Wednesday 10th June 2020

10/6/2020

Morning year 3!

I hope you are all ok! Start the day by writing down one thing that you really like about yourself!

Just a quick reminder there is NO BOOK SWAP TODAY (it will be back next Wednesday).

Reading- Matilda

During the first week of Matilda’s visits, Mrs Phelps had said to her, ‘Does your mother walk you down here every day and then take you home?’
‘My mother goes to Aylesbury every afternoon to play bingo,’ Matilda had said. ‘She doesn’t know I come here.’
‘But that’s surely not right,’ Mrs Phelps said. ‘I think you’d better ask her.’
‘I’d rather not,’ Matilda said. ‘She doesn’t encourage reading books. Nor does my father.’
‘But what do they expect you to do every afternoon in an empty house?’
‘Just mooch around and watch the telly.’
‘I see.’
‘She doesn’t really care what I do,’ Matilda said a little sadly.
Mrs Phelps was concerned about the child’s safety on the walk through the fairly busy village High Street and the crossing of the road, but she decided not to interfere.
Within a week, Matilda had finished Great Expectations which in that edition contained four hundred and eleven pages. ‘I loved it,’ she said to Mrs Phelps. ‘Has Mr Dickens written any others?’
‘A great number,’ said the astounded Mrs Phelps. ‘Shall I choose you another?’
Over the next six months, under Mrs Phelps’s watchful and compassionate eye, Matilda read the following books:
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Gone to Earth by Mary Webb
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Animal Farm by George Orwell

It was a formidable list and by now Mrs Phelps was filled with wonder and excitement, but it was probably a good thing that she did not allow herself to be completely carried away by it all. Almost anyone else witnessing the achievements of this small child would have been tempted to make a great fuss and shout the news all over the village and beyond, but not so Mrs Phelps. She was someone who minded her own business and had long since discovered it was seldom worth while to interfere with other people’s children.
‘Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don’t understand,’ Matilda said to her. ‘Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen.’
‘A fine writer will always make you feel that,’ Mrs Phelps said. ‘And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.’
‘I will, I will.’
‘Did you know,’ Mrs Phelps said, ‘that public libraries like this allow you to borrow books and take them home?’
‘I didn’t know that,’ Matilda said. ‘Could I do it?’
‘Of course,’ Mrs Phelps said. ‘When you have chosen the book you want, bring it to me so I can make a note of it and it’s yours for two weeks. You can take more than one if you wish.’

In the text it says "Mrs Phelps was concerned about the child’s safety on the walk through the fairly busy village High Street and the crossing of the road, but she decided not to interfere."
Do you think Mrs Phelps was right not to interfere?

I think Mrs Phelps was right to not interfere because.....

I think Mrs Phelps was wrong to not interfere because ....

Literacy

Rewatch the story so far. The Princes set out the find the bird and came across a rock with a warning engraved on the stone

Take the middle road and you ill suffer hunger and cold.

Take the right road and you will live, though your horse will die.

Take the left road and you will die, though your horse will live.

Which road would you take and why?

Prince Dimitri and Prince Vasili failed in their attempts at finding the bird. Prince Ivan has just come to the rock- what do you think he will do?

Will he take a path or will he turn back? What does he think when he sees the warning? Print out the thought bubble or draw your own thought bubble in your homework book.

Maths

= 0.1

0.1 is what we call a decimal number. Can you see on the numberline how the tenths relate to the decimals?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zr6pvcw

What is 0.6 in tenths?

Have a go at drawing your own version of the above.
Start by drawing 10 equal boxes.
How many will you shade in and label ? What would this be in tenths?

Science

Yesterday we looked at why the moon shines- it shines because the suns light reflects off the moon and makes it look like it makes it own light!
Today we are moving on and thinking about shadows.Read the book below and learn about what shadows are. You will need to login to espresso -you have the login on your home learning pack.

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/s1_light/photo_books/shadows/index.html?source=search-all-all-all-all&source-keywords=shadows

Reading for pleasure!

It is important to be read to and to get into a story. I thought you would enjoy this story about a robot.Every Wednesday and Friday I will read another chapter - find somewhere comfortable and quiet and listen or read along with me! Enjoy year 3 :)