March 2016

Spellings

Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.

Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word).

Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/.

h:

honest

ghost

heir

whether

rhyme

archaeology

archives

chaos

characteristic

technique

Spellings

Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.

The suffix ous.

-our is changed to or before ous is added.

vigorous

humorous

glamorous

adventurous

anonymous

arduous

atrocious

audacious

hilarious

miraculous

Literacy:

In Literacy this week we had a lesson looking at the different word classes.  As part of the lesson we learnt a word class rap to help us remember what adjectives, verbs etc are.

You can practise this one or come up with your own word classes song/poem.

A noun is the name of a person, place or thing like Mike in Morecambe with a ball of string.  X2

An adjective describes a noun like a wide smile on a painted clown. X2

Verbs are doing words. They move and fly like the birds or, like in running and jumping you might add an ‘ing’ . You can hop or dance and sing.

Adverbs like to add to a verb, they tell you more about the word. You can often add an ‘ly’ on the end like slowly walk or quickly bend.

Maths:

A maths work sheet on fractions is stuck in your homework book.