Year 3 Spelling

20 September 2019

Posted on Friday 20 September 2019 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s spelling activity focuses on the ‘ie’ and ‘oe’ sounds and the alternative graphemes for them:

 

ie, y, i,  i-e

oe, oa, o, o-e, ow

 

See how many words you can think of that include the ‘ie’ or the ‘oe’ sounds and record them in your homework book – try sorting them according to the grapheme use to make the sounds. I;m looking for useful spelling practice like the examples show on the sheet that is now stuck in the back of the children’s books. This homework is due on Thursday 26 September and there will be no test on Friday.

13 September 2019

Posted on Sunday 15 September 2019 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s spelling focuses on the ai and ee sounds. Practise these spellings – think about how creative you can be. There will be a test on Thursday 19 September (because we’re on our trip on Friday) where ten of these words will be tested.

 

ai ee
eight/eighth famous

favourite

straight

strange

weight

tray

great

snake

brain

they

everyday

believe

breathe

complete

appear

extreme

increase

relief

money

chimney

people

busy

quickly

12 July 2019

Posted on Thursday 11 July 2019 by

This week, there is a homophone word search for the Year Three spelling homework. This is due in on Tuesday 16 July 2019.

We are learning our 4 times tables.

 

28 June 2019

Posted on Friday 28 June 2019 by

This week’s spellings is to recap homophones previously taught. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Your child needs to know which homophone to use in a sentence dictated to them. These will be tested on 05/07/19. The homophones are:

  • your/you’re
  • its/it’s
  • of/off
  • they’re/their/there
  • which/witch
  • hour/our
  • mite/might
  • wear/where

We are learning our 8 times tables.

21 June 2019

Posted on Friday 21 June 2019 by

This week, spelling looks at words with the ‘u’ sound spelled with an ‘ou’. There is no list to learn. Instead, your child should find as many words that follow this rule and make a list in their homework book.

The words ‘trouble’, ‘young’ and ‘country’ are examples of this rule.

This is due in on Thursday 27 June 2019.

We are learning our 8 times table.

14 June 2019

Posted on Friday 14 June 2019 by

This week’s spellings is a revisiting the rule of doubling up after a short vowel sound. The rule (not the list) will be tested on Friday 21 June 2019.

– happily

– running

– stopped

– grabbed

– beginning

– traditionally

– challenge

– matter

We are learning our 4 times tables.

07 June 2019

Posted on Friday 07 June 2019 by

This week we’re revisiting words that have a /ch/ making the /k/ sound.

scheme /  character / ache / chaos / stomach / chemistry / orchestra / technology

These will be tested on 13 June 2019.

We’re learning our 3 times tables.

17 May 2019

Posted on Friday 17 May 2019 by

There is an activity for words with an ‘ly’ suffix for spellings this week.

This is due in on Friday 23 May 2019.

friendly / regretfully / angrily / anxiously / forcefully / cautiously / suspiciously / peacefully / mostly / peculiarly

There is also an interactive activity available for these words on Spelling Shed. Your child has their login details for this website. You can find the link for this activity inside your child’s ‘favourites’ section within the program or by following the QR code, below.

We’re learning our 3 times tables this week.

10 May 2019

Posted on Thursday 09 May 2019 by

Spelling this week is a list of words with the ‘ly’  suffix. This is a recap of something your child has learnt in Year Two.

There are some rules when adding this suffix to a word.

  • The suffix ‘-ly’ starts with a consonant letter, so is added straight on to most root words.
  • If the root word ends in consonant letter ‘y’, the ‘y’ is changed to ‘i’, but only if the word is more than one syllable.
  • If the root words ends in ‘le’, the ‘le’ is changed to ‘ly’.

friend, kind, clumsy, exact, angry, careful, dead, part

This list will be tested on Friday 17 May 2019.

We are learning our 8 times tables.

Friday 03 May 2019

Posted on Friday 03 May 2019 by

Spellings this week looks at words with  the /k/ sound spelt ‘ch’.

Children have a series of words to learn. We have discussed their meaning in class but this may need to be checked at home. There is also a word search to complete for this homework. This is due in on Thursday 10 May 2019.

ache / choir / chemist / christmas / anchor / echo / chorus / chemistry

We are learning our 8 times tables. Please make sure your child is practising their division facts as well as the multiplication facts each week.