26 November 2010
This week we are looking at how we can change verbs to nouns by adding the suffixes; ‘tion’, ‘ism’, ‘ness’, ‘ist’, and ‘ity’.
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Verb |
Noun |
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educate responsible happy reduce style tour fool attend kind react vandalise calm |
education responsibility happiness reduction stylist tourist foolish attention kindness reaction vandalism calmness |
This week you can choose your own spellings from the noun list.
Choose four spellings and find four of your own spellings that have been changed to verbs from nouns and use the same suffixes to complete your spelling list for this week.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 03 December.
19 November 2010
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A This group is looking at the suffix ‘…ist‘ |
B This group is looking at the suffix ‘…ic‘ |
C This group is looking at the suffix ‘…ful‘ |
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machinist violinist balloonist instrumentalist specialist stockist extremist guitarist |
photographic terrific allergic energetic scientific acidic heroic artistic |
hurtful wishful beautiful careful merciful wonderful painful delightful |
12 November 2010
Here are your spelling lists for this week. They are based on verbs in the past tense.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 19 November.
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A |
B |
C |
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videoed disobeyed quarrelled signalled undiscovered dedicated experimented designed |
married spied listened delayed carried laughed decided happened |
cried carried waited finished coloured stopped arrived happened |
05 November 2010
This week your spellings are all words with double consonants in. Spellings will be tested on Friday 12 November.
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A |
B |
C |
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admittance |
admitted |
butterfly |
15 October 2010
Spellings are again based on spelling families.
Spellings will be tested on Thursday 23 October.
| Set A | phobia claustrophobia arachnophobia agoraphobia xenophobia
ology archaeology biology geology zoology |
| Set B | tele telephone television teleport telecom
graph autograph telegraph photograph graphic |
| Set C | re replay reply reconsider repeat
pre preview prehistoric previous prevent |
08 October 2010
This week we are learning to spell words with prefixes that have a particular meaning. Children have been asked to add two more words to their spellings using the same prefix.
Set A: Aqua and Aero
aquarium, Aquarius, aquatic, aquaplane
aeroplane, aerodrome, aeronauts, aerodynamic
Set B: Micro and Audi
microscope, microfilm, microphone, microcosm
audible, audience, audition, auditorium
Set C: Super and bi
supernatural, Superman, supernova, superpower
bicycle, biped, binoculars, binary
Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 October.
01 October 2010
Spellings this week are taken from a SAT paper.
They will be tested on Friday 8 October.
washing
before
healthy
disease
serious
material
process
essential
available
survive
supply
release
surprising
advantage
properties
medicine
physical
varieties
remember
design
24th September
| A | B | C |
| Double consonant | Double consonant | Soft ‘c’ |
| bigger
biggest digging digger dragging dragged dropping dropped mopping mopped
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humming hummed
hugging hugged runner running stopper stopped sunnier sunniest
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ceiling celebrate celebrity
cellophane December decent descend discern except receive
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This week we are looking and double consonants or silent c.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 1 October.
Good Luck!