Some people think that history is a thing of the past, but I see a future in it... This week, I created this Stone Age Settlements lesson, which looks at the discovery of the Skara Brae settlement in the Orkney Islands. There is also a warm up activity into what a timeline is and putting history into a context. You can download the Powerpoint presentation below. The sheets I refer to are also below in the form of publisher documents that require drawing of their own homes and the ones at Skara Brae.
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This is another 'whistlestop' lesson, assessing where children are up to with the four operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide). You may wish to ask children to write the questions in their books. This is a good way of seeing who remembers their formal written methods, who may need practical equipment and who knows about place value (eg: multiplying by 10).
Today's maths Powerpoint is designed as another quick, pacey lesson, this time meeting the objective of rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. It should be enough for you to diagnose who remembers how to round, while also being a useful way of introducing it as a new concept. Enjoy... PS: Here's a relevant joke you can magpie if you're brave enough. A bloodthirsty king wishes to go to war with the neighbouring kingdom and asks his army general how many men he has. "97 men, brave and loyal, sir!" says the General. "Fantastic! Round them up!" says the King. "We have 100 men, brave and loyal, sir!"
Continuing our whistlestop tour of the y3/y4 counting objectives, this Powerpoint will see which children have retained their values of digits learning, partitioning learning and ordering numbers learning. There are questions for two objectives at the end. I will be asking the children in my class to do these on whiteboards, but it may be prudent to print out the specific pages for books and slice them into A, B and C questions to differentiate. Enjoy!
Maths - Recapping counting in 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s, number bonds to 10, 20 and 100, and number facts9/13/2020 When lockdown happened in March, most school children were learning from home using a variety of different means. Often, learning wasn't co-ordinated, so one child might learn one thing and another something completely different. The activities below will help Year 3 teachers begin to find a baseline for their new cohorts with regards to "Counting" objectives. This lesson is a fun whistlestop tour of counting objectives, number bonds and number facts - all learning outcomes that children should know from their infant curriculum. It culminates in a set of number bond questions to write in books/on paper, with answers provided. You will need whiteboards/something to write on. You will need Powerpoint to open this lesson. Sources used: White Rose Maths
You may have heard this riddle poem before. It's very famous, although we no longer know who wrote it. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives? Now, I'm going to spoil the answer for you. The answer is one. We only know that the original person is going to St Ives but we don't know where the rest of them are going. It's tricksy isn't it? It is designed to catch you out!
These questions are not tricksy though... 1. How many living things are in the poem? 2. How many legs are in the poem? 3. If a sack costs £1.12, how much money has been spent on sacks? 4. How many felines (cats/kits) are in the poem? 5. If each cat and each kit eats seven tins of cat food, how many tins of cat food are eaten altogether? 6. How many vowels (A, E, I, O, U) are in the poem? 7. Write your own poem in the style of "As I was going to St Ives" and ask your own questions for a friend to solve. After Easter, we will look at making a game using the Scratch 2 application, which you can download here.
Today, I would like you to practise using the application. Can you work out how to change your sprite? How to make it move up, down, left and right? How to increase the speed? How to change your background? Have a play with it and familiarise yourself with it. We will make a computer game next week! Have a look at a door in your house. It could be your front door, your bedroom door, your wardrobe door or your fridge. It might be the door to your rabbits' hutch, or where the electric meter is kept. Choose one and look at it.
Describe the door in detail. The size of it. The colour of it. The details. What it is made of? Is it clean or dirty? Is it old or new? Big or small? Now, imagine that you can walk (or squeeze) through that door and end up somewhere else entirely. What place might you end up in? Can you describe that place? How does it compare to where you have just left? How do you feel about that place? Have a go at writing about your adventure through the magic door, from the ordinary into the extraordinary. Your job, here, is to write imaginatively to entertain somebody. Think about who you might wish to entertain. A child younger than you? Somebody your age? A grown up? Have fun writing! Please feel free to share it with us! Sometimes you will see word problems in which you will need to do one or more steps to solve it. This investigation, “Mrs Green is having a party”, is full of these little challenges. Can you work out how much the party costs? If you want a challenge once you have your answer, why not have a go at this greater depth question?
Music is fantastic, isn't it? It can make us feel so many different emotions - excited, heartbroken, joyful, uplifted, downbeat. And the lyrics in songs are often short stories, aren't they, where there are characters and things happen to them?
Well, your task, should you choose to accept it (please accept it!) is to turn the book you are reading (or the last book you read) into a song. You may decide to tell the entire story and write your own lyrics. You may decide to use the words of just one page and sing them aloud to a tune. If you play an instrument, you could add backing music. Or if you don't, you could find household items to play as instruments (saucepans make great drums!). Get creative and enjoy yourself! |
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