12 November 2021
Next week, we’ll be learning about the spelling rules for suffixes:
Adding the suffixes –ed and -ing
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home. A mixture of both endings will be tested on Friday 19th November.
It is really important that your child practises in the way that best suits them. For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
Y3 Y4
help – helped -helping answer – answered -answering
laugh – laughed – laughing laugh – laughed – laughing
hiss – hissed – hissing surprise – surprised – surprising
beg – begged – begging learn – learned – learning
rob – robbed – robbing notice – noticed – noticing
hate – hated – hating help – helped – helping
live – lived – living cry – cried – crying
smile – smiled -smiling smile – smiled -smiling
05 November 2021
Next week, we’ll be learning about the spelling rule:
double up for a short vowel sound
An example of this is in the word difficult. The ‘i’ is a short sound if you read it aloud, therefore the following consonant ‘f’ needs to be doubled up. Another example is trapped.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.
Yellow group
appear, different, difficult, possible, trapped, happening, opposite, arrive
Blue group
shop- shopped – shopping
hop – hopped- hopping
plod – plodded – plodding
trap – trapped -trapping
arrive, different
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 12 November to see how we’ve got on.
15 October 2021
Next week, we’ll been learning about some common homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings – this is one of the reasons why English spelling is super tricky!
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home. Because they’re homophones, it’s most useful to practise these in sentences. You could do this in the car, on a walk or around the table.
there, they’re, their, which, witch, to, two, too
We’ll test ourselves on Thursday 21 October to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
08 October 2021
Next week, we’ll be learning how the ‘ue’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘conclude’, the letters ‘u-e’ make the ‘ue’ sound but in the word ‘popular’ it’s the letter ‘u’.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.
yellow group: continue, popular, June, regular, queue, rescue, conclude, amuse
blue group: glue, June, moon, true, rule, prune, blue, knew
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 15 October to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
Next week, we’ll be learning how the ‘ie’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘describe’, the letters ‘i-e’ make the ‘ie’ sound but in the word ‘supply’ it’s the letter ‘y’.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.
yellow blue
describe dry
decide five
surprise light
replied inside
polite nine
cried cried
supply right
height tie
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 08 October to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
24 September 2021
Next week, we’ll been learning how the ‘oa’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘Joe’, the letters ‘oe’ make the ‘oa’ sound but in the word ‘slow’ it’s the letters ‘ow’.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.
yellow group blue group
notice boat
suppose smoke
though though
although flow
heroes home
those those
glowing glowing
phone road
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 1 October to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
17 September 2021
Next week, we’ll be learning how the ‘ee’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word ‘breathe’, the letters ‘ea’ make the ‘ee’ sound but in the word ‘bee’ it’s the letters ‘ee’.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home over the week.
yellow group blue group
believe clean
breathe key
beneath queen
complete team
extreme teeth
increase mean
money theme
people treat
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 24 September to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
10 September 2021
This week, we’ve been learning how the ‘ai’ sound can be spelled in lots of different ways. For example, in the word day, the letters ‘ay’ make the ‘ai’ sound but in the word wait it’s the letters ‘ai’.
To help consolidate this learning, we’d like you to practise spelling these words at home.
eight famous favourite straight strange weight great everyday
We’ll test ourselves on Friday 17 September to see how we’ve got on.
For some tips and tricks on how best to practise your spellings at home, visit the Y3,4 spelling page on our website and click here.
16 July 2021
This week, we’ll continue to recap some common homophones. Homophone are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings.
of off its it’s
great grate break brake
To keep it fun, practise these spellings in different ways, check out the ‘super spelling strategies’ on this week’s spelling post (go to the Scholes website, learn more, spelling, Year 3 & 4). Children should practise in preparation for a test on Friday 23 July 2021.
Fancy a challenge? Use these words in sentences. Or, create silly sentences using as many of them as you can – can you use them all?