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Year 3 EnglishWeek beginning: Monday 29th June
Dear Parents
Welcome to week 5! We hope you and your family are all keeping safe and well.
Remember to check out the Charlton story-telling channel to see members of staff reading to you you can find the link on the school website!
Please email any examples of work for us to see – they might even make it onto an episode of Good Morning Charlton! We hope you have been following Miss Hutt and Mr Conway’s antics each day.
Best wishes
Mrs. Gillam, Mrs. Stead and Miss Smith
Day 1 Spellings starter‘ly’ is added to an adjectiveto form an adverb, describing how something is done.Remember:When a word ends in ‘y’(or ‘d’) this is replaced with
letter ‘i’ before adding ‘ly’
But these last 2 words lose an ‘e’ before adding ‘ly’
Day 1 Pyramid Power Sort your words into a list from easiest to hardest. Write the
easiest word at the top of the page near the middle. Write the next easiest word twice underneath. Write the third
word three times underneath again until you have built your
pyramid
Day 1
Day 2 Spellings starter
SECRET AGENTWrite out the alphabet, then give each letter a different number from 1 to 26. (a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 etc.) Now you can spell out your words in secret code. SPELLING STEPSWrite your words as if they were steps, adding one letter each time. (It's much easier doing this on squared paper) WORD SORTSort the words into groups according to different criteria e.g. number of letters, number of syllables, number of sounds/phonemes, number of vowels, number of letters. You can make your own word sort grid by folding or drawing on a piece of paper.
Choose one of the following activities:
Day 2 Reading focus
Chapter 4 DickonEvery morning, Mary jumped out of bed, ready to search for a way into the garden.
“I have the key,” she told herself. “I just need to find the door.”
Mrs Medlock noticed a change in her. “She looks downright pretty now, with her rosy cheeks,” she thought. “She was so plain and scrawny at first.”
Can you remember what happened in the last chapter?
What did Mary find?
What do you think the words in red mean?
One day, as the winter trees were beginning to blossom and the wind came in sweet-scented gusts from the moor, the robin fluttered down and hopped along beside Mary.
Mary never knew if what happened next was magic. A gust of wind lifted up a patch of ivy to reveal an old wooden door. Mary put her key in the lock, turned it with both hands and pushed. Slowly, the door creaked open…
She was inside the secret garden!
It was a mysterious place – a hazy, frosty tangle of rose
branches that trailed the walls and spread along
the ground.
Hundreds of green spiky shoots thrust up through withered grass.
“It isn’t completely dead,” she whispered. “I am glad.”
The shoots looked so crowded that she began to clear spaces around them. The robin chirped, as though pleased someone was gardening here at last.
Mary worked for hours. “It must be
lunchtime,” she thought, hungrily.
“I’d better go in, before Mrs. Medlock
starts looking for me.”
Racing back after lunch, she noticed Ben talking to a curly-haired by, with a fawn by his side. As the boy walked away, he played a tune on a rough wooden pipe.Shyly, Mary went up to him.“Are you Dickon?”“I am,” he grinned. “And you’re Mary. Ben told me about you.”He looked so friendly and kind, Mary feltShe could trust him.“Can you keep a secret?”Dickon chuckled. “I keep secrets all the time.
“If I told you where wild animals live and birds make their nests, they wouldn’t be safe.”
“I’ve found the secret garden,” she said quickly. “I think it’s mostly dead. I’m the only person who wants it to live. Come and see.”
She led him through the ivy curtain and Dickon looked around, amazed. “I never thought I’d see this place,” he murmured. “It’s like being in a dream.”
Your Task Look at these overgrown and unkempt gardens!
Write a short description of one or more of the
gardens. Remember to use interesting
adjectives!There are some useful adjectives on the next slide to help you
Useful adjectives to get you started!
overgrownrustybrokendirtyuntidywornthickwild
Day 3 Spellings starter
SECRET AGENTWrite out the alphabet, then give each letter a different number from 1 to 26. (a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 etc.) Now you can spell out your words in secret code. SPELLING STEPSWrite your words as if they were steps, adding one letter each time. (It's much easier doing this on squared paper) WORD SORTSort the words into groups according to different criteria e.g. number of letters, number of syllables, number of sounds/phonemes, number of vowels, number of letters. You can make your own word sort grid by folding or drawing on a piece of paper.
Choose one of the following activities:
Day 3 – Writing Challenge!
Even though today is not the 24th of June – every day should be a writing day! Please follow the link to a National Writing day Challenge!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrfv6g8
Please send us any examples of your wonderful short stories:
Good luck!
Day 4 Spellings starter
SECRET AGENTWrite out the alphabet, then give each letter a different number from 1 to 26. (a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 etc.) Now you can spell out your words in secret code. SPELLING STEPSWrite your words as if they were steps, adding one letter each time. (It's much easier doing this on squared paper) WORD SORTSort the words into groups according to different criteria e.g. number of letters, number of syllables, number of sounds/phonemes, number of vowels, number of letters. You can make your own word sort grid by folding or drawing on a piece of paper.
Choose one of the following activities:
Day 4 – Wordsearch
A little bit of English work mixed with your Science topic – please choose one (or more!) of the wordsearches on the next slide!
How many of our Science words can you
find?
Day 5 – Spellings Quiz
How many of this week’s spelling words can you identify from these clues?
1. “Give it back!” said Caiden, _______________.
2. Mia thought she had lost her pencil case, but ____________, Lexi found it!
3. The parade moved ___________ down the street.
4. The children in year 3 completed their work ____________.
5. Rosie cuddled her new baby sister ______________.
Were you right?
• 1. angrily
• 2. luckily
• 3. noisily
• 4. easily
• 5. gently
Did you remember to swap the ‘y’ for an ‘i?’
Did you swap the ‘e’ for a ‘y’ in the last word?
Day 5 SPaG