Year 3 Spelling

21 September 2018

This week’s spellings are all words which need you to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’. Then, you add either ed or es to make the past tense or a plural noun. If you’re not sure what any of them mean, find out. Children may be asked to spell similar words which follow the same spelling pattern:

This pattern is to be learnt preparation for the test on Friday 28 September.

This week, we are learning our 3 times tables.

13 July 2018

For example:

treeve (treeving) verb 

To move around vigorously and quickly, as if being chased by bees.

“I wonder why Mrs Burgess is treeving over there. There aren’t any bees nearby,” said Miss Wilson.

06 July 2018

This week’s spelling activity is to make a word search with the following words:

Children should then write sentences underneath that contain these words. We will share our sentences in class on Thursday 12 July.

29 June 2018

This week’s spelling list is formed using words that contain the letters ou. Some words have a short vowel sound like rough and some have a long vowel sound like proud.

• about
• amount
• ground
• house
• proud
• country
• double
• rough
• trouble
• young

Children should learn these in preparation for a test on Friday 06 July.

22 June 2018

This week’s spelling activity is to come up with a list of words that you find tricky to spell. Once you’ve finished, write each word in your own sentence.

• Can you write them in a silly story?
• Can you draw a picture to represent the word?
• Can you think of a way to teach others how to spell it?

In class, we discussed a few tricky spellings you might want to make a note of:

• school
• laugh
• rough
• quiet
• does
• cough

15 June 2018

This week’s spelling list is formed using our Must Do homophones for Year 3. Children should practise listening to a sentence read aloud and writing the correct word. For example:

“I use my ears to hear what you’re saying.”

Can you think of any fun ways to remember which word is right? Can you write some silly sentences? Can you show your words creatively?

• your/you’re
• its/it’s
• of/off
• of/have (shouldn’t have)
• which/witch

Children should learn these in preparation for a spelling test on Friday 22 June.

08 June 2018

This week’s spelling list is formed using our Must Do homophones for Year 3. Children should practise listening to a sentence read aloud and writing the correct word. For example:

“I use my ears to hear what you are saying.”

Can you think of any fun ways to remember which word is right? Can you write some silly sentences? Can you show your words creatively?

• here/hear
• where/wear
• there/their/they’re
• are/our
• two/too/to

Children should learn these in preparation for a spelling test on Friday 15 June.

18 May 2018

• Can you show your words in a creative way?
• Can you include your words in sentences or paragraphs?
• Can you draw what the word is?

11 May 2018

This week’s spelling activity is to make a word search with the following words:

Children should then write sentences underneath that contain these words. We will share our sentences in class on Thursday 17 May.

04 May 2018

This week’s spelling list is formed with ten words from the Year 3/4 statutory spellings list. There isn’t a pattern with these words but could you think of any fun ways to remember how to spell them? If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out! There will be a spelling test on Friday 11 May.