Year 4 Spelling

It’s half-term…

It’s the half-term, so in line with our current homework policy, there are no homework tasks or spellings to learn.

However, please make sure you’re reading lots with your child – we’re finding children are reading less than they need to if they are to gain fluency and understanding.  You could take your child to a local library, hunt down an old favourite to re-visit, plan a story book for each bedtime over the holiday, read more about a favourite subject on the internet, buy a comic or magazine… And, so they have good role models, make sure your child sees you read, too!

Our current homework policy will be reviewed soon.  A small number of you have told us you’re not entirely happy with it – it would be really helpful if you tell us more about what you’d like.  Send us an email or speak with Mrs Weekes or me about this.  Thank you.

10 January 2014

The spellings this week are all topic words which we have been learning about in our computing mini-topic. Throughout the week, the children have encountered all of this vocabulary so will be able to tell you the meaning.

It’s half-term…

…so no specific homework, spellings or tables this week.  It’s a good time to relax and enjoy some time with your children – have you visited the free exhibition of Anthony Browne pictures at Leeds City Museum, for example?

20 September 2013

This week, we are continuing to look at what happens to words when we add  ‘ing’ to them. Most of the spellings this week end in ‘le’ so you have to drop the ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’. However,  some of the words just require you to add ‘ing’. Can you spot them?

12 July 2013

Over the past few weeks (and at many other points in the year) we have been practising our three main spellings rules:

• double-up for short vowel sounds

• drop the e for ing

• drop the y for an i

This week, you need to practise all of the spellings from the last two lists. You won’t get tested on all of them – but you’ll need to know all of them. Also, a few unknown spellings will be added to the test but which still follow one or more of the rules.

05 July 2013

This week’s spellings all follow a familiar spelling rule:

drop the y for an i

When an er or an est is added to the route word, the y is dropped and replaced with an i. For example,

sunny with er added becomes sunnier

and the y is replaced with an i

Some of these spellings also follow another rule. Do you know which one it is?

28 June 2013

For the last few weeks of spellings, we will be revisiting three familiar spelling rules. This week’s spellings combine two of these rules:

double-up for short vowel sounds

and

drop the e for ing

All of the spellings double-up because of short vowel sounds. As for the second rule (drop the e for ing), because the route word of these spellings all have le on the end, when an ing is added the e is dropped.

For example,

wriggle with an ing added becomes wriggling and the e is dropped.

21 June 2013

The suffix we’re learning to use this week is ‘tion’.

Can you think of any more words that follow this rule?

14 June 2013

Over the next couple weeks, we’re going to be learning about suffixes.

This week’s spellings all end with the suffix ‘ful’, Notice how when ‘full’ is added on to the end, it loses one of its ls. For example, wonder and full becomes wonderful.

A couple of the words follow a similar another familiar spelling rule when ‘full’ is added. Do you know what it is?

07 June 2013

Our spellings this week are all homophones. That’s when two words that sound the same are spelt differently.

In these next two sentences there are five homophones. See if you can spot them!

Whilst most of the spellings are pretty straightforward, the challenge is whether you can tell which one is necessary for the sentence.

For example:

I have been/bean to the shops.

Can you write the correct homophone in this sentence?