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08 March 2013

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect. Your child will either have a position or coordinates worksheet to complete. It’s due in on Wednesday 13 March 2013.

08 March 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 15 March.

Lions

This week’s spellings are plurals ending in ‘s’.

• pencils
• buckets
• windows
• computers
• teachers
• friends
• stickers
• shoes
• clothes
• schools

Tigers/ Zebras

This week’s spellings are high frequency words (words that children will often use in their writing).

• about
• here
• very
• your
• time
• house
• Mr
• could
• Mrs
• would

08 March 2013

The homework this week is Creative and is due in Wednesday 13 March.

I can create a recount of my weekend.

As most of you will be aware, we’re writing recounts at the moment. We want you to keep a log of your weekend and present it to us anyway you like. It’s completely up to you! If you’re struggling for ideas, why not try creating:

• a written diary of the most exciting things that happened during your weekend
• a photo diary with captions
• a video diary
• a podcast of the highlights of your weekend

08 March 2013

This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:

double-up for short vowel sounds

The spellings are all verbs. When the suffix ed is added, it requires us to double up the consonant after the short vowel sound.

For example, hop +ed becomes hopped (rather than hoped, which has a longer ‘oh’ sound).

Class assembly!

Don’t forget our World Book Day assembly tomorrow at 2.40 pm!

What is a treasure?

This is the question we have been asking for a few weeks now. On Monday 11 March we are having a drama day looking at art and how it is treasured by lots of different people. “Katie’s Picture Show” looks at different pieces of art through the eyes of a young girl. Splats are a company we have worked with before and we would like to invite you to share the learning of the day. There will be a short performance at 2.30 pm on 11 March; please come along if you can.
Thank you.

01 March 2013

This week, I want you to revisit all the spellings we have learnt throughout the year. Each day we will have a randomly generated test on some of the spelling from the year plus a bigger test on Friday.

Make sure your spellings are up to date in your learning  list book – if they are not up to date, use the website to help you fill in the gaps.

You might not remember the spelling, but see if you can apply the rules.

01 March 2013

The spellings this week are all words which have a short vowel sound and require a ‘double up’ after the short vowel sound. A lot of the spellings are also in the past tense so will practise our ‘ed’ endings again. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 08 March.

stopped

ripped

dropped

spotted

stepped

messily

happily

staggered

sniggered

spluttered

01 March 2013

This week, the children have been split into different spelling groups. You will know which group your child is in as it will be written on the inside of their spelling book.

We are revisiting split digraphs. This week we are looking at i – e. These will be tested on Friday 08 March.

Group M

Group S

01 March 2013

This week we’re revisiting some common homophones. A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but is spelt differently.

The individual words aren’t too tricky but the real challenge is being able to use them at the correct time. Year 4 therefore need to practise using the right homophone in sentences, which is how they will be tested.