23 March 2012
This week, we’re learning spellings where the c in the word sounds like an s.
Learn the words and find four more that fit the rule. Spellings will be tested on Friday 30 March.
- ceased
- celebrity
- ceiling
- exciting
- excellent
- circumnavigate
- cyberspace
- certificate
- scissors
- celebrate
23 March 2012
We’re learning to spell words with the ‘igh’ letter pattern.
These words will be tested on Friday 30 March.
| high |
| light |
| night |
| right |
| bright |
| fight |
23 March 2012
This week’s spellings are compound words (two words that make up one word). Your child will be tested on Friday 30 March 2012.
- · bedroom
- · football
- · goodnight
- · handbag
- · outside
- · paintbrush
- · playground
- · weekend
- · cupboard
- · blackbird
16 March 2012
This week’s spellings are words with the ‘ow’ letter pattern. Your child will be tested on Friday 23 March 2012.
| cow |
| how |
| now |
| down |
| brown |
| clown |
| town |
| flower |
16 March 2012
This week’s spellings are connectives that can be used as openers for a sentence related to the previous sentence or paragraph. For example: “The acting in the Lion King was amazing. In addition, the singing was superb!” They have been separated into two groups:
- adding connectives – add more information to the previous point
- reason + result – gives a consequence to the previous point
| LO: connective openers |
| adding connectives |
| In addition, |
| Furthermore, |
| Moreover, |
| Additionally, |
| reason + result connectives |
| Consequently, |
| As a result, |
| Therefore, |
| As a consequence, |
These connectives will really help with the children’s writing next week as they are learning how to persuade someone to do something.
16 March 2012
Spellings this week are all ‘ly‘ words. Your child will be tested on Friday 23 March 2012.
| A | B | C |
| approximately
extremely frequently particularly emotionally despicably undeniably thoroughly outrageously
|
approximately
extremely frequently importantly thoroughly particularly physically perfectly finally |
actually
highly gently gingerly gradually smoothly carefully perfectly finally
|
16 March 2012
This week’s spellings are plurals that end in ‘es’. It is used instead of ‘s’ for words that end in ss, sh, x, o and zz. Your child will be tested on Friday 23 March 2012.
- buses
- bushes
- heroes
- boxes
- foxes
- dresses
- crashes
- buzzes
- fishes
- classes
09 March 2012
This week’s spellings are double consonants – they usually make the vowel sound before them a short sound (compare dinner with diner, for example). Your child will be tested on Friday 16 March 2012.
- better
- daddy
- dinner
- happy
- letter
- supper
- lolly
- button
- summer
- rabbit
09 March 2012
The spellings this week are all words with silent letters, e.g. knee, gnat, wrinkle.
The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 16 March.
| 1. | knee |
| 2. | knock |
| 3. | knife |
| 4. | wrong |
| 5. | wreck |
| 6. | wretch |
| 7. | sword |
| 8. | when |
| 9. | whine |
| 10. | gnarled |
09 March 2012
This week we’re spelling words with the ending ment.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 16 March.
- supplement
- government
- punishment
- development
- management
- employment
- environment
- equipment
- improvement
- argument
- announcement