Week beginning 11 January 2021
This week we are recapping learning of the alternative graphemes (different spellings) for long vowel sounds. We have looked at these before last term, so we are only spending a day on each sound. The words that we will focus on each day are in the list below. Concentrate on a couple of words that you are less confident with for each day – you choose which ones you will work on, as we are all different. Choose which ten words you are going to focus on and ask someone at home to test you on those ten words on Friday.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| eight | believe | bicycle | could | crust |
| eighth | breathe | decide | should | mantle |
| famous | complete | describe | would | core |
| favourite | extreme | exercise | said | |
| straight | increase | guide | friend | |
| strange | height | |||
| weight | surprise |
05 January 2021
Hi everyone!
Your spellings for this week are all about the alternative graphemes for ‘ai’, ‘ee’ and ‘ie’.
A grapheme is how a single unit of sound (phoneme) is written.
For example, for ‘ai’, you could have the word bait. For ‘ay’, which is the same sound as ‘ai’ but is just written differently, you could have bay.
ai and ay are alternative graphemes
Your spellings to remember for this week are:
favourite, straight, weight, believe, appear, increase, height, describe, decide, surprise
Send an email to your class teacher if you want to ask any questions!
04 December 2020
In spelling lessons next week, we’ll be recapping and practising homophones. These are words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning. For example: their, there, they’re
We’ve had some of these words already this year but children are still getting mixed up when using them in their writing. It’s really important that children are not just learning to spell the words but practising using them correctly. Click here for a homophone guide (please challenge your child with other homophones if they are really solid on the ones given). There’s also a worksheet to complete (please practise using sentences like this rather than just writing out the words).
This week’s homophones to practise:
| their | of |
| there | off |
| they’re | to |
| your | two |
| you’re | too |
27 November 2020
This week, we’re focussing on the spelling rule: change y to i.
When adding suffixes such as ed, er and est to words that end in y, we normally change the y to an i then add our suffix.
However, If the suffix we are adding is ing, we don’t normally change the y – we keep it. For example the word party would become partying Practise by adding any of the above suffixes to the root words below – some will work, some won’t.
E.g. for cry, you will want to practise cried, crier, crying and adding est doesn’t work.
For busy, you’ll have busied, busier, busiest and busying.
| busy | creepy | library | ordinary | worry |
| century | marry | naughty | carry | cry |
20 November 2020
This week, we’re focussing on plurals. To make a noun into a plural you usually have to just add s. However, there are some other rules we’ll be recapping and learning:
add es
drop the y for an i and add es
drop the f for a v and add es
| address(es) | wolf(ves) |
| answer(s) | roof(ves) |
| bicycle(s) | church(es) |
| century(ies) | lorry(ies) |
| group(s) | |
| potato(es) |
13 November 2020
In spelling lessons next week, we’re learning about the er and est suffix and we’ll be applying it to root words. A common mistake that children make with the er suffix is that they don’t drop the y for an i before adding er or est.
For example, happier may be spelled happyer or happiest.
| nice | nicer | nicest |
| happy | happier | happiest |
| hot | hotter | hottest |
| tall | taller | tallest |
| funny | funnier | funniest |
| late | later | latest |
| write | writer |
06 November 2020
| In spelling lessons next week, we’re learning about the ed and ing suffix. This is a suffix we’ve been practising for a while but we’ll be applying it to trickier root words which contain some of our key spelling rules (double up for a short vowel sound and drop the e for ing).
Common mistakes that children make with the ed suffix is that they hear a t sound at the end or they forget the e.
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16 October 2020
In spelling lessons next week, we’ll be continuing to recap and practise homophones. These are words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning.
For example: their, there, they’re
In lessons, the children will be exploring different homophones whilst practising writing them alone and in sentences.
Although the spellings this week are not difficult, they must use the correct word in the correct context so practise them by saying the word within a sentence and then writing the word correctly.
| to |
| too |
| two |
| which |
| witch |
| off |
| of |
09 October 2020
In spelling lessons next week, we’ll be recapping and practising homophones. These are words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning.
For example: their, there, they’re
In lessons, the children will be exploring different homophones whilst practising writing them alone and in sentences.
Here are the specific words for the children to practise at home:
their, there, they’re, where, wear, were, hear, here
Times tables
In spelling lessons next week, we’ll be recapping and practising the long vowel oo phoneme (sound). This sound can be written in lots of different ways. These are called graphemes. For example:
glue, too, grew, conclude
In lessons, the children will be exploring these alternate graphemes in lessons.
Here are the specific words for the children to practise at home:
| continue | rescue |
| peculiar | conclude |
| popular | amuse |
| regular | issue |
| particular | queue |
Times tables
Your child’s login details for Times Table Rock Stars is stuck into their homework books. Please login and practise regularly.
Your Times Table Rock Stars questions will be set to practise the 10s, 2s, 5s, 3s, 4s and 8 times tables (with a few exceptions for children who have already shown they have mastered these tables).