Hi everyone,

Another week passes and sadly we are still unable to be together in our class. On the bright side, lots us have had a great week in our Google Classroom.

We had a marvellous lesson this morning where we all worked together to create a poem.

This is what we came up with. Isn’t it great !

After OUR School Assembly by Year 3/4

Mr Wind’s class blew out,
Miss Crab’s class scuttled out sideways,
Miss Carr’s lot rolled out slowly,
Miss Bird’s class fluttered out.

Miss Take’s class failed miserably,
Mrs Ship’s class sailed out,
Mr Rabbit’s class hopped out,
Mrs Water’s class spilled out.

Mr Orange’s class peeled out,
Mr Yacht’s class sailed out,
Miss Rainbow’s class rose up,
Miss Ball’s class bounced out.

Mr Sea’s class splashed out with a wave,
Mr Lyon’s lot roared loudly,
Mrs Scissor’s class snipped out,
Mr Binn’s emptied out.

Mr Disco’s lot danced out gracefully,
Miss Spin’s lot twirled out,
Mr Tree’s class branched out,
Mr Toad’s lot class leaped out.

Mr Bogg’s class flushed out,
Mr Monkey’s lot swung out,
Mr Broom’s class swept out,
Miss Bounce’s class bounced out.

Miss Crawley’s class crept out,
Mr Shark’s class snapped out angrily,
Mrs Snake’s lot sliiiiiiiiiiithered out,
Mrs Paste’s class spread out.

Mr Ice’s lot disintegrated,
Mr Rock’s class crumbled out.

There were some newbies in class today and it was great to see them. If you haven’t taken part yet please and say hi !

 

If you are looking for extra work click this link and head over to BBC Bitesize.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

 

Spelling

Words ending in the suffix
-al

natural
occasional
actual
accidental
medical
national
capital
vocal
sensational
personal

 

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Also please don’t forget Times Table Rockstars  as we need to improve the speed at which we answer the questions.

Any queries please just send me an email.

Thanks

 

Here is a digital copy of the learning packs that can be picked up from school.

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Mr Hymers

Hi everyone,

I hope everyone is well.

Can I just start by saying that I had a lovely time this morning chatting to the children that managed to join our Google Class at 10 am. It was amazing to see you all and thank you parents for logging the children in and I loved the fact that you joined in with the lesson too.

I know a few of you had a problem logging on and I hope we have managed to sort that now.

It would be fantastic to see a few more of you tomorrow. Remember there is no pressure: it just gives children a chance to see and interact with each other as we try to bring a bit of routine back into ALL of our lives.

If you have any queries please send me an email.

Regarding this week’s home learning, as ever I will continue to post ideas on our Website on a Monday that will include links to online learning.

Also you can pick up ‘Home Learning Packs’ from the school office on a Monday too. If you cannot get into school I will upload the packs on here.

Here is a digital copy of the work that is available from school ( I have also included the answers and some guidance)  Please don’t feel you need to print it all off. It maybe you just print off the sheets you want to complete – so you can save on paper and ink.

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Here is the link to this weeks lessons on Bitesize.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons

You can learn about Equivalent Fractions in Maths. We have done lots of work on Inverted Commas so you can consolidate your understanding in the English lesson. There is also a lovely lesson on The Romans.

Spellings 

Word families based on root words ‘press’ and ‘vent’

press

suppress

express

compress

impress

prevent

invent

venture

adventure

eventful

 

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You may have seen that we will be ‘celebrating success’ on a Friday and congratulating pupils on our Website and Facebook who have worked hard during the week.

Obviously we can’t win any attendance certificates at the moment but perhaps we could be the class that wins for being the best on TT Rockstars.

 

Please log into Rockstars and Lexia as much as you can and show the rest of the school how amazing you all are.

 

Thanks again for you continued support I am so proud of you all

Thanks

Mr Hymers

Hello everyone,

I hope that you are all safe and well and that you are  still managing to do some nice things with your loved ones. Hasn’t the weather been beautiful.

I can’t believe that it is June already – I hope that it is not too long before we are all back together in our fabulous school as we miss you all so much.

I really loved speaking to lots of you, on the telephone, before half-term. It was great to hear all the children sounding so happy. There were a few of you that I was unable to catch up with so please send me your number via email and I will give you a call.

Thank you all so much for keeping in touch via email and continuing to send me examples of the work that you have been doing.

I loved these from Sophie McIntosh. Aren’t they brilliant!

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Perhaps Sophie’s work inspires you to do your own fact file. You could do one about any famous person. Perhaps your favourite footballer or singer.

The best resources for you to dip into are still, in my opinion, the BBC Bitesize activities that can be found here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons/1

In maths the focus is still on fractions and if you have missed some of these lessons they are still available on the website.

