Friday 25th April 2014 Year 3 Home
Learning
Our Geography project for this term is to learn about St Albans
and to make an information leaflet about the town. On Tuesday 6th
May we will be taking the children on a visit to the Clock Tower and showing
them around the Cathedral.
As part of this project we ask the children to choose a place in
St Albans that they like to visit. For example: the leisure centre, the museum,
the signal box, Butterfly World, Heartwood Forest or one of the parks.
Home learning for this half term will be for the children to
visit their chosen location, find out about its history, the facilities offered
and its opening times etc. The children will then be asked to prepare a two or
three minute talk about their chosen place to deliver to the rest of the class
in the week commencing 2nd June.
We will show the children how to prepare a talk on the Clock
Tower and the Cathedral in class. But the preparation for their own talk will
be completed at home. To accompany their talk the children could use a power
point, make a model, use photographs or make a poster. Parental support would
be most welcome but the children must have ownership of this project and should
write notes for the talk themselves, otherwise they do not understand what they
are saying.
This project will replace English home learning for the majority
of this half term and we will be suggesting ideas to help the children each
week.
As part of maths home learning for this project please could the
children visit St Albans market to carry out a short market survey. This
information will be used in class after half term. (A copy of the survey form
is attached to this letter.)
Thank you for your support for this project. If you or your child
has any questions about this project, please do not hesitate to contact your
class teacher.
Mrs Hall, Miss Honeybell, Miss Taylor, Mrs Withers
St Albans
Market Survey
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Type of stall
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Tally
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Total
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Fruit and
vegetables
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Plants and
flowers
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Groceries,
bread, cheese
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Meat, fish
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Clothes
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Accessories
(belts, hats, scarves, gloves)
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Shoes
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Toys, games,
books
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Bags
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Pictures,
picture frames
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This is not a full list of all the market stalls, but it will
give the children an idea of the types of stall available on the market.
Questions to think about:
What types of items can you buy in the shops that you can’t buy
on the market?
How would you mainly pay for goods bought on the market?
Are the items sold on the market generally large or small in size
and cost? – Why is that?
