12 January 2018
Your spellings to learn this week are words that include a silent letter. Your child will be tested on Friday 19 January:
- muscle
- rhyme
- rhythm
- yacht
- knife
- doubt
- environment
- solemn
- island
- knight
The task is to create a word search using these words. Can you add any extra words to this list?
05 January 2018
Your spellings to learn this week are words that include the ough letter string. Your child will be tested on Friday 12 January:
- bough
- cough
- dough
- enough
- although
- thought
- plough
- ought
The task is to add other words to this list that include the ough letter string and categorise them by the sound the letter string makes in that word. For example, plough and bough both make the ‘ow’ sound.
08 December 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words that fit the spelling rules and patterns we have learnt so far this year. Your child will be tested on Friday 15 December:
- suspicious
- artificial
- influential
- edible
- ferocious
- opportunity
- essential
Your task is to identify the rule or pattern for each word. List another five words that fit these rules or patterns. You will be tested on words that fit the rules and patterns we have learnt so far this year.
01 December 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words that link with our topic of Power. Your child will be tested on Friday 08 December:
- insulator
- insulating
- electricity
- current
- conductor
- conductivity
- battery
- circuit
Your task is to create a glossary of terms for these words. Don’t forget to put them in alphabetical order first!
10 November 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words with double consonants. Your child will be tested on Friday 17 November:
- accommodate
- aggressive
- committee
- communicate
- recommend
- apparently
- suggest
- accompany
- attached
- necessary
We’ll also test your child on two extra words, not on this list. Encourage your child to look out for other words belonging to the list.
03 November 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words ending ‘-cious’ and ‘-tious’. Your child will be tested on Friday 10 November:
- conscious
- delicious
- ferocious
- malicious
- precious
- ambitious
- nutritious
- scrumptious
- cautious
- fictitious
We’ll also test your child on two extra words, not on this list. Encourage your child to look out for other words belonging to the list.
13 October 2017
Your spelling homework this week is to understand the appropriate use of different homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same, but are spelt differently: sea / see, allowed / aloud.
Create sentences (minimum 8) or a paragraph, which contain homophones. For example: When I gaze out my window, I see the sea.
06 October 2017
Your spelling rule this week is using apostrophes for omission. For example:
- should not = shouldn’t
- I would = I’d
- there is = there’s
Write a list of contractions and the words before omission.
For the second week, times tables focus will be the 12 times table (up to 12 x 12) and including division facts. Practise counting forwards, backwards, starting from zero and then starting from a multiple, and don’t forget the traditional way to support your child: a couple of mock tests to see how well your child knows their tables!
29 September 2017
Your spelling rule this week is pluralising words ending in a y.
The rule is y to i and add es.
Pluralise these words:
activity
library
story
variety
beauty
try
cry
fly
history
baby
carry
cherry
Create a nonsense story including as many of these pluralised words as possible.
22 September 2017
Your spelling rule to learn this week is adding a suffix (ed, ing) to a short vowel sound.
- A short vowel is in stop.
- A long vowel sound is in stoat.
hop – hopping – hopped
trot – trotted – trotting
Create some ‘word families’ like those above – make a list in your homework book of all the words you can create.