Grammar
What two things do letters have?
Letter sound and letter name.
What vowel sound do we have in the word 'pie'?
Long vowel 'ie'.
What are speech marks and where do we use them?
Speech marks show us when somebody is speaking and we use them in a text.
What is gravity?
Gravity is what keeps us down on the Earth and not floating away.
What types of words did we learn?
We learned nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives.
What are synonyms? Give an example.
Words that mean the same thing but are spelled differently. Happy - joyful.
What is special about sounds 'ur' and 'or'?
Both of them can have two different sounds.
What are compound words? Give an example.
Compound words are words made out of two different words e.g. basketball.
What is the name of the system we use to measure today? What are some of the units of measurement?
It is called the metric system, the units are metres, centimetres, litres.
What are nouns and what types do we have?
Nouns are names for places, people, things and animals. We have common and proper nouns.
What are antonyms? Give an example.
Antonyms are words that are opposite. Night - day
What sound do we have in the words 'talk', 'small', 'ball', 'balm', 'salt'?
Sound 'al'.
Put the words in alphabetical order:
sun, moon, dust, galaxy, planet
Dust, galaxy, moon, planet, sun.
How did people use to measure in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome?
They used hands, fingers, arms and feet.
What are adjectives? Give an example.
Adjectives are words that describe nouns e.g pretty girl.
What are homophones? Give an example.
Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Two - too - to
'Quick', 'squeak', 'queen', 'squad' and 'quilt' all have which sound?
Sound 'qu'.
If a word ends with x, s, or z, how do we make the plural?
We add 'es'.
How many planets do we have and what are they?
We have eight plants and they are Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus.
What are pronouns? Give an example.
Pronouns are words that replace nouns so we do not repeat them e.g. she, he.
What is the difference between regular and irregular verbs? Give an example of both.
Regular verbs we add -ed in the past, for irregular verbs we have special words for the past.
run - ran
talk - talked
What is the difference between toughy y and shy i?
Toughy y can be at the end of the word and can stand alone, but shy i can't be alone and can't be at the end of the word.
What is the difference between a sentence and a question?
Sentence ends with a full stop and question ends with a question mark.
How do we know something is a bug?
If it has six legs and antennea, it is a bug.
What are verbs? Give an example.
Verbs are words that tell us what we are doing e.g. run, write, read.