Year 3 Spelling

06 January 2012

This week, the spellings are all words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 13 January.

09 December 2011

More plurals this week! This time we are investigating how the spelling changes when making plurals for words that end in y. There are two rules:

1. Add s if the final letter is preceded by a vowel.
2. If not preceded by a vowel, change the y to an i and add es.

Spellings will be tested on Thursday 15 December.

02 December

We’re looking at plurals this week. Some of the spellings are made into a plural by just adding s. The others you have to add es to make into a plural. You add es if you hear an extra syllable.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 09 December.

25 November 2011

We’ll be writing some dialogue in our literacy lessons next week so the spellings are all words that we can use instead of said.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 02 December. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten spellings.

18 November 2011

The spellings this week are all words which have either the prefix re or pre. The re prefix means ‘again’ and the pre prefix means ‘before’.

Children will be tested on Friday 24 November. They will be tested on eight out of the ten words.

11 November 2011

The spellings this week are all words which have either the prefix ‘un’ or ‘dis’. Both these prefixes mean ‘not’. Children should practise all ten spellings but will be tested on eight out of the ten. They will be tested on Friday 18 November.

04 November 2011

This week, the spellings are all adjectives that we will be using in our promotional writing next week.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 11 November. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.

It’s the holiday…

…so there are no homework or spellings.

However, there are lots of ways you can support you child’s learning, first and foremost by visiting our Help Your Child section.

There are lots of things to do in or near Leeds, from geo-caching on Monday to a spooky Halloween walk on Sunday.  Here are a few other ideas to fill the October half-term holiday with activities…

• take your child for an autumnal walk in Roundhay Park to collect chestnuts for a game of conkers or autumn leaves for an autumn collage;
• on a cold, autumn day, stay indoors and spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
• take a trip to Leeds Art Gallery – the Damien Hirst exhibition should prove a great opportunity for lots of discussion, description and possibly disagreement!
• and, as always, enjoy some relaxing reading (why not read some Tintin stories from a local library in preparation for the forthcoming film?)

School re-opens on Tuesday 01 November 2011 (following a training day on Monday 31 October 2011).

14 October 2011

This week, the spellings are a mixture of the ‘ing’ rules:

• just add ‘ing’
• drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’
• double up when there’s a short vowel sound

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 21 October.

07 October 2011

The spellings this week are all words where you have to drop the ‘e’ for ‘i n g’ at the end of the word.

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten spellings on Friday 14 October.