Author: Miss Beatson

21 September 2018

Please complete the following spelling activity to hand in on Thursday 27 September.

Word families

It’s important to start ‘really’ seeing words, noticing patterns and thinking about words that are linked by a letter pattern and meaning (but not the sound). Word families can help you with the spelling and meaning of words.

real: reality, unrealistic, realise, really

ped: pedestrian, expedition, pedicure, pedal

Can you make your own ‘word families’ for the following:

  • sign (from Latin to mark)
  • rupt (from Latin for broken)
  • medic
  • graph
  • tele
  • sub

14 September 2018

This week’s spelling task is to learn the homophones you were given last week. You’ll be tested on some of these words on Thursday 20 September.

14.09.18

Please learn these spellings for a spelling test, next week.
by/buy/bye right/write
no/know peace/piece
knew/new aloud/allowed
its/it’s wear/where
threw/through weak/week
weather/whether who’s/whose

Summer writing challenge

Well done to all the children who sent in a postcard from their summer holiday. It was lovely to read about the fantastic places you visited. We had postcards from various places in the UK and a postcard as far away as Thailand! We have displayed all the postcards in the hall for everybody to read.

Well done to Lilly and Jack, who are the winners of our writing summer challenge. Their writing was clear and told us a lot about what they did on their holiday.

07 September 2018

This week’s spellings are homophones.

Homophones are two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.

Find the meaning for each of these homophones. Choose 6 homophones and write them in a sentence, in the correct context.
by/buy/bye right/write
no/know peace/piece
knew/new aloud/allowed
its/it’s wear/where
threw/through weak/week
weather/whether who’s/whose