Year 3 & 4 Spelling

Friday 22 November 2019

Posted on Saturday 23 November 2019 by Mr Roundtree

Spelling Challenge:

We have been looking at adding ed or ing to these root words.

Think about how the spelling changes when you add –er or –est to these words.

e.g. big, bigger, biggest

funny, funnier, funniest

Spelling list

quick

strange

sad

brave

red

 

happy

gloomy

nasty

ugly

funny

Friday 15 November 2019

Posted on Friday 15 November 2019 by Mr Roundtree

Spelling Challenge

We have been looking at adding -ed or -ing to these root words.

Think about how the spelling changes when you add –ed or –ing to these words.

beg

laugh

answer

learn

think

shrug

notice

use

help

surprise

notice

grab

struggle

Friday 08 November 2019

Posted on Saturday 09 November 2019 by Mr Roundtree

Spelling Challenge:

We have been looking at words that double up for a short vowel sound.

Spelling list

accident

accidentally

appear

arrive

address

mission

difficult

different

progress

possible

impossible

Use look, cover, write check to help learn these words. There will be a short test on Thursday 14th November.

Friday 18 October 2019

Posted on Friday 18 October 2019 by Mr Roundtree

Spelling Challenge:

This week we have been looking at homophones (words that sound the same but having a different meaning) – there, they’re and their; hear and here; which and witch.

Think of a rule, use it in a sentence, or use doodle words, to help you remember the meaning of each word and its correct spelling.

 

 

Friday 27 September 2019

Posted on Friday 27 September 2019 by Mr Roundtree

Spelling

Practise the following words:

 bicycle

decide

describe exercise

guide

height

surprise

cried

slide

polite

applied

replied

why

You can do this by:

  • trace, copy, replicate
  • doodle words
  • look, cover, write, check                 Challenge: Use these words in a sentence.

Friday 20 September 2019

Posted on Friday 20 September 2019 by Mr Roundtree

Spelling Challenge:

We have been looking at the long ‘e’ sound in spelling lessons this week.

Make a nonsense story from the words below. Take care to spell the words correctly.

Spelling list

believe

breathe

complete

appear

extreme

increase

 

relief

money

chimney

people

busy

quickly

Friday 5 July 2019

Posted on Friday 05 July 2019 by Mr Roundtree

Spelling

This week, we have started our Reuse, Recycle, Reduce topic.

We have found a link between these words and would like children to explore the prefix ‘re-‘

Learn the following words for a test on Friday 12th July 2019.

  • reuse, reuses, reusing, reusable,   reused
  • recycle, recycles, recycling, recyclable, recycled
  • reduce, reduces, reducing, reduced

Other topic words to learn:

  • waste, wastes, wasteful, wasting
  • environment, environmental,
  • package, packaging,
  • plastic

 

  • Top Tips to learn spellings
  1. Make a list of the words you have trouble spelling. …
  2. Check word origins in the dictionary. …
  3. Chunk it into parts …
  4. Sound it out. …
  5. Draw a picture …

 

 

Friday 28 June 2019

Posted on Sunday 30 June 2019 by Mr Roundtree

Spelling

This week’s spelling homework is a word search activity. The words are some common misspelt words taken from the Year 3 / 4 spelling list.

Tips: check the spelling of the word carefully before your child searches for it. Then, check every letter is included.

Challenge: Use the blank template to make one of your own either from the Year 3 / 4 Spelling list, or from topic words in class.

For example: refugee, migrant, choice, border,  movement, environment, welcome, language, safety.

 

Friday 21 June 2019

Posted on Friday 21 June 2019 by Mr Roundtree

Spelling

This week’s spelling home is to learn the following words for a test on Friday 28th June 2019. 

This list of words uses a range of prefixes and suffixes:

mistaken, careless, really, cheerful, carefully, tasteless, disagree, disbelief, happiness, usually, unaware, underachieve, television, automatic, submarine.

Friday 14 June 2019

Posted on Friday 14 June 2019 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s spelling homework is an activity using prefixes and suffixes. It is due on Thursday 20 June 2019.

Investigate how the meaning of words change when a prefix (part of a word added to the beginning) or suffix (part of a word added to the end) is added. What new words can you make?

  • How will the spelling change?

 

dis                              ed

un            use            ing

re                                able

Possible new words:

  • used (drop one ‘e’ here)
  • using (drop the ‘e’ for ing)
  • usable  (drop the ‘e’ for able)
  • unused
  • disused
  • reusing
  • unusable

Challenge:   What new word type have you made?

See the homework sheet for more examples.