23 March 2018
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Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid. Unstressed vowel sounds |
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| explanatory | desperate |
| environment | definitely |
| secretary | difference |
| jewellery | voluntary |
| poisonous | reference |
| company | temperature |
16 March 2018
Continue to learn your spellings with suffixes for a test on 23 March.
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using suffixes *drop the e if the suffix begins with a vowel; keep the e if the suffix begins with a consonant – look out for the exceptions! |
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| judging | tuning |
| judgment | lonely |
| careless | useful |
| caring | dangerous |
| cultivation | treatable |
| cultivating | comfortable |
16 March 2018
Focus : the ch with the c sound
ache
anchor
chemist
chorus
echo
monarch
stomach
character
chemist
mechanic
technical
technology
school
Use one of the spelling activities to learn these words for a test next week.
16 March 2018
This week’s spellings are a list of words to learn based on our phonics.
Group 1 – focusing on two trigraphs. A trigraph is three letters making one sound, like ‘ear’ – I have two ears and ‘air’ – I have a pair of socks.
hair, stairs, pair, year, near, beard
Group 2 – focusing on our split digraphs. A ‘split digraph’ is simply a long vowel sound that has been split. For example, in ‘make’ the long ‘ay’ sound is made by the ‘a_e’ – the two letters have been split. (You might remember how this used to be referred to: ‘magic e’. That term is no longer used as it may be confusing. The ‘e’ is not magic – it’s doing a job.)
make, came, made, even, these, like, bike, bone, those, use
Group 3
path, bath, hour, move, prove, improve, because, want, was, when
09 March 2018
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Suffixes *drop the e if the suffix begins with a vowel; keep the e if the suffix begins with a consonant – look out for the exceptions! |
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| judging | tuning |
| judgment | lonely |
| careless | useful |
| caring | dangerous |
| cultivation | treatable |
| cultivating | comfortable |
09 March 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a task to complete and is due on Thursday 15 March. It is based upon all of their learning so far this half term and this year.
Encourage your child to use their phonics when writing their sentences and matching their words.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
09 March 2018
Focus : the soft ‘c’ sound
We’ve recently been looking a lot at the soft c sound that makes a sss sound. For example: recent, circle and century.
Task: Find at least ten words which use the soft c sound and use them in a sentence.
02 March 2018
Please learn the spellings with prefixes for a test next week.
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| disappointed | overseas |
| dissatisfied | overrule |
| dissimilar | overreact |
| unsure | impatient |
| unnecessary | immobile |
| unnatural | immovable |
02 March 2018
Focus : homophones
This week for spelling, please learn the following words which are all homophones. You need to write one sentence for each word, using the correct homophone.
1. meet
2. meat
3. here
4. hear
5. fair
6. fare
7. knot
8. not
02 March 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a list of spellings to be tested on Thursday 08 March.
In English, we have been looking at making singular words (only one) into plural words (more than one) by add s, es (when the word ends in sh, ch, s, ss, z, zz) or changing the y to ies (when the y is on its own – not when it is part of a digraph e.g oy, ey, ay).
Group 1
foxes, toys, churches, balls, buses
Group 2
foxes, toys, churches, balls, buses, chairs, wishes, boxes
Group 3
foxes, toys, churches, balls, buses, parties, fairies, monkeys, donkeys