12 October 2018
Focus : prefixes ir- il- im- in-
Adding these prefixes to a word changes its meaning to ‘not’ e.g active – inactive (not active)
Your task is to find as many words as you can which start with these prefixes. You must find a minimum of ten and write each one down three times to learn it.
05 October 2018
Focus : adding -ly
Many – but not all – adverds end in –ly. For a spelling test next week learn these adverbs. Remember on some them you have to ‘drop the y for an i’.
- lazily
- greedily
- luckily
- happily
- carefully
- anxiously
- violently
- extremely
- silently
- stealthily
28 September 2018
Focus : -ed endings
Words use an apostrophe for possession when they own (possess) something in a sentence.
For example, I borrowed Joe’s pencil – The pencil belongs to Joe.
Add apostrophes for possession to these words and use them in a sentence.
Charlie
Freya
teacher
neighbour
chair
dog
friend
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.