Morning,

Today I would like to imagine you are an explorer and you have discovered a new species in a rainforest.

Decide what rainforest you are exploring and then think more about the creature you have discovered. You could actually design a new creature of your own. Below is a design sheet that you could use to help you, there are 3 different versions to choose from.

Design your own animal sheet

Once, you have designed your creature, you can then produce an information text all about it.

Try and use the following features:

Title – name of your page

Sub title – introduction to your page

Sub headings – mini title for each section

Paragraphs – groups of sentences about the same information

Labels or captions – give extra details to pictures or diagrams

As well as general information about your creature, try and include sections on habitat and diet and also try and include an interesting fact!

You can can create these on paper or even use a computer programme such as powerpoint or publisher.

I would love to see your work, so send it in via dojo.

Hi Everyone,

Here are all the links for this week’s learning. As well as completing some of these activities, it is important to read daily and practise your x tables as much as possible.

Please click on the link below to access the Rhino Class Learning Project for this week:

Rhino Class Learning Project – Week 10 – RAINFORESTS

This week’s project again includes weekly tasks for Maths, Reading, Writing and Spellings and a cross-curricular / topic project. All web links and instructions are included in the document. The timetable is just a suggestion and activities do not necessarily need to be completed in that order. However, try to complete as many of the tasks as you can during the week. 

Here are some Rainforest related activities:

Layers of the Rainforest presentation

Rainforest habitats

Layers of the Rainforest activity

Rainforest – Mapping the Amazon

Rainforest World Map

Use the links below for some Reading Comprehension Activities:

Rainforest Comprehension

Rainforest Deforestation Comprehension

Rainforest Calling Comprehension

Rainforest Factfile Comprehension

Weekly spellings – please access the spellings to learn this week below. This week is week 3. Practise during the week with a test at the end of the week. Try putting the words into sentences too to ensure understanding of each word.

Year 3 Summer 2    Year 4 Summer 2

Please click on links below to access Year 3 and 4 Common Exception words and activities:

Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words List

Year 3 and 4 Crosswords

Year 3 and 4 Word Searches

Year 3 and 4 Activity Cards

Year 3 and 4 Dictation Passages

To reinforce the spelling of common words, then please access the high frequency word resources below:

1st 100 High frequency words

2nd 200 High frequency words

Commonly misspelt words – word searches

It is also a good idea to try and write each word into a sentence to ensure understanding of each word and practise using capital letters and full stops.

BBC Bitesize have some great daily activities in a range of subjects. If you would like to have look and try out some of the activities, then follow the links below:

Year 3 BBC Bitesize

Year 4 BBC Bitesize

Oak National Academy has also put together some amazing resources to support learning at home. There are lessons to follow for each day of the week which can be accessed using the links below.

Year 3 – week 8   Year 4 – week 8

The academy is currently on week 8 of these resources but if you find them useful in supporting your child at home then you can also access weeks 1 – 7 by scrolling down the web page.

You can also access some video lessons on fractions for lower key stage 2 on the NCETM website. Use the following link access week 8 and lessons 25- 29:

LKS2 Fraction lessons – week 8

There are also some great maths lessons on the White Rose website.

Videos for week 8 can be accessed via the following links:

Year 3 Ordering fraction    Year 4 Decimals

Corresponding worksheets can be accessed here:

Year 3  Lesson 1  Lesson 2  Lesson 3  Lesson 4

Year 4  Lesson 1  Lesson 2  Lesson 3  Lesson 4

You can also try completing some arithmetic tests. They are great practise mental calculating: Have another go at these this week and I will upload some different examples next week.

Year 3: Test 1a   Test 2a   Test 3a   Test 4a   Test 5a

Year 4: Test 1a   Test 2a   Test 3a   Test 4a   Test 5a

Again, if you’re feeling like being energetic, then click on the link below for a daily workout from the body coach Joe Wicks. Each day, he will continue to stream a live 30 minute PE lesson for pupils access at home at 9 am. There are also a wealth of 5/10 min workouts specifically aimed at children which are great.

Joe Wicks – Workout Sessions

It was great last week to see so many examples of the work the children had completed as well as photos of them working, so if you like to share your child’s work with me (for rewards and feedback), again this can be done via the Class Dojo portfolio. As usual, if you have any queries, please continue to contact me via the Class Dojo app.

I will also set some daily challenges on a Tuesday and Thursday and send the link out via Class Dojo around 8am each day.

Kind regards and keep well

Mr Glover