Hello Year 3! Can you believe it's July already? Let's hope we have lots of beautiful summer days to look forward to!

Here is your learning for today:

English

It's finally Charlie's birthday! Will he get a chocolate bar? Will he find a golden ticket? Let's find out! Read pages 32-35 below. 

Now summarise what has happened in this chapter. Use bullet points and remember summarising should only include the main points of what you have read. I would start with:

• It's Charlie's birthday
• He's given a Wonka bar

Writing

Today's writing task focuses on building suspense in your writing. Charlie is given a Wonka bar for his birthday and he and all of his family are so eager and excited to see if he will find a golden ticket. This is the one and only chance Charlie thinks he will have to get a ticket so it is all the more tense and special for him!

Today you need to rewrite the chapter where Charlie opens his chocolate bar. Leave this until right at the end of your writing and build up the suspense in your paragraph(s). Look at what Roald Dahl did to do this - he used phrases like 'they stared with anxious eyes', 'the room became silent'. You can also build suspense by using short, snappy sentences and using ellipsis at the end of sentences ...

Maths

Today, most of us are going to be working with remainders. If a dividend won’t divide exactly by the divisor, then there will be some numbers left over. These are called remainders.

For example:

34 ÷ 3 = 11 r 1

We know that 3 goes into 30 ten times. However 3 goes into 4 just once with one left over, this is our remainder. A good way to show this is to use counters and circles. If you don’t have counters you could use anything you have in the house, such as coins, smarties, blueberries, marbles or even tea bags. If you have 34 items and you have 3 circles to divide them equally, you will see that eventually you will have eleven items in each circle with one leftover. You can use this tactic to help to solve your problems.