LEARNING FROM HOME - WEEK 1, TERM 3 2021

Year 3 Overview

Thursday 15th July

Good morning Year 3 students,

Welcome to the second half of Week 1. Below you will find everythingthat you will need to know to access your work for the next two days.

Hopefully you were able to speak to your teachers on Tuesday overZoom. If not, don't worry, we have another Zoom session planned forlater today (10:30-11:00am).

Don't forget to continue working on the project to create your own machine on the last page of theTuesday-Wednesday booklet.

Make sure you keep all your work together to bring in to your teachers when we go back to school!

Lots of love,Year 3 teachers :)

A message from the Library!

If you have access to an iPad or computer, Mrs Chapmanand Mrs Ball would love for you to log into your OliverLibrary account this week and reserve your books ready forwhen borrowing can start again. Remember you can reserveup to five books!

Also, check your NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge studentrecord to see how many more books you need to read tofinish! Don’t forget to add any books you have read over the

holidays. You have until Friday 20 August, so not long to go! If you have already finished, you cancontinue reading for ‘leisure and pleasure’!

You can access both websites from your Student Portal. https://portal.det.nsw.edu.au

For more information on borrowing and the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge, please see this week’sschool newsletter.

Tidy your room today. Make sure to pick up everything from the floor and keep itan inviting place to be..

Morning English

ReadingIndependent Reading: 20

minutes

Quietly read a book of your

own choice for 20 minutes

Shared Reading: 20 minutes

We are going to explore the

book ‘The Rabbits’ by John

Marsden and Shaun Tan.

Use this link to complete the first activity.

https://sites.google.com/view/therabbitss2lps/home

Complete the ‘Predicting’ activity sheet, there is an explanation on how to do this when

you click the link.

Zoom Meeting 10:30-10:55 - Procedural TextMake sure to have your booklet open, a plainpiece of paper and you are ready for your lessonwith your teacher.

Your teacher will send you an email with the Zoomdetails. Make sure to look out for it in your emails.

RECESS

Middle Mathematics -

Warm up

Can you solve this place value riddle:

The number has four digits.

The hundreds digit is less than the thousands digit.

The ones digit is more than the hundreds digit and is anodd number.

The thousands digit is one more then 0

The ones digit is 14 − 7.

The tens digit is the same as the ones digit.

Number

Create a poster page about the number 424 or the number 8062.

Write the number

Write in words the number you chose.

Write your number in expanded form (eg 600 +40 +5)

Write the number before and after your number

Add 10 to your number Add 100 to your number

Add 1000 to your number Subtract 312 your number

Multiply your number by 10 Divide your number by 2

Please complete the Whole Number Revision Worksheet

Science - Living Things

In Science this semester we will bestudying living things.

To begin our unit, you are going toobserve the living things in your owngarden or a garden/park near you.

You will notice that the living things canbe grouped as animals or plants. In thisSTEM activity you are going to focus onthe animals living in the garden.

Your task is to design and make an animal feeder for one of the animals in your garden.

All the instructions, guidelines and ideas are detailed in your booklet.

You will need to take some photos and email them to your teacher.

Have fun getting creative!

LUNCH TIME

Afternoon DANCEWarm up videos:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3XyYOLfTU42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU0ETGd5dgk3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyWI17GVO_s

MUSICTasks:

1. Research - Jessica Mauboy - an Indigenous Australian musician.https://youtu.be/MpwX7tROp5w

2. Complete the worksheet in the booklet.

LEARNING FROM HOME - WEEK 1, TERM 3 2021

Year 3 Overview

Friday 16th July

Set and clear the table for dinner tonight.

Morning English

SpellingThe ‘or’ sound has eight different spelling patterns (as you saw inTuesday and Wednesday’s booklet).Make eight sentences, each using a word with the ‘or’ sound and theeight different spelling patterns.Complete it on the lined paper provided in your booklet.

Independent Reading

Quietly read a book of your choice for 20 minutes.

Writing - Follow up from yesterday’s Zoom

Yesterday as part of the Zoom lesson, you created a checklist of all the elements of a high quality

procedural text.

Using the template in your booklet, create a procedure for something you already know how to

do. For Example - washing your hands, making a milkshake, making a sandwich, making a pizza or

any procedure you know how to complete.

NAIDOC Poster - Heal Country

On a blank piece of paper, create a poster for NAIDOC

week to show what Heal Country means. This poster

will be placed in a competition across the school and

will be judged by Mr Katrak when we return to school.

RECESS

Middle Mathematics -

Warm up

Can you solve this place value riddle:

The number has four digits.

It is smaller than 6000 but bigger than 5000.

The hundreds digit is smaller than 6 but bigger than 4.

The tens digit is an odd number smaller than 7 but bigger than 3.

The ones digit is in the 3 times tables and is bigger than 6 but smaller than 10.

Number

Add 15 to the following numbers - 45, 75, 35

Add 17 to the following numbers - 23, 43, 63, 53

Subtract 20 from the following numbers - 80, 64, 104

Subtract 50 from the following numbers - 60, 110, 220

Write out your 4 x, 3 x and 5 x tables as quickly as possible.

If the answer is 56, make up 10 interesting questions for this answer.

Maths Investigation

Design and make a Number board game. Include questions about adding, subtracting, multiplying

and dividing numbers. You might like to have question cards or questions written directly on

certain squares. Think about an appealing theme like ‘At the Zoo’, ‘Under the Sea’ or ‘At the Footy’

Include answers or an answer key.

Play your game with a family member when it is completed.

Technology

Write code to help Wombot move, turn and find delicious carrots to eat!

Wombot is hungry and wants a carrot! With simple

code, help Wombot through mazes, and learn to

draw lines and shapes with code. In this challenge

you'll learn the fundamentals of programming by

using instructions to position Wombot on the screen.

You'll help Wombot move and turn, and along the

way learn to draw lines, patterns and shapes in the

same way computers draw images on the screen.

Please check your email as Mr Brock has assigned a short coding task on Grok Learning.If you have any issues or problems please don’t hesitate to email Mr Brock.

LUNCH TIME

AfternoonPhysical Education

Watch this instructional video, ‘PE with Mr Elsley’

for a Workout!

https://youtu.be/7rNtzcbwGFk