Hello everyone, and welcome back to the final term of Primary 4!
We have been looking at plurals in spelling and have learned the following:
To make most nouns plural you simply add ‘s‘ to the end e.g chairs, footballers, tables
If the noun ends in ch, sh, s, ss, x, zz or z, most of the time we add ‘es‘ e.g sandwiches, buses, glasses
If the noun ends in a vowel (a, e, i, o or u) and ‘y’, most of the time we add ‘s’ e.g keys, zebras
However, if the noun ends in a consonant and a ‘y’, most of the time we replace ‘y’ with ‘ies’. e.g baby-babies, fly- flies
Last week we were looking at plurals with ‘s‘ endings, and our words were:
bikes, boats, books, chairs, coins, slopes, games, goals, homes, rooms, seeds, shapes, teams, tubes, cages, noises, pages, prizes, roses
This week we are focussing on plurals with ‘es‘ endings
These are our focus words for this week:
benches, lunches, beaches, peaches, gases, buses, brushes, bushes, crashes, wishes, classes, dresses, glasses, kisses, boxes, foxes, sixes, taxes, buzzes
To practise your spelling words please choose 2 of the following:
-write your spelling words and colour each sound (not letter!!) in a different colour e.g
p ea ch e s
-write your spelling words and draw a picture of them next to it
-create a poster explaining the rules (as explained above) for adding -s, -es or -ies plural endings
-write sentences that include your spelling words.
In maths we have been learning about fractions.
Please write in your jotter the fraction of each shape that is coloured in.
Look at the number lines. How many spaces are between the whole numbers? This tells you what fractions the numbers have been divided into. Write the correct fraction that the letters show on the number line:
Good luck!
Mrs Rush
Royal Mile Primary School 