18 September 2015
This week’s spellings use the spelling part ‘ough’ – this week, the ‘ough’ is pronounced in different ways. There are some tricky words to remember as well. We’re focusing on the 8 times table. Both will be tested on Friday 25 September.
- though
- although
- dough
- through
- thorough
- borough
- plough
…And here are the tricky words.
- achieve
- amateur
- ancient
11 September 2015
Children have been given a new Learning List book, which gives lots of great tips for learning spellings as well as being designed to allow children to practise independently.
This week’s spellings are all words that include ough:
thought
bought
ought
nought
brought
ought
rough
tough
enough
cough
11 September 2015
The spellings this week are the numbers one to ten.
| one |
| two |
| three |
| four |
| five |
| six |
| seven |
| eight |
| nine |
| ten |
This links to our work in maths this week. Common mistakes are writing the word two as tow and four as for. You might look at the corresponding tens numbers and see how the spelling changes or stays the same. Unfortunately, there are some frustrating differences. For example, four changes to forty and five to fifty.
The children will be tested on all ten spellings on Friday. If you have any questions, please ask.
10 July 2015
The spellings this week are a little different. The children won’t know the spelling list until the test. However, they have been told that the words will be from the three main spelling rules we talk about:
- drop the e for ing
- double up for short vowel sounds
- drop the y for an i
Children should look back at their learning lists for spelling lists featuring these rules.
03 July 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 10 July. Please note that there will be no spellings sent home next week.
|
Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
|
gym |
through |
ungrateful |
|
crystal |
two |
disappear |
|
Lynne |
spoon |
disapprove |
|
pyramid |
super |
uncover |
|
mystery |
grew |
disobey |
|
Egypt |
true |
disadvantage |
|
cygnet |
few |
unattractive |
|
rhythm |
blue |
undo |
|
huge |
unaware |
|
|
group |
unbeatable |
03 July 2015
This week in Year 5, there are no spellings to learn.
Next week, we’ll be carrying out short progress tests to help inform my end of year assessments. These will include a spelling test.
03 July 2015
This week, we’re practising spelling words which have a prefix – a series of letters which are at the beginning of a word.
- dishonest
- disagree
- disobey
- impossible
- impatient
- impolite
- rewrite
- recount
- refresh
- rethink
26 June 2015
Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 03 July.
|
Red Group |
Yellow Group |
Green Group |
|
steady |
like |
dripped |
|
head |
white |
shopped |
|
bread |
high |
thinner |
|
feather |
bright |
maddest |
|
bear |
tried |
puppy |
|
tear |
cried |
swimming |
|
dead |
kind |
dropping |
|
ready |
find |
winner |
|
sky |
digger |
|
|
right |
wettest |
26 June 2015
The spellings this week are all homophones (words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings). The words are listed in pairs and children may be tested on any of the words. As the spellings sound the same, they will need to understand the context that the word is read in.
Group 2 should learn all of the words.
Group 1 do not have to (but are encouraged) to learn the bold words.
| 1. | where | wear |
| 2. | weak | week |
| 3. | our | are |
| 4. | new | knew |
| 5. | bean | been |
| 6. | past | passed |
| 7. | through | threw |
| 8. | aloud | allowed |
| 9. | guessed | guest |
| 10. | weather | whether |
19 June 2015
The spellings this week are all words with silent letters. The silent letter in each word is in bold.
| 1. | doubt |
| 2. | lamb |
| 3. | limb |
| 4. | tomb |
| 5. | knight |
| 6. | knock |
| 7. | knowledge |
| 8. | honest |
| 9. | ghastly |
| 10. | rhyme |