Y3 Learning pack – Week 11 (29/6/20) Summer term

Hello Year 3!

Aren’t we ever so lucky that the sun has come back out? What did you get up to? Did you manage to get out and enjoy the lovely sunshine? We miss you all lots and we hope you are all staying safe!

Here is your next home learning pack to keep you busy. As before, you have five maths

activities, three English activities, three reading activities and a creative task. You can print

off this booklet or just complete the work on paper. This is your pack so you can use it

however you like. Remember your grown-ups are busy working too and some may have

even had to go back to work, so why not see how you get on with these tasks on your own.

Your grown-ups, and us, will be super impressed by your independence.

We have included some activities based around our topic ‘The Stone Age’ for this half term

and we are looking at one of our favourite books at school Stone Age boy! There may be

activities that you like more than others but remember, once it’s done you’ll feel great and

you don’t have to do it again.

With all of the changes, we are missing you all even more. Please tweet us your work, whether it is from these packs or just anything you get up to. We feel very proud when we see what work you have been doing at home. It definitely makes our day!

Stay safe and happy!

Love Miss Pillar, Mrs Barrett and Miss

Steele

P.S. If you have forgotten your Times Tables Rockstars login, ask your grown up to either

email or ring school to get it.

Reading task 1 – Stone Age Boy Extract 1

Before you read the extract can you predict what you think this book is about based on the front cover? Can you give reasons for your prediction?

Here is the first part of the story – you can listen to it here if you wish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xC931Mk0pk Extract 1 finishes at 3:39

An amazing thing happened to me. I was wandering in the wood when I tripped and found myself falling down, down, down. When I woke up, I was in a cold, dark place. I could see day light and I stumbled towards it. Outside, everything was different. I realised I was lost. Completely lost. So I walked and walked and walked..... Then, to my relief, I saw someone – a girl. She was about my age, but she didn’t look like any of the girls I knew. And I don’t think I looked like any of the boys she knew. She took me home to meet her family – and what a family it was! They looked very strange, but they were kind to me and gave me some stew. I couldn’t understand anything they were saying, though I worked out my new friend’s name was Om. Then I must have fallen asleep. The next morning, Om showed me round the camp. Everyone seemed busy and had a job to do. Over the next few days I saw so much I’d never seen before. Om’s people had no knives and forks, no plastic, no metal even. Everything they had was made of wood, stone, animal skins or bones. I saw them.....making tools, using tools, preparing and cooking food. One afternoon we went to the river. The little ones picked berries and nuts, but Om and I watched the men fishing. They held their pointed spears high and stood as still as trees. Then, suddenly, swoosh! Their spears dropped like lightning and came up again spiking wriggling fish. Suddenly a boy ran up, shouting and pointing to the hills. At once several people grabbed their spears and followed him. Om and I followed them. Slowly, slowly, we crept forwards until we saw – a reindeer! It was standing alone, munching the grass. At a signal, the others ran towards it, yelling and throwing their spears. Om and I didn’t have spears, but we yelled anyway. It was so exciting! A spear caught the reindeer in its side, and it fell to the ground.

Reading task 2 – Stone Age boy Extract 2

That night we had a party to celebrate. We cooked the reindeer over a great fire and there was music and dancing. I joined in on the air guitar. As the days became weeks, Om and her people taught me many things. I was very happy. Then one day Om took me to a special place. We walked a long way until we came to the mouth of a cave. Om struck flint stones together to make fire. She lit a torch and we went in. WOW! It took me a moment to realise the animals were only painting. In the flickering light of the torch they looked real, as if they were running all around us. Om went over to the tools and paints the artists had left and began to draw. Suddenly, I saw something move in the darkness. It was a bear, a big furious cave bear! I shouted at Om to run and turned to face the bear with my spear. I felt very small. Suddenly the ground gave way........and I found myself falling down, down, down. When I woke up the bear had gone. So had Om. I rushed outside. The air felt........different. Warmer. I walked a long way, calling for Om. But I never found her. Instead I found I was back home. When I told my family what had happened, they didn’t believe me. They said I’d only been gone a few hours and I must have fallen asleep and dreamt it. Years passed, but I never forgot my friend Om. I am an archaeologist now [that’s me in the glasses]. Everywhere I go, I look for signs of Om. And I never stop learning from her and her people. Was it a dream? Maybe.........................Maybe not.

Questions

1. Why did the others wait for a signal to run and throw their spears?

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2. Why has the author chosen to say the boy joined in with an air guitar?

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3. How do you think it made the boy feel when Om took him to her special place?

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4. How did Om light a torch before they went in the cave?

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5. Why do you think the boy never found Om once he woke up?

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6. Why do you think the boy became an archaeologist when he grew up?

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7. What made the boy think his experience was not a dream after all?

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Reading task 3 – Reading a picture

1. Why are these children on the floor?

2. What are they looking at?

3. Why are they wearing hats?

4. Why do you think they are on a bridge?

5. What do you think they will do next?

Writing task 1 – Inverted commas

This week we are going to revisit and recap using inverted commas for speech.

