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26 November 2010

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges are plurals where the ‘y’ is dropped and replaced with ‘ies’.

Apples have some high-frequency words to remember. They will be tested on Friday 03 December.

26 November 2010

This is our final week of spelling words with prefixes. The spellings this week all have prefixes which change the meaning of the word to convey the opposite (synonyms). For example, tidy and untidy.

You will only be tested on the word with the prefix (words in bold). Nouns and verbs practise 1-10. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-15.

1.  well      unwell

2. tidy    untidy

3. usual     unusual

4. certain     uncertain

5. friendly      unfriendly

6. selfish     unselfish

7. agree      disagree

8. comfort     discomfort

9. appear     disappear

10. obey     disobey

11. pleasant     unpleasant

12. approve     disapprove

13. trust      distrust

14. necessary     unnecessary

15. appealing      unappealing

Good luck!

26 November 2010

This week’s homework is a Talk Time homework and is due in on Wednesday 01 December.

I can talk to someone at home about how to stay safe close to water.

I look forward to speaking to you and finding out your top water safety tips!

26 November 2010

This week we are learning everyday words.

These will be tested on Friday 03 December.

26 November 2010

This week’s homework is creative.

I can add two numbers.

It’s due on Wednesday 01 December.

The children could:

• Show how to add, using pictures or objects.
• Calculate some number sentences.
• Create a game using addition.
• Go shopping and show how to add using money.
• Include a photograph.

Year 6 Forums

Our Year 6 forums will start next week. I spoke to the older members of our School Council about some guidelines that our pupils should follow so that they can communicate effectively but quickly.  We agreed that the forums should be a balance of expressing opinions, demonstrating learning and asking questions, but also representing our school and our high standards.

Here are the guidelines that our councillors came up with:

• We will use positive language (just like everywhere at Moortown Primary).
• We will use capitals and full stops.
• We will try to spell all words correctly, but know that one or two words might be typos (accidental errors when we use a keyboard) and some words might be hard to spell but we still want to use (‘wow words’, for example).
• We will not use text speak (we know this is better for informal communications).
• We know that our teacher might choose not to publish a post that has too many errors, or might choose to correct these.

Thank you to Sally, Chanda, Rene and Aqsa for setting these guidelines.

26 November 2010

This week’s homework is creative. It is due in on Wednesday 01 December 2010.

‘I can find openings in stories.’

This links to our story-writing unit in literacy. The children need to find different opening lines (the first line) in stories and make a note of them. They could even sort them into dialogue (speech), action or description (think of ‘DAD‘. As it is a creative homework they may present their homework how they wish.

26 November 2010

This week’s spellings are adjectives with suffixes added to them. They still follow the rule of ‘drop the y for an i’. These spellings will be tested on Friday 3 December 2010.

*Not all words follow the pattern!

Class Assembly

Our first Class Assembly was on Thursday 25 November.

Well done children! You performed with confidence and enthusiasm and gave the rest of the pupils a hugely interesting show jam-packed with examples of your great learning about Vile Victorians.

You should be very proud of yourselves!

Well done again.

Mrs Hazell.

26 November 2010

This week we are looking at how we can change verbs to nouns by adding the suffixes; ‘tion’, ‘ism’, ‘ness’, ‘ist’, and ‘ity’.

This week you can choose your own spellings from the noun list.

Choose four spellings and find four of your own spellings that have been changed to verbs from nouns and use the same suffixes to complete your spelling list for this week.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 03 December.