Spellings this week are words from the Year 5/6 statutory list.

awkward
bargain
category
cemetery
committee
communicate
communication
competition
competitive
conscience

These were handed out in class on Monday 28th – they will be a spelling test on Monday 7th March.

This week are spellings focus on key mathematical vocabulary. We have been learning about metric units of measure in maths – this will continue until half term.

mass
gram
kilogram
capacity
volume
millilitre
centilitre
litre
length
millimetre
centimetre
kilometre

Monday 7th February
LO: to spell homophones using the correct word in context
aisle
isle
alter
altar
knew
new
steal
steel
lead
led
wait
weight

LO: words ending able and ible

This week we are revising which words have the suffixes ible, ibly, able and ably.

We have chosen these words as a focus:

horrible
incredible
sensible
reliable
adorable
identifiable
respectable
enviable
incredibly
sensibly
reliably
respectably

What other words can you think of with these endings? Can you think of a rule to remember whether to use ible or able?

This week we have some words from the Year 5/6 statutory spelling list

accommodate
accompany
according
achieve
aggressive
amateur
ancient
apparent
appreciate
attached
available
average

( The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that last week’s spellings (17th had the wrong date at the top (24th) . However, you will have also noticed that they were the ones we were practising all week in class…) The dates are now corrected.

LO: words with rare GPCs (Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence)
These are words which do not fit with other spelling patterns—most are in the statutory KS2 spelling list.

yacht
bruise
pacific
celebration
languages
cruise
vehicle
nougat
guarantee
queue
immediately
pneumonia

This week we have some words which are commonly mis-spelt from the KS2 statutory spelling list.

accident
actually
although
believe
bicycle
business
caught
centre
century
certain
circle
decide

Try to recall some of the different ways to learn these eg  pyramid words, segmenting and writing in different colours or “writing without vowels” ( eg b_l__v_ you then add the correct vowels in the gaps)

LO: to investigate and spell words with common root words
This week we are looking at the roots “micro” (Greek root meaning—small) and “graph” (Greek root meaning – to write). Knowing the meanings of roots helps us to understand
unfamiliar words as well as spell them.
How many other words with these roots can you think of?

microscopic
microbe
microscope
microwave
microphone
microbiologist
autograph
graphics
biography
grapheme
graffiti