Spelling

10 June 2016

This week’s spellings are brought to you by the letter ‘w‘. Here is a list of common ‘w‘ words. Go through these words  with your child and decide which spellings they already know and which spellings they think they need to focus on learning. A very common error in class is using ‘Wh’ instead of ‘W’ (whent instead of went). On Friday, your child will be assessed through a dictation activity. The following week’s spellings will be based on the whole class’s results in that assessment.

Can your child spot any of our school spelling rules (drop the ‘y’ for an i, double up for a short vowel sound, drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’)? Can your child spot any words within words to help them remember a spelling (warm)?

Summer Half Term

In line with our Homework Policy, there are no homework tasks or spellings to learn next week because it’s the Summer half-term holiday. Of course, there are plenty of ways to help your child continue learning: get reading, go places, talk lots!

Have a happy and healthy holiday.

20 May 2016

There are no spellings for Year 1 and Year 2 this week due to next week’s themed week. 

20 May 2016

This week’s spellings link to our themed ‘Money Week’ and will be tested on Friday 27 May.

• expensive
• extortionate
• discounted
• bargain
• accumulate
• contribute
• squander
• currency
• income
• earnings

As we’re going to be developing our understanding of money next week – what it’s worth, where it comes from, where it goes – it is just as important that the children explore what these words mean as well as how they are spelled.

20 May 2016

The week’s spellings all link in with money week.

• penny
• pound
• amount
• pence
• currency
• Euro
• change
• budget
• charity

Your child has nine spellings to learn and must find their own money word that they will also be tested on.

13 May 2016

13 May 2016

This week’s spellings are all common exception words. These are words that Year 3 children are expected to know. Lower down school they are often called tricky words because they don’t always follow expected phonetic rules. For example the ‘ar’ in forward makes an ‘uh’ sound.

• forward
• fruit
• grammar
• group
• guide
• heard
• heart
• height
• history

We’ve learnt some of these words before but they are still cropping up as errors in class.

13 May 2016

This week’s spellings are to practise changing …ble to …bly. Note how each word initially ends in ‘e’ but this is removed when the ‘y’ is added.

• possible, possibly,
• impossible
• horrible, horribly,
• terrible, terribly,
• visible, visibly,
• invisible
• incredible, incredibly,
• sensible, sensibly

These words will be tested on Friday 20 May but, don’t forget, the point of learning these spellings is to spell them correctly – not to do well in a test!

The words have now been added to Spellodrome so there are plenty of different ways we can practise our spellings.

06 May 2016

This week’s spellings are all homophones. Homophones are two or more words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things. For example: fair (a place with rides and games) and fare (the cost of public transport).

• grown / groan
• eight / ate
• woman / women
• heard / herd

Your child also needs to find their own pair (not pear!) of homophones which they will be tested on.

06 May 2016