12 January 2018
Focus : Must dos (homophones)
Here’s a list of common homophones that children must spell correctly as well as use correctly.
When practising them at home, ask your child to use them in the correct sentence eg I hear the doorbell and Here – take this.
A spelling activity grid is in the back of your child’s book. Please complete one of the activities to help them learn these important spellings.
- here/hear
- where/were/wear/we’re
- there/their/they’re
- are/our
- to/too/two
- your/you’re
- of/off
- of/have (a common error is I should of instead of I should have – the second one is correct)
- which/witch
05 January 2018
Focus: drop the y for an i (Turn adjectives into adverbs)
Task: Make a list of ten adjectives which end in ‘y’ eg noisy, scary, lazy. Turn them into adverbs eg noisily, scarily, lazily.
Make sure you remember to drop the y for an i!
You may also need to change other parts of the spelling. Dojo points for the most ambitious word choices.
01 December 2017
Focus: -er and -est
This week’s spelling homework will be investigating suffixes and is due on Thursday 07 December.
- Task: Make a list of ten adjectives eg brave, heavy etc.
Write them out with the –er and –est suffix and then use them in a sentence.
Do the spellings of the words change at all? Is it possible to use the suffixes with all the adjectives you pick? - fast, fast, fastest
- brave, braver, bravest
- heavy, heavier, heaviest
24 November 2017
Focus: Homophones
Homophones are some of the trickiest spellings to get right. This week, we’d like your child to create a poster that would help you, or somebody else, remember the difference between:
- there, their and they’re
- to, too and two
- your and you’re
17 November 2017
Focus: homophones -part 2
sail sale
maid made
mail male
plain plane
waist waste
main mane
vein vane
Learn each word and use them in a sentence in the correct context.
e.g the words eight and ate
The eight children ran onto the playground.
Last night, my brother ate a whole bar of chocolate.
10 November 2017
Focus: homophones (same sound, different spelling)
Practise the spelling of these words by writing a line of each, then write one sentence for each word.
Make sure you know which one is which.
- brake / break
- eight / ate
- there / their / there
- grate / great
- weight / wait
- son / sun
03 November 2017
Focus: the ‘ey’ sound
The ‘ey’ can be written down in many ways.
ei eigh ey aigh ay
Find at least 20 words which use these graphemes to represent the ‘ey’ sound. How many different ones can you use in one full sentence?
13 October 2017
Focus: Contractions of words
Practise and learn these words for a test next week. Take care – most are contractions (where two words are ‘squashed together’ like ‘i‘ = do not). However, there are a few that sound like contractions, but aren’t (like ‘your‘ and ‘you’re‘).
- don’t
- can’t
- doesn’t
- wouldn’t
- couldn’t
- shouldn’t
- your
- you’re
- there
- their
- they’re
- she’s
Some examples…
- Put your coat on or you’re going to be cold when you go outside.
- They’re going for a walk.
- The children put on their shoes.
- Put the pencils over there.
06 October 2017
Focus: Contractions of words
Next week, we’ll be looking at words that have been contracted. (Like the one used in the previous sentence!)
e.g we will – we’ll you are – you’re it is – it’s
Task: write down ten sentences which contain words that have been contracted.
Remember: an apostrophe must be used to show where letters have been omitted.
Even better if… your sentences contained some words with prefixes or double consonants.
29 September 2017
Focus: un- and dis- and common mis-spellings
Please learn these words for a test next week.
- unhappy
- displeased
- disappointment
- disappear
- unusual
- unluckily
- unfolded
- slipped
- hopped
- danced
- mountains
- brightly
- September
- October