
The Presentation: Luke 2:22-40
Activity: 

1. Start your learning saying the Hail Mary at your altar
2. Read the presentation story - Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem when he is six weeks old. Simeon's heart skips a beat when he recognises that Jesus is the new king who will rule over his people as promised by God. Anna tells everyone in the temple that Jesus was the gift that all had been waiting for. Here is a nice video too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z2wmpv4 
3. Reflect on the story by choosing one of these activities:
   - Storyboard what happened - use the video and write sentences. 
   - Make 3D gingerbread puppets from cardboard or  to retell the story to your siblings
   - Write your own retelling of the story
4. Finish your reflection by saying a prayer

Key Vocab
Presentation, Jesus, Mary, Simeon, Joseph, Temple

Don't Have a bible?
Order one here @ Amazon UK
Read the Scripture here @ Bible Gateway - Check this is the Good News Translation (GNT)

English
Plan your own story
Activity: Use the start of Robin Hood to think about what episode you could write. You need to include Robin Hood and his Merry Men robbing from the rich to give to the poor. In your story plan, use words, sentences and drawings. What will happen? Think of the Main Event - stealing for the poor. Use the plan below to help along with the Powerpoint File which will help you use the original story sequence like the other day.

RE
Jesus in the Temple: Luke 2:41-52

Activity: 

1. Start your learning saying the Hail Mary at your altar
2. Read the Jesus in the Temple story - Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem when he is 12 years old. Discover, that when Jesus is in the temple at age 12 He showed that He was God’s Son who came to do God’s will.
3. Reflect on the story. Answer these questions
   - How long did Mary and Joseph look for him? 
   - Where did they find Jesus? 
   - What was Jesus doing? 
   - How did Mary respond to Jesus when she and Joseph found Him in the temple?  How did she feel?
   - How did Jesus answer Mary’s question? 
   - How did those who heard Jesus react? 
   - How is your attitude like/unlike Jesus when you hear God’s Word taught? 

Key Vocab
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Temple, 

Don't Have a bible?
Order one here @ Amazon UK
Read the Scripture here @ Bible Gateway - Check this is the Good News Translation (GNT)

Topic/Geography
Mapping Time!
Activity: Create your own town! Create a personal green map - local parks, gardens and green spaces. make sure it is balanced and it has lots of rural space for people to relax. Nobody wants to suffocate with lots of buildings and smog, do they?  Here's some ideas:

Art/DT
Activity: ​How are your dioramas coming along? Keep going with them! Here's an amazing lego example I have found! If you are struggling with the materials, have a go with lego!

Miss Kangal-Nurse and I, have put together some fun challenges for you to do this weekend! 

Use your hand eye coordination skills to focus and take aim as you attempt to shoot the teabag in the mug!

Use your hand/eye coordination skills to see how quick off the mark you are to catch a variety of objects behind you and between your legs.

Fancy something Different?

• Bake some Peanut Butter cookies (Recipe here) - Absolute fav of mine!
• Use toilet roll, paint, coloured paper and glue to make some fancy Owl Ornaments (See here)
• Learn to play the piano on Twinkl Tunes (see here)

Hello Year 3.
Welcome to another week's worth of home learning! It's May!
Hope you are all keeping safe and well. 
Maths is still being set by the White Rose Maths Hub! You will find the link to the right of this screen.

Continue Daily:

• PE With Joe (30 Mins)
• Reading (30 minutes)
• Complete Times Table Rockstars (30 Mins)

Continue to check the blog each day for details about the daily tasks for Maths, English, Topic, RE and Art etc.

Friday is VE Day. No Work is set. Please spend this time with your family, enjoying time together. Try to bake, cook, play games and reflect on how lucky we are to be alive and to have many people and agencies that love and care for us. 
​
On a final note: It's the month of Mary, mother of Jesus. Please pray the Hail Mary daily.
Also, thank you to the children who are regularly completing home learning! I am seeing some fabulous evidence and tracking on my fancy laptop app! Keep up the good work.

