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Hello,

This week in spelling we are looking at verb endings, s or es.

When adding s / es to verbs the same rules apply as with plurals.

Most of the time you add s.

If a word ends with s, ss, zz, x, ch or sh then we add es.

This week our spelling words are:

cooks

thinks

screams

speaks

boasts

waves

hopes

hates

slides

likes

coaches

teaches

preaches

reaches

rushes

wishes

crushes

hisses

Choose 2 activities from the grid below to practise:

There is a fractions maths activity in the homework jotters (or sent home loose, if no jotter was returned to school) and this has been explained in class.

Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Mrs Rush

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

Hello everyone,

The spelling pattern we are focussing on this week are words ending with -ke. These are often confused with -ck endings in the children’s classwork and in some spelling assessments, so although they appear relatively simple spelling words the children are needing time to practise these.

bake

cake

lake

make

rake

stake

flake

trike

bike

like

pike

spike

joke

choke

broke

smoke

duke

Please select 2 activities from the grid below to practice your spelling words:

Your maths homework is further revision of time, and has been printed and handed out.

Finally, following on from some of the fantastic learning we have been doing in science I am giving you a small research task, to find out about one of the many important people in the history of electricity.

The spelling and maths homework is due back to me on Thursday 21st March, and the electricity research homework is due back to me on Thursday 28th March.

Thank you,

Mrs Rush