Spelling

10 November 2017

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.)

10 November 2017

This week’s spelling activity is an investigation about homophones. You need to find words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things. For example: to break / to brake.

• Can you use your words in your own sentences?
• Can you find their definitions?
• Can you show your words in a creative way?

We’ll discuss our investigation on Thursday 16 November.

10 November 2017

Year 6 have a list of spellings to learn again this week, this time from the Year 5/6 spelling list. We’ve been learning them in class and have come up with some great ways of remembering them.

Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. There will be a test on Friday 17 November.

• accommodate
• cemetery
• definite
• embarrass
• environment
• foreign
• harass
• immediately
• leisure
• prejudice
• queue
• recommend

10 November 2017

Plurals

This week, children will not be given a list of words to learn. Instead, I would like them to investigate how we turn singular nouns into plurals. They will have learnt this lower down school but we’re still making errors with this rule in our everyday writing. Children should think of the different ways in which words can be pluralised and show their findings. This should be evidenced in their homework book. To get them started, think about these words: bus, cup, baby.

For an extra challenge, see if you can think of any common mistakes.

03 November 2017

This week’s spellings are from the Year 3 High Frequency Word list. In class, we had a vote to decide which words we found the most difficult to spell. This has formed our spelling list for this week and should help children spelling these words consistently correctly in future!

There will be a spelling test on Friday 10 November.

3 November 2017

We’ll be focussing on verbs for a few weeks. This week we’re looking at regular past tense verbs where you need to add -ed. Children will be tested on the past tense version of the word (walked) not the infinitive (to walk).

03 November 2017

This week, the children have a list of spellings to learn. These words are all from the Year 3/4 spelling list and so the children should already know them. We’ve been looking at them in class this week, coming up with ways of remembering them. This might include saying them in a certain way, looking for words hidden inside, following spelling rules or just something very silly which sticks in our heads.

peculiar = Don’t trust peculiar people because they peck (pec) you (u) and they’re liars (liar).

separate
different
peculiar
favourite
accidentally
actually
disappear
occasionally
interest
weight
calendar
possession

In their homework books, the children should note down a way of helping them to remember each word – this might be one we’ve come up with in class, or one of their own.

03 November 2017

13 October 2017

This week’s spellings are all words with the prefix ‘dis-’ which has a negative or reversing force. We have used our spelling investigation to inform our list for this week. It may be useful to look at the root word and understand how the prefix changes its meaning.

There will be a spelling test on Thursday 19 October.

13 October 2017

The spellings this week are a review of the five long vowel sounds which we’ve studied this half-term. Children will be tested on eight words.

Children should spend time practising the spellings they got wrong in previous tests as well as re-familiarising themselves with the previous lists.