Welcome to the Year 4 Class Page
The Year 4 Teachers are Mr Edwards and Mrs Todiresei
The Year 4 Teaching Assistant is Mrs Bushby
We hope you enjoy seeing what we have been learning about on our page
We noticed that consonant suffixes (-ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly) are added straight onto most root words, without any change to the last letter of the word.
Exceptions are: 1) argument 2) Root words ending in -y, if the root has more than one syllable, for example. merriment, happiness, plentiful, penniless, happily.
We played a game, using root and suffix cards to build words. Team members had to agree that a real word has been created. At the end of the activity, partners challenged each other to spell words created by roots and suffixes, and then used the card to check.
We found some roots can be used to create many related words, e.g. mind – mindful, mindless, mindlessness, unmindful, mindfulness
Thank you to everyone who attended the New to Year 4 meeting - either virtually or in person - it was lovely to meet and talk with you. The presentation is attached (above) for reference and for those who were unable to attend.
As ever, if there are any queries then do have a chat with us.
Many thanks, The Year 4 Team