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/.
L:
should
calf
salmon
yolk
calm
chalk
talk
half
would
m:
Mnemonic
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
The suffix ous. If there is an i sound before the ous ending, it is usually spelt as i.
various
anxious
conscious
gracious
glorious
luxurious
mysterious
suspicious
obvious
furious
Literacy:
Pick any character from a book you know. Can you think 3 similes and 3 metaphors to describe that character.
Challenge: Think of an animal from a book you know. Can you think of 3 ways you could personify that character
Maths
This week we have been looking at cubed and squared. There is a worksheet your child will have stuck in their maths book.
