24 November 2017
24.11.17 – Apostrophes
Apostrophes are used in the English language to show contraction and possession. This week, children should make a poster to help people use them correctly. This could include common errors or rules. The posters should be returned to school on Thursday 30 November.
24 November 2017
This week’s spelling activity is an investigation about words with a long ‘a’ sound. For example: ei in vein or aigh in straight.
- How many different ways can you find?
- Can you spot any patterns?
- Can you show your words in a creative way?
We’ll discuss our investigation on Thursday 30 November.
24 November 2017
This week’s spelling list all end in …tial or …cial.
We noticed that there is usually a vowel before the cial and a consonant (mostly ‘n’) before the tial. There are a couple of words that don’t follow this rule – these are the ones that we’ll need to practise most. Children are expected to practise these spellings in their books (there are lots of strategies at the back of homework books) and there will be a test on Friday 1 December.
- official
- special
- artificial
- commercial
- facial
- financial
- glacial
- social
- racial
- partial
- influencial
- preferential
- confidential
- substantial
- residential
- essential
- torrential
- quintessential
24 November 2017
This week, all the words end with -st.
Children should practise the following words and find one or two of their own.
| just |
| nest |
| best |
| lost |
| gust |
| fast |
24 November 2017
Next week, we’re continuing to learn about irregular past tense verbs. Usually when we change a verb to the past tense, we just need to add ‘ed’. Irritatingly, irregular verbs are different!
Challenge your child to find some more examples of irregular verbs.
| to go went |
| to dig dug |
| to know knew |
| to give gave |
| to buy bought |
| to drink drank |
| to send sent |
| to write wrote |
17 November 2017
This week’s spellings all contain the ch sound.
chip
chair
chain
cheese
chicken
There are five spellings but children should find an extra word or two that contains the ch sound.
Challenge: can you find a word which ends with a ch sound?
17 November 2017
This week’s spelling list is all about homophones: words that sound the same but have different spellings. We voted for the ones that we find most difficult, using our investigation from last week.
- Can you show the meaning of each word in a creative way?
- Can you write a sentence that contains both?
| blue/blew | ate/eight | board/bored | sun/son | wear/where |
| right/write | knew/new | knight/night | wait/weight | hear/here |
There will be a spelling test on Friday 24 November.
17 November 2017
Next week, we’re learning about irregular past tense verbs. Usually when we change a verb to the past tense, we just need to add -ed. Irregular verbs are annoyingly different!
| to eat ate |
| to fly flew |
| to drive drove |
| to blow blew |
| to see saw |
| to draw drew |
| to swim swam |
| to take took |
17 November 2017
This weeks spelling activity is to create a crossword filled with the following types of words:
- words ending in ible or able
- adding suffixes to words ending in fer (prefer, transfer, offer, refer)
- words with tious or cious endings
The aim of a crossword is to create clues for words, which will hopefully help the quizzer answer them. You also need your words to cross over each other (hence the name ‘cross’ word).
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17 November 2017
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Plurals Last week, children investigated how to change a noun from the singular to the plural. This week, children should learn how to pluralise the words in this list in preparation for a test on Friday 24 November. (Take care – it’s not simply a case of adding an ‘s’!) Some of the words also revise previously taught spelling rules. |
| baby |
| sheep |
| bruise |
| explanation |
| opportunity |
| language |
| competition |
| yacht |
| church |
| worry |