05 March 2021
This week’s spellings are based on words with two syllables (like a ‘beat’ in a spoken word). By dividing words into syllables, this can help the children to try and write each syllable at a time. They should also be able to use their phonics knowledge to help to spell these words. The words are taken from the book Zog, by Julia Donaldson, which we will be reading in class next week.
zigzag
learning
hardest
dragon
golden
capture
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 12 March. When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words. Making up silly sentences, using the words, would be a great way to practise spellings, handwriting and writing sentences!
05 March 2021
This week, we are looking at adding the suffix –ly.
Here are some of the words that we will be learning. Can you work out the root word for each spelling?
e.g. The root word of completely is complete.
Spelling list:
- accidentally
- completely
- closely
- frantically
- particularly
- occasionally
- separately
- basically
- probably
- surprisingly
Week beginning 11 January 2021
This week we are recapping learning of the alternative graphemes (different spellings) for long vowel sounds. We have looked at these before last term, so we are only spending a day on each sound. The words that we will focus on each day are in the list below. Concentrate on a couple of words that you are less confident with for each day – you choose which ones you will work on, as we are all different. Choose which ten words you are going to focus on and ask someone at home to test you on those ten words on Friday.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| eight | believe | bicycle | could | crust |
| eighth | breathe | decide | should | mantle |
| famous | complete | describe | would | core |
| favourite | extreme | exercise | said | |
| straight | increase | guide | friend | |
| strange | height | |||
| weight | surprise |
05 January 2021
Hi everyone!
Your spellings for this week are all about the alternative graphemes for ‘ai’, ‘ee’ and ‘ie’.
A grapheme is how a single unit of sound (phoneme) is written.
For example, for ‘ai’, you could have the word bait. For ‘ay’, which is the same sound as ‘ai’ but is just written differently, you could have bay.
ai and ay are alternative graphemes
Your spellings to remember for this week are:
favourite, straight, weight, believe, appear, increase, height, describe, decide, surprise
Send an email to your class teacher if you want to ask any questions!
05 January 2021
Happy new year, everyone!
This week’s spellings are all homophones. Challenge yourself to define what a homophone is to someone else!
Make sure you’re confident with what each version of the spelling means – they’re completely different!
Check back onto the home learning section of the website to find out your task for today.
- desert
- dessert
- stationary
- stationery
- complement
- compliment
- principle
- principal
- prophet
- profit
11 December 2020
Next week, we will be learning words which have a silent w.
- write
- wrote
- wrist
- wrong
- wrap
- wriggle
- wreck
- sword
11 December 2020
This week’s spellings are again based on tricky words where the children can’t always use their phonics knowledge to help them to spell the words.
Group 1 spellings (Based on the remaining tricky words in Phase 4)
come
little
one
when
out
what
Group 2 spellings (Based on the remaining tricky words in Phase 3)
was
my
you
they
all
are
11 December 2020
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homophones |
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| This week’s spelling list is formed using words that are all homophones. Choose a spelling strategy and practise them – make sure you choose the correct word to write in sentences of your own. Next, correct the mistakes in the paragraph below. There are homophones that we’ve been covering all year, too! | ||||
| isle | aisle | aloud | allowed | herd |
| heard | past | passed | affect | effect |
Nervously, I walked down the cereal isle and looked up at the appealing ones up their on the top shelf that I really wanted but couldn’t bring myself too reach. Suddenly, I herd an announcement over the tannoy system which brought me out of my daydream. Other busy shoppers quickly past by me like a heard of cows. Delicious items of food filled there trolley! I felt like a lost aisle in the middle of an ocean… But, seeing they’re lovely shopping had a strange affect on me which aloud me to feel stronger; I was determined too get up that ladder and conquer my fear. “Your amazing!” I kept chanting in my head. Time past slowly as I put one foot in front of the other on the ladder. “I’ve done it!” I shouted allowed when I reached the top, not caring who herd me!
04 December 2020
Spellings:
Next week, the phoneme we’re learning about is u which is spelled with an o.
- Monday
- nothing
- brother
- mother
- money
- worry
- love
- other
The children will be tested on these words on Friday 6th December.
04 December 2020
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apostrophes |
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| This week’s spelling list is formed using words from the Y5/6 statutory spellings. Practise the words below, making sure you know what they mean. Next, write three sentences for each: one using an apostrophe for contraction, one for singular possession and one for plural possession! Check out the examples below! | ||||
| committee | community | environment | government | professional |
| restaurant | secretary | soldier | vehicle | yacht |
neighbour
- My neighbour’s really eco-friendly and recycles a lot! (= neighbour is)
- My neighbour’s door is painted red. (The door belongs to one neighbour.)
- My neighbours’ gardens are all different but all lovely. (The gardens belong to more than one neighbour.)