Homework – Year 3 Summer Term 6: Superheroes
The ‘Superheroes’ part 2 homework grid below contains a choice of activities to be completed and handed in every Thursday for the Summer term 6.
You may choose to complete some or all of the activities. I encourage you to be creative in completing the tasks. Choose a diffrent way to present your research. write a quiz, a
newspaper report, build a model, design a poster, labelled diagrams,
This is in addition to reading with your child daily as well as weekly spellings and regular times table practise. This term we are focusing on learning multiplication and division for
the x2, x, 3, x4, x5, x8, and x10 tables.
Learning Objective: to design an outfit for Traction Man.
Learning Objective: To be able to summarise
With an action outfit for every occasion, Traction Man patrols the
the main events of a story
house. Whether he is saving toys (in latex space suit and Perspex
Create a storyboard to outline the plot of a
helmet, teamed with Rocket Boots); searching the sink for the lost
new Traction Man movie.
wreck of the sieve (in sub-aqua suit, fluorescent flippers and infra- Mrs Hunt is looking for… speech bubbles,
red mask) or rescuing damsels in distress (in jungle pants,
captions, bright colours.
camouflage vest and a bandanna).
Your mission is to design an new outfit for Traction Man. Mrs Hunt
is looking for… labels, colour, what will his outfit be useful for?
Learning Objective: use adjectives to describe a character
Learning Objective: to use research skills
Traction Man is an action figure toy. Choose one of your
Find out about the history of action figures and other
toys. What sort of character would they come alive like
kinds of toys.
Traction Man.
Mrs Hunt is looking for… pictures, labels, dates,
Mrs Hunt is looking for: - carefully chosen adjectives to
timelines
describe. Powerful verbs. Conjunctions to join ideas…and,
but, so, because, until, if, whenever, since, once, that
Learning Objective: to write in the first person.
Retell the story from Traction Man's point of view.
Mrs Hunt is looking for… beginning, build-up, problem,
resolution and ending. Powerful verbs and carefully
chosen adjective. Include traction Man’s feelings. Writing
using past tense and first person pronouns (I, we, my)
Learning Objective: to understand the feelings of
characters at different parts of a story
Create a set of speech / thought bubbles for Traction
Man at different points in the story to explain how he is
feeling. Can you tell by his facial expressions and body
language?
Maths: to be able to carry out a survey on toys available in
shops.
Research different action figures that are available for sale in
local shops / online. Make a table to show the features and
prices. Use sorting diagrams to compare them. Carry out a
survey to find out which one(s) people prefer.
Maths: to iidentify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of
perpendicular and parallel lines.
Captain conjecture says…
“When two straight lines cross, there will be 4 right angles
made.”
Does this happen always, sometimes or never. Provide
evidence for your decision.
Maths: to be able to name and identify shapes and sort them
depending on their properties
Investigate - Look through a magazine/newspaper and
identify the shapes you see. Organise them into different
groups. Do some shapes fit into more than one group? Why?