09 September 2016
This week’s spellings have been chosen by the children from a list of spellings they should know already. We’ve been working on practising their chosen spellings throughout the week and used all sorts of techniques to help us to learn them.
In their homework books, the children should show that they’re using these techniques in order to learn their spellings and they will be tested on ten of them in class on Friday by a friend (as we’ve all got different ones).
Don’t forget, homework books will be collected in on Thursday so, if you want to practise on Thursday evening, make sure you write them down!
Have a happy and healthy holiday
It’s the summer holidays at last, so there are no homework or spelling activities. Enjoy the holidays instead!
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15 July 2016
This week’s spellings are all individualised. Children have looked back through their test books and chosen ten words that they have previously spelled incorrectly. Each child has identified these words because they struggle to spell them or don’t feel confident when trying to use these words in their writing.
Children should learn their words in preparation for their final spelling test on Thursday 21 July.
08 July 2016
Gobblefunk words
To promote the big read and celebrate the work of Roald Dahl, this week’s spellings are all words found in his books.
Children should learn how to spell these words in preparation for their final spelling test on Friday 15 July.
Although these are made-up words, your child be practising the skill of learning new words – a vital life skill. There are lots of rules in these words which apply to spelling real or made-up words. (‘Squibbling’, for example, is probably a verb, ‘to squibble’, and uses two key rules: ‘drop the e for i n g‘ and the always important ‘double up for short vowel sounds’.)
| hopscotchy |
| squibbling |
| whizzpop |
| crodsquinkled |
| trogglehumper |
| quogwinkle |
| ucky-mucky |
| frothbuggling |
| delemptious |
24 June 2016
| Word Families
This week’s spellings activity is to explore some common word families. Words we use every day but might not stop to think about. Spellings will be tested on Friday 01 July. Children will not be given a list to learn but should explore the following word families: |
| graph (e.g. telegraph) |
| phone (e.g. homophone) |
| auto (e.g. automobile) |
| micro (e.g. microphone) |
| tele (e.g. television) |
10 June 2016
-ent, -ence or –ency
This week’s spellings are all nouns that end in –ence.
Children should learn the words and investigate which words can be changed to have an –ent or –ency ending.
These spellings will be tested on Friday 17 June.
| adolescence (can be changed to adolescent) |
| consequence |
| interference |
| convenience |
| dependence |
| indulgence |
| negligence |
| coherence |
| excellence |
| patience |
Summer Half Term
In line with our Homework Policy, there are no homework tasks or spellings to learn next week because it’s the Summer half-term holiday. Of course, there are plenty of ways to help your child continue learning: get reading, go places, talk lots!
Have a happy and healthy holiday.
15 January 2016
This week’s spellings are homophones therefore they need to be practised within a sentence in order for the correct choice to be made.
precede – proceed
- C precedes D in the alphabet.
- “Please proceed with your class assembly, Y5,” said Mr Roundtree.
principal – principle
- The principal part of the Solar System is the sun.
- You need to have good principles.
profit – prophet
- A business needs to make a profit to succeed.
- A prophet said I would win the lottery.
stationary – stationery
- Remain stationary when a wasp comes near you.
- We use use lots of stationery in school: pencils, pens, rulers and sharpeners.
where – wear – were
- Where is the nearest supermarket?
- I like to wear warm clothing in Winter.
- We were enjoying learning about different materials.
there – their – they’re
- There’s a pink elephant over there!
- They went to get their lunch boxes.
- They’re going to Leeds City Museum very soon.
are – our – hour
- We are looking forward to moving on to learning out ‘Life’.
- Our favourite topic so far has been ‘Mission to Space’.
- A lesson usually lasts about 1 hour.
wait – weight
- Wait here while I hide.
- It’s good to be a healthy weight.
would – wood
- Would you like to come and have a picnic?
- Let’s go to the woods and have a picnic.
allowed – aloud
- I’m allowed to stay up later at a weekend.
- Sometimes it’s helpful to read things aloud.
08 January 2016
The spellings this week follow a similar pattern, involving changing a t to a c.
| innocent – innocence |
| decent – decency |
| frequent – frequency |
| confident – confidence – confidential |
| observant – observance – observation |
| expectant – expectance – expectancy |
| tolerant – tolerance – toleration |
| substance – substantial |
These spellings will be practised throughout the week before being tested on Friday 15 January.
It’s Christmas…
There are no homework tasks or spellings during the holiday period.
Instead, support your child in other ways. Make sure they take part in family events, encourage them to relax and catch up on some reading at home, encourage them to send thank you notes (emails are fine, too!) – all these things will help their English skills of speaking and listening, reading and writing.
Plenty of maths skills can be practised, too – planning some top telly and considering times and durations of programmes, working out what half price is when the sales start… could your child even help with some cooking to use various measures?
Whatever they do, make sure your child, and you, have a happy and healthy Christmas break.
