Year 5 Spelling

04 March 2016

This week’s spellings all require ‘ed’ to be added for past tense and are words that we often make mistakes with in class (for example, by missing the ‘e’).

These must be practised in your red spelling book ready to be tested on Friday 11 March.

26 February 2016

This week’s spelling are a little different. I won’t be sending a list of spelling for the children to learn but a spelling rule to practise instead:

double up for a short vowel sound

At home, see if you and other members of your family can think of words that follow this rule and practise these. Remember the different ways we’ve used to practise spelling:

• pyramid spelling
• word shapes
• missing letters

There will be a test on Friday and all of the words tested will follow the double up rule.

15 January 2016

This week’s spellings are homophones therefore they need to be practised within a sentence in order for the correct choice to be made.

precede – proceed

• C precedes D in the alphabet.
• “Please proceed with your class assembly, Y5,” said Mr Roundtree.

principal – principle

• The principal part of the Solar System is the sun.
• You need to have good principles.

profit – prophet

• A business needs to make a profit to succeed.
• A prophet said I would win the lottery.

stationary – stationery

• Remain stationary when a wasp comes near you.
• We use use lots of stationery in school: pencils, pens, rulers and sharpeners.

where – wear – were

• Where is the nearest supermarket?
• I like to wear warm clothing in Winter.
• We were enjoying learning about different materials.

there – their – they’re

• There’s a pink elephant over there!
• They went to get their lunch boxes.
• They’re going to Leeds City Museum very soon.

are – our – hour

• We are looking forward to moving on to learning out ‘Life’.
• Our favourite topic so far has been ‘Mission to Space’.
• A lesson usually lasts about 1 hour.

wait – weight

• Wait here while I hide.
• It’s good to be a healthy weight.

would – wood

• Would you like to come and have a picnic?
• Let’s go to the woods and have a picnic.

allowed – aloud

• I’m allowed to stay up later at a weekend.
• Sometimes it’s helpful to read things aloud.

08 January 2016

The spellings this week follow a similar pattern, involving changing a t to a c.

These spellings will be practised throughout the week before being tested on Friday 15 January.

It’s Christmas…

There are no homework tasks or spellings during the holiday period.

Instead, support your child in other ways. Make sure they take part in family events, encourage them to relax and catch up on some reading at home, encourage them to send thank you notes (emails are fine, too!) – all these things will help their English skills of speaking and listening, reading and writing.

Plenty of maths skills can be practised, too – planning some top telly and considering times and durations of programmes, working out what half price is when the sales start… could your child even help with some cooking to use various measures?

Whatever they do, make sure your child, and you, have a happy and healthy Christmas break.

It’s half-term…

…so there is no homework this week.

Please make sure your child spends some time most days reading – books, comics, newspapers… Why not visit the library or a book shop this week?

To support writing, your child should review their spellings from the last few weeks. You could test them on words from all the lists, and ask them to use the words in sentences or a story, or create a comic strip with a word used in each speech bubble.Perhaps you could set a challenge (for you as well as your child!) of using spelling words in everyday conversations! Practising handwriting by joining up is a useful activity, too.

In Maths, children in Key Stage 2 should definitely practise times tables – including the related division facts. Can your child respond within five seconds (not counting up to work it out) to questions like ‘What’s 7 times 8?’ and ‘What’s 42 divided by 6?’

Of course, make sure your child is happy and healthy over half-term, too! A walk and play at Roundhay Park, a bike ride, a conker challenge, a trip to the art gallery… Enjoy!

09 October 2015

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 16 October. They all end in ‘cious‘. Children can practise on their own using their red Learning Lists book but it is also great to practise writing the words into sentences to check that they understand the meaning.

• vicious
• precious
• conscious
• delicious
• malicious
• suspicious
• ferocious
• gracious
• spacious
• atrocious

02 October 2015

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 09 October.

They are homophones whose spelling shouldn’t be difficult, but understanding their role in the sentence (noun or verb) is trickier.

advise – advice 

• Verb – I advise you to stop smoking.
• Noun – That was good advice you gave me.

devise – device

• Verb – We need to devise a plan.
• Noun – This device will help us with our plan.

license – licence 

• Verb – I am licensed to drive.
• Noun – I hope I can get my driving licence.

practise – practice

• Verb – I’m going to go and practise my piano.
• Noun – I need to walk to the piano practice.

prophesy – prophecy

• Verb – I prophesy that I will get top marks.
• Noun – The prophecy said I would get top marks.

compliment – complement

• Verb – That jumper complements your eyes.
• Noun – A full complement of workers built the house.
• Verb – I complimented my mum’s eyes.
• Noun – What a lovely compliment.

descent – dissent

• Verb – The crew dissented from the captain’s decision.
• Noun – A steep descent loomed in front of me.

25 September 2015

This week’s spellings focus on the ‘double up for a short vowel‘ rule and will be tested on Friday 02 October.

• aggression
• accommodate
• accompany
• according
• lugging
• possibility
• approached
• clattering
• pummelled
• toppled

Your child will be tested on six of these spellings. In addition, they’ll be tested on two spellings they’ve learnt in previous weeks and two spellings that follow the double up rule but aren’t on the spelling list.

Additional spellings

Although we’re learning the spellings given in our red learning list books, here are some additional ones picked from mistakes in books this week.

• thing
• there
• for
• no-one
• found
• saw