20 January 2017
We are learning the ‘sub’ and ‘tele’ prefixes. Learn the following spellings and their definitions. Can you child use them in a sentence? Learn the following spellings for a test in two weeks – Friday 03 February.
13 January 2017
Spelling worksheet due in Thursday 19 January 2017.
This week, to help with spelling, children have been given a worksheet concentrating on the ‘ness’ and ‘ful’ suffixes. Your child will have a spelling test on Friday 20 January based on the spellings they learned last week for homework.
06 January 2017
09 December 2016
The spelling test will be on all the rules you have learnt so far.
- Adding prefixes and suffixes, including ‘drop the e for ing/ed/er’
- ‘y’ making an ‘i’ sound
- homophones
- double up for a short vowel sound
It’s the last spelling test of 2016 so make this one a brilliant one!
25 November 2016
So far this year, we have learnt to spell words with the following prefixes:
un – negative meaning
mis – negative meaning
dis – negative meaning
re -meaning again or back
The spellings for this week contain the following prefixes:
auto – meaning self or own
anti – meaning against
sub – meaning under
autograph
autobiography
automatic
submarine
subway
subtitle
submerge
anticlockwise
antibiotic
18 November 2016
Choose some words from previous spelling lists that you found hard and practise them using the strategies at the front of your homework book.
11 November 2016
The spellings for this week have the prefix re- or mis-. Pay special attention to misspell. This is often spelt incorrectly as an s is accidentally omitted.
- react
refill
rebuild
retake
recycle - misplace
misunderstand
misspell
misbehave
mislead
04 November 2016
21 October 2016
It’s half-term, so there’s no homework. Enjoy the holiday instead: hunt down a collection of chestnuts on a walk at Roundhay Park, enjoy a cinema trip on a damp day, go further afield and visit somewhere new…
Whatever you do, have a good break.
14 October 2016
The spellings for this week are revision from this half term.
-s, -es, -er, -ing -ed suffixes
– you need to remember two rules for this:
- double up for a short vowel sound (‘swimming’ not ‘swiming’ because the i makes an short ‘i’ sound, not a longer ‘i’ sound as in ‘site’)
- drop the e for ing (and ed and er, too!)
un- and dis- prefixes