Welcome to Year 3

Congratulations!

Hello all! I hope you are all safe and well. As we head into our last week, I want to thank you all for your efforts this year. It has been an absolute pleasure being your teacher. I hope you all continue to have the same love of learning in your future education. Always remember - it is okay to make mistakes, this is sometimes where we learn the most. 

This week:

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYilX75Mq3

Follow the above link and watch the video to find out your tasks for the final week of Year 3.

Mrs Bidder’s (Year 4 teacher) Video = http://year3littleheath.blogspot.com/2020/07/blog-post.html#more

Science! STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths – I have uploaded a few STEM activities designed to be done at home (as they require minimal resources). Feel free to have a look and see if there are any activities you would like to do. Please email me to let me know if you tried any and how they went! This is optional (but a lot of fun!) 

SuperStar Home Learning

Espresso - The children enjoy going on Espresso (we normally watch the news on here) but it is a website that has a lot of content as well its own coding program. The log in that can be used by each child is:
username: student15818
password: littleheath01
https://online.espresso.co.uk/espresso/login/Authn/UserPassword

 

Finish Your English presentation The Romans in Britain–. You are free to write about what we have already learnt as well as research more about the Roman invasion of Britain. It is up to you how you present your findings - you can choose a PowerPoint/Prezi/non-chronological report/poster/leaflet/fact file etc. to show your findings. The writing should be in your own words. The presentation could cover:

  • Who were the Romans? How big was their empire?
  • When and why did they invade Britain?
  • How long were they here?
  • How did they change our way of life?
  • Roman artefacts
  • Hadrian’s wall
  • The Roman army/soldiers
  • The Roman way of life
  • Boudicca’s revolt.

This is really up to you; explore as much as you would like to and show your findings. If you need any help or guidance feel free to email me.

Some useful links (remember to take Wikipedia with a pinch of salt as I was briefly the President of the World according to Wikipedia).

 

Miss Davis on Boudicca https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYihDg5x4U

Espresso –

username: student15818
password: littleheath01

Miss Davis on the Roman hobbies - https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1uoB5l2J

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j/resources/1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/story-of-britain-roman-britain-animation/zvdc8xs

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html

 

Music/Singing Assemblies

Please see this week's message from our music teacher, Mrs Lawrence:

Hi everyone,

This is our last song and set of music activities for this term. Our song will be ‘The Bear Necessities’ from ‘The Jungle Book’ movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6MYnspNk90

I also have a few activities for you to do over the summer, if you would like to. For the younger ones, I thought you might like to make a musical instrument and then do some rhythm practice. Take a look at the links below: 

Rhythm practice In the Hall of the Mountain King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk43IDUQmTk

 

Making Musical Instruments Links:  

http://www.minieco.co.uk/balloon-bongo-rice-shaker-guiro/ 

http://www.minieco.co.uk/cardboard-instruments/

http://www.housingaforest.com/popsicle-stick-harmonica/

https://kinderart.com/art-lessons/multic/maracas-recycled-objects/

 

Listening

For the older children, can you name the orchestral instruments as you hear them played in this piece of music? 

Listening map - Star Wars Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7wmPWjGOiw 

Basic Music Theory Recap: 

I would also love it if you could recap a little music theory. Take a look at these two simple video tutorials. They aren’t too long. If they interest you, there are lots more you can find. 

Beats and Bar lines: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlZVQbFW0JA  

Pitch (treble clef):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bv-JiFnoJ4

 

Extension task: 

For those of you who already read music, don’t worry about watching the videos. Can you instead write me a 16 bar piece of music? You can print off blank manuscript paper (that’s paper we use to write music), in many different styles, here: https://www.blanksheetmusic.net 

If you do this task, please do send it to your teachers to pass on to me. I would love to see your music. 

 

Acting Through Song:

Lastly, if you enjoy performing, why not try performing/acting a song. Songs from musicals are ideal for this, but you can do it with pop songs too. Read the lyrics (that’s the words) and see if you can imagine how the character is feeling at each point in the song, then learn the song and act it out. 

You can find all these songs with lyrics on YouTube. Please do check with a parent before searching for anything, though! If you would like to, you can also purchase a backing track (quite cheaply) for most songs from https://www.karaoke-version.co.uk . 

On these tracks, you can alter the key (that means make the notes of the song higher or lower), if the original version is not ideal for your voice. Choose a song you really like. If you’re not sure where to start, here are a few suggestions: 

(I’ve put songs sung traditionally by girls first and by boys afterwards, but please don’t let that limit you. It really doesn’t matter.)

 

How Far I’ll Go - Moana

Naughty - Matilda

Part of Your World - The Little Mermaid

Journey to the Past - Anastasia

Speechless - Aladdin

Can You Imagine That? - Mary Poppins Returns

Colours of the Wind - Pocahontas 

The Next Right Thing - Frozen 2

 

Consider Yourself - Oliver

Little People - Les Miserables

I Can Go The Distance - Hercules

I Just Can’t Wait To Be King - Lion King

One Jump Ahead - Aladdin

Electricity - Billy Elliott 

Lost in the Woods - Frozen 2

If Only You Would Listen - School of Rock

 

Easy songs for younger ones

My favourite Things - The Sound of Music

Castle on a Cloud - Les Miserables

The Perfect Nanny - Mary Poppins

When You Wish Upon a Star - Pinocchio 

 

It’s been lovely to see a few of you on Fridays and I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone in September. I hope you have a lovely summer holiday!

Best wishes,

Mrs Lawrence

 

Here are the previous attached letters about our singing assemblies and ideas: 

Singing assembly songs

Music activities KS2

 

Please click on the links below for previous work:

Week 10, week commencing 15th June

Week 11, week commencing 22nd June

Week 12, week commencing 29th June

Week 13, week commencing 6th July