29 April 2016
29 April 2016
This week’s spellings all have the ‘-ou’ digraph. These spellings all have ‘-ou’ making an ‘uh’ sound (as in touch and country) or ‘-ough’ making an ‘uff’ sound (as in enough).
young
touch
double
trouble
country
tough
rough
enough
cough
fought
These spellings will be tested next Friday. Why not go on spellodrome to practise your spellings?
29 April 2016
This week’s spellings focus on the double up rule and will be tested on Friday 6 May.
- recommend
- immediately
- community
- communicate
- excellent
- embarrass
- opposite
- accompany
- correspond
- aggressive
It’s important to practise spellings regularly so that they are learnt and not just remembered for a week in order to score well in a test. We’ve created lots of different ways to practise our spellings in class that can be done at home and, don’t forget, we now have Spellodrome to use at home. Any feedback on this resource would be greatly appreciated.
22 March 2016
This week’s spellings end in ‘-sure’ and ‘-ture’.
measure
treasure
pleasure
enclosure
creature
furniture
picture
nature
adventure
Your child has nine spellings to learn and must find their own tenth spelling that ends in either ‘-sure’ or ‘-ture’. They will be tested on seven of these spellings and their own word next Friday.
22 April 2016
22 April 2016
This week’s spellings will cover two different areas. Our main spelling list focusses on plurals and the different rules we need to follow when adding ‘s’. However, the children will be asked to write a sentence for their test on Friday which will include a homophone that they’ll be required to spell correctly.
- the laboratory – 10 laboratories
- one photocopy – 6 photocopies
- my memory – lots of memories
- large chimney – 2 large chimneys
- the display – 5 displays
- nice accessory – multiple accessories
- one wolf – a pack of wolves
- a knife – sharp knives
- a cliff – some cliffs
- delicious loaf – tasty loaves
We’ve discussed homophones throughout the week, particularly those we often get wrong: their, there, they’re; of, off; here, hear; to, two, too. See how many you can think of and have fun with it. We managed to think of a group of four homophones; can you? How many lists of three can you come up with? Time yourselves and see who can write the greatest number of pairs of homophones in 30 seconds.
25 March 2016
This week, your child has a word study to complete. They must find an A – Z list of words that follow the ‘double up for a short vowel sound’ spelling rule. For example, ‘apple’ and ‘attractive’ have a doubled-up letter to make the ‘a’ in front a short sound (compare the ‘a’ sound in ‘apple’ and ‘able’).
The words your child finds must be words that they feel they could use in their writing in class. I would encourage the use of a dictionary or even the use of an internet search engine. If your child is searching for words online, make sure you speak to them about being e-safe.
24 March 2016
Here are the spellings for this week:
24 March 2016
This week’s spellings will test how well children are retaining information they are learning by focussing on spellings covered across the year so far.
There have been many different spelling rules and patterns explored up to this point in the year. Next week’s test will be from the spelling lists learnt in the first half term (07.09.15 – 23.10.16). Children should look over these lists and note the patterns we learnt about, picking out words they think they found most tricky at the time.
Ten spellings from this list will be tested as children are not expected to learn spelling simply for a test but for long term use of these words.
18 March 2016
These are the spellings for next week:
