Year 3 & 4 Spelling

02 February 2018

Spelling Activity

The spelling task this week is linked to our Life Forces topic. We’ve come across many words ending in -ture e.g. vulture, creature, nature.

One of nature’s amazing creatures, the vulture, will travel on long adventures for its prey.

Find as many words as you can with the -ture ending and create some sentences using these words.

26 January 2018

Spelling list for this week: drop the’e’ for -ing.

The children will be tested on these words on Friday 02 Feb.

• hoping
• aching
• dancing
• shining
• arriving
• exploring
• believing
• deciding

19 January 2018

Spelling homework this week is a look, say, cover, write, check activity for words that end in e. This week, the children have been using the spelling rule – ‘drop the ‘e’ for ing‘. For example:

• hope – hoping
• dance – dancing

12 January 2018

This week’s spellings contain different graphemes for the long ‘a’ sound.  Most are also on National Curriculum’s Y3/4 spelling list. They’ll be tested on Friday 19 January. 

• straight
• weight
• obey
• array
• vein
• famous
• potatoes
• separate
• neighbour
• strange
• eighth

Try the rainbow words strategy to support learning the spellings.

05 January 2018

This week’s spelling challenge is to make a list of words containing the different graphemes for the long ‘a’ sound. Here is one of each to get you started.

08 December 2017

This week’s spellings are taken from the National Curriculum’s Y3/4 spelling list. They’ll be tested on Thursday 14 December. 

• famous
• favourite
• February (remember this one must have a capital letter because it’s a proper noun)
• forwards
• fruit

1 December 2017

Spelling challenge

This week’s spelling challenge is to learn five more words from the Y3/4 spelling list.  Write five sentences, one for each of the following words:

• famous
• favourite
• February (remember this one must have a capital letter because it’s a proper noun)
• forwards
• fruit

Please return homework books on Thursday 07 November.

24 November 2017

This week’s spellings are taken from the National Curriculum’s Y3/4 spelling list. They’ll be tested on Thursday 30 November. 

• accident
• accidentally
• actual
• actually
• address
• answer

17 November 2017

Spelling challenge

This week’s spelling challenge is to use the ‘pyramid words’ strategy to help learn the following  words from the Y3/4 spelling list:

accident    accidentally    actual    actually    address    answer

Please return homework books on Thursday 23 November.

10 November 2017

This week’s spellings all  have the ed suffix added to verbs ending in either er or er.  They’ll be tested on Thursday 16 November.

Y3:

• opened
• happened
• frightened
• listened
• hardened
• covered
• discovered
• entered
• suffered
• offered

Y4:

• wondered
• gathered
• answered
• angered
• discovered
• happened
• threatened
• sharpened
• brightened
• deafened

Please return homework books on Thursday 16 November.