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/.
i:
business
k:
knife
knight
knock
knot
knee
knuckle
knowledge
knew
knot
Literacy:
This week we have been looking at character descriptions. Can you write a minimum of one paragraph on a character description about a character from a book you are currently reading. This can be a home reading book on your accelerated reader book. Try and include all the success criteria and think about the features on your writing standard or on your 10 ways to improve a sentence sheet stuck in your homework book.
Success Criteria: similes, metaphors, personification, powerful adjectives, features from your writing standard.
Maths:
This week we have been revising our knowledge of division and multiplication and we still need a little practise to be fully confident with how to do short and long division and multiplication. Any methods you aren’t sure of we will practise next lesson.
- 1456 ÷ 7 =
- 7895 x 8 =
- 6580 ÷ 15 =
- 675 x 28 =
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
The suffix ous
A final e must be kept if the phonetic sound of g is to be kept,
courageous
outrageous
advantageous
gorgeous
disadvantageous
erroneous
hideous
righteous
simultaneous
uncourageous
Maths:
This week we have been revising our knowledge of division and multiplication and we still need a little practise to be fully confident with how to do short division and multiplication. Any methods you aren’t sure of we will practise next lesson.
- 456 ÷ 3 =
- 6892 ÷ 4 =
- 789 x 5 =
- 482 x 6 =
