18 May 2018
Friday 18 May 2018 – revision
As it is the last week of this half-term, instead of being given a list of words to learn, you should revise all the rules we have focused on so far this year. You will be tested on these rules on Friday 18 May 2018.
Evidence your revision on this page of your homework book. We’ll share our revision techniques in class so make sure you feel proud of what you’ve been doing at home!
11 May 2018
This week, Year One’s spellings are words ending in the suffix ‘est’ where no change is needed to the root word.
| oldest |
| softest |
| loudest |
| warmest |
| fastest |
| longest |
| lowest |
| neatest |
11 May 2018
This week’s spelling activity is to make a word search with the following words:
| arrive | breathe | certain | earth | favourite |
| heart | learn | often | regular | various |
Children should then write sentences underneath that contain these words. We will share our sentences in class on Thursday 17 May.
11 May 2018
We’re learning about -ness and -ment suffixes in phonics next week. Usually, you just add the suffix on to the root word. The exceptions are when the word ends in a y and is more than one syllable long. Eg. happiness or merriment. Argument is another exception as you drop the e from argue.
| happy happiness |
| sad sadness |
| kind kindness |
| quiet quietness |
| dark darkness |
| punish punishment |
| enjoy enjoyment |
| move movement |
| amaze amazement |
| measure measurement |
11 May 2018
This week there’ll be no homework or spellings for Year 6. We’ve worked really hard this week and are all ready to face next week confidently and with a smile. By not giving any homework, it allows the children to take ownership of their own learning and, if they want to do anything over the weekend to prepare themselves, they can choose what that may be. Feel free to use a page of the Homework Book to do some practice.
You could:
- Try some arithmetic calculations
- Be tested on spellings from the Year 3/4 and 5/6 list
- Write some sentences and see which words you can label with their word class
- Think about the different areas of Maths and what you need to know for each of them
We’re all ready so I look forward to seeing 29 smiling faces at breakfast club on Monday morning (8.30 sharp).
11 May 2018
| homophones
This week, we’re recapping some spellings from Year 3 and 4. Because they can be a bit tricky, and because we must spell them correctly for our writing to make sense, they are very important. Despite this, many of us still make mistakes with these words in our writing. Children should practise spelling these words in preparation for a test on Friday 18 May 2018. |
| here / hear |
| where / were / we’re / wear |
| there / their / they’re |
| are / our |
| to / too / two |
| your / you’re |
| its / it’s |
| of / off |
| of / have (I shouldn’t have.) |
| which / witch |
04 May 2018
The spellings this week can all have the suffix -ful or –less added to them (some can have both). The underlined words have an extra rule to follow when adding the suffix: drop the y for an i.
04 May 2018
This week, Year One’s spellings are words ending in the suffix ‘ing‘ where no change is needed to the root word.
| jumping |
| talking |
| singing |
| asking |
| walking |
| hunting |
| playing |
| eating |
04 May 2018
This week’s spelling list is formed with ten words from the Year 3/4 statutory spellings list. There isn’t a pattern with these words but could you think of any fun ways to remember how to spell them? If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out! There will be a spelling test on Friday 11 May.
| accident | calendar | difficult | early | group |
| island | minute | promise | strange | though |
04 May 2018
| “I before E except after C, when the sound is ‘ee’!”
This is a well-known spelling rule but it can still be very tricky. Here’s a list of words to learn that either follow or break this rule. The last three words are this week’s ‘Words of the Week’. We’ve been using them all week so you should now make sure you’re confident spelling them. You should learn all of these words in preparation for a test on Friday 11 May 2018. |
| achieve |
| conscience |
| convenience |
| foreign |
| mischievous |
| soldier |
| variety |
| abundance |
| relentless |
| fragile |