Friday, September 20, 2013

Suffixes

Suffixes are added to the end of a base word and changes the meaning of the word
Example : care + less =careless and means without care

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Homographs

  Today I learned that a homograph is a word that has the same spelling as another word but a different meaning and sometimes a different pronunciation.
Example: Duck
Duck other wise you will get hit by that ball.
Look at that duck swimming in the pond over there.

 
     
There is a lot of things that I learned since the new school year started I learned a little bit about math. We're reading a novel that's about a boy named Brian. Brian gets stuck in the middle of the canadian wilderness. I could keep going on and on but im not going to.

Suffixes

Today we learned about suffixes in grammar! When you add a suffix to the end of a base word it changes the meaning
Ex:
      Care - careful - means full of care

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Exponents

Today we learned about powers.In 82 the "2"  says to use 8 twice in a multiplication, so 82= 8 x 8  =64  .  In words: 82 could be called "8 to the power 2" or "8 to the second power", or simply "8 squared"
 Powers are also called exponents

Example: 53 = 5x5x5 = 125










Grammar, in grammar (E.L.A) today we learned about prefixes. A prefix is an affix added to the baseword or the "stem" of the word. For an example the word "seen" can be changed into a another word using a prefix by adding the word "un" which mean not so the new word would be "unseen" which means not seen.:)             
Today in class we learned about prefixes! A prefix is added to the start of a base word changing the meaning of the word. For example dis- is a prefix and please is a base word. If you put dis and please together you will get displease. Changing the word please completely.