10 March 2017
This week’s spelling activity is a bit of fun. Have a look at the Year 3/4 and 5/6 spelling lists you received at parents’ evening (or here) and create a game, quiz, crossword, wordsearch or anything else you can think of which will help us to practise them.
Bring your game to our homework review on Friday 17 March.
03 March 2017
This week’s spellings now focus on the prefixes on the left hand side.
Create and practise words with these prefixes and see how many other prefixes you can think of that are not on the list. Be prepared to discuss what adding the prefix does to the meaning of the root word.
You’ll be tested on words with prefixes on Friday 10 March.
24 February 2017
Year 6 will no longer have a list of words to learn. We’ll have an activity which will span across two weeks, reflecting the learning we’re doing in class. Each week, there will be a test requiring us to apply this skill.
Here is a list of suffixes and what they do to a word.
Practise adding the suffixes and think carefully about what spelling rules you need to follow. You’ll be tested on Friday 03 March on ten words which require you to apply this practice.
03 February 2017
This week’s spellings focus on homophones. Here are lots and lots and lots of homophone pairs. In your book, pick out those which you think you find more difficult and create some trick and tips for you to remember which is which. Good practice would be to get someone to say them in a sentence for you to choose which to use, like we do in class.
On Friday 10 February, I will say ten sentences and you will have to choose which spelling to use.
27 January 2016
This week’s spelling activity continues our work on how etymology can help us to understand word meaning and aid spelling.
What words can you create which include these prefixes? Create mini-dictionaries of words with the same prefix and see whether you notice their similar meanings.
20 January 2017
This week’s spellings all end in ‘tial and ‘cial. They’re not difficult spellings but we need to know when to start this ‘chul’ sound with ‘t’ and when to start it with ‘c’.
Usually, where the part of the word preceding ‘chul’ ends with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u), we use C-I-A-L. However, there are a couple of exceptions to this: commercial and financial.
If the part of the word preceding ‘chul’ ends with a consonant, we use T-I-A-L. I can think of one exception: initial.
These words will be tested on Friday 27 January.
13 January 2017
All week, we’ve been going through the Year 5/6 spelling list identifying which words we think we already know.
For this week’s spelling activity, the children should practise those spellings they already know by writing them into sentences as well as identifying ten words which they feel they’ll struggle to remember.
There won’t be a test on Friday; instead we’ll discuss the words we’ve identified as trickier and create a spelling list for us to learn the following week.
06 January 2017
This week’s spellings focus on the letter string, ‘ough’.
- enough
- tough
- though
- thought
- rough
- ought
- cough
- bought
- brought
- drought
- although
- dough
- plough
- sought
- thorough
Ten of these spellings (or words in their word families, eg thorough and thoroughly) will be tested on Friday 13 January.
09 December 2016
There’s not a theme with spellings this week and there’ll be no test. I’ve given the children the Year 5/6 spelling list which indicates which words Year 6s need to know (that they haven’t learnt already in Year 3 and 4). I want them to look through the spellings and see if they can create groups of words which could be learnt together.
- homophones
- spelling patterns
- suffixes
- prefixes
- rhymes and rememberings
Then look and see which words it is difficult to put into a group – these are probably the hardest to learn.
02 December 2016
We’ve been exploring words ending in …tious and …cious for our spelling activity and next week these are the spellings we’ll be tested on.
- vicious
- malicious
- suspicious
- precious
- conscious
- delicious
- nutritious
- surreptitious
- conscientious
- cautious
- infectious
- fictitious
- ambitious
Ten words will be tested on Friday which could be from this list or could be in one of these word’s word family.
Word families are a great way to practise spelling: infect, infectious, infecting, infected, disinfect, disinfectant. Not only do I have to write the spelling pattern over and over again, but it also highlights that there’s a ‘t’ in all of these words therefore, I’ll use a ‘t’ for the …tious spelling.
