Spelling

24 November 2017

Posted on Friday 24 November 2017 by Miss Wilson

This week’s spelling activity is an investigation about words with a long ‘a’ sound. For example: ei in vein or aigh in straight.

  • How many different ways can you find?
  • Can you spot any patterns?
  • Can you show your words in a creative way?

We’ll discuss our investigation on Thursday 30 November.

24 November 2017

Posted on Friday 24 November 2017 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s spelling list all end in …tial or …cial.

We noticed that there is usually a vowel before the cial and a consonant (mostly ‘n’) before the tial. There are a couple of words that don’t follow this rule – these are the ones that we’ll need to practise most. Children are expected to practise these spellings in their books (there are lots of strategies at the back of homework books) and there will be a test on Friday 1 December.

  • official
  • special
  • artificial
  • commercial
  • facial
  • financial
  • glacial
  • social
  • racial

 

  • partial
  • influencial
  • preferential
  • confidential
  • substantial
  • residential
  • essential
  • torrential
  • quintessential

24 November 2017

Posted on Thursday 23 November 2017 by Mr Wilks

This week, all the words end with -st.
Children should practise the following words and find one or two of their own.

just
nest
best
lost
gust
fast

24 November 2017

Posted on Thursday 23 November 2017 by Mr Wilks

Next week, we’re continuing to learn about irregular past tense verbs. Usually when we change a verb to the past tense, we just need to add ‘ed’. Irritatingly, irregular verbs are different!

Challenge your child to find some more examples of irregular verbs.

to go              went
to dig              dug
to know          knew
to give            gave
to buy             bought
to drink          drank
to send           sent
to write           wrote

17 November 2017

Posted on Saturday 18 November 2017 by Mr Wilks

This week’s spellings all contain the ch sound.

chip

chair

chain

cheese

chicken

There are five spellings but children should find an extra word or two that contains the ch sound.

Challenge: can you find a word which ends with a ch sound?

 

17 November 2017

Posted on Friday 17 November 2017 by Miss Wilson

This week’s spelling list is all about homophones: words that sound the same but have different spellings. We voted for the ones that we find most difficult, using our investigation from last week.

  • Can you show the meaning of each word in a creative way?
  • Can you write a sentence that contains both?
blue/blew ate/eight board/bored sun/son wear/where
right/write knew/new knight/night wait/weight hear/here

There will be a spelling test on Friday 24 November.

17 November 2017

Posted on Friday 17 November 2017 by Mr Wilks

Next week, we’re learning about irregular past tense verbs. Usually when we change a verb to the past tense, we just need to add -ed. Irregular verbs are annoyingly different!

to eat                ate
to fly                 flew
to drive            drove
to blow            blew
to see               saw
to draw           drew
to swim          swam
to take             took

 

17 November 2017

Posted on Friday 17 November 2017 by Mr Roundtree

This weeks spelling activity is to create a crossword filled with the following types of words:

  • words ending in ible or able
  • adding suffixes to words ending in fer (prefer, transfer, offer, refer)
  • words with tious or cious endings

The aim of a crossword is to create clues for words, which will hopefully help the quizzer answer them. You also need your words to cross over each other (hence the name ‘cross’ word).

Posted by Megan

17 November 2017

Posted on Friday 17 November 2017 by Mr Catherall

Plurals

Last week, children investigated how to change a noun from the singular to the plural. This week, children should learn how to pluralise the words in this list in preparation for a test on Friday 24 November. (Take care – it’s not simply a case of adding an ‘s’!)

Some of the words also revise previously taught spelling rules.

baby
sheep
bruise
explanation
opportunity
language
competition
yacht
church
worry

10 November 2017

Posted on Friday 10 November 2017 by Mr Wilks

This week we’re looking at the ing version of a verb and how this could be written in the past or present tense. This is called the present progressive or past progressive tense.  Below are two examples. The first is written in the present progressive and the second in the past progressive.

  • I am enjoying this apple.
  • I was enjoying that apple. 

(Top tip – it’s ‘progressive’ because it is or it was in progress.)

to ask          asking
to cook        cooking
to laugh        laughing
to play         playing
to help         helping
to look        looking
to enjoy      enjoying
to yell         yelling
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