Collaborative Discussions about making Plurals

Today, we worked in groups to discuss the different ways we could make words into plurals.  We sorted a selection of words, paying attention to the spelling patterns.

This wasn't as easy as we had first thought.  We discovered that depending on how the words ended (in their singular form) this dictated how the plural form was spelt.  For example, singular words ending in Y could have the Y removed and ies added, BUT only if the letter before the Y is a consonant i.e. baby / babies.  When a singular word ends in Y but has a vowel before it, i.e. boy, then an S is added after the Y.

Although alot of us know how to spell these words we didn't know the rules.