Spelling

27 April 2018

The children have been asked to put the spellings that they were given last week into sentences. Another alternative is to link this in with our 2D shape learning.  It would be great if the children could get creative with the words.

One possibility is to create shapes and write the word inside.

This spelling revision could link in with the homework set this week.

Make your own word shape puzzle.

Can you link your spellings into your shapes?

27 April 2018

This week, Year One’s spellings are words ending in ‘ed‘. The suffix ‘ed‘ changes a verb to past tense.

27 April 2018

This week’s spelling activity is a crossword using ten of the words on the Year 3/4 Statutory Word list. If you need help or support, come in and ask for a hard copy of this list or alternatively, it can be found online or below:

27 April 2018

We are looking at the suffixes -er and -est this week. The first four require you to drop the e from the root word before adding the suffix. The last four require you to double up the last letter before adding the suffixes.

27 April 2018

For the rest of the year, Year 6 won’t have a specific list of spellings. Instead, they should think about the spelling skills they need to develop (from the list below) and create their own spelling practice. There will be a test each week and, along with this, we’ll discuss the sorts of spellings we’re finding more difficult.

• tion/ssion/sion/cian endings
• homophones
• ant/ent/ancy/ency/ance/ence endings
• adding prefixes
• adding suffixes
• unusual spellings
• ible/able/ibly/ably
• fer endings
• spelling rules
• tious/cious
• ough
• tial/cial endings

27 April 2018

27.04.18

I before e is one of the most common spelling rules we hear. However, it doesn’t always work. In fact, “I before e, except after c when the sound is ee” is much more accurate – of course, there are exceptions to this rule: either, weird, their. This homework is designed to help children recognise which words follow the rule and which words don’t. Read the text below and underline all the ie words. Then, write your own short text that contains all of these words.  You should return this completed activity on Thursday 3 May.

Brief Siege

Mrs Elizabeth Carver, niece of the Chief of Police, was besieged by wasps in her home yesterday. A ceiling fell down and knocked off an old mantelpiece. Hundreds of wasps flew out.

She shielded her face with a handkerchief and dialled 999. She gave a piercing shriek into the phone.

“Send the police. Believe me, these wasps will kill me if you don’t.”

The Chief of Police received the call and rushed to relieve her.

20 April 2018

For the rest of the year, Year 6 won’t have a specific list of spellings. Instead, they should think about the spelling skills they need to develop (from the list below) and create their own spelling practice. There will be a test each week and, along with this, we’ll discuss the sorts of spellings we’re finding more difficult.

• tion/ssion/sion/cian endings
• homophones
• ant/ent/ancy/ency/ance/ence endings
• adding prefixes
• adding suffixes
• unusual spellings
• ible/able/ibly/ably
• fer endings
• spelling rules
• tious/cious
• ough
• tial/ciail endings

20 April 2018

This week’s spellings are formed with words that have the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’.

• ache
• anchor
• chaos
• character
• chemist
• chorus
• echo
• scheme
• stomach
• technology

Children should learn these spellings in preparation for a test on Friday 27 April.

Friday 20 April 2018

This week, children have been learning about how Greek and Latin root words are embedded within the English Language. Understanding the meaning of a root word can help us to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words. For example, if we know that ‘auto’ means self and ‘graph’ means writing, we are able to understand the word ‘autograph’ – even if we’ve never come across it before! We’ve identified these words during our spelling sessions this week. Children should practise learning them in preparation for a test on Friday 27 April 2018. We’ll also focus a lot on what strategies we’ve used to learn them so evidence this in your homework book. 

autobiography

photograph

autograph

telepathic

microphone

paragraph

television

telegraph

telephone

automatic

20 April 2018

The spellings this week all use the rule double up for a short vowel sound. They also all end with the suffix ed or ing. The root word is also included in the list.