Dear Parents and Carers
Here are some suggestions from your child’s teacher of activities to help you keep your children occupied during the day. Please remember that they are indeed only suggestions and we do not want you to feel pressured in any way to turn your home into a home school. Do what works for you and your family and let us worry about getting your children quickly back up to speed when everything returns to normal. If you do only one thing, it would be best to keep your child reading. Reading to them, listening to them read and talking about what’s been read will be hugely beneficial. Beyond that, do what is easy, stress free and comfortable for you and your family.
Reading
We encourage you to read every day for 20 minutes to an adult at home.
• Take time to share a book together (you can read/ listen to an audiobook or watch a story online together). Amazon have many free audiobooks that can be accessed through
www.amazon.co.uk/Audiobooks
• In the absence of reading books, you could access books similar to the ones you bring home
www.oxfordowl.co.uk
• Find the definitions of words that are unfamiliar- you could use a dictionary or a google search.
Spelling
We use the National Curriculum (document online) to set spellings for year 3/4 to practice. They are also at the end of this document.
If you have a spelling list in your homework book, practice the words by writing them out three times.
Then try writing the words into a sentence.
Writing
Create a project on ‘Who Inspires me?’
Research a famous (or interesting) person of your choice. The person could be anyone who you are ‘inspired’ by, from a favourite sports person like David Weir (Famous Paralympic wheelchair athlete) to someone who has achieved something amazing in history. How about Florence Nightingale ( very famous nurse!) or Amy Johnson (the first female pilot to fly solo) or Cleopatra (strong female Egyptian ruler). It could even be someone in your family who has had an interesting life!
You could …
• Create a fact file about them using the 5Ws. (Who are they? Why are they interesting? When were they important? Where do they live/come from? What are they most remembered for?)
• Write a biography of their life using the research you have done.
You could : Try and include an opening question or interesting starting statement
Explain their early life (school etc)
Write about the key events in order of their life
List their awards or achievements
Write about why they are remembered today (their legacy)
End with why they are important to you to write about.
• Write a newspaper article about your inspiring person visiting Exeter.
You could : Try and create a snappy headline
Write your report with short paragraphs (made up or real) and include quotes from the public!
Draw a picture of the person visiting!
• Do a presentation of your facts to your family and see if they can ask (or answer) questions about your person!
Maths
It would be brilliant if you could…
• Practice your times tables every day. These can be practised by writing them by hand, or by using Times Table Rockstars.
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
To keep practising your fractions – use objects from your home to make your own fraction museum and take photos (you could email them to us!)
Other Stuff
You could..
• Watch the clips about Egyptians found here:
• Make a fact file including all of the things you have discovered about the Egyptians! Challenge yourself to answer these questions?
- Who were they?
- Why were they so important?
- What remains of Ancient Egypt?
- What was life like for them?
- Why were they so special?
• Make a model of your pyramid out of junk and recycling (There’s bound to be lots around the house!)
• Take the quiz on the website
• Write your name in Egyptian hieroglyphs
Spelling Words
Group 1:
the
some
even
a
one
great
do
once
break
to
ask
steak
today
friend
pretty
of
school
beautiful
said
put
after
says
push
fast
are
pull
last
were
full
past
was
house
father
is
our
class
his
door
grass
has
floor
pass
I
poor
plant
you
because
path
your
find
bath
they
kind
hour
be
mind
move
he
behind
prove
me
child(ren)
improve
she
wild
sure
we
climb
sugar
no
most
eye
go
only
could
so
both
should
by
old
would
my
cold
who
here
gold
whole
there
hold
any
where
told
many
love
every
clothes
come
everybody
busy
busy
people
water
again
half
money
Mr
Mrs
parents
Christmas
Group 2:
accident(ally)
forward(s)
potatoes
actual(ly)
fruit
pressure
address
grammar
probably
answer
group
promise
appear
guard
purpose
arrive
guide
quarter
believe
heard
question
bicycle
heart
recent
breath
height
regular
breathe
history
reign
build
imagine
remember
busy/business
increase
sentence
calendar
important
separate
caught
interest
special
centre
island
straight
century
knowledge
strange
certain
learn
strength
circle
library
suppose
complete
material
surprise
consider
medicine
therefore
continue
mention
though/although
decide
minute
thought
describe
natural
through
different
naughty
various
difficult
notice
weight
disappear
occasion(ally)
woman/women
early
often
earth
opposite
eight/eighth
ordinary
enough
particular
exercise
peculiar
experience
perhaps
experiment
popular
extreme
position
famous
possess(ion)
favourite
possible
February
Group 3:
accommodate
especially
programme
accompany
exaggerate
pronunciation
according
excellent
queue
achieve
existence
recognise
aggressive
explanation
recommend
amateur
familiar
relevant
ancient
foreign
restaurant
apparent
forty
rhyme
appreciate
frequently
rhythm
attached
government
sacrifice
available
guarantee
secretary
average
harass
shoulder
awkward
hindrance
signature
bargain
identity
sincere(ly)
bruise
immediate(ly)
soldier
category
individual
stomach
cemetery
interfere
sufficient
committee
interrupt
suggest
communicate
language
symbol
community
leisure
system
competition
lightning
temperature
conscience
marvellous
thorough
conscious
mischievous
twelfth
controversy
muscle
variety
convenience
necessary
vegetable
correspond
neighbour
vehicle
criticise (critic + ise)
nuisance
yacht
curiosity
occupy
definite
occur
desperate
opportunity
determined
parliament
develop
persuade
dictionary
physical
disastrous
prejudice
embarrass
privilege
environment
profession
equip (–ped, –ment)