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