11 October 2019
This week’s spelling activity aims to help the children understand when to use different 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 17 October.
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| there
they’re their hear here
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witch
which where wear were of off |
Having received feedback from parents, Year 3 and 4 will have no more than 20 spellings across a two week period to practise at home. There will be a test every other week where ten of these spellings will be tested. If you have any questions or concerns, please ask.
04 October 2019
This week’s spelling activity focuses on the ‘ue’ sound and the alternative graphemes for them: ue, u-e, ew.
Think of ten words which include the ‘ue’ sound and list them here:
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Now place your words into the grid which is in your homework book. They can be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, backwards, criss-crossing. Fill in the blank space around your words with random letters and challenge someone to complete your word search during homework review on Thursday 10 October.
27 September 2019
This week’s spelling focuses on the ie and oe sounds. Practise these spellings – use the spelling strategies that are stuck into your homework book. There will be a test on Friday 4 October where ten of these words will be tested.
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20 September 2019
This week’s spelling activity focuses on the ‘ie’ and ‘oe’ sounds and the alternative graphemes for them:
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ie, y, i, i-e |
oe, oa, o, o-e, ow |
See how many words you can think of that include the ‘ie’ or the ‘oe’ sounds and record them in your homework book – try sorting them according to the grapheme use to make the sounds. I;m looking for useful spelling practice like the examples show on the sheet that is now stuck in the back of the children’s books. This homework is due on Thursday 26 September and there will be no test on Friday.
13 September 2019
This week’s spelling focuses on the ai and ee sounds. Practise these spellings – think about how creative you can be. There will be a test on Thursday 19 September (because we’re on our trip on Friday) where ten of these words will be tested.
| ai | ee |
| eight/eighth famous
favourite straight strange weight tray great snake brain they everyday |
believe
breathe complete appear extreme increase relief money chimney people busy quickly |
06 September 2019
This week’s spelling activity focuses on the ‘ai’ sound and the alternative graphemes for this sound: ai, ay, ey, a-e, eigh, aigh, a, ei, ea.
See how many words you can think of that include the ‘ai’ sound and record them in your homework book – try sorting them according to the grapheme use to make the ‘ai’ sound.
This homework is due on Thursday 12 October and there will be no test on Friday.
The times table focus this week is the 2 x table. This includes up to 12 x, including the division facts to go with it. Challenge your children by seeing whether they can use their 2 x table knowledge to answer 20 and 200 times table questions:
- 3 x 2 = 6
- 3 x 20 = 60
- 3 x 200 = 600
Chn can record practice in their books but this is not compulsory. There will be a test on Friday 13 October.
5 July 2019
For their spelling task, the children have been asked to create a game/puzzle to challenge a friend with. Using the spellings from this year, the class can be as creative as they like. We discussed some ideas in class.
Also, as an alternative, the children could do the above with the times tables they have learnt during the year.
This needs to be returned by Thursday 11th July ready for our game playing review.
18 April 2019
The spellings this week are all homophones.
What is a homophone?
Two or more words that have the same pronunciation but are spelt differently with different meanings.
blue/blew
hole/whole
break/brake
sent/scent
hour/our
for/four
knight/night
The children have been given a text full of homophone errors. Their job is to correct this and rewrite it.
Challenge
Find more homophones and write your own short story.
Create a short story with homophone errors for a friend to try.
Please ensure there is evidence of learning the spellings in homework books.
15 June 2018
We will be having weekly spelling tests now until the end of term. The children have been given a copy of the statutory word list for Years 3 and 4.
The class are very familiar with all of these words. However, we don’t just want the children to learn these for a test. We want to make sure that they implement this learning into their writing.
We will test the children on a selection of these words so they need to work on the spellings that they are unsure of.
27 April 2018
The children have been asked to put the spellings that they were given last week into sentences. Another alternative is to link this in with our 2D shape learning. It would be great if the children could get creative with the words.
One possibility is to create shapes and write the word inside.
This spelling revision could link in with the homework set this week.
Make your own word shape puzzle.
Can you link your spellings into your shapes?