There are some excellent lessons in English and a good place to start would be the lesson looking at Similes and Metaphors. Can you write your own and send them to me?

Also there is a lovely lesson which consolidates what we have learnt about the Iron Age.

What I really like about these reosurces is that you can explore all the lessons to choose which you would like to do and each lesson is only short so we stay interested.

 

SPELLINGS

Word families based on root words ‘scop’ and ‘spect’

scope
telescope
microscope
horoscope
periscope
inspect
spectator
respect
perspective
spectacles

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Lots of you commented on how much you enjoyed the Beowulf activities so below is a comprehension about the famous warrior.

( A note to parents – there are three different versions of this resource. If you look at the bottom of the sheet there is a little star. One star is the easier one and three stars is the most challenging. I have also included the answers so you can give the children some guidance if they need it). 

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As always please don’t forget Lexia and TT Rockstars – these are absolutely fantastic resources that the children will continue to use when we return to school.

If you need any more ideas for home learning or just some guidance please just email me at

dhymers@dunnstreet.s-tyneside.sch.uk

See you all soon

Mr Hymers

 

 

Hello again everyone,

I hope that you are all well and still finding lots of things to do to keep yourself occupied at this difficult time.

Thank you for engaging in last week’s tasks. I enjoyed receiving lots of your work on Beowulf.

If you didn’t manage to do any of our earlier weekly tasks and would like a go just click on the previous posts.

It was great to see more people logging on to Lexia so please continue with this resource as it is an excellent way to improve and consolidate many English skills.

Below are my weekly ideas for learning.

As always these are just ideas; you may have you own tasks that work for you as a family.

BBC Bitesize is still proving popular in my house so please check it out as they have daily lessons that are not too long and cover many areas of our curriculum.

This week, the Bitesize Maths lessons look at Fractions – so it would be really beneficial if you could look at these lessons as that is what we would be looking at if we were in school.

Also there is a fabulous lesson on the Bronze Age that will help to recap what we have already learnt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons/1

If you would like to look at another free online resource, The Oak National Academy is excellent it is an online school that the Government has funded to help while we are learning from home.

There are lots of great lessons for all Year groups.

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/subjects/#subjects

 

I am sure , like me, you have all been inspired by our fabulous NHS and have been standing on your doorstep applauding these heroes on Thursdays.

This week I  thought we could try something slightly different. A project based on the NHS. There are lots of ideas  such as writing an Acrostic Poem, designing a poster or even writing a biography about Florence Nightingale.

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SPELLINGS 

Thanks foe letting me know how you have been doing with the weekly spellings.

Here are this weeks.

Words families based on root words ‘struct’ and ‘uni’

instruct
structure
construction
instruction
instructor
unit
union
united
universe
university

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Please remember to keep me updated with the work that you are doing at home and if you need guidance please send me an email.

 

Thanks and stay safe

Mr Hymers

Hi again everyone,

I hope that you are all safe and well and you managed to do something to mark VE Day.

Once again I have put together some learning ideas for this week but please don’t forget to use BBC Bitesize Daily lessons which you can find in the link below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons/1

English

Our English task this week is linked to our Anglo-Saxon topic.

I would like you study and find out all about Beowulf.

Here is a link to a short video to watch on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKjcoFZmKuA

The PowerPoint below has lots of great information too.

 

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Can you create a Poster about Beowulf?

Pehaps you could write a Fact file.

You could draw a picture of the battle between Beowulf and Grendel – there are some great images on Google.

Here are some further activities:

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SPELLINGS

Words with a short /u/ sound spelt with ‘ou’

enough        young
touch           double
trouble         country
courage       rough
tough           cousin

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MATHS 

The 13th of May is National Numeracy Day and Mrs Clough has put together some fabulous actvities that you can complete during the week – and there are prizes!!!!

Click on this link to find our more.

http://www.dunnstreetprimary.co.uk/national-numeracy-day/

 

Don’t forget to continue on TT Rockstars and Numbots and I need someone to challenge me!

I mentioned in my email last week that I had a few new spaces on Lexia Core 5 – thank you if you took up the offer and its great to see the children spending time on there and gaining certificates as they progress.

As always if you need any more tasks please get in touch my emailing me at : dhymers@dunnstreet,s-tyneside.sch.uk

 

Thank you and hope to see you all soon.

 

Mr Hymers

Hi everyone,

I hope you and your families are keeping safe and well. We can’t wait to see you all back at school because we are missing you so much.

I am sure many of you know that this week is rather special because it’s the 75th Anniversary

of VE day.

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Can you find out what VE day was ?

