The spellings for this week are all contractions – words that have been shortened by adding an apostrophe.
You’ll be tested on the words in the right hand column (the words with the apostrophes in them).
1. do not don’t
2. cannot can’t
3. is not isn’t
4. does not doesn’t
5. will not won’t
6. I have I’ve
7. I am I’m
8. I will I’ll
9. it is it’s
10. there is there’s
Adjectives and adverbs:
Can you think of any of your own?
The spellings will be tested on Friday 12 February. Good luck!
This week’s homework is creative and is due in on Wednesday 09 February.
I can show what I know about one of the planets in our solar system.
Get those creative juices flowing! I will look forward to seeing what you have come up with on Wednesday. Have fun.
The spellings this week are the same homophones as last week. Children need to keep practising them. They might be tested on any of the words. When practising at home with your child, try to put each word into a sentence so that the meaning of each word and it’s spelling becomes securely embedded.
(For an extra challenge, try creating a sentence with both homophones eg I knew the new toy was a good choice.)
Don’t forget – school is closed on Friday so the test will be a day earlier!
1. new knew
2. right write
3. through threw
4. great grate
5. their there
6. hole whole
7. no know
8. pair pear
9. heard herd
10. poor pour
11. bored board
12. peace piece
13. aloud allowed
Spellings will be tested on Friday 4 February. Good luck!
The homework this week is a talk time homework and is due in on Wednesday 26 January.
Are aliens real? Why?
Discuss with somebody at home whether you think aliens are real or not. You have to have reasons to back up what you think.
I will look forward to talking to you about your discussions.
The spellings this week are all homophones. These are words that sound the same but
are spelt differently:
1. new knew
2. right write
3, through threw
4. great grate
5. their there
6. hole whole
7. no know
8. pair pear
9. heard herd
10. poor pour
11. bored board
12. peace piece
13. aloud allowed
Spellings will be tested on Friday 28 January. Good luck.
In a recent maths lesson, the children were tasked with calculating the cost of some new playground equipment. They had to add together the different pieces of equipment to see what they could buy if they had £300.
The home work this week is a talk time homework and is due in on Wednesday 19 January.
I know some facts about the planets.
Talk to somebody at home about the planets. What can you find out?
I’ll look forward to talking to you about your planet facts. Good luck.
The spellings this week are all time connectives. We are going to be practising using these connectives as openers to sentences in our new literacy unit. This is why they all start with a capital letter and have a comma at the end of the word.
Spellings will be marked wrong if the capital letter and comma aren’t present!
1. Before,
2. After,
3. Then,
4. Later,
5. Just then,
6. Finally,
7. Next,
8. Suddenly,
9. Meanwhile,
10. Afterwards,
Spellings will be tested on Friday 21 January. Good luck!
The spelling rule this week is to drop the ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’ to words that end in an ‘e’
1. hope hoping
2. use using
3. write writing
4. take taking
5. shake shaking
6. joke joking
7. share sharing
8. smile smiling
9. have having
10. care caring
11. decide deciding
12. become becoming
13. improve improving
Spellings will be tested on Friday 14 January. Good luck.
This week’s homework is creative and links to the literacy learning that we have been doing in class. It is due in on Wednesday 12 January 2011.
I can write a kenning poem.
A kenning poem describes something without giving its name away. It uses verbs ending in ‘er’.
Here is an example similar to the ones we looked at in class:
A loud-barker
A swift-sprinter
A mud-roller
A cat-chaser
A tail-wagger
Think of your own animal. Now write a kenning poem about your animal. Remember to think of all the verbs (doing words) that your animal does and then add ‘er’ to the end of them.
Adjectives/ Adverbs group: Try to use your ambitious vocabulary. Can you think of even better words eg eater could also be scoffer or gobbler. (Remember your hyphens too!)