Spellings:
This week's strategy is called ‘Quick write’. The aim is to write the word as many times as possible in one minute. Your child may look at the word to begin with but should be encouraged to memorise it towards the end of the one minute or as soon as they feel confident.
Even though children are writing quickly they should still be encouraged to present work to a high standard.
If you would like to extend the homework you may want your child to think, say and write one or more sentences with one or more of the words in.
Our spelling focus this week is adding the suffix -ous. When adding this suffix we sometimes need to change the root word and sometimes the root word remains the same. Remember, “Is there a letter I need to swap? Is there a letter to double or drop?”
dangerous
poisonous
hazardous
nervous
generous
ridiculous
tremendous
venomous
Maths IXL:
Please complete B.6 - ‘Greatest and least word problems’
English:
This week we have started to look at main clauses and how these can be used as either a simple sentence or joined together using a coordinating conjunction. To help us remember the coordinating conjunctions, we use the term FANBOYS (please see below).
For your homework, see if you can spot any of these compound sentences when you are reading your books together and discuss where the main clauses are and the meaning of the conjunction within the sentence.
Then could you please have a go at the following strands on IXL: