Class 3 Home Learning – update 4
Hi everyone,
Hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend, which included the VE Day celebrations. Did you do anything exciting especially for the occasion? I would love to see anything you made or photographs of what you did. You can send them in emails or on the Itslearning messaging service by just click on the paperclip sign to upload the attachment.
Maths
From this week you will need to check Class 3 Home Learning page to access the White Rose Maths worksheets and answers as you can no longer download them from their site. There are also links to each of the lesson videos although you can still access these from the White Rose Maths site along with a link to the bbc Bitesize Daily Lessons maths activities too.
Power Maths eBooks are an extra maths resource that you can use if you would like more practice. Click on the ‘Using Power Maths free online eBooks’. You will find instructions of how to access and use the eBooks, with direct links for either Year 3 or Year 4 and a helpful video about using the resource.
Try something new - Everything you Need in One Place
These two trusted websites offer daily lessons on a variety of subjects and come with supporting videos and activities to complete to help you learn at home.
This first one is a site I have suggested before – have any of you been using it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
The second is called ‘Oak National Academy’ and provides a variety lessons on a variety of subjects: maths, English, history, music, PE and even Spanish!
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/subjects/#subjects
Extra Ideas for Home Learning Activities
Exercise
It’s really important that you stay active. Luckily, there are tons of things you can do at home to make sure you (and Mums and Dads) stay fit and healthy:
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Online exercise videos: Pop one of these on; there are lots of really fun ones to choose from! Start with these:
- Dance ‘n Beats has a wide selection of fun dance routines for younger children to enjoy.
- Just Dance has a more challenging selection of videos for older children.
- Cosmic Kids Yoga has a fun range of videos to guide you through yoga sessions.
- Jump Start Jonny has some fab free high-energy workouts on his website, plus a few on YouTube too.
- Joe Wicks has a selection of workouts to choose from. Remember, he is also doing daily live workouts too.
- Go for a walk or a run: when the weather is nice this is really easy to do and you can go wildlife spotting too.
- Design a workout: Challenge yourself to create your own workout to include things like star jumps, sit ups, burpees, leg raises and lunges. If you have things like bean bags, hoops or cones, these can be incorporated too.
Whichever type of workout you decide to do, make sure you warm up and warm down before and after exercising. Walking on the spot, arm swings or circles, jumping jacks, side hops and lunges are all good options.
Quiet Learning Time
After a lunch break, it’s often good to have some quiet time to rest and refuel for the next activity. This is where you can fit in things like reading time, colouring, independent research (for example, you could do your own research on a particular project) or finishing up work that might have been left unfinished.
You could also use a part of this time to allow to keep in touch with friends. You could do this by writing emails, having phone or video calls, or even writing them a letter. Remember to check with grown-ups before using the internet as they will want to check the sites and apps you are using.
Art
Art is great as a relaxation tool, to boost creativity and to help develop fine-motor skills. You don’t need lots of fancy art equipment to get some really masterful works of art going! Here are some of ideas for fuss-free Art activities you can do at home with members of your family:
- Rock painting: grab some small rocks or pebbles next time you go out for a walk and paint them as animals to create pet rocks!
- Photo cut-outs: Print off any picture and cut it in half using zigzag lines. Stick onto a plain sheet of paper and challenge someone else in your family to complete the picture. It might be fun doing this with photos of yourself, family or friends, your favourite animals, pop stars or actors, but any photo or picture will work.
- Copy the masters: A good challenge is to copy the art of artists. Check out the art of Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock or Kandinsky are easier, or for a harder challenge explore Monet’s waterlilies, Munch’s ‘The Scream’, Frida Khalo’s self-portraits, Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Seurat...the list is endless! It’s also great to find out about the artist behind the artwork too. Maybe do a research project about them?
- Still life: plop an apple, a vase, a glass or a flower in front of you and challenge yourself to draw what you see. As an extra challenge, you could paint it using just one colour, such as using different shades of red.
- Squiggle art: draw a small squiggle on a sheet of paper using curvy or straight lines, then turn the squiggle into a drawing. You might be surprised at the masterpieces that can be developed from these simple squiggles!
- Self-portraits: Using a mirror and draw or paint your own self-portrait. A nice alternative is to make self-portraits from clay or plasticine. You could use a flat oval shape as the basis for your sculpture, or a super challenge would be to make a whole bust of yourself.
- Collage: Instead of drawing or painting a scene or person, you could use collage instead. This can be done using scraps of coloured paper, tissue paper, newspaper, bubble wrap, tin foil, or anything else that can stick onto a page!
- Abstract art: On a plain piece of paper take your pencil for a walk across the page. This can be done using straight or curvy lines. You should make the lines overlap and overcross so that you end up with small sections you can colour in.
Challenge – only use four different colours to colour in your abstract artwork, making sure adjoining sections are never coloured in the same colour.
If you’re looking for fun Art projects, Pinterest is also a fabulous website for Mums and Dads to check out. It has lots of fun, creative Art activities to keep you entertained.
Science
There are lots of fun Science experiments you can do at home to be ‘working scientifically’ and also just for fun! YOU WILL NEED HELP FROM A GROWN-UP and MUST NOT DO EXPERIMENTS BY YOURSELF
A quick Google search for ‘fun science experiments for children’ should throw up a wealth of ideas you can do at home, such as:
- Instant Ice
- Make salt crystals
- Crystal egg geodes
- Chromatography
- Oobleck
- Chemistry experiments
- Lemon volcanoes
Remember to look at in Reader View on your browser – it cuts out all the unwanted adverts.
For each of these, try to make a prediction about what you think will happen and why. Record what you find out and write an explanation about why things happened. This may involve doing some further research, which you can either do independently or supported by an adult.
Computing
Without getting into the nitty gritty, ‘Computing’ basically refers to anything that can be done on a computer or device, as well as learning how to code and write computer programs.
Coding isn’t as scary-sounding as you might first think. There are lots of free websites out there for children to help them understand how coding works. Below are 2 websites which offer lots of opportunities to learn how to code.
There are also apps like the ones we use in school: Swift Playgrounds, Tynker, Lightbot (also available on-line if you have flash player). These are fun ways to learn.
More day-to-day Computing activities could include:
- Writing emails to friends or family
- Creating a multimedia presentation (i.e. a presentation with text, images, videos, etc.) on a topic you want to learn about. This can be done in PowerPoint, Keynote (on a Mac) or similar.
- Creating a graph using a program such as Excel or Numbers (on a Mac).
- Writing a story using word processing, and inserting images and graphics. You
could also use a service such as ‘Book Creator’ (which is a free app) for this.
- Drawing a picture using painting software, such as Microsoft Paint. There are lots
of lots of other free drawing apps and software specifically designed for children too.
- Using the internet to research a particular topic. Please make sure that grown-ups have put appropriate parental controls in place before you surf the internet and REMEMBER not all sites are reliable.
I hope you enjoy all your home learning including using Activelearn. I’m super interested to know what you have been up to and how you have got on. So, keep in touch…I’ll be waiting for your messages.
Happy learning
Miss McHugh
