14 January 2022
This week’s spellings are the alternative graphemes for the ‘oa’ and ‘ue’ phonemes:
smoke, throw, floating, through, peculiar, refuse, loosest, barbecue
Practise spelling these words in short, purposeful chunks ready for a test on Friday 21st January.
Good luck!
07 January 2022
This week’s spellings are based on the alternative graphemes ‘ay’, ‘ee’ and ‘i’.
Practise spelling these words at home for a test on 14th January.
neighbour, reign, believe, increase, guide, bicycle, tried, exercise
03 December 2021
Practice adding -ed, -er, -est and -ing to these words:
busy cry
reply funny
naughty carry
marry copy
ugly worry
sorry happy
creepy
26 November 2021
This week, we’d like you to practice changing these words to plural:
address(es)
century(ies)
group(s)
church(es)
lorry(ies)
jelly(ies)
wolf(ves)
roof(ves)
19 November 2021
For this week’s spelling, we’d like you to practise adding the suffixes -er and -est to these words:
nice
late
rude
brave
happy
funny
tall
hot
05 November 2021
This week, we’ve been learning about the spelling rule:
double up for a short vowel sound
An example of this is in the word difficult. The ‘i’ is a short sound if you read it aloud, therefore the following consonant ‘f’ needs to be doubled up. Another example is trapped.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.
different, difficult, possible, trapped, happening, opposite, arrive
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 12 November to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, click here.
15 October 2021
This week, we’ve been learning about some common homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings – this is one of the reasons why English spelling is super tricky!
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home. Because they’re homophones, it’s most useful to practise these in sentences. You could do this in the car, on a walk or around the table.
there, they’re, their, which, witch, to, two, too
We’ll test ourselves on Thursday 21 October to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
08 October 2021
This week, we’ve been learning how the ‘ue’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘conclude’, the letters ‘u-e’ make the ‘ue’ sound but in the word ‘popular’ it’s the letter ‘u’.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.
continue, popular, June, regular, queue, rescue, conclude, amuse
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 15 October to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
01 October 2021
This week, we’ve been learning how the ‘ie’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘describe’, the letters ‘i-e’ make the ‘ie’ sound but in the word ‘supply’ it’s the letter ‘y’.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.
describe decide height surprise
replied cried polite supply
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 08 October to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
24 September 2021
This week, we have been focussing on the ‘oa’ phoneme and we’ve looked at all the alternative graphemes for this sound.
The words you need to practise this week are:
notice, suppose, though, although, heroes, those, glowing, phone
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 1st October.
