Year 3 Spelling

14 October 2011

Posted on Friday 14 October 2011 by Mr Wilks

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

1.

meet

meeting

2.

amaze

amazing

3.

swim

swimming

4.

raise

raising

5.

drive

driving

6.

kick

kicking

7.

make

making

8.

split

splitting

9.

consider

considering

10.

begin

beginning

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


07 October 2011

Posted on Friday 07 October 2011 by Mr Wilks

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.

1.

hope

hoping

2.

use

using

3.

write

writing

4.

take

taking

5.

shake

shaking

6.

joke

joking

7.

share

sharing

8.

smile

smiling

9.

have

having

10.

shuffle

shuffling

30 September 2011

Posted on Friday 30 September 2011 by Mr Wilks

This is the second week of investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to words.

This week’s spellings are all words which have a short vowel sound before the final letter (think of the difference between the ‘o’ in hop – a short ‘o’ sound) compared to ‘hope’ (a longer sound, like ‘oh’).

When there’s a short vowel sound, you need to double up the final letter when adding ‘ing’.

Your child will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 07 October.

1.

hop

hopping

2.

run

running

3.

shut

shutting

4.

chat

chatting

5.

shop

shopping

6.

plan

planning

7.

win

winning

8.

swim

swimming

9.

begin

beginning

10.

stun

stunning


23 September 2011

Posted on Thursday 22 September 2011 by

Spelling rule:

This week’s spellings are all time connectives.

These will be used in next week’s lessons because the text type we’ll learn about is Instructions, where you often see time connectives to help you work out the sequence of what to do.

Time connectives are very often at the start of the sentence (as an ‘opener’).  Because of this, commas and capital letters have to be remembered to be awarded the mark.

LO: Time connectives

Firstly,

Previously,

Meanwhile,

Before long,

Eventually,

Later on,

Earlier,

Finally,


Can you come up with any more time connectives?

16 September 2011

Posted on Friday 16 September 2011 by Mr Wilks

For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to verbs (actions or ‘doing words’). This week the spellings are all words which you just have to add ‘ing’ to the root word.

The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words. They’ll be tested on Friday 23 September.

1.

help

helping

2.

ask

asking

3.

pull

pulling

4.

jump

jumping

5.

walk

walking

6.

look

looking

7.

start

starting

8.

enjoy

enjoying

9.

conduct

conducting

10.

experiment

experimenting


It’s the summer…

Posted on Friday 15 July 2011 by Mr Roundtree

…so there are no homework activities or spellings to learn.

Don’t forget learning can still happen in the holidays:

  • take your children to the park and talk about what they can see, hear and smell;
  • take a trip using a bus or train, and take time to look at the timetable (Why is it in the 24 hour clock? How long will the journey last? When will we arrive?)
  • enjoy visits to the local library;
  • 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?);
  • encourage your child to write some postcards to friends and family;
  • take a trip to a museum or art gallery.

Research shows that the long summer holidays can mean some children’s learning regresses and they might struggle in the autumn term to keep up.  Frequent talk-times, reading, counting and tables practice are so important!

08 July 2011

Posted on Friday 08 July 2011 by Mr Wilks

The spellings this week are all words that have an ‘ed’ ending. Nouns and verbs practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise numbers 1-10.

  1. asked
  2. looked
  3. showed
  4. stopped
  5. dragged
  6. explored
  7. touched
  8. travelled
  9. bewildered
  10. abandoned

The spellings will be tested on Friday 15 July.

01 July 2011

Posted on Saturday 02 July 2011 by Mr Wilks

The spellings this week are a mixture of ‘ing’ words.

  • Some follow the ‘double up for a short vowel’ sound rule.
  • Some follow the drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ rule.
  • Some just need ‘ing’ adding to the word.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 08 July.

1. trail                         trailing

2. crave                      craving

3. love                        loving

4. drop                       dropping

5. admit                     admitting

6. brave                     braving

8. complete              completing


9. decide                   deciding

10. convince              convincing



24 June 2011

Posted on Friday 24 June 2011 by Mr Wilks

The spellings this week are all words which require a letter to be doubled up because of a short vowel sound just before.

For example: hopping. The short ‘o’ (different to the ‘o’ in ‘hope’) sound means that the ‘p’ must be doubled up. (If it was a long ‘o’ sound the word would be hoping and wouldn’t need a double ‘p’.)

Nouns and verbs should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs should practise 1-10.

  1. follow
  2. happy
  3. banning
  4. swimming
  5. batter
  6. spinner
  7. trigger
  8. different
  9. accommodation

Spellings will be tested on Friday 29 June. Practise hard!


17 June 2011

Posted on Friday 17 June 2011 by Mr Wilks

The spellings this week are all words that end in ‘ch’, ‘sh’ or ‘ss’ and take ‘es’ endings. For example, the plural of witch is witches.

Nouns and verbs practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.

1. church        churches

2. touch         touches

3. wash          washes

4. clash          clashes

5. class           classes

6. watch        watches

7. miss            misses

8. scratch       scratches


9. embarrass     embarrasses

10. approach     approaches


The spellings will be tested on Friday 24 June.