Spelling

05 October 2018

Just a quick note to say how well the children are doing in their tests at the moment. The class average for this week’s test is 7.5 out of 8. It’s really impressive so thanks for your hard work practising!

This week’s spellings all contain a silent w.

05 October 2018

All of the spellings this week have -fer endings and we’re learning how to add a suffix to these words. There will be no test on Friday but your child needs to practise adding suffixes to these words correctly. Sometimes you need to double the ‘r’ and sometimes you don’t.

All children should be practising their spellings in their homework book, using the techniques suggested at the back which we also use in class.

• refer
• prefer
• transfer
• offer

• -ed
• -ing
• -ence
• -al

This week’s time tables test will be on the 4 x table but we’ll be challenging ourselves with the more difficult questions we’ve been practising recently. We’re improving every day with these.

05 October 2018

This week, spelling will focus on one of our must dos: apostrophes for contractions. This is due in on Thursday 11 October.

Practise contractions by re-writing these sentences into your books, changing the underlined words for its contraction.  Don’t forget to use the apostrophe in the right place. Use the list at the bottom of the page to find the spellings of the contractions you need.

1. I am having an amazing day today.
2. I do not want to play that game.
3. I will help you.
4. She did not like my cake.
5. There is not any butter left.
6. We can not find it anywhere!
7. You should not go in there!
8. I was not able to go to her party.
9. You are too late.
10. I could not help it!
11. They have got a large house with a swimming pool
12. If you leave, there will not be enough people to play.

can’t/won’t/wasn’t/I’ll/don’t/they’ve/isn’t/I’m/didn’t/shouldn’t/ couldn’t/you’re

We are learning our 3 times tables.

28 September 2018

Next week, we’re learning about words which have a silent k at the beginning of the word.

28 September 2018

This week’s spelling list is formed with words that have the prefix un- or dis-. If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out! Think about the root word and how the prefix changes the meaning.

• Can you show your words in a creative way?
• Can you write them in your own sentences?

We will share our sentences in class on Friday 05 October.

We are practising a tines table we already know: our 3 times tables.

28 September 2018

28 September 2018

All of the spellings this week have -ible or -able endings. For Friday’s test, I’ll test some of these words but will also test words from their word families or even words that have the same spelling pattern but weren’t on the spelling list.

All children should be practising their spellings in their homework book using the techniques suggested at the back which we also use in class.

21 September 2018

21 September 2018

This week’s spellings are all words which need you to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’. Then, you add either ed or es to make the past tense or a plural noun. If you’re not sure what any of them mean, find out. Children may be asked to spell similar words which follow the same spelling pattern:

We are learning our 3 times tables.

21 September 2018

The spellings this week contain the long i and long oo sound. There are lots of different ways to spell these sounds. This week, we’re focussing on ie and ou.

21 September 2018

This week all the spellings contain a soft c which sounds like an s.