Year 3 Learning Materials

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Term 2, Week 1Parent Note

In this pack you will find learning activities that your child will need to do every day and ones that can be done over the week. We encourage that all activities in this pack are completed by the end of week one to the best of your child’s ability.

We understand that you are probably needing to juggle more than one child, internet/device demands, work obligations and life! Setting yourself a family timetable allocating particular times for learning activities, wellbeing tasks and fun stuff may be helpful. This does not need to reflect the 9am – 3pm timetable of a classroom. Instead it can be spread out through the day in order to make in more manageable. For example we have asked students to read at least 20 minutes each day, this could be 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes before going to bed. Be creative!

We have provided a time frame guide for each of the activities. This is just a guide. Your child may complete the task in less time or may need a bit more time. We do ask that you do not exceed the suggested time frame by much. It’s ok to stop the activity even if your child has not completed it. Remember if you or your child is getting overwhelmed please take a break and come back at another time. Our best efforts and work happen when we our brain is calm!

Please remember you can email any of the classroom teachers for help and support. We are all in this together!!

To help you navigate the learning activities you will find they are marked with the following symbols:

A task that needs you to read something📌 Parents please note You will need a device for this👥 Discuss with an adult💬 Talk about it A writing activity🙂 Here is some help👀 Let’s look up something Cut and paste activity Hands on activity – may require materials from home Worksheet found in resource pack Social interaction required💭 Think about it

Definitions

Syllables – In a word, each syllable has a vowel. E.g.: cov /er, to / geth / er.

Vowels. – a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y

Consonants- All letters that are not a vowel: b,c,d,f,g,h,j,k,l,m,n,p,q,r,s,t,v,w,x,z

Noun – Name of person place or thing. Cat, desk, hair, teacher, steps

Proper Nouns – Names of people and places – Norfolk Village, Peter, Joe, Mr Morrison

Adjective – Describes a noun – beautiful, shiny, quiet, slippery, spiky

Noun group – the shiny ring, the playful dog, the shy elf.

Verb – Action or doing word – skipped, ran, climbed, screamed, jostled, fought.

Adverb – Describes the verb (usually ends in ly) –quietly, smoothly, loudly, surprisingly

Verb group – Put the verb and adverb together – crept silently, screamed crazily, walked swiftly

Simple sentence – A simple sentence contains a subject (noun) and verb.

E.g.: I was sick. The bird flew into the sky. The bird sang loudly.

Compound sentence – Two simple sentences joined by a conjunction such as: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.

Simple sentences - The cat ran across the road. The dog was chasing it.

Compound sentence – The cat ran across the road because the dog was chasing it.

Stamina writing – Improves the length of time your child can concentrate and write.

Persuade – Convince others to agree with your idea or point of view.

Modality - Words that indicate the degree to which an observation is possible, probable, likely or certain.

Rhetorical questions – A question asked which does not require a response E.g.

KWL Chart – K - what you KNOW about the topic. W – what you WANT to know. L – what you have LEARNT about the topic. The K column must be filled out PRIOR to any reading or research.

Narrative – A made up story with made up characters. It has a beginning, a middle which is the problem in the story and an end and solution to the problem.

Informative Text or Information Report – Using facts to write about an animal or object.

Weekly Curriculum Focus

READINGIn Term 1 we worked on these reading skills:

Decoding and fluencyIn Term 2 we are working on these reading skills:

Literal and inferential comprehension and understanding vocabulary

This week we are reviewing: Decoding and fluency

This week we are learning to: Skim and scan for key words and phrases

WRITINGIn Term 1 we worked on these writing skills:

Tier 2 Vocabulary Noun and Verb groups Paragraphs

In Term 2 we are working on these writing skills: Persuasive devices Modal Verbs and Adverbs Simple and compound sentences

This week we are reviewing: Punctuation

This week we are learning to: State my point of view Identify fact and opinion

MATHEMATICSIn Term 1 we worked on these Maths concepts:

Place value and representing number up to 9 999

2 digit addition and subtraction

In Term 2 we are working on these Maths concepts: Multiplication facts of 2, 3, 5 and 10 Representing multiplication in various ways Modelling and representing fractions

This week we are reviewing: Place value and representing number up to

9 999

This week we are learning to: Repeated addition and arrays that

represent multiplication factsSCIENCE

This term we are learning about: Earth and Space Sciences – Earth’s rotation on its axis causes regular changes, including night and

dayThis week we are focusing on:

Observable and non-observable featuresHASS

This term we are learning about: Australia and its neighbouring countries

This week we are focusing on: What countries surround Australia

ReadingTasks to do everyday

Reading Resources Read for 20 minutes each day

Read to yourself Read to someone Ask someone to read to you

Reading Eggs Reading Eggspress Epic! Home Library

Reading Eggs (log in) EPIC (free sign up) Storyline Online (choose - read to you)

Borrow Box (Free Sign Up)

GCCC Libraries

Features of a text Resources 👀👥💬💭👥💭Complete a Year 3 Week 1 Reading KWL https://youtu.be/C9sDMF3pu7U Remember to leave the L for when you’ve finished reading the text

Let’s look at Seahorses and read the text.