Mrs Barrett asked, “How are you feeling today?”

“I’m okay,” replied Miss Pillar.

Remember the inverted commas go around the spoken language. You can learn more

about inverted commas here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjm6pg8

Here are some images from Stone Age boy from when he meets Om. Can you write the

conversation they would have had?

Can you use some synonyms for said?

shouted

explained whispered snapped hissed yelled

suggested cried

growled bragged

answered

Can you think of any more?

Writing task 2 – Fronted adverbials

Adverbials are words or phrases that give more information to the sentence.

"I discovered fronted adverbials earlier today." 'Earlier today' is the adverbial.

"Earlier today, I discovered fronted adverbials." A fronted adverbial is when the adverbial word or phrase is moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. So here, 'earlier today' is a fronted adverbial. You can learn more about fronted adverbials here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zp937p3

Add a fronted adverbial for manner to each of the sentences below. You can use the

suggested manner adverbials in the box below or you can think of some of your own.

Remember, you must add a comma after the fronted adverbial.

Writing task 3 – SPaG

Year 3 and 4 Statutory Spelling List

Whilst we are not sending spelling activities home, we thought it would be useful to attach

a list of the spellings that the children focus on throughout year 3 and 4.

There are many fun ways to practice spellings, each week we will give you a couple of

suggestions to try at home.

This week to practice your spellings you could:

Jumping Jack Words

Do jumping jacks as you spell each word – 1 jump for each letter.

Break It Up

Write each word by writing each syllable in a different colour.

his – to – ry

Maths tasks Here you will find a range of maths activities.

As we haven’t covered everything this year we are moving away from the videos on the white rose as these cover areas we have not taught in school this

year. You could still watch them if you wanted to!

The activities are from still from White Rose Maths that we use at school.

Work can be printed off for you to work on, or you can look at the questions on the screen and complete your work on a piece of paper. Do whatever works

best for you. The answers for each task can be found at the end of this document

Lesson 1 https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y3-Spring-Block-4-WO2-Equivalent-lengths-m-and-cm-2019.pdf

Lesson 2 https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y3-Spring-Block-4-WO3-Equivalent-lengths-mm-and-cm-2019.pdf

Lesson 3 https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y3-Spring-Block-4-WO4-Compare-lengths-2019.pdf

Lesson 4 https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y3-Spring-Block-4-WO5-Add-lengths-2019.pdf

Lesson 5 https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y3-Spring-Block-4-WO6-Subtract-lengths-2019.pdf

Please also keep using Times Table Rocks Stars; this will help you to keep improving your times table knowledge and to get even quicker as answering

multiplication questions. If you’re using social media to keep in touch with your friends, maybe you could set each other times table quizzes to answer!

Maths task 1 – Equivalent lengths m and cm

Maths task 2 – Equivalent Lengths mm and cm

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Maths task 3 – Compare lengths

Maths task 4 – Add lengths

Maths task 5 – Subtract lengths

Creative task – Stone Age tools

This week for your creative task we would like you to create your own Stone Age tools! The Stone Age was a time when people used stone to make tools and weapons. It started about 2.5 million years ago and ended when the Bronze Age began in Britain. People who lived in the Stone Age would have to find their own food by catching it! You can make your tools out of anything you want. You can be as creative as you like. You might want to use some of the pictures below for inspiration.

Remember to tweet your work (@Y3Carfield) so we can share your master pieces with

everyone else. Who knows, your idea might inspire others.

Answers Reading Task 1 and 3 there are no right or wrong answers Task 2

1. Why did the others wait for a signal to run and throw their spears?

Reference - so that they would all charge at the same time and wouldn’t get hurt

2. Why has the author chosen to say the boy joined in with an air guitar?

They wouldn’t have had an actual guitar at the time

3. How do you think it made the boy feel when Om took him to her special place?

Something to do with the boy feeling special and included.

4. How did Om light a torch before they went in the cave?

She struck flint stones together to make fire

5. Why do you think the boy never found Om once he woke up?

A response referencing how it could have all been a dream and there never was a girl called Om.

6. Why do you think the boy became an archaeologist when he grew up?

He wanted to discover if his dream had been real as a boy or was it just a dream.

7. What made the boy think his experience was not a dream after all?

There was his picture on the wall.

Writing Task 2

Task 3

Maths Lesson 1 https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y3-Spring-Block-4-ANS2-Equivalent-lengths-m-and-cm-2019.pdf Lesson 2 https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y3-Spring-Block-4-ANS3-Equivalent-lengths-mm-and-cm-2019.pdf Lesson 3 https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y3-Spring-Block-4-ANS4-Compare-lengths-2019.pdf Lesson 4 https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y3-Spring-Block-4-ANS5-Add-lengths-2019.pdf Lesson 5 https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y3-Spring-Block-4-ANS6-Subtract-lengths-2019.pdf