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Hi, I'm Ms. Morgan and I'm one of the Oak teachers.
I'm going to teach you spelling today, and we are going to be learning all about the suffixes, specifically plurals.
And in fact, if you watched my other two lessons, you'll know that we already learned some rules for plurals, and this is the next lesson, and we're learning some more rules about plurals.
Let's get going.
In this lesson today, we will start by looking at the key vocabulary that we're going to use.
We're then going to investigate and generate some more rules for using plurals.
And then finally, I'm going to set you 10 spelling words that you will need to practise.
As usual, you need these three important things.
Can you say them aloud with me? An exercise book or paper, something to write in, a pencil, and of course, your brain.
Have you got it switched on and are you ready for learning? So our key vocabulary for today.
They are the same four words that we did in our last lesson.
I wonder if you can remember what they are? Remember, my turn, your turn.
Suffix, noun, singular, plural.
Can you put your hands on your head if you remember any of those words' meanings? Let's go.
So suffix is a group of letters at the end of a word that changes its meaning.
Have you spotted the clue? Fix, it fixes to the end of a word.
A noun is a person, place or thing.
We like to call this a PPT.
Singular is one thing, and plural more than one thing.
Can you think of the names of these key words? Fingers on noses is if you know.
Let's go.
A suffix.
A group of letters at the end of a word that changes its meaning.
What's a person, place or thing? A PPT? It's a noun, well done.
And one thing is singular.
Think of single.
And more than one thing is plural.
Excellent.
So when we look at our vowels, we have short vowels and long vowels.
Our short vowels are ah, eh, ih, oh, uh.
And I made a little rap last time.
Can you remember? Ah, eh, ih, oh, uh.
These are our vowels, and there are long vowel sounds.
You can hear that they are long.
Can you read them with me? Ea, ow, a_e, or oy.
Did anyone spot the second long vowel sound of ow could also be ow? Well done if you spotted that.
Now we're going to read some words with some short and long vowel sounds.
Shop.
Shop.
Op is a short vowel sound.
Track.
Track.
Ack is the short vowel sound.
Blurb.
Blurb.
Blurb, ur, is the long vowel sound.
Crave.
Crave is when you really want something.
Crave.
The a is the long vowel sound there.
Here's a key phonemes that are going to give you some help today when we're generating our rules.
Can you read with me starting at -ch? We're going to read along, can you say the sound with me? ch.
sh.
ng.
ll.
x.
th.
f.
ph.
v.
ck.
ss.
tch.
Ooh, I spotted that we got the -ch sound here, and a -tch here.
This can also be the -ch sound.
So let's get started and investigate and generate the rules.
Remember, singular is one thing.
One church, a church.
More than one church would be churches.
Excellent.
Here is a church.
Here are the churches.
Can you see what's happened to the spelling? We've added -es, the suffix -es to the end of the word to make it plural.
Church.
Church.
Church.
Well done.
Here is a picture of a stitch, that is something that has been sown with needle and thread.
I've got one stitch there, and lots of these stitches would be stitches all together.
Everything's stitched.
And here's the word stitches.
Ooh, you spotted that -ch sound there? And we had a -ch in church as well, so I wonder if that's a clue for remembering to use -es? Here's a picture of a brush.
More than one brush would be brushes, well done.
I've written brush, brush, brush.
And here is the word brushes.
Brushes.
Ooh, clue.
Here are three words.
I want you to match them to the plural.
The first word is pitch, and that could be a football pitch, or a campsite pitch that you might go and stay at.
Wish is the second word, and this is a wish.
Maybe I wish having lots of wishes for my birthday.
And the last one is arch, and that is something that's going over a building.
Pitch becomes pitches, and we can see we got a -ch at the end of pitch.
Hmm.
Wish becomes wishes.
We've got a -sh at the end of wish.
And arch becomes arches.
I wonder if you're spotting the rule now? I've got a picture of a dress.
If we had more than one dress, we would have dresses, well done.
Here's dress, and here I've written dresses.
And dress ends in a double S, a -ss sound.
Here's a picture of a fox.
And some foxes.
So what happens to the word fox to become foxes? We just add an -es.
Will you practise these two examples? The word box and glass.
Can you match them to the correct plurals? Box becomes boxes, we add an -es.
And glass becomes glasses, adding an -es.
Well done.
Can you turn these singular nouns into plurals? The first word is sketch, and a sketch is a drawing that you would do.
The second word is kiss.
And the third word is box.
Can you write them down and turn them into their plurals? Sketch becomes sketches.
