19 October 2012
We are breaking from the norm this week by only having six spellings. This is because the spellings are a bit trickier than usual.
The spellings are all ‘adding connectives’ which we’ll be using in our writing next week. Most of the spellings have a capital letter and a comma because we will be using them as sentence openers.
(‘Another point is…’ flows better without a comma.)
| 1. | First of all, |
| 2. | Furthermore, |
| 3. | Also, |
| 4. | Another point is |
| 5. | Additionally, |
| 6. | Moreover, |
19 October 2012
This week’s spellings are “irregular” spellings for past tense. They do not follow the regular rules for adding “ed”.
These will be tested on Friday 26 October 2012.
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think |
thought |
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fight |
fought |
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bring |
brought |
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buy |
bought |
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can |
could |
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are |
were |
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catch |
caught |
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teach |
taught |
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hear |
heard |
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find |
found |
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wind |
wound |
19 October 2012
This week, the children have come up with some connectives that they struggle to spell. These will also help them with their report writing this week. For example…
Cars are ideal to get about from A to B. However, they do cause pollution and can cause accidents. Furthermore, it is known that opting to walk or cycle is much healthier. In other words, sitting in a car is not a way to exercise whilst travelling.
The spellings are a variety of different types of connectives – they do different jobs in a sentence. See if your child knows which ones they are.
| LO: connective openers |
| Meanwhile, |
| Suddenly, |
| Additionally, |
| Furthermore, |
| However, |
| Nevertheless, |
| Consequently, |
| Therefore, |
| In other words, |
| That is to say, |
Your child will only be tested on eight of these spellings. It’s important that your child remembers to have a capital letter at the start and a comma at the end.
19 October 2012
This week’s spellings begin with ‘th’. Your child will be tested on Friday 26 October 2012.
- three
- throat
- throne
- thigh
- thin
- thing
- thick
- throw
- threw
- think
12 October 2012
We are learning about ed endings this week. This week’s list is made up of words where you have to add ed to the end of the word when changing it to the past tense. Children often hear this ending as a t sound and not ed.
| 1. | walk | walked |
| 2. | talk | talked |
| 3. | move | moved |
| 4. | roll | rolled |
| 5. | ask | asked |
| 6. | crash | crashed |
| 7. | watch | watched |
| 8. | test | tested |
| 9. | groan | groaned |
| 10. | wow | wowed |
12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are words using ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. A useful way to remember which to use is ‘oi’ is usually in the middle of a word and ‘oy’ is usually at the end. These spellings will be tested on Friday 19 October.
| boy |
| coin |
| toy |
| soil |
| boil |
| joy |
| foil |
| Roy |
12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are continuing the rule of changing the “y” to “i”. They will be tested on Friday 19 October 2012.
There seem to be a lot of spellings on this list but the children have been learning about this rule all week and are familiar with these words. Please encourage them to add any more words that they can think of. The spelling test will test them on 8 of these words and we will be verbally discussing all of them.
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Spellings |
Year 5 |
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y + i + ful |
y + i + es |
y + i + ly |
y + i + er / est |
y + i + ed |
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beautiful |
babies |
happily |
happier / happiest |
tried |
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plentiful |
puppies |
crazily |
crazier / craziest |
fried |
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fanciful |
cities |
funnily |
funnier / funniest |
cried |
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pitiful |
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luckily |
luckier / luckiest |
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friendlier / friendliest |
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12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are all months of the year. You won’t be tested on all of them. However, you’ll have to learn them all as I’m not going to reveal which ones are going to be tested.
| LO: months of the year |
| January |
| February |
| March |
| April |
| May |
| June |
| July |
| August |
| September |
| October |
| November |
| December |
12 October 2012
This week, the children are focussing on learning to spell and use the correct homophone at the right time and in the right context.
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. For example:
where were we’re
through threw
Children have been given a list of commonly misused homophones to learn, including the correct meaning. They will be tested on the spelling and, as importantly, the meaning of these words.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 19 October.
12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘ed’ for the past tense. Your child will be tested on Friday 19 October 2012.
- walked
- talked
- helped
- played
- climbed
- asked
- looked
- wished
- picked
- fixed