12 October 2012
We are learning about ed endings this week. This week’s list is made up of words where you have to add ed to the end of the word when changing it to the past tense. Children often hear this ending as a t sound and not ed.
| 1. | walk | walked |
| 2. | talk | talked |
| 3. | move | moved |
| 4. | roll | rolled |
| 5. | ask | asked |
| 6. | crash | crashed |
| 7. | watch | watched |
| 8. | test | tested |
| 9. | groan | groaned |
| 10. | wow | wowed |
Assembly
It is our class assembly on Thursday 18 October. It starts at 2:40. The children are looking forward to sharing their learning.
See you there!
12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are words using ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. A useful way to remember which to use is ‘oi’ is usually in the middle of a word and ‘oy’ is usually at the end. These spellings will be tested on Friday 19 October.
| boy |
| coin |
| toy |
| soil |
| boil |
| joy |
| foil |
| Roy |
12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are continuing the rule of changing the “y” to “i”. They will be tested on Friday 19 October 2012.
There seem to be a lot of spellings on this list but the children have been learning about this rule all week and are familiar with these words. Please encourage them to add any more words that they can think of. The spelling test will test them on 8 of these words and we will be verbally discussing all of them.
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y + i + ful |
y + i + es |
y + i + ly |
y + i + er / est |
y + i + ed |
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beautiful |
babies |
happily |
happier / happiest |
tried |
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plentiful |
puppies |
crazily |
crazier / craziest |
fried |
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fanciful |
cities |
funnily |
funnier / funniest |
cried |
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pitiful |
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luckily |
luckier / luckiest |
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friendlier / friendliest |
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12 October 2012
This week’s homework is “Practice Makes Perfect.”
We have been investigating different types of data for the last couple of weeks; this homework looks at a frequency chart and then asks about averages.
Ask your child about mode, median and mean averages. In this homework they are asked to find the mode, this is the most common piece of data that appears in the chart.
They should be able to complete this homework independently; if there are any problems then please come and see me.
This homework needs to be handed in by Wednesday 17 October 2012.
12 October 2012
The homework this week is Creative and is due on Wednesday 17 October.
I can show what I know about the circus.
As you know, our new topic is Roll Up, Roll Up! I would like you to show me anything you already know about the circus. You can be as creative as you like, but if you’re struggling why not try:
- produce a spider diagram of ideas
- draw pictures with labels
- write a sentence
- produce a poster
- cut and stick pictures from the internet or magazines
12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are all months of the year. You won’t be tested on all of them. However, you’ll have to learn them all as I’m not going to reveal which ones are going to be tested.
| LO: months of the year |
| January |
| February |
| March |
| April |
| May |
| June |
| July |
| August |
| September |
| October |
| November |
| December |
12 October 2012
This week’s homework is slightly different as it’s Practice makes Perfect. I want you to be able to distinguish between the two forms of its:
its – belonging to something, no apostrophe
it’s – a contraction, like we learnt last week, of ‘it is’
A good way to distinguish between the two is to check whether the sentence sounds correct if you substitute the word for ‘it is’. If you can do this, then the correct form is it’s. If it doesn’t seem to make sense, then the correct form is its.
For example:
The elephant raised its trunk.
The elephant raised it is trunk. (This doesn’t make sense. Therefore, the correct form is its without an apostrophe.)
Here are a couple of activities that you can do to test whether you can do them or not:
- Write it’s on a piece of paper and on the back write its. Then, get an adult to read out a sentence and you have to show them whether they need to use its or it’s.
- Find an interesting object. Can you describe it using both forms of its?
Thanks…
…to all friends and family who came along to the Class Assembly for Year 4.
This week, our SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) is I can make a fresh start, which is part of the SEAL theme New Beginnings.
A highlight for me was seeing how powerful this SEAL statement is in different contexts: learning, friendships, behaviour…
Here are some of your comments:
- “Impressed with the children’s confidence and their obvious enjoyment.”
- “Loud and clear message done really well. Great performance (as always!). Loved it.”
- “Great acting and good messages.”
- “Excellent entertaining assembly. Loving the ‘X Factor’ style singing.”
12 October 2012
This week, the children are completing some Practice Makes Perfect homework about homophones.
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. For example:
where were we’re
through threw
Children have been given a wordsearch and crossword of commonly misused homophones to learn, including the correct meaning.
Spellings homework this week is also related to learning when to use the correct homophone.
Homework is due in on Wednesday 17 October 2012.