Year 3 - Home Learning Activity Grid

Please use the activity grid to engage your child with home learning. There are also a number of website suggestions on our school

website, under ‘Home Learning’ to use alongside this grid. Please find additional materials to support this grid on the pages below:

English Activities

TASK 1 Non-fiction: Attached is a comprehension task about the rainforest. Read through the text and answer the questions about it. Challenge: Once you have completed the comprehension task, create a poster detailing all of your knowledge about the rainforest. Or, if you like, create a short video clip sharing some facts about the rainforest. Do send in a picture of your posters or video clips to: hello@newislingtonschool.org

TASK 2 Dictionary work: Create your own dictionary with definitions to the rainforest words attached. Select up to 10 words to write the definition on.

To do this, you can use a dictionary that you have at home, or the following online dictionary:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Challenge: Using the template attached, create your own word search with the rainforest words within it for someone in your house to solve.

TASK 3 Writing: Look at the rainforest scene attached below. Write an introduction to the scene. Remember to use sense description. Think about what you may be able to see, hear, smell and touch. Challenge: Complete your written piece by writing a story about the scene. Think about what adventures the animals may go on and what new characters may appear.

Maths Activities

TASK 1 Times tables: Complete the attached times tables parrot activity. You’ll need to remember your multiplication facts to complete it, so make sure you practise before you get your colours ready!

TASK 2 Times tables: Write out your 12 times tables from 0-12 For example 0x12= 0, 1x12= 12 Complete the attached times tables activity for your 12 times tables. Challenge: Write out the inverse for each of the calculations you have written out eg 1 x 12= 12 INVERSE: 12÷12= 1 and 12÷1=12

TASK 3 Problem solving: Can you work out the distance from Manchester to the Amazon rainforest using

the code?

Look at the attached sheet to work out how many kilometres there are between Manchester

and the Amazon rainforest!

Home Activities

TASK 1

Research: Attached are pictures of particular animals that can be found in the rainforest. Select an animal and conduct some online research. Be sure to include some information about the following: The animal’s: appearance, size, diet and habitat

TASK 2

Exercise: Andy Wild is searching for an orangutan in the rainforest. Before he does this, he needs to get ready. Complete his rainforest workout:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67zBQyX3etY

Challenge: Create your own rainforest workout and do some exercise with a member of your household.

TASK 3

Rainforest art: Using the attached images, complete your own piece of rainforest art. It could be of the plants, the water the trees or the animals that are in the rainforest. Do send a picture of your completed art piece to:

hello@newislingtonschool.org

This week’s theme is: Rainforests

English activity – Task 1

English activity – Task 2

Write a definition for up to 10 of the words listed. Write

the definitions as if they were written in a dictionary.

To do this, either use a dictionary at home to help you or

use the following online dictionary:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Remember that words in a dictionary are always in

alphabetical order so make sure you put you words in

alphabetical order.

English activity – Task 2 – Challenge: Word search template

English activity – Task 3

Maths activities – Task 1

Maths activity – Task 2

Maths activity – Task 3

What is the distance between Manchester and The Amazon Rainforest? Follow the clues to find the distance in km.

• The first digit and the second digit total 14.

• The second digit and the third digit total 15

• The third digit and the fourth digit total 14.

• The first digit and the last digit total 13.

• The last digit is 3 less than the first.

The distance between Manchester and Amazon rainforest is :

km

Home activity – Task 1

Potoo

Sloth

Emerald Tree Boa

Red-eyed tree frog

Scarlet macaw

Jaguar

Home activity – Task 3