05 May 2017
| Suffixes
This week’s spellings are all words that contain suffixes. A suffix is added to a root word to change/alter its meaning. Children often make spelling mistakes when adding suffixes to words. They should learn how to spell these words in preparation for a test on Friday 12 May. |
| thoughtful |
| enjoyable |
| ownership |
| equipment |
| courageously |
| silliest |
| altruism |
| excitement |
| frequently |
| purposeful |
05 May 2017
This week, all the words contain the -tion ending. The test will be on Thursday next week due to the training day on Friday.
| station |
| fiction |
| action |
| addition |
| national |
| position |
| emotion |
| information |
| election |
| fraction |
28 April 2017
For the next two weeks, we will be focusing all of our ‘spelling energy’ on some tricky suffixes. To help us practise choosing the correct suffix, children should complete the worksheet they have been given. This should be completed by Thursday 04 May.
28 April 2017
This week’s spelling activity is a crossword with contracted words. Pupils need to think about the apostrophe placement in contracted words, what the apostrophe is replacing and what the original words are. Spellings will be tested on Friday 05 May.
28 April 2017
This week, the children have a list of spellings to learn and they’ll be tested on them on Friday 05 May. I’ve chosen spellings which have odd spelling patterns or might have been learnt way back in Year 3 and 4 and, therefore, could have been forgotten.
It is a fair old list, but the children will only be tested on 20 of them.
- height
- forty
- vague
- hindrance
- business
- amateur
- colleagues
- halved
- peculiar
- stomach
- grey
- whistle
- excellent
- monarch
- synchronise
- rhyming
- chauffeur
- moustache
- seized
- tongue
- equipped
- symbol
- awkward
- leisurely
- weird
- cymbals
- queue
- calendar
- twelfth
- thorough
- library
- island
- cemetery
- lightning
28 April 2017
We are looking at the suffixes -er and -est again 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.
| nice nicer nicest |
| large larger largest |
| wise wiser wisest |
| strange stranger strangest |
| thin thinner thinnest |
| big bigger biggest |
| sad sadder saddest |
| hot hotter hottest |
24 March 2017
This week’s spellings to learn for a test on Friday 31 March.
24 March 2017
This week’s spellings have been taken from a recent test done in class.
They are:
- height
- decreasing
- popular
- tomatoes
- destination
- vision
- material
- musician
- nature
- information
Below are some ideas to help you. Choose two activities and complete them in your homework books.
- Use a computer to write each word in a different font.
- Put your words into alphabetical order.
- Write a story about an ogre using all of your words at least once.
- Draw a picture for each word. Turn one of them into an artwork.
24 March 2017
The words this week all contain the short vowel o sound (hot) which is spelled with an a. This is the most common spelling after w or qu.
| wanted |
| watched |
| wandering |
| washing |
| swamp |
| quality |
| squashed |
| quarrel |
24 March 2017
| i before e except after c – when the sound is ‘ee’.
Last week, children investigated the rule. As a class, we refined the rule to be the above. This week, in preparation for a test on Friday 31 March, children should learn how to spell the following words. |
| either |
| receive |
| their – there |
| deceive |
| conscience |
| ceiling |
| efficient |
| sufficient |
| believe |