02 March 2018
Our spellings will be topically themed this week. Your task is to use each word in a paragraph explaining a ‘snow experience’. Choose a style of writing to use eg report, story, diary.
- sleigh
- sledging
- toboggan
- icicles
- slippery
- shovel
- blizzard
- hibernate
- blustery
- frozen
- freezing
- powdery
23 February 2018
The spelling pattern for this week is ‘tch’ ending in ed.
- clutched
- sketched
- snatched
- scratched
- stretched
- dispatched
- twitched
- wretched
Your task is to collect other words with the same ‘tch’ ending.
Can you add the ‘ed’ suffix to all of them? Which other suffixes can be used? Build word families (such as clutch, clutching, clutched, clutches).
2 February 2018
Your child’s spellings all have the suffix ‘ious’
- ferocious
- anxious
- dubious
- envious
- curious
- spacious
- glorious
- bodacious
- fastidious
- furious
Your task is to create a word search including these words. The children will be tested on this spelling pattern on Friday 09 February.
26 January 2018
Your child’s spellings are all words with double consonants for a short vowel sound. Your child will be tested on Friday 02 February:
- appreciate
- according
- apparent
- community
- committee
- exaggerate
- immediate
- suggest
- recommend
- opportunity
We will be testing the rules, not the list of words!
Write a nonsense story you may use these words. How many more can you include which follow the same rules.
19 January 2018
This week, our spellings will be in preparation for our big topic: ‘Life Forces’. We’ll use these words regularly over the next few weeks.
- evolution
- classification
- classifying
- juvenile
- adolescent
- adult
- infant
- offspring
- lifecycle
- characteristics
Your task is to create a glossary for these words.
12 January 2018
Your spellings to learn this week are words that include a silent letter. Your child will be tested on Friday 19 January:
- muscle
- rhyme
- rhythm
- yacht
- knife
- doubt
- environment
- solemn
- island
- knight
The task is to create a word search using these words. Can you add any extra words to this list?
05 January 2018
Your spellings to learn this week are words that include the ough letter string. Your child will be tested on Friday 12 January:
- bough
- cough
- dough
- enough
- although
- thought
- plough
- ought
The task is to add other words to this list that include the ough letter string and categorise them by the sound the letter string makes in that word. For example, plough and bough both make the ‘ow’ sound.
08 December 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words that fit the spelling rules and patterns we have learnt so far this year. Your child will be tested on Friday 15 December:
- suspicious
- artificial
- influential
- edible
- ferocious
- opportunity
- essential
Your task is to identify the rule or pattern for each word. List another five words that fit these rules or patterns. You will be tested on words that fit the rules and patterns we have learnt so far this year.
01 December 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words that link with our topic of Power. Your child will be tested on Friday 08 December:
- insulator
- insulating
- electricity
- current
- conductor
- conductivity
- battery
- circuit
Your task is to create a glossary of terms for these words. Don’t forget to put them in alphabetical order first!
10 November 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words with double consonants. Your child will be tested on Friday 17 November:
- accommodate
- aggressive
- committee
- communicate
- recommend
- apparently
- suggest
- accompany
- attached
- necessary
We’ll also test your child on two extra words, not on this list. Encourage your child to look out for other words belonging to the list.