This week’s spellings have no particular pattern. The children have the Year 3/4 spelling list and should practise tackling spellings using the strategies below when they’ve had no opportunity to learn them beforehand.
- break the word up into syllables
- think about what the root word is before tackling
- consider whether any prefixes or suffixes have been adding
- consider whether any spelling rules need to be applied
- consider what spelling patterns might be involved (tious, cious)
When none of these strategies work for a word, a way of remembering it needs to be created.
There will be a text on Friday 7 December. The children will be tested on ten words which will all come from this list.
This week’s times tables focus is the 8s. Many children find this table difficult so practising both the multiplication and divisions facts is important. There will be a test on this on Friday 7 December.