Spelling

26 April 2019

This week, all the words have the ee phoneme at the end of the word which is spelled ey.

26 April 2019

This week’s spelling activity is to practise some common homophones using Spelling Shed. All children have been given a Spelling Shed login to use at home but please come in to see me if you’re having any problems. Just log in as normal and the activity that you need to click on will pop straight up!

26 April 2019

This week’s spellings are words ending in the suffix ‘ed’ where no change is needed to the root word.

Children often make mistakes with these spellings, adding ‘t’, ‘d’ or ‘id’ to the root word instead of ‘ed’.

26 April 2019

Spelling this week is to practise spelling words that either have/ck/ or /k in them.

Your child has been sent home with a username and password for spelling shed – an online spelling practise website. On this website they will be able to find a game to practise these spellings specifically. This can be done independently as long as they have access to a computer, smartphone or tablet.

There is a list to practise for the test on Friday 03 May 2019.

We are learning our 8 times tables.

18 April 2019

This week, our spellings are from the Year 1 common exception word list. These are that do not follow the common phonetic spelling rules of the language, or where the usual rules act in an unusual way.

one

ask

push

pull

full

put

18 April 2019

The spellings this week are all homophones.

What is a homophone?

Two or more words  that have the same pronunciation but are spelt differently with different meanings.

blue/blew

hole/whole

break/brake

sent/scent

hour/our

for/four

knight/night

The children have been given a text full of homophone errors. Their job is to correct this and rewrite it.

Challenge

Find more homophones and write your own short story.

Create a short story with homophone errors for a friend to try.

Please ensure there is evidence of learning the spellings in homework books.

18 April 2019

This week, there’s no word list. Instead, children need to recap and practise one of our key spelling rules: double up for a short vowel sound.

Here are a few examples of Y5 appropriate words which contain a ‘double up’:
accommodate
aggressive
communicate

Children should find and practise other, similar words. They may find examples in their reading books or in previous Year 5 lists.

18 April 2019

The  spellings this week  are all plural nouns. When changing each noun to a plural, you need to drop the y for an i.

Please also remember to practise the Year 2 Common Exception Words as children need to know how to spell these by the end of the year.

18 April 2019

There is no list for week’s spelling homework. Instead we focus on three of the spelling rules that Year 3 should be familiar with. We have found that children often do well in tests with these spelling rules in isolation but are then finding them more challenging when doing independent writing.

1. Doubling up the consonant after the short vowel sound.
2. Adding the suffix ‘ing’ to make a verb into its present tense form.
3. Adding the suffix ‘ed’ to turn a verb into its past tense form.

Please note – there won’t be any new words tested. We will be testing these rules to words we have already learnt on Friday 26th April.

We are learning our 8 times tables.

22 March 2019

The words this week are all words where you need to drop the y for an i before adding –er or –ed. As children could be tested on any of the variations of the words, we only have five to learn.