Year 3 Virtual School
29 June 2020
Maths
We are starting a new unit on perimeter in figures. You will be completing Lesson 1 of Chapter 14 pages 185 – 186 in your workbooks, which is to measure the perimeter of 2D shapes. You will be using 1 cm grid paper (maths journal) to find the length around different shapes. Click here for the video that will guide you through.
Remember not to write in the Maths No Problem textbook!
Click here for this week’s Maths live worksheet:
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, which you can get here if you are not a Charles Dickens Pupil.
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
Today is Guided Reading! Click here to mark your answers to ‘The Sword in the Stone’
Today’s questions are about ‘Two Little Kittens’. Click here for the text and click here to hear Ms Jacobs read it to you.
Click here for a copy of the worksheet if you don’t have one.
Year 3 Virtual School
30 June 2020
Maths
We are continuing with perimeter in figures. You will be completing Lesson 2 of Chapter 14 pages 187 – 188 in your workbooks, which is to measure the perimeter of 2D shapes. You will be calculating the length of each side of the shape to find the total perimeter. Click here for the video that will guide you through.
Remember not to write in the Maths No Problem textbook!
Click here for this week’s Maths live worksheet.
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
This week in English, we are starting a new unit on ‘King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table’. In today’s lesson you will learn all about the legends of King Arthur and listen to the first story in our book, on how Arthur Pendragon became king! Click here for the lesson video.
Today is also your spelling lesson – click here for the lesson video and here for the worksheet if you don’t have one.
Year 3 Virtual School
1 July 2020
Maths
We are continuing with perimeter in figures. You will be completing Lesson 3 of Chapter 14 pages 189 – 190 in your workbooks, which is to measure the perimeter of 2D shapes. You will be drawing your own shapes, two with 12 cm perimeters and two with 8 cm perimeters. Click here for the video that will guide you through.
Remember not to write in the Maths No Problem textbook!
Click here for this week’s Maths live worksheet.
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
Today, we are continuing with our work on ‘King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table’. In today’s lesson we will look once again at the story of the sword in the stone and use drama to help us understand the main characters in the story. Ms Jacobs will also read you the next legend of King Arthur, on how Arthur came to possess his famous sword, Excalibur!
Click here for the lesson video.
Today is also handwriting day – follow the teacher video here. Today, we have another fun handwriting challenge for you, involving limericks (funny, rhyming 5-line poems). Click here for the worksheet and copy out your answers and your own limericks in your handwriting book. You can also hear Edward Lear’s famous limericks from ‘A Book of Nonsense’ read aloud here.
Year 3 Virtual School
2 July 2020
Maths
We are continuing with perimeter in figures. You will be completing Lesson 4 of Chapter 14 pages 191 – 192 in your workbooks, which is to measure the perimeter of 2D shapes. You will be finding the perimeters of figures on a 2 cm grid and drawing a figure with a given perimeter on a 4 cm grid.
Click here for the video that will guide you through.;
Remember not to write in the Maths No Problem textbook!
Click here for this week’s Maths live worksheet.
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
Today, we are continuing with our work on ‘King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table’.
In today’s lesson we will look once again at the story of the sword in the stone and write three excellent sentences about the many knights and nobles who tried to remove the sword from the stone. Ms Jacobs will also read you the next legend of King Arthur, in which you will find out more about his wicked half-sister Morgan le Fay!
Click here for the lesson video.
Year 3 Virtual School
3 July 2020
Maths
We are continuing with perimeter in figures. You will be completing Lesson 5 of Chapter 14 pages 193 – 194 in your workbooks, which is to measure the perimeter of 2D shapes.
You will be measuring each side of a shape to calculate the length and then adding up lengths to work out the perimeter.
Click here for the video that will guide you through. Remember not to write in the Maths No Problem textbook!
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
Today, we are continuing with our work on ‘King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table’. In today’s lesson we will look once again at the story of the sword in the stone and write three excellent sentences about Arthur becoming king.
Ms Jacobs will also read you the next legend of King Arthur, on his marriage to Lady Guinevere!
Click here for the lesson video.
Contact
If you have any questions or want to share any wonderful work or ideas please email us at year3.charlesdickens@gmail.com
Humanities
History
Well done for your brilliant King Offa eulogies last week – Ms Jacobs was so impressed. This week we are learning all about Alfred the Great. Who burnt the cakes! Or did he..? Find out why he was such an important leader here.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Art & Music
Art
This week we’re creating a Queenie McKenzie inspired landscape featuring a kangaroo! McKenzie, an indigenous Australian artist used natural colours harmoniously. Some say every picture tells a story, what will yours be? Click here for this week’s art lesson with Mr Yusuf, and follow along with the help sheet!
Music
Welcome to the first full school music lesson. We are going to focus on listening and singing today. Try find some time this week to compose using online software that we’ve looked at in previous lessons. Enjoy!
Click here to watch the video.
Science
This week we are learning about the impact of air pollution on the environment and what we can do as individuals to reduce air pollution. Click here to watch the lesson video.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Active
Yoga
Click here for this week’s energising yoga flow with Ms. Fraser.
Dance
Click here for this week’s Dance lesson with Delene.
French
Bonjour Year three!
First, please click here to watch my French super stars video where I share the fabulous work children send me!
This week’s activity is counting to 50! We are using our French phonics to grow our confidence to use these numbers! Beware: socks will be flying in this lesson, watch your head! Click here for this week’s lesson.
When you have finished our lesson, click here complete this fun spelling challenge!
And click here for our amazing number song!
Enjoy!
Au revoir
Wellbeing
This week we are looking at what to do when you are feeling bored.
Click here for today’s lesson.