Spelling

SPELLING FOCUS OCTOBER 2025:

Can you identify about forty words from your spelling word list which contain a 3 or a 4 letter stem? Do you know which stems relate to which words? (They do not have to have similar meanings.)

There is not a spelling list right now but we are starting to develop the skill of spelling and a knowledge of word classes. To get a head-start, it would be a good idea to start to organise words into nouns, adjectives and adverbs.

Check for words within a word. Often a spelling word has four letters in a row which make another word. It could be linked to the bigger word in meaning but often is not. See if you know which word is a stem for a bigger word. Next try adding prefixes or suffixes to make the word longer. And finally, can you turn some words into antonyms (opposites) but adding two or three letters at the beginning?

Maths homework OCTOBER 2025

When we perform an inverse operation, we use the same numbers in a different order. Can you write two sentences to explain this? You should use the terms: the biggest number, at the end, the small numbers, at the beginning, adding, subtracting. Try doing the same for multipliation and division. 

Practice saying out loud some large numbers. Write a few of them using words and numbers. If it's a four digit number less than 5000, you may be able to write using Roman Numerals.

Write a set of rules for rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000. For example, when rounding to the nearest 100, the answer will be in the hundreds and have two zeros.