👥💬 Practice Skimming and Scanning for these key words:

‘land’ horse herd pouches fry shrimp

👥💬 What questions would you ask that include these key words? List 5

Seahorses text – see below Year 3 Week 1 Reading Skimming and

Scanning https://youtu.be/P8OSm2p_iHI

Let’s look at Seahorses again

👀👥 Use context clues to work out the meaning of these key wordsPouch, steer

👥💭Choose one of the words and complete a vocabulary mat.

Year 3 Week 1 Reading Context Clues https://youtu.be/sr2c3eGXcrE

Year 3 Week 1 Reading Vocab Mat

👥💬 Practice reading the text aloud. Time yourself each day to see if you can improve the time that it takes you to read the text fluently

Seahorse iPad timer

WritingTasks to do everyday

Daily Writing Resources Think of an animal that you like. Choose one of these activities to complete each day.

- Write a letter to that animal- Write a description of the animal- Create a narrative where that animal is the

main character- Research the animal and list 10 facts- Pretend you are the animal. Write about your

day.

English book Pencil

Spelling Resources Practice your spelling words (watch the video link in the resources section) List words:vein, weigh, sleigh, eighth, freight, eighteen, they, grey, prey, straight, receive, either, people, honey, trolley, piece, chief, brief, believe, movieComplete an activity from your spelling grid 💭Brainstorm more words that have the spelling feature💭Find ‘Oddballs’ for each feature (Oddballs are words that don’t follow the rule)

Spelling Video Link Spelling Challenge – Grid in resource

pack. English Book

Tasks to do over the week

Handwriting Practice the correct way to form the letters

Complete the handwriting sheet

Handwriting sheet

Editing Practice your editing skills. Rewrite the editing paragraph using the correct punctuation

Editing sheet – see below

Focus tasks for this week

To complete the Writing tasks each week you could complete them in your English book (red and blue lines) or create a book in Book Creator on your iPad and complete your tasks in

this.

Persuasive Writing Resources 🎙👀👥💬💭 Watch the video on facts and opinions and different points of view

👥💬 Interview your family and ask them each to give you a fact and an opinion about sports

Create a table that lists the facts and opinions your family came up with. You could use Popplet to do this on your iPad

Fact and Opinion VideoYear 3 Week 1 English Writing Fact or Opinion https://youtu.be/tHsNezSDpBo

iPad or Work Book

Using the Ned Kelly text highlight all the facts in red and all the opinions in blue (you could screen shot this and use mark up on your iPad if you wish)

Finding Facts and Opinion Video Ned Kelly Text – see below

💭Brainstorm different points of view people might have about sport

Choose one point of view and brainstorm 3 reasons why people may have this point of view. Write them down in your book or on your iPad

iPad or Work BookYear 3 Week 1 English Writing Point of View https://youtu.be/VXPqAblOmQk

Optional Further LearningResearch Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly paintings. Choose one and give your opinion and 3 reasons to support this opinion.

Editing

Rewrite this passage in your Workbook, fixing the punctuation errors.

MathematicsTasks to do over the week

Number Of The Day Resources Complete Number Of The Day Activity Day 1 – 84Day 2 – 873Day 3 - 1235Play Mathletics Live to improve your speed and accuracy with repeated addition, doubles, rainbow facts and simple multiplication

Number Of The Day laminated sheet

Mathletics Multiplication YouTube 2 x tables

Number facts to 10 Double Facts

Revision of Repeated Addition Resources 🎙👀👥💬💭👀Watch the multiplication video for this week

Represent the following multiplication problems as repeated additions (see example below)

1. 5x3=2. 10 x 4=3. 3 x 8=4. 2x9=5. 5x5=

Year 3 Week 1 Maths Repeated Addition https://youtu.be/ic4qItA8ae0 Refer to the example below.

Complete the Repeated Addition activity below

Optional further learning: Use a Lego block to create and represent your own multiplication array. Take a photo and email it to your teacher if you wish.

MULTIPLICATION BY REPEATED ADDITION

Learning the concept of repeated addition is how we make the link into Multiplication. The symbol for multiply is X

Repeated addition is when we add the same number several times.

2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 10We can also represent this sum another way by saying there are 5 groups of 2 stars. The way we represent this is 5 X 2 = 10

Bill

Instead of using repeated addition to calculate our answer we can also represent this sum another way. We can represent this sum by writing 3 groups of 4 or 3 x 4 which equals 12.

Now its your turn!

Below is a group of MAB’s that we use at school. It is your job to complete the repeated addition sum and also the multiplication equation. Count each individual block if you need to.

