Year 4 Spelling

14 October 2011

This week’s spellings recap on all the rules for adding ‘ing’. Some of them may be spellings you’ve had before and some may be completely new to you.

The main focus of the learning is to ensure your child understands the rule. There is only one spelling list this week.

Can you come up with any more spellings that follow the rules for adding ‘ing’?

07 October 2011

Spelling Rule:

This week’s spellings all require your child to double up for short vowel sounds when adding ‘ing’.

The main focus of the learning is to ensure your child understands the rule. It’s up to your child which list they decide to do. However, it’s important they give themselves an appropriate challenge and don’t attempt a list which is neither too easy nor too difficult.

Can you come up with any more spellings that follow the rule?

30 September 2011

Spelling Rule:

This week’s spellings all have an ‘ing’ at the end and replace the ‘e’ in the root word.

The main focus of the learning is to ensure your child understands the rule. It is up to your child which list they decide to do. However, it is important they give themselves an appropriate challenge and don’t attempt a list which is neither too easy nor too difficult.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 7th October.

Can you come up with any more spellings that follow the rule?

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

Spelling Rule:

This week’s spellings are verbs which all have an ‘ing’ at the end.

The main focus of the learning is to ensure your child understands the rule. It’s up to your child which list they decide to learn. However, it is important they give themselves an appropriate challenge and don’t attempt a list which is neither too easy nor too difficult.

Can you come up with any more spellings that follow the rule?

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!

08 July 2011

This week’s spellings are words with the ‘ible‘ suffix. They will be tested on Friday 15 July 2011.

01 July 2011

This week’s spellings focus on the difference between the plural (more than one) and using an apostrophe to show that something belongs to someone. They will be tested on Friday 08 July 2011.

24 June 2011

This week’s spellings are different words that can be used instead of ‘said’. Learning these words will help the children in their writing. These spellings will be tested on Friday 01 July 2011.

17 June 2011

This week the children only have two spellings to learn!

it’s = it is

its = belongs to

At home, the children are expected to put the two different words into ten sentences.

For example:

It’s a lovely day today.

The cat licked its fur.