Spelling

08 March 2013

This week, we’re revisiting a familiar spelling rule. The spelling rule to chant is:

double-up for short vowel sounds

The spellings are all verbs. When the suffix ed is added, it requires us to double up the consonant after the short vowel sound.

For example, hop +ed becomes hopped (rather than hoped, which has a longer ‘oh’ sound).

01 March 2013

This week, I want you to revisit all the spellings we have learnt throughout the year. Each day we will have a randomly generated test on some of the spelling from the year plus a bigger test on Friday.

Make sure your spellings are up to date in your learning  list book – if they are not up to date, use the website to help you fill in the gaps.

You might not remember the spelling, but see if you can apply the rules.

01 March 2013

The spellings this week are all words which have a short vowel sound and require a ‘double up’ after the short vowel sound. A lot of the spellings are also in the past tense so will practise our ‘ed’ endings again. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 08 March.

stopped

ripped

dropped

spotted

stepped

messily

happily

staggered

sniggered

spluttered

01 March 2013

This week, the children have been split into different spelling groups. You will know which group your child is in as it will be written on the inside of their spelling book.

We are revisiting split digraphs. This week we are looking at i – e. These will be tested on Friday 08 March.

Group M

Group S

01 March 2013

This week we’re revisiting some common homophones. A homophone is a word that sounds the same as another word but is spelt differently.

The individual words aren’t too tricky but the real challenge is being able to use them at the correct time. Year 4 therefore need to practise using the right homophone in sentences, which is how they will be tested.

01 March 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 08 March.

Lions

These are compound words. These are words that are made up of two other words.

• bedroom
• football
• goodnight
• handbag
• outside
• paintbrush
• playground
• weekend
• cupboard
• blackbird

Tigers

These are words beginning with ‘wh’.

• who
• what
• why
• where
• when
• which
• white
• while
• wheel
• whale

Zebras

Please practise these tricky words.

• saw
• come
• what
• have
• went
• was
• came
• the
• some
• and

08 February 2013

We are reviewing our work on silent letters this week. The children will be tested on any of the words from the previous two spelling lists. As always, they will be tested on eight words.

08 February 2013

Please learn these words for a test on Friday 15 February.

Words containing the ’th‘ letter pattern.

For those of you that want a challenge…

You could write the words in a sentence, such as:

• I have a bath every night.
• I use my brain to think.

08 February 2013

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about plurals.

This week, I want you to revisit all the spellings we have learnt about plurals. The test next week will be on:

• plurals where you just add s
• plurals where you add es
• plurals that end with ies
• plurals that end with ves

There will be no more than eight spellings from the four lists. However, I will not reveal which ones they are until the test.

08 February 2013

We are continuing to look at suffixes in spellings in Year Six. This week the suffix is ic.

Children need to learn the words from the list and find four more spellings with the same suffix.

• historic
• organic
• supersonic
• atomic
• specific
• traffic
• horrific
• metallic
• angelic
• epidemic
• rhythmic

Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 February.