Year 4 Spelling

21 January 2011

This week’s spellings are homophones! They’ll be tested on Friday 28 January 2011.

14 January 2011

This week’s spellings are time connectives. We’re using them as openers to sentences in our new literacy unit. That’s why they all start with a capital letter and have a comma at the end of the word.

Spellings will be marked wrong if the capital letter and comma aren’t present! They will be tested on Friday 21 January.

1. Before,

2. After,

3. Then,

4. Later,

5. Just then,

6. Finally,

7. Next,

8. Suddenly,

9. Meanwhile,

10. Afterwards,

Can you think of any more time connectives?

07 January 2011

This week’s spellings are writing words in the past tense. The rule is ‘double up for short vowels’.

These spellings will be tested on Friday 14 Janauary 2011. Can the children think of any more of their own?

Holidays approaching…

…so there are no spelling lists, tables or other homework this week.

Enjoy reading, writing (and possibly making?) Christmas cards, reflecting on this term’s topics and other activities.

03 December 2010

This week’s spellings are adding ‘ing’. The words in the left column end in a consonant. As they have a short vowel sound before them we need to double up the consonants before we add the ‘ing’. These will be tested on Friday 10 December.

26 November 2010

This week’s spellings are adjectives with suffixes added to them. They still follow the rule of ‘drop the y for an i’. These spellings will be tested on Friday 3 December 2010.

*Not all words follow the pattern!

19 November 2010

This week’s spellings have the suffix ‘ness‘, which helps to change adjectives (describing words) like tidy into nouns (things) like tidiness.  Can you change the words into adverbs (which often end in ‘…ly’) to describe how you might do something?

They also have the rule of ‘drop the y for an i‘. These spellings will be tested on Friday 26 November.

12 November 2010

This week’s spellings are adding ‘ies’ for plurals. It also links to the rule of ‘drop the y for an i’. These will be tested on Friday 19 November. The children can try to think of any other words that follow this rule!

05 November 2010

This week’s spellings are plurals ending in ‘es’. The children could try to think of some of their own. Words that end in ch, sh, zz and x usually follow this rule. These will be tested on Friday 12 November.

15 October 2010

This week’s spellings are have a simple rule: adding ‘s’ to make plurals (more than one).  We don’t use apostrophes to do this!

There is space on the list for the children to challenge themselves and think of more difficult words that follow the same pattern (there’s one used in this homework post!).

These will be tested on Thursday 21 October, instead of Friday, as the children are not in school.