Friday 17th March 2023
This week, the spellings focus on suffixes – the bit added onto the end of words that changes their meaning. Your child needs to know how to spell all variations ready for our weekly quiz on Friday:
Spellings 17.03.23
This week, our spelling words will be compound words. Compound words are individual words that are made up of two other words combined. For example, hand and bag = handbag.
footprint, butterfly, classroom, lipstick, snowball, notebook, popcorn, toothbrush, rainbow, blackberry
Why not learn your spelling words by putting them in silly sentences to make a story? Underline the spelling words to help you remember them.
Spellings 10.03.23
Hi,
If Year 3 can please continue to practice the spellings listed below, they will be tested on them next Friday.
We will also have a x8 test.
Thanks
Friday 10 March 2023
This week’s spellings focus on suffixes again – adding ly.
accidental – accidentally
complete -completely
famous – famously
natural – naturally
occasional – occasionally
ordinary – ordinarily
happy – happily
basic – basically
sad – sadly
slow – slowly
Spellings 10.03.23
This week, we’ve been learning about contractions!
Contractions include an apostrophe to show the omission of letters. For example, I am is contracted to I’m and could not is contracted to couldn’t.
Our spellings for the next week will be contractions, to help us remember how to use apostrophes and apply this to our writing.
- wouldn’t
- couldn’t
- shouldn’t
- I’m
- I’ve
- don’t
- won’t
- didn’t
- can’t
- they’re
10.03.23
Below are the new spellings for the next two weeks, please practise ready for a spelling test on Friday 24 March.
On the first week, use the look, say, cover, write, check method.
- who
- what
- when
- why
- which
- how
Please also re-visit and practise the below spellings from the Autumn term.
- no
- of
- once
- one
Spellings 03.03.23
Our spellings for the next week will include different spelling patterns that we’ve been learning about. Learn these little and often using one of our suggested spelling strategies that are included on the homework sheets.
bridge, giant, fancy, ice, knight, knock, write, wrong, money, keys
03 March 2023
This week’s spellings focus on suffixes – the bit at the end of words that can change the meaning of the root word:
Spellings 03.03.2023
Next week, we’ll be adding the suffix –fer. For some ideas of how to make learning your spellings fun,
see our ‘Super Spelling Strategies’ guide on the website.
Learn these words by Friday 10th March.
reference
referred
referral
preference
preferred
transferring
offering
offered
Friday 24 February 2023
This week’s spellings link to our computing topic and science learning:
elastic
materials
plastic
properties
disposable
computer
program
sequence