There are so many fantastic resources online which Miss Giles-Brewster put together last week which you can find here.

http://www.dunnstreetprimary.co.uk/get-in-the-know-about-ve-day-and-find-out-why-we-are-celebrating/

 

English

Famous TV presenter and Historian Dan Snow has put together some great VE day challenges that you can find here.

https://ve-vjday75.gov.uk/dan-snows-ve-day-challenge/

The challenge

We’re asking you to think about how you would tell the story of VE Day today. There are lots of ways you could bring the story of VE Day to life. You could:

• Write a short news report in the style of today or 75 years ago
• Make a short video that tells the story of VE Day, either in the style of 75 years ago or
• how you would tell it today
• Design a newspaper front page or article
• Write or perform a poem, song, drawing or other work of art
• Share the story of someone in your family or area who was involved in the War
• Write or perform a short play about VE Day and what it would have been like 75 years ago

If you go to the Website Dan has links to great resources to help with these tasks.

 

Twinkl is another great website that is full of great resources and crafting ideas such as VE day bunting, model aeroplanes and wartime recipes.

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/search

 

Spellings 

Here are our spellings of the week

Words with a short /u/ sound spelt with ‘o’

woman
wonder
month
govern
brother
another
shovel
above
Monday
discover

Perhaps you  can practise them during the week and ask someone to test you on Friday.

Can you put them in sentences ?

Remember we need to practise you handwriting

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If you cant print the sheet out just copy the words onto a piece of paper or an exercise book.

Can you find you spellings in this worksheet?

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Can you break the code?

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Maths 

Please follow the daily lessons on BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons/1

 

My family are loving the White Rose problems of the day, these can be found here:

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/classroom-resources/problems/

If we had been in school we would have been learning about fractions.

Click on the link below for some excellent lessons on Fractions.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

this link also has great lessons on money which we looked at before Christmas so these lessons would really help consolidate your understanding.

Please remember to log in to Numbots and TT Rockstars – don’t forget to challenge me.

 

Computing 

Have you been on Hour of Code?

If not please try it – I love it!

https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn

Start off on a Grade 2+ Blocks task then gradually try the more challenging ones.

 

PE

I have really enjoyed doing the Joe Wicks workouts on YouTube but if you would like a change why not try the Just Dance Videos.

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/justdancegame

 

Remember there are some brilliant daily lessons for lots of different subjects on Bitesize. These are all great and it is what I use with my family.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-and-p4-lessons/1

 

I hope these ideas will keep you busy but if there is anything else that you would like please just email me at dhymers@dunnstreet.s-tyneside.sch.uk

I have loved that many of you have been sending work and photos to me so please keep them coming as lots of you are doing some fantastic things at this tough time.

Stay safe and please keep in touch.

 

Mr Hymers

 

Hi everyone,

I hope that you are all well and safe and have been able to enjoy the lovely weather. It was so nice to see lots of you on Friday when I dropped learning off to your homes. It really cheered me up to see you all still smiling.

Below are some learning tasks if you are looking for inspiration but please remember to use the BBC Bitesize resources that are proving very popular in my house. There are some fabulous daily lessons that cover all areas of the curriculum.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-lessons/1

 

ENGLISH

We have another great picture for you to be inspired by.

DRY LAND

She was the greatest ship of her time.
With the tallest masts and the broadest sails, she was renowned for reaching terrific speeds, gliding through the ocean like a knife cutting through butter.
The crew had all disappeared, and the captain found himself alone with his ship. He pulled the rope tightly, bracing himself for the enormous task ahead. But then, suddenly, the heavens opened, and it started to rain…

Can you continue the story of the captain and his ship?

Question time!
When do you think the ship was built?
How did it become grounded on dry land?
Where are the rest of the crew?
How would you get the ship back to water if you were the captain?

 

Perfect picture!
Imagine the rain didn’t stop for days and days. Can you draw/describe what would happen to the ship? How would the landscape change?

 

SPELLINGS

Words ending in -ary

library
February
dictionary
boundary
salary
summary
primary
secondary
ordinary
necessary

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MATHS

Please follow the daily lessons on BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zmyxxyc/year-3-lessons/1

If you would like to have a go at some of the White Rose problems of the day, these can be found here:

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/classroom-resources/problems/ 

Please remember to log in to Numbots and TT Rockstars – don’t forget to challenge me.

 

SCIENCE 

STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths and is a way of teaching the four subjects together as often they are linked

There are some great STEM ideas on this free website

https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning

 

If you are struggling to get online just continue to use the paper resources that I delivered.

One of the nicest things I have managed to do over the last few weeks is catch up on my reading – so don’t for get to pick up a book and read for pleasure because as Dr Seuss said:

I hope these ideas help. I have managed to chat to most of you via email but please don’t hesitate to drop me a message if you need any more work or just need some guidance.

Thanks again for your continued support, you are all doing such an amazing job.

 

Mr Hymers