This week’s spelling activity aims to build the children’s understanding of where words in the English language have come from and how this has contributed to spelling being difficult to master. This activity is due on Thursday 25 May.
Using these Greek and Latin roots and their meanings, create your own animals where their name gives you an idea of their appearance and/or behaviour.
For example, punctata quadrocornisbiped (a dotted, four-horned, two footed animal).
Create at least five different names and then choose one to draw and write a paragraph informing us about it.
| geo – means “the earth” | photo – “means light” |
| path – means “feeling or suffering” | gress – means “to walk” |
| phon – means “sound” | dict – which means “to say” |
| therm – means “heat” | tract – means “to pull” |
| mem – means “keep in mind” | scribe – means “to write” |
| tele – means “far away” | mit – means “to send” |
| fract – means “to break” | graph – means “to write” |
| bi – means “two” | ped – means “foot” |
| corni – means “horn” | punct – means “point, pricked, pierced” |