23 November 2018
Focus : the ‘ay’ and ‘ou/u’ sound in different ways
Learn these words for a test next week. Remember to write each word at least three times and use pyramid writing and sentence making to help you learn them.
weigh
weight
sleigh
eight
neighbour
trouble
young
touch
blood
doesn’t
23 November 2018
Focus : the ‘ay’ and ‘ou/u’ sound in different ways
Learn these words for a test next week. Remember to write each word at least three times and use pyramid writing and sentence making to help you learn them.
weigh
weight
sleigh
eight
neighbour
trouble
young
touch
blood
doesn’t
09 November 2018
Focus : ay, a-e, ey, eigh
This week we have been learning words which use the ‘ay’ sound. There are a quite a few different ways to write this sound down. Your task is to find ten words which use the sound in any of the ways shown above and then write a sentence for each of them.
Challenge: Write a short story containing all the words you found.
19 October 2018
Focus : prefixes ir- il- im- in-
Last week, we researched these prefixes and we then collected and discussed them as a class and came up with a list. Your task this week is to use the strategies that we use in class to learn this list of words for a test next week.
1. illegal
2. invisible
3. impossible
4. impolite
5. incomplete
6. incorrect
7. immortal
8. irregular
12 October 2018
Focus : prefixes ir- il- im- in-
Adding these prefixes to a word changes its meaning to ‘not’ e.g active – inactive (not active)
Your task is to find as many words as you can which start with these prefixes. You must find a minimum of ten and write each one down three times to learn it.
05 October 2018
Focus : adding -ly
Many – but not all – adverds end in –ly. For a spelling test next week learn these adverbs. Remember on some them you have to ‘drop the y for an i’.
- lazily
- greedily
- luckily
- happily
- carefully
- anxiously
- violently
- extremely
- silently
- stealthily
28 September 2018
Focus : -ed endings
Words use an apostrophe for possession when they own (possess) something in a sentence.
For example, I borrowed Joe’s pencil – The pencil belongs to Joe.
Add apostrophes for possession to these words and use them in a sentence.
Charlie
Freya
teacher
neighbour
chair
dog
friend
21 September 2018
Focus : families of words
Families of words can be created by taking a root word – basically the simplest form of a word and adding other prefixes and suffixes. For example, agree is a root word and words in the family could be disagree, agreement, agreeable etc.
Chose two of the following words and create a word family of your own.
- courage
- obey
- build
- astonish
14 September 2018
Focus : the ‘ure’ sound
Using the strategies we use in class, learn these words for a test next week.
• treasure
• pleasure
• measure
• enclosure
• treasured
• measuring
• measurement
• treasuring
• consider
• consideration
• courage
• courageous
07 September 2018
Spelling
Focus : Countries, continents, oceans
Learn these words for a test next week as part of our ‘Where in the world?’ topic
1. Europe
2. North America
3. South America
4. Asia
5. Oceania
6. Antarctica
7. Africa
8. Atlantic
9. Pacific
10. Indian
11. Great Britain
12. France
13. Argentina
14. Australia
15. Mexico