03 March 2017
This week, the children have been given a spelling activity on a worksheet. This will help them learn their spellings from the list given last week. The spellings will be tested next week on Friday 10 March.
03 March 2017
This week’s spellings now focus on the prefixes on the left hand side.
Create and practise words with these prefixes and see how many other prefixes you can think of that are not on the list. Be prepared to discuss what adding the prefix does to the meaning of the root word.
You’ll be tested on words with prefixes on Friday 10 March.
03 March 2017
The spellings this week are all words which contain a silent w.
| write |
| written |
| wrote |
| wrong |
| wrapper |
| wreck |
| wriggle |
| wrinkle |
03 March 2017
| Word Families
This week’s spellings activity is to explore some common word families. Words we use every day but might not stop to think about. Children will not be given a list to learn but should explore the following word families: |
| graph |
| phone |
| auto |
| micro |
| tele |
24 February 2017
The spellings this week all have an ey ending.
What sound does the ey make?
Are there any other words that follow this pattern?
donkey
key
monkey
valley
chimney
honey
money
alley
You may want to do one of the following spelling activities to support your child learning these words.
24 February 2017
Year 6 will no longer have a list of words to learn. We’ll have an activity which will span across two weeks, reflecting the learning we’re doing in class. Each week, there will be a test requiring us to apply this skill.
Here is a list of suffixes and what they do to a word.
Practise adding the suffixes and think carefully about what spelling rules you need to follow. You’ll be tested on Friday 03 March on ten words which require you to apply this practice.
24 February 2017
This week’s spellings all have the ‘super’ or ‘auto’ prefixes
Children should practise spelling these words in preparation for a test on Friday 10 March.
24 February 2017
Double up for a short vowel sound
This week, we have focussed on a spelling rule that we have previously learned but still make mistakes with.
The ‘double up for a short vowel’ sound is very common in the English language although, as we have found, there are exceptions to the rule.
Here are a list of words that double up for a short vowel sound. You should familiarise yourself with the rule and learn how to spell these words. You will be tested on ten of these words on Friday 03 March.
| accommodate
|
necessary
|
planning |
| beginning
|
communicate
|
exaggerate |
| difficult
|
preferred
|
beginning |
| successfully
|
occurred
|
challenge |
| immediate
|
interrupt
|
addition |
03 February 2017
This week’s spellings all have the ‘less’ or ‘ly’ suffixes.
Children should practise spelling these words in preparation for a test on Friday 10 February.
02 February 2017
This week, the root words all have suffixes: er, ing or est. All the root words end in e. When adding the suffixes, you have to first drop the e from the root word.
Children could be tested on any of the words.
| time timer timing |
| bike biker biking |
| bake baker baking |
| drive driver driving |
| rude ruder rudest |
| wise wiser wisest |
| cute cuter cutest |
| nice nicer nicest |