15 July 2022
This week, we’d like you to practise spelling words with the ‘u’ phoneme that is made by the ‘ou’ grapheme.
Here are your words:
trouble
couple
southern
country
young
rough
double
touch
These will be tested at the end of next week.
Good luck!
01 July 2022
In our upcoming spelling lessons, we’ll be practising adding ‘cian, sion, ssion and tion’ to words. Have a practise at home to help you with your learning. The words you’ll be tested on are:
attention, fraction, mission, direction, confusion, politician, optician, percussion
Can you spot or think of a rule which helps you remember each ending? We’ll be exploring this in class.
Good luck!
24 June 2022
This week, we have been learning how the ‘gue’ trigraph (three letters making one sound) can make the ‘g’ phoneme (sound). We also looked at how the ‘que’ trigraph can make the ‘ck’ sound.
Practice your spellings for next week’s test:
antique
unique
cheque
picturesque
catalogue
tongue
league
fatigue
17 June 2022
This week we have been learning about the sc alternative grapheme for the ‘s’ phoneme. Practise these spellings for next week’s test.
scene
scenery
science
crescent
ascent
descent
scissors
scented
10 June 2022
This week, we have been learning about the different graphemes used for the ‘n’ phoneme. Practise these spellings for next week’s test:
gnaw
gnat
align
gnome
knead
known
knot
knee
20 May 2020
This week, we’ve been practising spelling homophones. These are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
The homophones we’d like you to practise this week are:
peace, piece, main, mane, fair, fare
These will be tested on Friday 27th May 2022. Good luck!
12 May 2022
Practise writing the following words with the prefixes ‘mis’ and ‘re’ at the start. The words may work with both prefixes, one prefix or neither. For example, both misinterpret and reinterpret would work. Misimagine would not. Your words are:
interpret, consider, believes, address, guided, imagine, position, remember, group, understood
These will be tested on Friday 20th May.
Good luck!
29 April 2022
This week, we’d like you to practise spelling words with the ‘ch’ grapheme that has a ‘k’ phoneme (sound).
Here are your words:
stomach
ache
mechanic
chemistry
character
echo
scheme
anchor
chaos
choir
These will be tested next Friday 6th May.
Good luck!
25 March 2022
This week, we’d like you to practise adding the suffixes below to these root words.
build/ing/er
heart/less
weight/less
care/ful/less/ed/ing/er
busy/er/est/ing
natural/ly
separate/ly/ed/ing
clumsy/er/est/ly
Can you spot the suffixes that don’t work on your homework sheet? For example, heart/ness wouldn’t work! Golden tickets for those who can find them!
18 March 2022
This week, we’d like you to practise adding the suffix ‘ly’ to these words:
– accidental
– complete
– famous
– natural
– occasional
– ordinary
– happy
– basic
These will be tested on Friday 25th March. Good luck!
