09 October 2020
This week, we would like the children to learn how to spell words ending in le.
table
apple
bottle
little
middle
castle
battle
jungle
Test will take place on Friday 16 October 2020
02 October 2020
This week’s spellings are words with a silent k.
In words starting with kn the letter k is silent. Silent letters are the letters in words that are not pronounced but make a huge difference to the meaning and sometimes the pronunciation of the whole word.
knock
know
knew
knee
knight
knot
knife
knit
The children will be tested on these words on Friday 09 October 2020
25 September 2020
This week, all the spellings contain a soft c. The letter “c” has two sounds, hard “c” and soft “c”. The hard sound of “c” occurs most often. (cat)
When “c” is followed by (a, o, u) it is sounded as “k” (hard c).
When “c” is followed by (e, i, y) it is sounded as “s” (soft c).
- race
- ice
- cell
- city
- fancy
- police
- circle
- pencil
18 September 2020
Next week, we’ll be learning about the j sound at the start and in the middle of a word. It is usually spelt with a g before e, i and y and with a j before a, o and u.
| gem |
| giant |
| magic |
| energy |
| jacket |
| jar |
| join |
| adjust |
11 September 2020
This week’s spellings relate to the ‘j‘ sound at the end of a word. They will be tested on Friday 18 September 2020.
The j sound is spelled -dge straight after short vowel sounds (eg badge – the ‘a’ is making a short sound) and -ge (eg change – the ‘a’ is making a longer ‘ay’ sound) after all other sounds.
| badge |
| edge |
| bridge |
| fudge |
| charge |
| huge |
| change |
| village |
Take a look at our spelling guide for some suggested methods for learning these spellings.
20 March 2020
This week, all the words have the ee phoneme at the end of the word which is spelled ey.
key
donkey
monkey
chimney
valley
honey
money
turkey
13 March 2020
This week, the spellings all end in-tion. The list is also available on your child’s Spelling Shed account. Please ask if you need any support with Spelling Shed access and logins details.
station
fiction
addition
position
information
subtraction
election
emotion
06 March 2020
The spellings this week are all contracted words. The first four contracted words start with I.
The second four all have the apostrophe used to replace the o in not.
| I am I’m |
| I will I’ll |
| I would I’d |
| I have I’ve |
| could not couldn’t |
| would not wouldn’t |
| should not shouldn’t |
We are continuing to learn our 5 times tables.
28 February 2020
The spelling this week are all contracted words. They all have the apostrophe in the same place: instead of the o in not.
- do not don’t
- can not can’t
- will not won’t
- did not didn’t
- have not haven’t
- has not hasn’t
- does not doesn’t
- must not mustn’t
We are continuing to learn our 5 times tables.
07 February 2020
The spellings this week are all words which have an a which makes an o sound (as in ‘hot’). This is a common spelling after w and q.
want
watch
wander
squash
wand
wasp
quality
swallow
Don’t forget, weekly spellings lists are also added to your child’s Spelling Shed account.