Theme Map for Year 3: Summer 2 2016 Theme – Let us choose Home Learning set on Tuesdays and due back on the following Mondays. *Use a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs and content. *Developing skills for the game of cricket. Please encourage your child to read each day *Further developing skills and confidence in gymnastics. *Reading and responding to a range of non-fiction texts about the children’s chosen topic. *Instructions – learning about features and how to effectively use them. PE English ICT *Comparing and contrasting land use in the past and present day. *identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers * explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant Year 3 Let us choose! Science History Geography Music PSHE *Learning composition work based on the BBC Ten Pieces concluding with a performance. *Learning the eight points of a compass and using these to locate objects. *Building on their knowledge of their local area and our city, *Investigating the human and physical features of their local area and how this affects its use. *Exploring the River Thames. *Good to be me – expressing individuality *Changes - Growing up and moving on Art and DT Solving a range of one and two-step problems involving number, shape and measure, Maths RE *Still life drawing of children’s chosen and arranged objects. *Estimating and reading time with increasing accuracy, *Comparing the duration of events. *Learning how to use four figure grid references to locate objects. *Recalling and using multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8x table. *Responding to symbolism on the world around them. *Understanding symbolism in Baptisms and Holy Communion. *Understanding the church as a community, *Describing some characteristics of a Christian community. ..