Good morning Year 3
We hope you have had a lovely weekend with your family and are ready and raring to go this morning. We know it may seem strange to be sat at home with a parent showing you the learning you will complete today, but we know you will all make the best of it! The children at school will be completing these tasks too, so we can all share our great learning when we return to school. At school we will adapt our reward systems to suit our groups, maybe you can set up a learning point system like we have at school, a star of the day or even some golden time. Children, you can do these tasks in any order—work out what is best for you and your family. Parents, be creative and flexible with how you manage these tasks. Please give as much or as little support as needed, we are always aiming to build on independence in class, but the children know asking for help is a part of the learning process.
English
Please read the Iron Man chapter 3 if you were not in school last week. You might want to read this with someone or you might want to have a go by yourself.
Please read The Iron Man part Chapter 4
If you were not in school last week, you might like to draw a picture of the space dragon. Use the text to help you.
Today’s task is to write your own description of what the space dragon looks like. Remember to use lots of lovely description.
Creativity and maths challenge
The children have been reading Ted Hughes’ book ‘The Iron Man’ in English, and we would like you to make an ‘Iron Man’ out of the cardboard boxes and tubes you have been collecting over the weekend. Maybe you could colour it, paint it or use paper to cover it once you have built it? This challenge may take a couple of days to complete and you might want to break the tasks up into little chunks of time, suit the task to your day.
Your Iron Man can be however big or small you want, but before you start to make it we would like you to practise these key maths skills:
To be able to estimate the length of items in centimetres (remember estimates don’t need to be exactly right, how close can your estimates be to the real measurement?
To be able to measure with a ruler in centimetres.
Part 1—Estimate the length of each of your Iron Man’s body parts in cm.
Part 2—Measure the length of each body part of your Iron Man with your ruler.
Part 3 - Make your Iron Man
Part 3—When your Iron Man is complete measure the total height of your model in centimetres.
Please record your estimates and measurements in your home learning maths book for us to see when you return to school, you could set it out like this.
Body part Estimate (in cm) Actual measurement (in cm)
Legs— kitchen roll tubes 24cm ____cm
Head—cereal bar box 14cm ____cm
Eyes - milk carton lids 2cm ____cm
Arms - toothpaste boxes 12 cm ____cm
Body - cereal box 38cm ____cm
The total height of my Iron Man is 72cm
Enjoy! Please email photos of your Iron Man if you can, we would love to see them.