And as a final thought, very much in line with VE Day, I'm pinning my favourite quote from an inspirational war time song by Vera Lynn.

"We'll meet again"

​God Bless

Mr Crow :)

Maths
Fractions on a Number Line
Activity: Complete Week 2, Lesson 1, Fractions on a Number Line @ White Rose Maths. Link on the right! 
Remember the key vocabulary!
Key Vocab
Denominator: Bottom number, the total number of parts
Numerator: Top Number, the number of parts taken/shaded.

English
Who is Robin Hood?
Activity: Draw the outline of a gingerbread man, or download the template. We are going to PEE! 
Make points about Hood's character (what we know about him) on the outside and then on the inside of the gingerbread man write about his feelings and personality! Use evidence from the story and don't be afraid to read it again! Remember:
What do they say or do which makes you judge them?
How do they react/feel?
Tomorrow, we can write a character description.
Key Vocab
Infer: make a decision based on evidence. Be a reading detective!
Deduct: pick out the information
P.E.E = Point, Evidence, Explain!

Maths
Fractions of a Set
Activity: Complete Week 2, Lesson 2, Fractions of a set of Objects @ White Rose Maths. Link on the right! 
Remember the key vocabulary! Remember this key skill!
To find the fraction, Divide by the Denominator!
Key Vocab
Denominator: Bottom number, the total number of parts
Numerator: Top Number, the number of parts taken/shaded.

English
Who is Robin Hood?
Activity: Use your gingerbread man to write about Robin Hood. You need to write a character description. Here is an example of how to PEE!

Robin Hood is a fair, brave and bold man! He and his merry men swiftly stole from the rich to save the poor.
Key Vocab
Infer: make a decision based on evidence. Be a reading detective!
Deduct: pick out the information
P.E.E = Point, Evidence, Explain!

RE

The Annunciation: Luke 1:26–38: 26
Activity:

1. Start your learning saying the Hail Mary at your altar
2. Read the annunciation story - about Mary being chosen as the mother of Jesus, son of God.
3. Reflect on the story by choosing one of these activities:
   draw a picture of the scene and label what Mary would have said - you can hunt for her words   in the scripture.
   Writing a diary about the event (you are experts now! Include how she feels, remember to use 'I' and 'My' pronouns)
   Sequence the story by making a storyboard or map.
4. Finish your reflection by saying a prayer

Key Vocab
Annunciation, Angel, Gabriel, God, Prince,

Don't Have a bible?
Order one here @ Amazon UK
Read the Scripture here @ Bible Gateway - Check this is the Good News Translation (GNT)

English
Create complex sentences using a range of conjunctions
Activity: Practice making complex sentences using conjunctions. A complex sentence is formed when you join a main clause and a subordinate clause with a conjunction A subordinate clause is one that relies on a main clause to make sense.
The conjunctions in complex sentences are subordinating conjunctions and they tell us about the order or the place in which things happened or tell us a cause or effect relationship between events. Connectives used in complex sentences include after, although, as, because, if, since, unless, when.

Topic/Science
Activity 1: Cool celery! Watch this video @ BBC Teach or check this out Adults! Teaching Tots
Set up simple experiment with celery to outline water transportation in plants. Can you get hold of some celery and food dye? Heres what to do: 

1. Fill a jug/cup/tube with water
2. Dye the water with your favourite food colouring - avoid yellow!
3. Wait and see what happens!

Activity 2: While this is happening, make some predictions using the sheet below I have designed for you.  If you know water travels up the stem of a plant, what will happen to your celery????? 
Key Vocab: water, transportation, stem, leaf

Topic - Geography
Activity: Urban and Rural Geography
How do we use land? What does urban and rural mean? Look at the powerpoint and then using google maps or google earth, complete the challenge on the last slide! How much can you hunt for??? Are they urban or rural???
Key Vocab: Urban, Rural