Spelling Shed

This year we are using Spelling Shed for spelling practise and assessments. I will set the spellings on a Monday and your child will then be assessed the following Monday. Please allow your child to practise their spellings at home throughout the week. Your child‘s login details are in the front of their reading diary and the link is below.

We have practised using the website in school so your child should know how to login and use the games.

Spelling Shed login

If you have any problems please let me know.

Happy spelling!

Mrs Erasmus

Spelling patterns- 9/3/20

This weeks spelling patterns are as follows:

Surfers (year 4): words with a ‘soft c’ spelt ‘ce’ eg centre, certain, recent

Seals (year 3): homophones and near homophones eg sent, scent

Waves (year 4): ‘ing’ suffix eg playing, walking, talking

Spelling patterns- week commencing 24.2.20

This weeks spelling patterns are as follows

Surfers (year 4)- plural possessive apostrophes with plural words. For example- women’s, people’s, girls’

Seals (year 3)- words with the ‘k’ sound spelt with ‘ch’. For example- chorus, ache, stomach

Waves (year 4)- ‘ph’ phoneme. For example- photo, physical, graph

Spelling patterns 10.2.20

Class 4’s spelling patterns for this week are as follows:

Surfers (year4): using prefix sub- (meaning under) and super- (meaning above) For example subway, submerge, supervise, superpower

Seals (year 3): creating negative meanings using prefix dis. For example disappear, disobey, disagree

Waves (year 4): ‘aw’ phoneme. For example lawn, claw, saw

Spelling patterns- week commencing 03.02.20

Class 4’s spelling patterns for this week are as follows:

Surfers (Year 4) – nouns ending in the suffix -ation. Eg vibration, dedication, creation.

Seals (Year 3) – creating negative meaning using prefix mis-. Eg misspell, misuse, mistrust.

Waves (Year 4) – phoneme ‘ew’. Eg few, stew, blew, threw.

Spelling patterns- week commencing 27/01/20

This week Class 4 are practising the following spelling patterns :

Year 3 (seals)- adding suffixes (ed, er, ing, en) doubling the consonant. For example- beginner, occurring, forbidden.

Year 4 (surfers)- nouns ending in the suffix -ation. For example- education, location, information.

Year 4 (waves)- ’ue’ phoneme. For example- blue, Tuesday, clueless.

Spelling patterns- week commencing 20/01/20

Class 4’s spelling patterns for this week are as follows:

Year 3 (seals)- adding suffixes beginning with a vowel (ed, er, ing) not doubling the consonant. For example- gardener, walking, focused, limiting.

Year 4 (surfers)- phonemes and near phonemes. For example- check, cheque, cereal, serial.

Year 4 (waves)- ‘ir’ phoneme. For example- bird, girl, birthday, dirty.

Class 4 spellings to be tested 13.12.19

These are the spelling patterns that we are learning in Class 4 this week:

Year 3 Seals

Creating adverbs using the suffix -ly (exceptions to the rule)  e.g. truly, duly, wholly,  fully, daily, publicly, dryly, slyly, shyly, coyly.

Year 4 Surfers 

Words from the Year 3/4 statutory word list (and words derived from these root words) e.g. interest, interested, experiment, experimenting, imagine, imagination,  promise, promised, increase, increasing.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘oy’ phoneme  e.g. oyster, royal, loyal, joy, decoy, ahoy, enjoy, annoy, cowboy, toys.

Class 4 spellings to be tested 06.12.19

These are the spelling patterns that we are learning in Class 4 this week:

Year 3 Seals

Creating adverbs using the suffix -ly where the root word ends in ‘ic’ or ‘al’ e.g. basically, frantically, dramatically, magically, tragically, comically, actually, accidentally, occasionally, eventually.

Year 4 Surfers 

Words with ‘ough’ to make a long /o/, /oo/ or /or/ sound e.g. though, although, dough, through, breakthrough, thought, bought, brought, fought
ought.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘oa’ phoneme e.g. loaded, soaked, foal, foaming, groan, boasting, coast, roasted, toasted, floating.

Class 4 spellings to be tested 29.11.19

These are the spelling patterns that we are learning in Class 4 this week:

Year 3 Seals

Creating adverbs by adding the suffix -ly to root words ending in ‘le’ (replace the final ‘e’ with a ‘y’) e.g. gently, simply, humbly, legibly, horribly, terribly, possibly, incredibly, comfortably, probably.

Year 4 Surfers 

Words with a /shuhn/ sound spelt with cian’ (if the root word ends in ‘c’ or ‘cs’) e.g. musician, politician, electrician, magician, mathematician, dietician, statistician,  technician, clinician, optician.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘oi’ phoneme e.g. oil, boil, soil, foil, spoil, coin, join, loin, point, noise.