Instead of using repeated addition to calculate our answer we can also represent this sum another way. We can represent this sum by writing 3 groups of 4 or 3 x 4 which equals 12.

ScienceYear 3 Lesson 1

Watch YouTube video: Year 3 Week 1 Science https://youtu.be/Ry4e6bZj-1MObservable features are something that can be seen with your eyes. If you are observing something usually, you are looking at it or watching closely. If you cannot see something, it is NOT observable. This may be something like such as the equator, which is the imaginary line that runs through the Earth. Although when we look at a globe, we cannot see cities, parks or skyscrapers these would be not observable. Sort these features into observable or non-observable for a world globe.

Observable Features Not observable

Go outside or look out the window and write down 10 things you can observe!

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

HASSAustralia and its Neighbours – Lesson 1

Australia, one of the Oceania countries is located between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. 

Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere of our world. The land covers a total of 7, 741, 220 sq. km of area, making it the sixth largest countries of

the world. (Dec 20, 2018) Australia is an island continent. Australia does not share land borders with any countries. We have 3 oceans surrounding our country

o Indian Ocean is on the left along the coast of Western Australiao Southern Ocean is at the bottom or our country o Pacific Ocean is to the right of our country of the coast of Queensland, New South

Wales and Victoria.

We have given you a black and white map of Australia with a list of 11 neighbouring countries. Your task is to locate and label each of the countries listed in the box. You may

use Google Maps on your iPad, an atlas, or the coloured map provided in this pack. Colour the map when you are finished

labelling the countries.

Digital TechnologyData – What is it?Data is information. Data can be numbers, words or pictures.Many different people use data in some way. _______________________________________________________Teachers use and collect data about you when then track how well you understand or apply skills you covered in class. Your dentist collects data, such as when you last had a check-up and whether your teeth were healthy or need more work. If you were planning a party, you might collect data on your friends - what they like to eat and drink. This is Mike. Here is the data I have collected about him.His birthday is on the 9th of September.

His Lucky number is 3.He loves skateboarding.What are the questions I could have asked to get this information?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The tuckshop collects data to find out the students’ preferences. For example they might ask which ice-cream students’ like the best so they can order in and sell more ice-cream.

Circle the question that will give the tuckshop the data to sell more.- Do you prefer chocolate or strawberry flavoured ice-cream?- Do you like ice-cream?

Tell someone why this is the best question to ask?While ‘Learning from Home’ my family were discussing downtime activities – I asked them “What is your preferred downtime activity?” This is the list we came up with.We needed to discuss the suitability of these tasks in our present ‘Learn from Home’ situation. For instance the tasks need to be able to be done at home in a half hour to an hour break, with limited/easy to get equipment. Which of these activities do not fit the criteria/are not suitable? Write a new question for me to ask my family…________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Your turn… Ask your family the question you have written above, create a list of options that meet the criteria. Survey family members with the final list – everyone gets 2 different votes. How could you collect the data so that everyone gets a fair say?

Reading Kick a ball in the yard

Watch TV or a movie.

Drawing and colouring

Dancing Jet Skiing Paddle boarding

Code a robot

I know this is a little different from the Movie Trailer and Answer Garden tasks we were covering in class; I remind you of the message we started many of classes with …So in the future weeks we will be looking at data recorded and represented in a variety of ways.

Digital Systems- Watch videos Years 3,4,5 and 6 Digital Systems Part1 https://youtu.be/WFbGG2xqECM Watch videos Years 3,4,5 and 6 Digital Systems Part 2https://youtu.be/LfSmFIQcMU8Watch videos Years 3,4,5 and 6 Digital Systems Part 3https://youtu.be/pm9y2ke0_0A

These are Dig Systems you can find in your home, school and community. Go for a walk around your home/yard… How many digital systems can you find? Are they obvious or are then hidden. Digital Bingo. Three in a row wins. Play with or against someone in your home. Find the digital system…. Colour or write your initials on the space when you have found a system.

My Bingo Card

__________________ Bingo Card

Bedroom Bathroom Kitchen

Garden, Yard, Balcony orVeranda

Free spaceGarage or Carport

Office or study room

Family Room,

TV room or Lounge

Double up, did you find 2 systems in an already listed

room?Where……………..

Bedroom Bathroom Kitchen

Garden, Yard, Balcony orVeranda

Free spaceGarage or Carport

Office or study room

Family Room,

TV room or Lounge

Double up, did you find 2 systems in an already listed

room?Where……………..

Well-being

Keep your body active. Choose a short workout with PE Joe

Complete a mindfulness sheet to keep your mind calm

Fun StuffPlay a board or card game with a family member

Watch a live stream from Zoos Victoria

Make playdough to follow a procedure

Watch this video from Mr Cook and Miss Armour and complete the physical challengehttps://youtu.be/DZTiYcWC9ds