Spelling

This week, we have been focusing on words that contain an apostrophe for possession, in preparation for a test on Friday 11 December 2020.

committee’s

community’s

dictionary’s

environment’s

government’s

vehicle’s

neighbour’s

soldier’s

04 December 2020

This week, we’ve been practising adding er or est to the end of words to change their tense. Because the English language is really tricky, there’s lots of ways to do this. Complete the table that shows you some different ways to do this (one has been done for you. Then, use some of our ‘super spelling strategies’ form this week’s post (go to the Scholes website, learn more, spelling, Year 3 & 4).  There’s more than usual but when you can spell the root word you just need to apply the rule to spell it correctly.

Children should practise in preparation for a test on Thursday 10  December 2020.

04 December 2020

This week’s spellings are more common exception words.

Year 1

• push
• put
• said
• saw
• says

Year 2

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday

27 November 2020

Spelling

This week, we’ve been practising adding ed or ing to the end of words to change their tense. Because the English language is really tricky, there’s lots of ways to do this. Complete the table that shows you some different ways to do this (one has been done for you. Then, use some of our ‘super spelling strategies’ form this week’s post (go to the Scholes website, learn more, spelling, Year 3 & 4).  There’s more than usual but when you can spell the root word you just need to apply the rule to spell it correctly.

Children should practise in preparation for a test on Thursday 03  December 2020.

27 November 2020

This week, we have been focusing on words that contain the suffixes ible and able, in preparation for a test on Friday 04 December 2020.

• horrible
• possible
• adorable
• legible
• disposable
• valuable
• incredible
• sensible

27 November 2020

Write last week’s spellings and draw a shape around each to show the ascenders (letters that stick up high) and descenders (letters that go below the line).

Year 1

• of
• once
• one
• our
• pull

Year 2

• was
• your
• we
• who
• were
• what
• where
• when
• you
• well

20 November 2020

This week, we’ve been learning about some common homophones: words that sound the same but mean different things and are spelt in different ways. This is a helpful guide from BBC teach that children, and adults, can use to remind themselves of what homophones are – the link is available on the spelling page of our website (go to the Scholes website, learn more, spelling, Year 3 & 4).

there                                     their                                      they’re                                  here

hear                                      wear                                     where                  we’re

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 Thursday 26  November 2020.

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?

Also, if you haven’t checked out our class news page recently, please do. Teachers post regularly to update adults at home about our learning in school (go to the Scholes website, learn more, class news, Year 3 & 4).

This week, we have been focusing on words that contain the suffixes ful, less and ly, in preparation for a test on Friday 27th November 2020.

meaningless

successful

consciously

sincerely

powerful

apparently

aggressively

definitely

20 November 2020

This week’s spellings are more common exception words.

Year 1

• of
• once
• one
• our
• pull

Year 2

• was
• your
• we
• who
• were
• what
• where
• when
• you
• well

13 November 2020

This week, we’ve been learning about the different ways to write the ‘ue’ sound. Because spelling in the English can be tricky, there’s lots of ways to write the ‘ue’ sound in our spelling (u, u_e, ue, ew, oo). This week, we’d like you to practise the following words to help consolidate this learning. Remember, the words may appear ‘random’, but we are being exposed to different ways of writing similar sounds.

continue                               popular                                 rescue                                  knew

peculiar                                regular                                  venue                                   conclude

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 Thursday 12  November 2020.

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?