Year 6 Spelling

05 October 2018

Posted on Friday 05 October 2018 by Mr Roundtree

All of the spellings this week have -fer endings and we’re learning how to add a suffix to these words. There will be no test on Friday but your child needs to practise adding suffixes to these words correctly. Sometimes you need to double the ‘r’ and sometimes you don’t.

All children should be practising their spellings in their homework book, using the techniques suggested at the back which we also use in class.

  • refer
  • prefer
  • transfer
  • offer

 

  • -ed
  • -ing
  • -ence
  • -al

This week’s time tables test will be on the 4 x table but we’ll be challenging ourselves with the more difficult questions we’ve been practising recently. We’re improving every day with these.

28 September 2018

Posted on Thursday 27 September 2018 by Mr Roundtree

All of the spellings this week have -ible or -able endings. For Friday’s test, I’ll test some of these words but will also test words from their word families or even words that have the same spelling pattern but weren’t on the spelling list.

All children should be practising their spellings in their homework book using the techniques suggested at the back which we also use in class.

-able -ible rule-breakers
terrible

edible

horrible

invincible

incredible

sensible

illegible

responsible

tolerable

admirable

breakable

applicable

considerable

valuable

excitable

measurable

forgettable

regrettable

reversible

convincible

manageable

changeable

accessible

convertible

21 September 2018

Posted on Thursday 20 September 2018 by Mr Roundtree

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

Posted on Friday 14 September 2018 by Mr Roundtree

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.

practice      practise

advice        advise

device        devise

licence        license

heard        herd

guessed       guest

passed        past

father         further

led       lead

morning      mourning

Here are some homophones that we should be using correctly already (but don’t). Practise using these correctly too.

there   their   they’re

your    you’re

to    too    two

of    off

which    witch

here   hear

weather   whether

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

Posted on Thursday 06 September 2018 by Mr Roundtree

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.

practice      practise

advice        advise

device        devise

licence        license

heard        herd

guessed       guest

passed        past

father         further

led       lead

morning      mourning

Here are some homophones that we should be using correctly already (but don’t). Practise using these correctly too.

there   their   they’re

your    you’re

to    too    two

of    off

which    witch

here   hear

weather   whether

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

Posted on Friday 15 June 2018 by Mr Roundtree

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.

 

geo – means “the earth” photo – “means light”
path – means “feeling or

suffering”

gress – means “to walk”
phon – means “sound” dict – which means “to say”
therm – means “heat” tract – means “to pull”
mem – means “keep in mind” scribe – means “to write”
tele – means “far away” mit – means “to send”
fract – means “to break” graph – means “to write”
bi – means “two” ped – means “foot”
corni – means “horn” punct – means “point, pricked, pierced”

 

 

08 June 2018

Posted on Thursday 07 June 2018 by Mr Roundtree

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

Posted on Thursday 10 May 2018 by Mr Roundtree

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

Posted on Thursday 26 April 2018 by Mr Roundtree

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

Posted on Monday 23 April 2018 by Mr Roundtree

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