Kiss becomes kisses.
Box becomes boxes.
How did you get on? Did you notice anything about the end sound that I've highlighted in green? We've got a -ch, a -ss, and an -x sound.
What's the rule? You can whisper it into your pen.
So if the world ends in -sh -ch, -ss, or a -x, then we add the -es suffix to the singular noun to form the plural.
So it's really important that you listen to the end sound in those words.
So if it ends in a -sh, -ch, -ss, or -x, then we add -es.
Now we're going to investigate another rule, but you might be thinking, ah, we've just done -es, Ms. Morgan.
We know about the suffix -es.
Have a look and see.
See if you can spot what the rule is here.
Here's a picture of a wolf and some wolves.
Ooh, that's a bit tricky.
A single singular noun is a wolf, and more than one is, becomes wolves.
This is how we spell wolf.
And to turn it into the plural, it's spelled like this.
What's happened? We've replaced the F with a V, and then we fixed the -es to the end.
Here's a picture of a shelf.
Can you hear the shelf, the -f in shelf? And here are the picture of the shelves.
It changes to that -v.
This is how we spell shelf.
It ends in a -f.
And this is how we spell shelves.
Can you put your finger on your nose if you can spot what's happened to the spelling? The F has been changed into a V, and we've added the -es.
Let's see if it's the same for these two words.
This word it's leaf.
And the second word is calf, and a calf is a baby cow.
Can you match them to their plurals? Remember to say them out loud.
Be careful of how you pronounce them.
Off you go, I'm listening.
Well done.
Calf becomes calves.
Leaf becomes leaves.
Have you spotted the rule? We replaced the F with a V, and we add an es, well done.
Now you have a go.
These three words say elf, half, and self.
Off you go.
Elf becomes elves.
Half becomes halves.
Self becomes selves.
Did you spot the rule? Whisper into your pen.
I can't hear you.
So, when we have an F at the end of a word, as in elf or half, we replace the F with a V, and we add the -es suffix to the singular noun to form the plural.
I'll say it again.
We replace the F with a V, and we add -es, well done.
So these are our five rules that we have been learning over the past three lessons.
The top two, we just add -s.
Remember, we usually use that for the majority of words.
Today, we've been learning about adding -es, particularly if it has a -sh, -ch, -ss, or -x at the end of the word.
And then we just learned about if a word ends with a -f, as in wolf, or elf or shelf, then we change the F into a V and we add -es.
And then finally, we also learned about words that end in a Y, such as lady, or city or family.
And there we change the Y into an I, and we add -es.
So I'm going to get you to use those thinking brains now and you're going to try and apply the rules to work out the plurals of these words.
This word is wish.
How would you spell wishes? Can you point to which rule would help you work it out? Well done.
Use the -es rule, because wish ends in -sh.
Wish.
Well done.
The next one is nest.
How would we spell nests? Point to which rule you think it is.
Just add -s, well done.
And here have loaf and loaves.
Which rule have I used here? That's right, we change the F into a V, and we add -es.
Excellent.
What about match and matches? Well done.
We've got a -ch at the end of match, so we just add -es.
Now I'm going to set your 10 spelling words.
Make sure you've got a piece of paper, and I want you to number one to 10 in a list.
Pause and do this now.
Here are your 10 spellings.
You'll notice that we have grouped them in colours according to their end sound, which will give you a clue on how to make them into plurals, what suffix you will add.
I will say the word twice, and I want you to copy it down carefully.
The first word is watches.
Watches.
All the watches in the shop were broken.
The second word is sandwiches.
Sandwiches.
She ate all the sandwiches.
Those two end in the -ch sound, so we just add -es.
Number three is dishes.
Dishes.
He broke most of the dishes when he was doing the washing up.
Number four, wishes.
Wishes.
He hoped his wishes would come true.
Those two end in a -sh sound.
Number five, kisses.
Kisses.
He blew kisses to his girlfriend as he waved goodbye.
Number six, glasses.
Glasses.
Auntie Nell always lost her glasses.
Those two end in a -ss sound.
Number seven, boxes.
Boxes.
Mum needed lots of boxes because they were moving house.
Number eight, foxes.
Foxes.
The foxes have decided to make their home at the end of the garden.
Number nine, leaves.
Leaves.
All the leaves fell around them.
Number 10, lives.
Lives.
They fought like their lives depended on it.
So these are your spellings.
Make sure you practise them little and often.
Well done.
You've worked really hard again.
You should give yourself a pat on the back.
See you next lesson.
