Year 4 Spelling

Friday 24 February 2023

This week’s spellings link to our computing topic and science learning:

elastic

materials

plastic

properties

disposable

computer

program

sequence

Friday 27 January 2023

This week’s the spellings focus on suffixes – the bit on the end of words that change the meaning of the root word:

accidentally 
famously
regularly
variously 
completely
possibly
recently 
strangely
friend
people

OR

busily

lovely

quickly

slow

friend

people

The correct spellings to practise are detailed on your child’s homework sheet.

Friday 20th January 2023

This week’s spellings focus on prefixes – the bit at the start of a word…

OR this spelling list…

The spellings your child needs to learn ready for our weekly spelling test is clearly shown on their homework sheet given each Friday.

Every week, we complete a weekly spelling test. This is used to monitor your child’s progress, their ability to practise words at home and as a helpful hint to inform our conversations at parents’ evenings and later in the year, school reports.

As always, be sure to chat to us if your child is finding this learning tricky!

Friday 13th January 2023

This week’s spellings to practise:

• why
• light
• night
• try
• fright

OR

• bicycle
• decide
• describe
• exercise
• guide
• height
• surprise
• increase

The right spellings for your child to practice are detailed on their homework sheet.

Friday 2nd December 2022

This week, please practise words where we use the sound ‘oo’. This sound can be spelled in several different ways:

Friday 25th November 2022

This week’s spellings focus on adding er and est suffixes – a string of letters that go at the end of a word:

Friday 11th November 2022

Be sure to practise your spellings a little bit each day! Little and often is better than cramming your practice in on Friday morning before school..!

• continue
• peculiar
• popular
• regular
• particular
• queue
• knew
• rescue
• amuse
• venue
• issue
• conclude

…or you may have been given a separate spelling list. These words are:

• because
• every
• with
• many
• busy
• could
• should
• would

04 November 2022

This week, we’re thinking about homophones – words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

We need children in Year 4 to not only know how to spell these words but to also have the skill of knowing which word is the right one to use at the right time!

hear/here

break/brake

heel/heal/he’ll

berry/bury

whether/weather

buy/bye/by

there/their/they’re

to/too/two

where/wear/were

who’s/whose

Friday 14th October 2022

This week, are spellings are homophones – words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things. Your child needs to know which word is the correct version when given a sentence with a homophone in!

Why not check out this short animation alongside your child when practising spellings each day.

there/their/they’re

to/two/too

eight/ate

bored/board

stairs/stares

waist/waste

write/right

knight/night

your/you’re

break/brake

Friday 07 October 2022

There have been two sets of spellings handed out this week. Your child will have been given the correct spellings for them to learn.

This week, our spellings focus on dropping the y for i when adding ed and keeping the y for ing. Make sure you spot the different suffix, too!

worry – worried

carry – carried

happy – happiness

ugly – ugliness

creepy – creepiest

funny – funniest

sorry – sorriest

reply – replying

copy – copying

marry – marrying

OR

This week, our spellings focus on words we sometimes spell incorrectly in our writing:

with

what

said

which

where

why

could

should

would

who