Year 3 Spelling

18 November 2011

The spellings this week are all words which have either the prefix re or pre. The re prefix means ‘again’ and the pre prefix means ‘before’.

Children will be tested on Friday 24 November. They will be tested on eight out of the ten words.

11 November 2011

The spellings this week are all words which have either the prefix ‘un’ or ‘dis’. Both these prefixes mean ‘not’. Children should practise all ten spellings but will be tested on eight out of the ten. They will be tested on Friday 18 November.

04 November 2011

This week, the spellings are all adjectives that we will be using in our promotional writing next week.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 11 November. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.

It’s the holiday…

…so there are no homework or spellings.

However, there are lots of ways you can support you child’s learning, first and foremost by visiting our Help Your Child section.

There are lots of things to do in or near Leeds, from geo-caching on Monday to a spooky Halloween walk on Sunday.  Here are a few other ideas to fill the October half-term holiday with activities…

• take your child for an autumnal walk in Roundhay Park to collect chestnuts for a game of conkers or autumn leaves for an autumn collage;
• on a cold, autumn day, stay indoors and spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
• take a trip to Leeds Art Gallery – the Damien Hirst exhibition should prove a great opportunity for lots of discussion, description and possibly disagreement!
• and, as always, enjoy some relaxing reading (why not read some Tintin stories from a local library in preparation for the forthcoming film?)

School re-opens on Tuesday 01 November 2011 (following a training day on Monday 31 October 2011).

14 October 2011

This week, the spellings are a mixture of the ‘ing’ rules:

• just add ‘ing’
• drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’
• double up when there’s a short vowel sound

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 21 October.

07 October 2011

The spellings this week are all words where you have to drop the ‘e’ for ‘i n g’ at the end of the word.

Children will be tested on eight out of the ten spellings on Friday 14 October.

30 September 2011

This is the second week of investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to words.

This week’s spellings are all words which have a short vowel sound before the final letter (think of the difference between the ‘o’ in hop – a short ‘o’ sound) compared to ‘hope’ (a longer sound, like ‘oh’).

When there’s a short vowel sound, you need to double up the final letter when adding ‘ing’.

Your child will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 07 October.

23 September 2011

Spelling rule:

This week’s spellings are all time connectives.

These will be used in next week’s lessons because the text type we’ll learn about is Instructions, where you often see time connectives to help you work out the sequence of what to do.

Time connectives are very often at the start of the sentence (as an ‘opener’).  Because of this, commas and capital letters have to be remembered to be awarded the mark.

Can you come up with any more time connectives?

16 September 2011

For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to verbs (actions or ‘doing words’). This week the spellings are all words which you just have to add ‘ing’ to the root word.

The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words. They’ll be tested on Friday 23 September.

It’s the summer…

…so there are no homework activities or spellings to learn.

Don’t forget learning can still happen in the holidays:

• take your children to the park and talk about what they can see, hear and smell;
• take a trip using a bus or train, and take time to look at the timetable (Why is it in the 24 hour clock? How long will the journey last? When will we arrive?)
• enjoy visits to the local library;
• spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
• encourage your child to write some postcards to friends and family;
• take a trip to a museum or art gallery.

Research shows that the long summer holidays can mean some children’s learning regresses and they might struggle in the autumn term to keep up.  Frequent talk-times, reading, counting and tables practice are so important!