Spelling

01 December 2017

01.12.17 – Apostrophes

This week, I will not be giving you a spelling list. Instead, during our spelling test on Friday 08 December, I will read out ten sentences that contain at least one apostrophe. You will need to figure out which words need an apostrophe and use it correctly.

e.g Some of the book’s pages were torn.

I believe they are Mr Jones’ golf clubs.

I can’t believe you lost your book.

To prepare for the test, you should practise using apostrophes for possession and contraction/omission.

Use this page of your homework to prove you have practised.

01 December 2017

Next week, in our phonics lessons, we’ll be learning about the j sound at the end of a word.
This is spelled -dge straight after short vowel sounds and -ge after all other sounds.

01 December 2017

This week we’ve got more spellings than usual as we’re learning the numbers to ten.
You’ll have an extra week to practise these as we’ll test children on 14.12.17 instead of next week.

01 December 2017

This week’s spelling activity is all about homophones and is due on Thursday 07 December.

Using the list of homophone groups, create sentence which us all of the homophones correctly.

there/their/they’re: They’re going over there to find their shoes.

• there/their/they’re
• wear/where/were
• of/off
• its/it’s
• which/witch
• practise/practice
• heard/herd
• pause/pours/paws/pores
• your/you’re
• device/devise
• hole/whole
• one/won
• are/our

01 December 2017

This week’s spelling list is words that contain a long ‘a’ sound. We used our investigation from last week to inform our list. If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out!

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

Children should learn these spellings in preparation for a test on Monday 11 December.

24 November 2017

24.11.17 – Apostrophes

Apostrophes are used in the English language to show contraction and possession. This week, children should make a poster to help people use them correctly. This could include common errors or rules. The posters should be returned to school on Thursday 30 November.

24 November 2017

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

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

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

24 November 2017

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.