26 April 2013
There will be no new words to learn this week. Instead, there will be SATs style spelling tests of words that the children are unfamiliar with. I suggest children spend time each night looking through old spelling lists and trying to remember rules, especially:
- drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ eg hope / hoping, accommodate / accommodating
- drop the ‘y’ for ‘i’ eg happy / happiness, fury / furious
- double up for short vowel sounds eg diner / dinner, coma / comma
Spelling tests will be given at several points in the week.
15 March 2013
For the final time, I want you to revisit all the spellings we have learnt throughout the year. Each day we will have a randomly generated test on some of the spelling from the year plus a bigger test on Friday.
Make sure your spellings are up to date in your learning list book – if they aren’t up to date, use the website to help you fill in the gaps.
You might not remember the spelling, but see if you can apply the rules.
01 March 2013
This week, I want you to revisit all the spellings we have learnt throughout the year. Each day we will have a randomly generated test on some of the spelling from the year plus a bigger test on Friday.
Make sure your spellings are up to date in your learning list book – if they are not up to date, use the website to help you fill in the gaps.
You might not remember the spelling, but see if you can apply the rules.
08 February 2013
We are continuing to look at suffixes in spellings in Year Six. This week the suffix is ic.
Children need to learn the words from the list and find four more spellings with the same suffix.
- historic
- organic
- supersonic
- atomic
- specific
- traffic
- horrific
- metallic
- angelic
- epidemic
- rhythmic
Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 February.
01 February 2013
We’re continuing to look at suffixes. This week, we’re spelling words with the suffix al.
Children have the following words to learn and need to find four more that fit the rule.
- medical
- traditional
- personal
- capital
- seasonal
- historical
- exceptional
- occasional
- national
- sensational
- additional
Spellings will be tested on Friday 08 February.
25 January 2013
Here is the Year Six spelling list for this week. Children are continuing to look at ly words and learning the meanings of the words to extend their vocabulary for writing.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 01 February.
- carelessly
- sorrowfully
- especially
- successfully
- fearlessly
- eventually
- originally
- forgetfully
- personally
- beautifully
- resentfully
- mercilessly
18 January 2013
This week we are continuing to look at words with ful as a suffix. The words on the list can also become adverbs with the addition of an extra suffix: ful and ly.
For example: mercy merciful mercifully
Children will be tested on Friday 25 January on the root words with both ful and fully added as a suffix.
- beauty
- delight
- sorrow
- disgrace
- boast
- fear
- help
- spite
- power
11 January 2013
This week, we’re learning to spell words with the ‘ful’ suffix.
Children have been given the following words to investigate and find those that would have the ‘ful’ suffix and learn their spellings. Remember- not all of the words on the list work with the ‘ful’ suffix.
- proud
- like
- sick
- quiet
- mind
- glad
- hope
- kind
- arm
- room
- thought
- cold
- nice
- child
- friend
- doubt
- sure
- tune
- home
- care
- fruit
- life
- lone
- cheer
- mist
- time
- hurt
- rich
- pain
- shame
- thirst
- king
- near
- free
- use
Spellings will be tested on Friday 18 January.
It’s Christmas…
…so enjoy the break.
We don’t give homework or spellings and tables to learn during holidays. Instead, we hope you all enjoy the break and spend some fabulously festive family time, whether it’s playing board games, enjoying a book or two or simply relaxing in front of the telly for a treat.
07 December 2012
Spellings this week are all ly words – ‘ly’ is a consonant suffix which usually makes the words adverbs. Consonant suffixes can be added without changing the base word, except for words ending in y which changes to i.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 December.
- secretive > secretively
- joking > jokingly
- unfortunate > unfortunately
- strange > strangely
- normal > normally
- real > really
- total > totally
- happy > happily
- speedy > speedily