Monday 11th February-Friday 15th February

 Lots of thinking happening in Class 4

 Maths-Problem Solving

 Science and shadows

 English and Drama-The Promise

Maths-Finding percentages of amounts, increase and decreases of percentages. We opened toy, pet, stationary and a clothes shop. The children then went shopping. Throughout their shopping experience, the shops had sales and increases of prices. Between the shop assistants and the shoppers, they had to work out the cost of each item.

 Well done to our winners of the Reading Challenge this term. They enjoyed a tea party in our book corner.

 Extra playtime on Friday afternoon (Home Learning reward)

Class 4 enjoying the sunshine on a Friday afternoon

Half Term Holidays-February

There is no set home learning over the half term. The only thing I would like children to work on is their spellings which they didn’t get correct in our spelling test this half term. Each child has a copy in their reading journal as they are different for each child. This spelling test was an assessment to see how their learning is going after spending time in class and at home practicing these rules and patterns.

Happy holidays! J

Monday 4th February-Friday 8th February

The photos explain what a wonderful morning we had with Suffolk Police. It was a memorable day and the children have learnt a lot from it and talking about it since. Thank you to the police officers who gave up their time to be with us and teach us about their job.

Wenhaston Reading Share

Thank you to everyone who came to share a book with us this afternoon. We hope to see you again soon.

Friday 8^th February 2019-Spelling Revision

This week we have been completing our assessments so therefore we have not learnt any new spelling patterns. Please find below the ones that have been already given to us in previous weeks so that we can continue to practice learning them at home. We will be assessed on these patterns/rules next week.

Spellings: This week we have been thinking about the rules for when the word has ‘fer’ in it. Refer then could change to referral. Note how there is a double r as the r is stressed. If it is not stressed, it is a single r. E.g. reference.

1.     Referral

2.    Reference

3.    Transferred

4.    Inference

5.    Deferred

Spellings: This week we have been thinking about the rules for when the homophone words ending in ‘ce or se.’ ‘Ce’ words are always nouns and the ‘se’ words are always verbs so think carefully which one you are using for your sentences.

1.     Advice/advise

2.    Practice/practise

3.    Device/devise

4.    Licence/license

Spellings: This week we have been thinking about the suffix ‘cious’ and ‘tious.’ We have been discussing when to use each suffix and we spotted if the root word ends with ce, then usually the suffix will be cious. Beware there are exceptions and you may need to remove letters to spell the word correctly. Always use a dictionary to check our spellings!

1.     Vice-vicious

2.    Malice-malicious

3.    Fiction-fictitious

4.    Caution-cautious

5.    Grace-gracious

Spellings: This week we have been thinking about the suffix ‘cial’ and ‘tial.’ We have identified that the rule is: if the root word is ending in a vowel (a, e, i, o or u) then it is usually a cial ending. Tial endings if the root word ends in a consonant. Beware there are exceptions! Always use a dictionary to check our spellings!

1.     Social

2.    Essential

3.    Torrential

4.    Special

5.    Substantial

Have a lovely weekend and well done for all your hard work this week, Class 4. I am really proud of how well everyone did in their SATs papers. I will send results home to parents next week.