[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-bottom-left” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f0f054″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Today a new term is due to begin. Unfortunately we are still unable to learn together in our classroom. We have been really impressed by the photographs we have seen of your children’s learning at home. Well done to all of you for your great work in supporting learning at home![/dropshadowbox]

This half term our topic is the Romans. We suggest the following activities for this week.

English

Spellings for the week are;

perhaps, address, guard, material, recent, guide, forward, fruit .

Children can practice the spellings using look, cover, write, check or try playing a game of hangman.

Daily grammar lesson on nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives can be found on;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-lessons/1

Our text is the Roman myth of Romulus and Remus. This is available on the PowerPoint below:

Romulus and Remus Story Powerpoint

• Lesson 1 – Read the story of Romulus and Remus. Retell the story to an adult in your own words.
• Lesson 2 – Write some questions for Romulus, Remus and the Wolf.
• Lesson 3 – Create a storyboard of the story of Romulus and Remus story. You can use this template  or simply divide a piece of paper into 6 sections. (Storyboard)
• Lesson 4 and 5 – Retell the story of Romulus and Remus in writing. Use your storyboard to help you organise your writing in paragraphs. Don’t forget to check and up-level your writing.

There are resources connected with the story of Romulus and Remus on the Twinkl website. You can access the website free of charge by going to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and using the free access code: UKTWINKLHELPS

Mathematics

Our topic for the next few weeks is fractions, for the first week it should be revision for the children as we have covered them in class.

• Lesson 1 – Unit and non-unit fractions
• Lesson 2 – Making the whole
• Lesson 3 – Tenths
• Lesson 4 – Count in tenths
• Lesson 5 – Tenths – reasoning and problem solving

Answers:

• Lesson 1 – Unit and non-unit fractions
• Lesson 2 – Making the whole
• Lesson 3 – Tenths
• Lesson 4 – Count in tenths
• Lesson 5 –

Science

This term our topic is plants. Plant a seed of your choice in a pot and water it regularly. Over the next few weeks keep a diary of the progress your plant is making. You could make notes of the condition of your plant, measure the plant and draw diagrams of your plant.

Please see template below (My Diary of a Bean Plant) from Twinkl – you might want to use to keep track of your plant’s progress, or you could have a look at it to give you an idea of how you might want to set it out on your own paper.

My Diary of  a Bean Plant

Topic work

Find out about why the Romans invaded Britain. You can use the video clip and information sheet below to help:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zs2mhyc

Why the Romans invaded Britain

Complete a detailed spider diagram on why the Romans invaded Britain.

You may want to include the following issues:-

• Explain why the Romans wanted corn, wool and leather.
• Explain why the Romans wanted gold, silver, lead and tin
• Explain why the Romans wanted slaves
• Why did the Romans think it was their duty to attack other countries and create an empire?
• Why did the Romans want revenge on the Britons?

Extra work

We are aware that some children want some extra work to keep them busy at home. Please see the following link which is a home learning activity book with lots of different activities inside.

Activity Book

This could either be printed out and completed, or complete the work in your books that were sent home. Please do not feel this needs to be completed – only if you want to!