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/.
c:
incandescent
isosceles
miscellaneous
muscle
obscene
resuscitate
scenario
scene
scent
scissors
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
The suffix – ation
The suffix ation is added to verbs to form nouns.
information
adoration
frustration
levitation
admiration
preparation
elation
rotation
formation
restoration
Project
Next week we are doing a special one week project for world book week.
Our author for world book week is Anthony Horowitz who has written some great age appropriate books for year five, such as Stormbreaker.
Can you research and create a poster about Anthony Horowitz. Including some key information such as; age, family, hobbies and any interesting information you can find out e.g. when did he start writing? What was his first book? How long did it take for him to write any of his books?
Maths
Your child has a maths task stuck in their homework book with a squared sheet of paper to complete the task on.
A shape has an area of 15cm, what size could its length and width be?
Draw and write down the length and widths the rectangle or square could be.
Remember area = width x length.
A shape has an area of 20cm, what size could its length and width be?
Draw and write down the possible shapes and length and widths it could be. The shapes can be regular or irregular.
Remember area = width x length.
