Spellings – Grinshill Autumn Term

We will look at the statutory spellings for years 3 and 4 across the term – we will also be looking at different spelling rules and patterns. Sometimes your child may come home with extra spellings.

First half term

accident(ally)
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe
build
busy/business
calendar
caught
centre
century
certain
circle
complete
consider
continue

 

Second half term

decide
describe
different
difficult
disappear
early
earth
eight/eighth
enough
exercise
experience
experiment
extreme
famous
favourite
February

Homework Grinshill

There will some some work on Parallel and Perpendicular lines in their books

Also , practise spelling and times tables we should know x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x8, x10, 11 confidently by now.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Roberts and Mrs Horton

Spelling overview summer term part 2 – Grinshill

Each week we learn strategies and rules for spellings and we pick the spellings that have been the trickiest over the week  to bring home to practise. We have  our test on Monday morning.

Wk1.  Reviewing common exception words from year 2. Year 3 and 4 word list

Wk2.  Reviewing ‘ar’ sound after W. New learning the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words.

Wk3. Reviewing adding -ing, -ed, -er, -est, -en to words.   New learning word families based on common words.

Wk4. Reviewing suffixes -ment, -ness, -ful, -ly. New learning contractions.

Wk5. Reviewing homophones and near homophones year 2. New learning year 3 homophones and near homophones.

Wk6.More homophones. Revisit personal spellings.

Wk7. Revisit spellings over the year.