18 September 2020
Spelling
| In spelling lessons next week, we’ll be recapping and practising the long vowel i phoneme (sound).
This sound can be written in lots of different ways. These are called graphemes. For example: polite reply replied In lessons, the children will be exploring these alternate graphemes in lessons.
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11 September 2020
Spelling
In spelling lessons next week, we’ll be recapping and practising the long vowel ee phoneme (sound). This sound can be written in lots of different ways (graphemes) For example: money, Pete, Leeds, busy
In lessons, the children will be exploring these alternate graphemes.
Here are the specific words for the children to practise at home:
| believe |
| breathe |
| complete |
| appear |
| extreme |
| increase |
| quickly |
| busy |
| people |
| chimney |
06 March 2020
This week’s spelling focuses on adding the suffixes ful and less to words to create adjectives. the Practise these spellings – think about how creative you can be. There will be a test on Friday 13 March where ten of these words will be tested.
| fruit/ful/less
heart/less thought/ful/less care/ful/less harm/ful/less help/ful/less thank/ful/less |
use/ful/less
hope/ful/less play/ful rest/ful/less fear/less/ful doubt/ful/less home/less |
11 February 2020
This week’s spelling focuses on adding un and dis to words. Practise these spellings – think about how creative you can be. There will be a test on Friday 14 February when ten of these words will be tested.
| Spelling list
appear believe certain continue important interest learn |
natural notice popular possess able avoidable aware |
kind usual pleasure advantage obey |
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31 January 2020
This week’s spelling focuses on contractions. Practise these spellings – think about how creative you can be. There will be a test on Friday 7 February.
| I will/I’ll
I am/I’m do not/don’t I would/I’d had not/hadn’t you are/you’re you will/you/ll |
he will/he’ll
she will/she’ll is not/isn’t cannot/can’t have not/haven’t they are/they’re |
you have/you’ve
has not/hasn’t will not/won’t I had/I’d are not/aren’t could not/couldn’t |
Investigating circuits
Year 4 are learning all about electricity in their science lessons this half term. We started off our topic finding out about the difference between mains and battery operated appliances and how we can use them safely around the home and school.
Now, we’re investigating circuits. We found out how to make a circuit to light a bulb and are now using this knowledge to test our own scientific questions.
In this lesson, we had to use some key scientific vocabulary. Test us at home to see how much we’ve remembered: circuit, cell, bulb, components
10 January 2020
This week’s spellings recaps the children’s understanding of commonly misused homophones. Practise using these spellings correctly in sentences and discuss ways to remember when to use which homophone – any good ideas you’ve got could be shared in class. There will be no test next week but we will share our spelling practice in our homework review on Thursday 16 January.
| homophones | |
| there
they’re their hear here to two too |
witch
which where wear were of off |
13 December 2019
This week’s spellings take us back to the learning we did at the beginning of the year on homophones. This week, you must practise using these spellings correctly in sentences and discuss ways to remember when to use which homophone – any good ideas you’ve got could be shared in class on Thursday 19 December.
| homophones | |
| there
they’re their hear here two too to |
witch
which where wear were of off |
06 December 2019
This week’s spelling focuses on adding suffixes to words ending in y. The words we are focusing on are on the right and the suffixes we are adding are on the right. Usually, when we add a suffix to a word ending in y, we drop the y for an i. There are some exceptions to this. Chn need to practise these spellings in their books, using the effective strategies that are in the back of their homework books. There will be a test on Friday 13 December as we will have no test in the final week of term.
| adding suffixes to words ending in y | ||
| ed
ing er est ful ness ly ies |
busy
century library naughty ordinary copy worry cry reply |
funny
happy scary pretty silly marry ugly creepy carry |
08 November 2019
This week’s spelling activity focuses on the spelling rule, double up for a short vowel sound.
The following double consonants are common in the English language: gg, ff, tt, ss, pp, ll, bb, dd.
How many words can you come up with that include these double consonants? Once you’ve got your list of words (at least 20), tick the ones that have a short vowel sound before the double consonant.
