I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend :)

Thank you for working so hard last week. You are all AMAZING! I have absolutely loved looking through the pictures of your work. Please continue to send your work to the Year 3 email address :) 

Please click on the daily videos to find out what's in store for each day. I will be adding more each day. You might also like to watch the videos of me reading our class story 'Nothing to see here hotel' :).

I know remote learning is tricky but remember to keep trying your best and just doing what you can. You are all superstars and are doing so well :)

Keep smiling!

Love Miss Robertson xxx

Relax and unwind as Miss Robertson continues to read our class book 'The nothing to see here hotel'.

Find out what Prince Grogbah is up this week!

Many thanks to Simon & Schuster UK for allowing us to read their story online :)

English: This week, we will be continuing with our new class text Stone Age Boy :)

Monday 18th January: In today's lesson, you will be learning how to use 'a' and 'an' correctly in your sentences. Read through the PowerPoint below and work the activities. Enjoy :)

Tuesday 19th January: In today's lesson, you will be learning about 'time adverbials' and how to use them within your sentence. Click below for today's PowerPoint. Enjoy :)

On the first page of today's lesson, it says yesterday's date and title. Sorry about that, please ignore this :)

Wednesday 20th January: In today's lesson, you will be planning your own story based on the Stone Age Boy. Watch the video below for some help with how to plan your story. 

Happy planning!

Thursday 21st January: In today's lesson, you will be writing the first 2 plot points of your story. Watch the video before you start writing your story. Happy writing!

Friday 22nd January: Hooray! It's Friday!  In today's English lesson, you will be finishing off your story and writing plot points 3, 4 and 5. Watch the video to help you with your writing. I would LOVE to see what you have written. Please send your writing to yearthree@st-jo-st.dudley.sch.uk

Handwriting, spelling and reading activities:

Please click on the links below (one for each day). In each file, you will find some different handwriting, spelling and reading activities to help you to practise each skill. Please don't worry if you don't manage to complete all of the activities every day :) just do your best :)

Look out for the reading challenge on Friday! I would love to see your pictures :)

Other Reading Activities this week

-Ask your child to read a chapter from their home reading book.

-Following this, ask your child to summarise the events from the chapter. They could bullet point what happened, create a comic strip or present the information in their own creative way.

-Encourage your child to note down any unfamiliar words from the chapter they have read. Explore the meanings of these words by using a dictionary.

-Challenge your child to read something around the house that isn't a book. They can then keep a record of all these. 

Please click on the PDF below for some useful links to support reading at home :)

Maths:

This week we wil be continuing with our multiplication and division topic. For each lesson, you will find a PowerPoint with the activities and a link to the White Rose Maths video. For some lessons, you will also find a help video.If you need anything else to help you, or you are struggling with anything, please email yearthree@st-jo-st.dudley.sch.uk

You are all fantastic mathematicians and I know you will do brilliantly with these activities :)

Monday 18th January: Dividing by 4

Tuesday 19th January: 4 times table

Wednesday 20th January: Multiply by 8

Thursday 21st January: Divide by 8

Friday 22nd January: 8 times table

Afternoon lessons: The afternoon lessons are organised into the days of the week. Please don't worry if you complete them on a different day or in a different order :)

Monday 18th January:

Today, it is Martin Luther King day. This is a special day where we remember the wonderful work that Martin Luther King did to campaign for equal rights across America.

Read through the PowerPoint below and work through the activities. There are also some links to some useful video clips to help you :).

Enjoy! Please send photos of your learning to the Year 3 email address.

Tuesday 19th January: 

In today's lesson, we will learn all about the parable of the Prodigal Son. Watch the video of the lesson below and complete the activity at the end :)

Enjoy!

P.E. Tuesday 19th January:

In today's PE lesson, I would like you to try the warm up activities and then the 'avoid the defender' activity. Listen to my Tuesday morning message for a more detailed explanation of the tasks :)

There is also a Yoga alternative if you would rather :) Make sure you do some warm up stretches first.

History Wednesday 20th January: 

In today's lesson, you will be learning all about what people in the early Stone Age ate. Unfortunately, they couldn't just pop to Tesco or Aldi like us.

Read through the PowerPoint below. Once you have done this, I would like you to create your own Stone Age menu (there are lots of ideas on the PowerPoint to help you). Enjoy and be imaginative!

There is also an optional task to make your own stewed fruit inspired by the Stone Age. Please don't worry if you don't get a chance to do this :)

Mrs Hickman is very kindly sending us lessons each week about current news stories form 'Picture News'. This is great to help us stay aware of current stories in the media and the follow up activities will help you consider your own thoughts and views regarding what is happening in our communities and around the world.

This week's theme is based upon how we show our appreciation for those frontline carers who are doing such an incredible job in such difficult times.

Click on the link below for the lesson. Enjoy!

Art Thursday 21st January:

Stone Age art: Read through the PowerPoint below all about cave paintings. Create your own cave painting inspired by the Stone Age :) Have fun!

There are also some useful videos clips to help you to draw Stone Age animals.

Whole school Art activity: 

Over the next few weeks, we will be exploring the work of artists who use very ordinary objects and materials to make exciting and imaginative pieces of artwork.

This week, we’re going to take inspiration from Italian artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He was born nearly 500 years ago and is famous for painting portraits of people, made out of different types of fruits, vegetables and flowers.

Go through the Lesson Presentation and have fun and enjoy!

P.S. I absolutely LOVED all of your coffee monsters from last week!

Music Whole School Project

This week you will be learning about Beethoven.

1. Go through the "Find out about Beethoven" Slideshow and there is a link to find out even more information! 

2. Then, you need to complete the Creative Response Tasks. 

3. After that, there is a Quiz for you to complete too! 

A busy, musical afternoon for you! Have fun! 

Extra optional tasks:

-Write a summary about everything you have learnt in today's music lesson. 

-Create a poster/fact sheet/biography about Beethoven

Science Friday 22nd January:

In today's lesson, you will be exploring what a balanced diet is and why it is important. Read through the PowerPoint below and work through the activities. I hope you have lots of fun designing and planning your own healthy meal.

Watch Friday's morning message for some more details about today's tasks :)

For today's French lesson you will be starting a new unit all about musical instruments, 'Les instruments' (Instruments). You will start by learning some of the names for some common musical instruments and how to pronounce them (say them outloud). We will be using the language angels website to help us with our French (the same website that we use in school). 

1)Go to the Language Angels website (link below).

2)Click on 'home learning' and use the following username and Password.

USERNAME: Stjose1970                 PASSWORD: lahome

3)Click on the dashboard at the top and look at the first column ENTRY LEVEL CHALLENGE .

4)Click on Unit 2:Les Instruments and then on Lesson 1.

Have a look at the PowerPoint on the website and listen out for how to pronounce the words. Below, you will find a link to the language angels website, an optional worksheet to complete (you can just draw it onto paper if you can't print) and a vocabulary sheet with all the key words on for this unit.

If you have any trouble at all logging on, please contact me and I will do my best help :)

Bonne chance (good luck!) 

Thank you for working so hard this week. You are all superstars :D

Please send your work into the Year 3 email address:

yearthree@st-jo-st.dudley.sch.uk

xxx

Wednesday Word 

If you get chance, please share the Wednesday Word together. It is the Gospel message for this coming Sunday. There are always very good questions, discussion points and activities on there.

I will attach the link each week :)