17 January 2020
This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘ay’, ‘ou’ ‘ea’ and ‘ie’ digraph.
| play |
| day |
| shout |
| round |
| pie |
| cried |
| tea |
| meal |
17 January 2020
This week the words are all adjectives and require you to double up for a short vowel sound when adding the suffixes er and est. The children will be tested on any of the words where a suffix has been added.
- fat fatter fattest
- thin thinner thinnest
- big bigger biggest
- sad sadder saddest
- hot hotter hottest
- bad badder baddest
The children will be tested on Friday 24th January 2020
Investigating circuits
Year 4 are learning all about electricity in their science lessons this half term. We started off our topic finding out about the difference between mains and battery operated appliances and how we can use them safely around the home and school.
Now, we’re investigating circuits. We found out how to make a circuit to light a bulb and are now using this knowledge to test our own scientific questions.
In this lesson, we had to use some key scientific vocabulary. Test us at home to see how much we’ve remembered: circuit, cell, bulb, components
12 January 2020
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homophones |
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| This week’s spelling list is formed using words that can sound the same, but have a different spelling and meaning. Your task is to complete a silly sentence for each one of the words. If you don’t know what any of the words mean, use a dictionary or alternative source to find out. As always, please come and see me before the deadline for help! | ||||
| principle | dessert | profit | stationery | compliment |
| principal | desert | prophet | stationary | complement |
10 January 2020
This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘a_e’ split digraph.
| make |
| shake |
| tame |
| snake |
| plane |
| flame |
10 January 2020
The spellings this week are words that require the doubling up of consonants when adding the suffix ed or ing to a word with a short vowel. The children will be tested on both suffixes.
- to pat patted
- to hop hopped
- to drop dropped
- to trap trapped
- to hum humming
- to slip slipping
- to grin grinning
10 January 2020
This week’s spellings recaps the children’s understanding of commonly misused homophones. Practise using these spellings correctly in sentences and discuss ways to remember when to use which homophone – any good ideas you’ve got could be shared in class. There will be no test next week but we will share our spelling practice in our homework review on Thursday 16 January.
| homophones | |
| there
they’re their hear here to two too |
witch
which where wear were of off |
13 December 2109
This week’s spellings are common exception words.
What are common exception words?
Sometimes called red words or tricky words, common exception words are rebels. They don’t quite follow the spelling or phonics rules that children are taught in years 1 and 2.
- any
- many
- clothes
- busy
- people
- even
- everybody
- Christmas
The children will be tested on these words on Thursday 19th December.
13 December 2019
This week’s spellings take us back to the learning we did at the beginning of the year on homophones. This week, you must practise using these spellings correctly in sentences and discuss ways to remember when to use which homophone – any good ideas you’ve got could be shared in class on Thursday 19 December.
| homophones | |
| there
they’re their hear here two too to |
witch
which where wear were of off |
06 December 2019
This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘wh’, ‘ph’, ‘au’ and ‘oe’ digraph.
| when |
| dolphin |
| haul |
| haunt |
| toes |
| woe |