Spelling

09 March 2012

This week’s spellings begin and end with ‘th’. Your child will be tested on Friday 16 March 2012.

02 March 2012

Spellings this week are all words with the ‘er’ sound in them.

They will be tested on Friday 09 March 2012.

02 March 2012

This week’s spellings are words beginning with ‘al’. Your child will be tested on Friday 09 March 2012.

• almighty
• almost
• alone
• along
• already
• also
• altogether
• always
• alright
• although

02 March 2012

This week, we’re spelling words with the ending ‘ous‘, which means ‘full of, famous, full of fame’.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 09 March 2012.

• tremendous
• fabulous
• marvellous
• ridiculous
• dangerous
• furious
• gracious
• ravenous
• scandalous
• incredulous
• delicious

Children will also have to put the spellings into a sentence to show they understand the meanings of the words. It’s probably a good idea, therefore, to find the meanings as well as the spellings.

The children will also be expected to use the spellings in speaking and listening activities in class and in their writing.

02 March 2012

This week in our spellings, we’re learning to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’. We’re also looking at variations of word endings when dropping the ‘y’.

By adding ‘ier’ on the end of the adjective, we infer that something is more of that adjective than something else. For example, “A carrot is healthier than a chocolate bar.”

By adding ‘est’ on the end on the end of the adjective, we infer that something is the most. For example, ” Jacob Marley was the scariest fancy dress costume on Thursday.”

As all of the variations to the words are similar, I’ve included more words on the list. Any of the words in the list above could come up on the test on Friday 09 March.

02 March 2012

This week’s spellings are more homophones (words which sound the same but have different meanings and/or spelling). Children need to know the correct spelling and meaning of each word.

If there are any questions, please come and see me.

24 February 2012

This is our last week of practising words which have split digraphs.  The last ‘e’ in the words isn’t a sound that we say, but it works with another letter to make the sound; for example, hop (with a short ‘o’ sound) to hope (with a longer ‘oh’ sound).

These will be tested on Friday 02 March.

24 February 2012

This week’s spellings all require your child to double up for short vowel sounds.

24 February 2012

This week, we’re learning to spell superlatives, which are adjectives at their ‘most’ extreme:

• biggest
• nastiest
• happiest
• smelliest
• heaviest
• naughtiest
• thinnest
• angriest

Learn all the spellings and find three more superlatives of your own.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 02 March.

24 February 2012

This week’s spellings are slightly different. Instead of a list of words, I simply want your child to be able to distinguish between the two forms of ‘no’:

• no – For example: No, I don’t want to play.
• know – For example: I know my times tables.

We’ll be looking at this through the week, but if you could practise these activities at home it will ensure your child has a thorough understanding:

On piece of paper, write ‘no’ on one side and ‘know’ on the other. Read out a sentence and they have to show the correct ‘no’.

Have some sample sentences where they write the correct form of no. For example:

• I know my spellings. (know)
• There is no way through. (no)

If you’ve any questions, feel free to speak with me any time.