Category: Primary 4 Blog

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

Hello everyone,

I hope you enjoyed playing your games for homework last week.

This week our spelling words end with a -y , making an “ee” sound.

Our core words are: bendy, crispy, dusty, empty, fussy, lumpy, messy, misty, nasty, rusty, smelly, sticky, very, grumpy.

In class we also thought of lots more words with this ending e.g creamy, fizzy, angry, funky, hilly, jolly, crusty, mucky, muddy, windy….

Can you think of any more at home? What do you notice about most of these words? (clue: are they mostly nouns, adjectives or verbs?)

Please select 2 activities from the grid to practise:

For maths you can choose between 3 fractions tasks. Please copy the grid into your homework jotter:

Fractions 1:

Fractions 2:

Fractions 3:

Please let me know if you have any questions, or need any help.

Mrs Rush