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victorian_britain/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/
materials/
Can you...
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Discuss the adjectives that describe
the settings and characters of your
favourite stories of television
programmes
Make a list of all of the different types
of materials that you can find around
the home.
Practise your 2, 3,4, 5, and 10
times tables.
This term, Year 3 will be covering a range of
text types in Literacy: Stories with a familiar
setting; Dialogue and plays and Non-fiction
reports
In Numeracy, the children will cover place value, calculating mentally, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 times
tables, 2D and 3D shape, handling data,
measures, time and fractions.
Our topic based lessons will be The Victorians
and Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.
To help your child with their Literacy work this term you could:
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Read a variety of story books and question your child about the setting.
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Practise finding more powerful adjectives to use in their writing—e.g.
What is a better describing word to use instead of big?
This term we will be reading extracts from the stories below. Perhaps you
could find these books (or stories like them) in your local library and read
them together?
Stories Set with a familiar setting:
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Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne
If you like these, you could read:
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The Tunnel by Anthony Browne
Our topic for this term is on The
Victorians. We will base our history
lessons around the time of the Victorians
we will learn about their life and pass
times, we will explore Victorian artefacts
and have a themed day where the children
will experience what it would have been
like growing up in this time period.
Dialogue and plays:
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The Torch by Michael Rosen
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Mr. Majeika by Humphrey Carpenter
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The Postbox by Robert Swindells
If you like these, you could read:
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The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
Authors and Letters:
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The Jolly Postman By Allan Ahlberg
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Burglar Bill by Allan Ahlberg
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Funny Bones by Allan Ahlberg
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Non Fiction reports on the Rainforest
You could also read:
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The Usborne Nature Book of Insects
To help your child with their Numeracy work this term you could:
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Practise times tables AND division facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10
times tables.
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Identify fractions (halves, quarters and thirds) of things at home—
e.g. Sweets, chocolate, pizza!
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Practise mental doubling, halving, addition and subtraction of twodigit numbers, addition and subtraction facts involving multiples of
10.
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Explore measuring lengths and weights of objects. Read the time
from digital and analogue clocks.
We will be learning about the properties of
materials. We investigate the best material to use
for different situations and provide reasons. We will
be learning how to carry out investigations and
understand the concept of fair testing.
We will have two hours of P.E. lessons a week this
term as well as our swimming lessons at the Gayton
pool for half an hour a week. Our topics for P.E this
term will be Striking and Fielding and Invasion
games, where the children will be required to wear
suitable kit for the outdoor weather. This will
include trainers and a separate jumper or zip up top
if the weather is cold. Our other P.E topics will be
Fitness & Agility and Gymnastics where they will
need their indoor kit.
Children will need to remember to pack a towel,
swimsuit/ swimming trunks and a swimming hat.
Goggles are optional. You should have a timetable
informing you of the days your child has
swimming and PE lessons.