Year 6 Spelling

21 September 2018

This week, you have a spelling activity. There will be no test on Friday 28 September. Instead we’ll review what you’ve found out from this activity. It focuses on words ending in -ible and -able and being able to recognise which one to use.

Find out words with ‘ible and ‘able endings and create the word families for them.

adorable – adorably – adoration – adore – adored – adoring

We’re going to work on the 3 times table next week. The children will be tested on Friday 28 September. Because we should know our three times table, the test will include both multiplication and division facts. Good practice would be to create all four calculations from one times table fact:

• 3 x 7 = 21
• 7 x 3 = 21
• 21 / 3 = 7
• 21 / 7 = 3

14 September 2018

These are some homophones that Year 6 need to learn – remember it’s not the spellings that are tricky but knowing when to use. This means you need to practise using them in sentences correctly.

There will be a spelling test on Friday 21 September. I will show a sentence with a missing word and the children will have to write down the correct spelling of the homophone in that sentence.

We’ll continue to work on the 2 times table next week on which the children will be tested on Friday 21 September. Because we should know our two times tables inside out, we’ll be working on known facts, such as:

• If 4 x 2 = 8, 4 x 20 = 80
• If 6 x 2 = 12, 6 x 0.2 = 1.2
• If 24 / 2 = 12, 240 / 2 = 120
• If 12 / 2 = 6, 1.2 / 2 = 0.6

07 September 2018

These are some homophones that Year 6 need to learn – remember it’s not the spellings that are tricky but knowing when to use them. This means you need to practise using them in sentences correctly.

There’ll be no test next week. Instead we’ll see how our homophone learning is going, identify some we’re finding more difficult and then we’ll be tested on them the following week.

We will be working on the 2 times table next week which the children will be tested on on Friday 14 September. Because we should know our two times tables inside out, we’ll be working on known facts, such as:

• If 4 x 2 = 8, 4 x 20 = 80
• If 6 x 2 = 12, 6 x 0.2 = 1.2

18 June 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a little creative and is due on Thursday 24 June.

Using these Greek and Latin roots and their meanings, create your own animals where their name gives you an idea of their appearance and/or behaviour.

Eg punctata quadrocornisbiped (dotted four-horned two footed animal). Create at least five different names and then choose one to draw and write a paragraph informing us about it.

08 June 2018

This week’s spellings link to our class novel and the sailing we’ve done at Yeadon Tarn. I’ll be asking the children to spell ten of the sailing terminology on the diagram below and there’ll be extra points available for being able to identify where it is on the diagram and even more for if they can say what job it has. These spellings will be tested on Friday 15 June 2018.

11 May 2018

This week there’ll be no homework or spellings for Year 6. We’ve worked really hard this week and are all ready to face next week confidently and with a smile. By not giving any homework, it allows the children to take ownership of their own learning and, if they want to do anything over the weekend to prepare themselves, they can choose what that may be. Feel free to use a page of the Homework Book to do some practice.

You could:

• Try some arithmetic calculations
• Be tested on spellings from the Year 3/4 and 5/6 list
• Write some sentences and see which words you can label with their word class
• Think about the different areas of Maths and what you need to know for each of them

We’re all ready so I look forward to seeing 29 smiling faces at breakfast club on Monday morning (8.30 sharp).

27 April 2018

For the rest of the year, Year 6 won’t have a specific list of spellings. Instead, they should think about the spelling skills they need to develop (from the list below) and create their own spelling practice. There will be a test each week and, along with this, we’ll discuss the sorts of spellings we’re finding more difficult.

• tion/ssion/sion/cian endings
• homophones
• ant/ent/ancy/ency/ance/ence endings
• adding prefixes
• adding suffixes
• unusual spellings
• ible/able/ibly/ably
• fer endings
• spelling rules
• tious/cious
• ough
• tial/cial endings

20 April 2018

For the rest of the year, Year 6 won’t have a specific list of spellings. Instead, they should think about the spelling skills they need to develop (from the list below) and create their own spelling practice. There will be a test each week and, along with this, we’ll discuss the sorts of spellings we’re finding more difficult.

• tion/ssion/sion/cian endings
• homophones
• ant/ent/ancy/ency/ance/ence endings
• adding prefixes
• adding suffixes
• unusual spellings
• ible/able/ibly/ably
• fer endings
• spelling rules
• tious/cious
• ough
• tial/ciail endings

09 March 2018

For spelling this week, the children have looked through the Year 5.6 spelling list and chosen 15 words which they feel they need to practise.

Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Don’t forget to try adding prefixes and suffixes to the words. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be a test on Friday 16 March.

23 February 2018

This week’s spelling list continues our exploration of the Year 5,6 spelling list and we move on to the ‘p, q, r’ section.

There will be a test on these words on Friday 02 March.

parliament
persuade
physical
prejudice
privilege
profession
programme
pronunciation

queue

recognise
recommend
relevant
restaurant
rhyme
rhythm