10 May 2021
Next week, we’ll be recapping our learning about adding suffixes. Complete these activities.
29 April 2021
Next week, we’re learning about apostrophes for possession. There isn’t a list of words to learn. Instead, your child has a task to complete.
Friday 23 April 2021
The spellings this week all contain the or phoneme. This phoneme can be spelled in lots of different ways. We’re focusing on or, aw, au, augh, ough.
caught
forward
history
important
naughty
ordinary
quarter
thought
awful
drawn
26 March 2021
This week, we are learning about words that end in sure. Here is the list of words that you need to learn.
treasure
pleasure
measure
enclosure
closure
assure
reassure
leisure
pressure
19 March 2021
This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –er and -est to words.
We will investigate the spelling rules throughout the week. Here is a list of the root words that we will investigate. Can you complete the table?
There is space to add four of your own root words. On Friday, you’ll be tested on the ten words in bold.
add – er | add – est | |
bright | ||
loud | ||
crazy | ||
clumsy | ||
pretty | ||
spiky | ||
slow | ||
weak | ||
busy | ||
old | ||
soft | ||
shiny | ||
rude | ||
brave | ||
happy | ||
grumpy | ||
12 March 2021
This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –ed and -ing to words. We will investigate the spelling rules for adding these suffixes throughout the week (drop the e, drop the y for an i, double up for a short vowel sound).
Spelling task: here is a list of the root words that we will investigate this week. Can you complete the table? Watch out for the irregular verbs!
add – ed | add – ing | |
jump | ||
talk | ||
walk | ||
frown | ||
steam | ||
step | ||
grin | ||
clap | ||
toast | ||
live | ||
bake | ||
frame | ||
blame | ||
faint | ||
mend | ||
try | ||
fry | ||
worry | ||
sail | ||
hop | ||
shop | ||
laugh | ||
separate | ||
care | ||
begin | ||
eat | ||
fall |
05 March 2021
This week, we are looking at adding the suffix –ly.
Here are some of the words that we will be learning. Can you work out the root word for each spelling?
e.g. The root word of completely is complete.
Spelling list:
- accidentally
- completely
- closely
- frantically
- particularly
- occasionally
- separately
- basically
- probably
- surprisingly
Week beginning 11 January 2021
This week we are recapping learning of the alternative graphemes (different spellings) for long vowel sounds. We have looked at these before last term, so we are only spending a day on each sound. The words that we will focus on each day are in the list below. Concentrate on a couple of words that you are less confident with for each day – you choose which ones you will work on, as we are all different. Choose which ten words you are going to focus on and ask someone at home to test you on those ten words on Friday.
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
eight | believe | bicycle | could | crust |
eighth | breathe | decide | should | mantle |
famous | complete | describe | would | core |
favourite | extreme | exercise | said | |
straight | increase | guide | friend | |
strange | height | |||
weight | surprise |
05 January 2021
Hi everyone!
Your spellings for this week are all about the alternative graphemes for ‘ai’, ‘ee’ and ‘ie’.
A grapheme is how a single unit of sound (phoneme) is written.
For example, for ‘ai’, you could have the word bait. For ‘ay’, which is the same sound as ‘ai’ but is just written differently, you could have bay.
ai and ay are alternative graphemes
Your spellings to remember for this week are:
favourite, straight, weight, believe, appear, increase, height, describe, decide, surprise
Send an email to your class teacher if you want to ask any questions!
04 December 2020
In spelling lessons next week, we’ll be recapping and practising homophones. These are words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning. For example: their, there, they’re
We’ve had some of these words already this year but children are still getting mixed up when using them in their writing. It’s really important that children are not just learning to spell the words but practising using them correctly. Click here for a homophone guide (please challenge your child with other homophones if they are really solid on the ones given). There’s also a worksheet to complete (please practise using sentences like this rather than just writing out the words).
This week’s homophones to practise:
their | of |
there | off |
they’re | to |
your | two |
you’re | too |