03 November 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words ending ‘-cious’ and ‘-tious’. Your child will be tested on Friday 10 November:
- conscious
- delicious
- ferocious
- malicious
- precious
- ambitious
- nutritious
- scrumptious
- cautious
- fictitious
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.
13 October 2017
Your spelling homework this week is to understand the appropriate use of different homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same, but are spelt differently: sea / see, allowed / aloud.
Create sentences (minimum 8) or a paragraph, which contain homophones. For example: When I gaze out my window, I see the sea.
06 October 2017
Your spelling rule this week is using apostrophes for omission. For example:
- should not = shouldn’t
- I would = I’d
- there is = there’s
Write a list of contractions and the words before omission.
For the second week, times tables focus will be the 12 times table (up to 12 x 12) and including division facts. Practise counting forwards, backwards, starting from zero and then starting from a multiple, and don’t forget the traditional way to support your child: a couple of mock tests to see how well your child knows their tables!
29 September 2017
Your spelling rule this week is pluralising words ending in a y.
The rule is y to i and add es.
Pluralise these words:
activity
library
story
variety
beauty
try
cry
fly
history
baby
carry
cherry
Create a nonsense story including as many of these pluralised words as possible.
22 September 2017
Your spelling rule to learn this week is adding a suffix (ed, ing) to a short vowel sound.
- A short vowel is in stop.
- A long vowel sound is in stoat.
hop – hopping – hopped
trot – trotted – trotting
Create some ‘word families’ like those above – make a list in your homework book of all the words you can create.
15 September 2017
Your spelling rule to learn this week is adding suffixes to words ending in ‘-fer’.
- transfer
- prefer
- refer
Create some ‘word families’ – Make a list in your homework book of all the words you can create from the words above by adding suffixes.
Remember sometimes the ‘r’ gets doubled up!
- The ‘r’ is doubled if the ‘-fer’ is still stressed when an ending is added – transferring.
- The ‘r’ is not doubled if the ‘-fer’ is no longer stressed – referal.
08 September 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words ending ‘-able’/‘-ably’ and ‘-ible’/‘-ibly’. Your child will be tested on Friday 14 September:
- horrible
- possible
- edible
- reversible
- invincible
- legible
- terrible
- adorable
- disposable
- enjoyable
- valuable
- breakable
- identifiable
We’ll also test your child on two extra words, not on this list, to see if your child can apply the same suffix pattern. Encourage your child to look out for other words belonging to the list.
New homework routines
Following feedback and meetings with parents, we’ve changed our homework routines – read the introduction here to find out more. Teachers will also communicate homework on the website to keep you updated on what homework and spelling tasks there are. Look out for the first one on Friday 08 September.