07 November 2018
Spellings
This week’s spelling list is formed using our Must Do homophones for Year 3. Children should practise listening to a sentence read to them out loud and writing the correct homophone. For example:
“They’re going to a party this weekend.”
Can you think of any fun ways to remember which word is right? Can you write some silly sentences? Can you show your words creatively?
- your/you’re
- its/it’s
- of/off
- they’re/their/there
- which/witch
Children should learn these in preparation for a spelling test on Friday 13 December.
We are learning our 4 times tables.
07 December 2018
| Year 3/4 Statutory Spellings |
| This week’s spelling activity is formed using words that are from the Year 3/4 statutory spellings list. All children should already know these words but should choose some they are less confident with and practise those. Can you show them in a creative way? Can you write them in your own sentences? Can you write a character or setting description and use parenthesis? |
30 November 2018
This week, our spellings focus on words which contain the ‘aw’ digraph.
| dawn |
| claw |
| saw |
| straw |
| draw |
| lawn |
30 November 2018
This week the phoneme we’re learning about is aw which is spelled with an a before an l or an ll.
| all |
| also |
| fall |
| walk |
| talk |
| always |
| although |
| altogether |
30 November 2018
| Year 5 Statutory Spellings | ||||
| This week’s spelling list is formed using words that are from the Year 5/6 statutory spellings list. All children need to know these words by the end of year six. If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out! Can you show them in a creative way? Can you write them in your own sentences? | ||||
| achieve | ancient | category | communicate | definite |
| embarrass | excellent | physical | rhyme | stomach |
Friday 30 November
Spellings homework
This word search contains the spellings you will be tested on next week (Friday 07 December). Find the words in the list below. Make sure you understand the meanings of the words and how the prefix changes the meaning of the root word.
You can also go online to practise this word search:
https://thewordsearch.com/puzzle/469918/mis-and-re-prefix-wordsearch/.
30 November 2018
This week’s spellings have no particular pattern. The children have the Year 3/4 spelling list and should practise tackling spellings using the strategies below when they’ve had no opportunity to learn them beforehand.
- break the word up into syllables
- think about what the root word is before tackling
- consider whether any prefixes or suffixes have been adding
- consider whether any spelling rules need to be applied
- consider what spelling patterns might be involved (tious, cious)
When none of these strategies work for a word, a way of remembering it needs to be created.
There will be a text on Friday 7 December. The children will be tested on ten words which will all come from this list.
This week’s times tables focus is the 8s. Many children find this table difficult so practising both the multiplication and divisions facts is important. There will be a test on this on Friday 7 December.
23 November 2018
| ‘co-’ and ‘re-’ | |||||
| This week’s spelling list is formed using words that start with either ‘co-’ or ‘re-’. Your task is to decide which prefix to use for each root word to make a new word that makes sense. Don’t forget your hyphen. If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out! Is there a pattern? Can you show them in a creative way? Can you write them in your own sentences? | |||||
| co- | re- | ||||
| emerge | emphasise | enter | evaluate | examine | |
| operate | ordinate | own | pilot | star | |
23 November 2018
Next week, we’re looking at words which have an -il or -al ending. These are much less common than the -le ending.
| metal |
| pedal |
| capital |
| hospital |
| animal |
| pencil |
| nostril |
| fossil |
23 November 2018
This week’s spelling features words with the ‘–mis’ or the ‘–re’ prefix.
We created the list based on words the children came up in class.
Your homework is to write a short story using all of the words on our list. Make sure that you check that you understand the meanings of the words!
These will be tested on Friday 07 December.
misplace / misunderstand / mishear / react / misread / replay / reuse/ review/
We are learning our 8 times tables.