14 September 2018
This week’s list of spellings are words with ‘silent’ letters. Use the spelling strategies stuck in your homework book to learn your spellings. These words have come from the Year 5 and 6 statutory spelling list. How many other words can you think of with silent letters?
- environment
- temperature
- dictionary
- twelfth
- stomach
- autumn
- muscle
- rhythm
- vehicle
07 September 2018
This week’s list of spellings to learn contains words with the letter string ‘ough’. The letter string makes different sounds within different words. Children will be tested on some of these words and words that follow the same spelling rule on Friday 14 September.
Use the words to make up a nonsense story. Remember to check for squashed sentences and other punctuation.
- though
- dough
- although
- through
- cough
- trough
- rough
- doughnut
- tough
13 July 2018
This week’s list of spellings to learn contains words that end in cial or tial. As with all spelling rules, there are exceptions but …
cial is common after a vowel.
tial is common after a consonant.
- social
- special
- official
- crucial
- potential
- residential
- essential
- partial
6 July 2018
This week our spelling words are all homophones.
Put all these words into context within sentences or a paragraph. Can you write a nonsense story?
- through, threw
- their, there, they’re
- your, you’re
- hour, our
- of, off
- rain, reign, rein
29 June 2018
This week our spelling pattern is ly and lly. Add the correct suffix to each word in the list. Can you write the rule?
- accidental
- physical
- emotional
- rational
- recent
- sudden
- frequent
- immediate
- sincere
- equal
- awkward
- occasional
22 June 2018
This week’s spellings will help you when taking part in the online health survey. Write sentences or a paragraph putting each word into context.
- health
- diary
- survey
- breakfast
- portion
- response
- column
- average
- relevant
- transfer
- physically
- emotionally
- social
15 June 2018
This week our spelling words are linked to the World Cup football tournament.
Your challenge is to learn the spellings of all the countries entering!
Click on the link to see the full list of countries. https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/teams/
5 June 2018
This week, our spellings will be in preparation for our topic: Ancient Egypt. We’ll use these words regularly over the next few weeks.
- Egypt
- Egyptian
- pyramid
- pharaoh
- tomb
- mummification
- sphinx
- priestesss
- priest
- hieroglyphs
- papyrus
- dynasty
Your task is to create a glossary for these words.
20 May 2019
This week’s spelling challenge is to make two lists of words, one set ending in …ence, one set ending in …ance. For example:
- ence – sentence, absence, science
- ance – balance, distance, entrance
How many can you find?
04 May 2018
You already have the Year 5 and 6 Statutory Spelling list in your homework book. We’ve learned many of the spelling patterns and rules from this list already this year.
Your spelling task this week is to identify ten new words on the list. Learn these new spellings in whichever way is best for you. Some people need to read them; some people need to write them or say them. We’ll be testing each other.