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?
09 July 2021
02 July 2021
The spellings this week are all words from the Year 3,4 National Curriculum spelling list. Click here for a link to the National Curriculum Spelling Appendix (the Y3,4 list of words is on page 16).
accidentally believe calendar decide disappear experiment imagine favourite
25 June 2021
This week, we are learning to spell words beginning with the super and sub prefix.
Here are the words we would like you to learn at home. Could you write each word into a sentence?
- subheading
- submarine
- subordinate
- subtitles
- subscribe
- submerge
- supervise
- supermarket
- superpower
- superhuman
- superstar
10 May 2021
Next week, we’ll be recapping our learning about adding suffixes. Complete these activities.
29 April 2021
Next week, we’re learning about apostrophes for possession. There isn’t a list of words to learn. Instead, your child has a task to complete.