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.)
04 December 2020
In class, we have two spelling groups. The children have been told their group and the homework/spelling sheet they bring home on a Friday matches the spellings they should be learning. If you want to clarify this with us, please email (carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org and jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org)
Group 1 (This week, the spellings are based on the tricky words in Phase 4)
said
have
like
some
were
there
Group 2 (This week, the spellings are based on the tricky words in Phase 3)
he
she
we
me
be
her
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 11 December. 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!
You might also want to practice the words by drawing word shapes around the words to show the ascenders (letters that stick up high) and descenders (letters that go below the line).
04 December 2020
In spelling lessons next week, we’ll be recapping and practising homophones. These are words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning. For example: their, there, they’re
We’ve had some of these words already this year but children are still getting mixed up when using them in their writing. It’s really important that children are not just learning to spell the words but practising using them correctly. Click here for a homophone guide (please challenge your child with other homophones if they are really solid on the ones given). There’s also a worksheet to complete (please practise using sentences like this rather than just writing out the words).
This week’s homophones to practise:
| their | of |
| there | off |
| they’re | to |
| your | two |
| you’re | too |
27 November 2020
Next week, we will be learning the phoneme or. This is spelt with an a before l and ll.
- all
- ball
- call
- small
- talk
- walk
- always
- altogether
27 November 2020
This week, we’re focussing on the spelling rule: change y to i.
When adding suffixes such as ed, er and est to words that end in y, we normally change the y to an i then add our suffix.
However, If the suffix we are adding is ing, we don’t normally change the y – we keep it. For example the word party would become partying Practise by adding any of the above suffixes to the root words below – some will work, some won’t.
E.g. for cry, you will want to practise cried, crier, crying and adding est doesn’t work.
For busy, you’ll have busied, busier, busiest and busying.
| busy | creepy | library | ordinary | worry |
| century | marry | naughty | carry | cry |