Spelling

02 February 2018

Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Don’t forget to try adding prefixes and suffixes to the words. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be a test on Friday 07 February.

• language
• leisure
• lightning
• marvellous
• mischievous
• muscle
• necessary
• neighbour
• nuisance
• occupy
• occur
• opportunity

26 January 2018

Next week we are learning words which contain the ‘ue’ and ‘aw’ digraphs.

26 January 2018

This week, children have been given a spelling activity focussing on the use of hyphens. Hyphens are used to change the meaning of a chunk of text/to make it make sense. For example, a man-eating shark is much more dangerous than a man eating shark (a man eating a shark).

Children should complete the activity for Thursday 01 February. 

26 January 2018

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

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

26 January 2018

The spellings this week all contain the -el ending.

26 January 2018

This week’s spellings start with f, g, h, or i.

Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Don’t forget to try adding prefixes and suffixes to the words. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be no test on Friday 02 February. Instead, there’ll be a crossword to complete.

• familiar
• foreign
• forty
• frequently
• government
• guarantee
• harass
• hindrance
• identity
• immediately
• individual
• interfere
• interrupt

19 January 2018

Next week, we’re learning about words that contain the ‘oy’ and ‘ir’ digraph.

19 January 2018

This week, the spellings are all words which have an -le ending. This spelling is the most common one for this ‘ul’ sound at the end of words.

19 January 2018

This week our homework is Creative: I can find out about a plant I like.

This links well with our Life Forces topic and our class novel. In class, we discussed some ways in which you could respond creatively to this task:

• create a map of the world and highlight where your favourite flowers grow
• take pictures and create a slideshow with information
• make a model of your favourite plant
• complete an observational drawing of it
• make a presentation to inform the rest of the class
• create a word search of your favourite plant names
• make an information leaflet
• draw your favourite plant then label it with information
• take pictures of your plant in the wild and make a collage in your book

Homework is due on Thursday 25 January 2018.

19 January 2018