Saturday 7 June 2014

Fun with Words

Last week Room 4 went crazy finding, writing and using the prefix dis-.
Charlotte was an inspiration with her list of 114 words.
We made a word chain using dis- words.
This week we are learning about the suffix -est that goes at the end of some words.
What does -est do to a root word?

Your challenge this week is to post a blog comment that shows a root word and the word when -est has been added to the end. What do you notice?
Here is my example:

 fast   fastest   We use fastest to compare different speedy objects.