Friday 01 March 2019
I before e is one of the most common spelling rules we hear. However, it doesn’t always work. In fact, “I before e, except after c when the sound is ee” is much more accurate – of course, there are exceptions to this rule: either, weird, their. In fact, sometimes, ‘I’ and ‘e’ are just adjacent. To help them learn (and remember) this rule, children should learn the following words in preparation for a test on Friday 08 March 2019.
foreign
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achieve | convenience |
mischievous
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soldier | sufficient |
variety | ancient |
Friday 08 February 2019
This week, our spellings will be a revision of everything we’ve learnt this half-term. Children should evidence their practice in their homework books.
01 February 2019
This week, our spellings focus on some tricky words. These words don’t really follow a rule so we just need to learn them. Children should use the strategies in the back of their homework book to practise these words in their homework books.
Children will be tested on these words on Friday 08 February 2019.
bruise rhythm
yacht muscle
vehicle queue
stomach language
25 January 2019
Our spellings this week have focussed on the use of suffixes. Suffixes are added to the end of a root word to alter its meaning. For example, to enjoy (verb) can become enjoyment (abstract noun). This week, children should learn the words in the list below ahead of a spelling test on Friday 01 February 2019.
immediately
happiness
successful
accommodating
government
fascinating
excitable
strengthen
11 January 2019
Our spellings this week focus on the use of prefixes. Prefixes are added to the start of a root word to change its meaning. For example, interested could have the opposite meaning by adding the prefix un – uninterested. This week, children will not be given a list of words to learn but should practise using the prefixes below to change the meaning of a root word. During our weekly spelling test, children will be asked to use these prefixes correctly in different contexts. Children will have a spelling test on Friday 18 January 2018.
un (eg unusual)
mis (eg misunderstand)
dis (disinterested)
re (eg reorganise)
30 November 2018
Our spellings this week focus on when we use the suffix -ably or -ibly. Last week, children explored the rule. This week, children have a list of words to learn ahead of a spelling test on Friday 07 December 2018.
- incredibly
- sensibly
- reliably
- respectably
- agreeably
- enviably
- undeniably
- responsibly
19 October 2018
Your spelling rule this week is using apostrophes for omission.
eg should not = shouldn’t
Write a list of contractions and the words before omission.
12 October 2018
Your spelling rule this week is pluralising words ending in a y. The rule is drop the y for an 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.
05 October 2018
This week’s list of spellings are all homophones. Can you draw pictures or diagrams to illustrate the different meanings in a set of homophones? For the test, children will be given the word in a sentence.
weather
whether
you’re
your
here
hear
are
our
28 September 2018
This week’s list of spellings are all homophones – words that mean different things but sound the same.
Some of these homophones have been picked up as common errors in children’s writing. For the test, children will be given the word in a sentence. At home, practise each spelling by writing them in sentences. Think about the meaning of each homophone.