It’s Friday, which mean one thing. Time to test the old brain cells with our maths skills.
Maths
Time to warm up those brains. Practise your times table by playing Hit the Button. Can the children make sure that if they are on the x3, x4,x8 or x6 or x7 that they also practise the division side too.
Premiership If you emailed me your child’s score I will email you telling you whether your child has moved on to the next times table or needs to look at the same times table as last week. They are ordered below.
Mental Arithmetic
We always follow Premiership with a mental arithmetic test. Usually, I play them an audio clip of a lady reading out the questions. They are timed so all you need is hit play!
If you can’t get the audio above to play, then I’ll attach the questions and the answers below. With the first 10 questions, the children get 5 seconds to answer after the question is repeated. On the last five questions, the children get 10. We have tried to encourage the children to listen to the question the first time and jot down anything they think will help and once the question is repeated, then they can answer. If they have jotted notes down to help, then they can always return to the question if they have finished another question quite easily.
y3-spring-03-transcript FOR ADULTS
y3-spring-03-answer FOR CHILDREN
Afterwards, we mark it and go through some of the questions and talk about how we could answer them quickly.
English- Please see Mrs Hilditch’s post from Monday.
Science- Because we shut for the floods yesterday, the Science experiment people were going to watch over Teams is happening today at 11am instead. If you fancy watching, then please accept the invite in your child’s email account.
Spelling Test
Spelling test on the children’s spellings from last week. Usually, we would jumble them up, read out the word and then put it into a sentence for the class.
New spellings- Below are a new set of spellings to learn over the next week.
Group 1 and 2 have the same this week – Group 1 and 2 Week 3
Group 3 – Group 3 Week 3
Reading
Usually on a Friday we don’t do a whole Guided Reading session but rather get the children to have 20-30 minutes of quiet, independent reading. It allows the children a little down time and is considered a mindful activity. Perhaps, even play some some calming music in the background to help them relax during this strange time. If you want, send us in a photo of the children reading and we can print it off and stick them to our reading journal wall!
RE
We are carrying on with RE this week by looking at how some holy books are considered very important to believers as they teach them how to live.
Questions to think about?
- How do people know how to live their lives? God, parents, police, government. Do they tell them? etc
- What rules or laws do people follow?
We are particulary looking at how the Torah has rules which guide the Jewish people into how to live. These rules are called the the Ten Commandments. Have the children heard of these already, why might Christians have heard of them too? Could they name any? Make a link between the similarities of the Jewish and Christian faith here.
Work you way through the PP below (it’s a bit of a chopped together PP so apologies!) and look at the commandments individually. Allow yourself time to discuss with the children if they are not sure.
Activity – Children are to cut out the 10 Commandments from the document below and create what we call a Diamond Nine layout (see PP for layout options ) whereby they are to order the commandments into what they think is the most important or relevant to them. Those at the top being the most, down towards the least. As we have 10 Commandments and nine places in the template, is there one which the children might not consider to be important at all nowadays?
