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 , x6, x7, x9 or x11 that they also practise the division side too.
They could always access their Times Table Rock Star Accounts to practise 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-07-transcript FOR ADULTS
y3-spring-07-answerFOR 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 .
Spellings
There were no spellings set over Half Term but if you want, please go over some of the spellings from the Year 3/4 word list I gave on the Friday (12.2.21) to check how your child is doing with learning these. In particular, look at the first and second column.
New spellings- Below are a new set of spellings to learn over the next week.
Group 1/ Group 2 – Group 1 and 2 Week 1
Group 3 – Group 3 Week 1
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 continuing with out topic of Judaism but this time we are specifically focusing of a Jewish holiday known as Passover.
LO: To understand the importance and the story of Passover.
Have you ever been or shared in a special celebration? How did you know it was a special celebration? Did you have to wear particular clothes or eat a special meal? Were there lots of people there? Did you watch or do something a little unusual that you wouldn’t normally do? Have a talk with someone at home. What made it special?
Just like Hanukkah, Passover is a special Jewish festival celebrated in Spring. As well as sharing food together a symbolic meal is shared which helps the Jewish community remember the story associated with the festival and how Moses was a significant person in this story.
Please work your way through the the PP below. There are a couple of weblinks to follow to help the children fully understand the story behind Passover and what Jewish people do to celebrate this festival.
Activity
I have attached a very simple story version of Moses, the problem being is that the story is muddled up. Please sort the story boards and put them into the correct order. The story is differentiated so please select a level appropriate to your child. The answers are also on the pages.
