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
22 June 2018
Focus : Year 3/4 words
Learn these words for a test next week using the strategies which we use in class.
1. exercise
2. favourite
3. ordinary
4. material
5. naughty
6. interesting
7. ancient
8. bandage
9. pyramid
10. honesty
22 June 2018
Focus : Year 3/4 words
Learn these words for a test next week using the strategies which we use in class.
1. exercise
2. favourite
3. ordinary
4. material
5. naughty
6. interesting
7. ancient
8. bandage
9. pyramid
10. honesty
15 June 2018
Focus : the ‘ee’ sound in different ways
After studying the variations of the ‘ee’ sound, your task this week is to learn these words using our strategies from class for a test next week.
1. memory
2. belief
3. thief
4. achieve
5. delete
6. compete
7. extreme
8. lady
9. ladies
10. knee
08 June 2016
Focus : the ‘ee’ sound in different way
This week, we’ve been looking at how the long ‘ee’ sound can be written with quite a few different graphemes (letters).
Your child has a sheet with all the different ways in your book. For each different grapheme, find three words to go with it. Then write down five sentences using your choice of the words.
27 March 2018
Focus : Year 3/4 spelling words
Practise and learn these spellings for a test next week.
1. promise
2. imagine
3. remember
4. promising
5. remembering
6. unimaginable
7. imagination
8. remembered
9. questioning
10. questioned
20 April 2018
Focus : adding the –ly suffix
There are different ways to add –ly to a word to change its meaning. Add the –ly suffix to each of the following words and then practise them for a spelling test next week. Remember, for some of them, the spelling will change – you may have to drop the last letter…
1. quick
2. nice
3. late
4. close
5. happy
6. funny
7. lucky
8. gentle
9. simple
10. humble
11. basic
23 March 2018
Focus : Word families
Since the start of the year we have learnt a huge variety of prefixes and suffixes and how they can change a word. Your task is to create a word family for each of the following words.
For example: interest: interesting, disinterested, interestingly etc.
Remember, for some words the spelling changes when you add a suffix.
- surprise
- separate
- decide
- appear