LO: to add a suffix to words ending “fer”
refer
referred
referring
referral
referee
prefer
preference
preferential
transfer
transferred

You could try these activities and websites to help you learn your spellings:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqqsw6f/articles/zcsyjty

https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-4660.htm

https://wordwall.net/resource/2744479/adding-suffixes-beginning-with-vowel-letters-to-words-ending-in

LO: words with the suffixes “ible” and “able”

Think carefully about the root word. How can you remember whether the suffix will be ible or able?

terrible

visible

audible

flexible

gullible

comfortable

acceptable

desirable

dependable

reliable

You might want to try these links to help you find the way you remember spellings best:

https://www.spellzone.com/unit27/quest1/index.cfm

https://howtospell.co.uk/spelling-words-with-ible-or-able

or you might prefer games  https://wordwall.net/en-gb/community/words-ending-ible-and-able

This week the children have been given a selection of words from the year 3/4 statutory spellings list to revise. They are words which are commonly mis-spelt by many children (and adults).

although
believe
caught
certain
different
disappear
enough
favourite
remember
separate
knowledge

Spellings will normally be given to Blue Class on Mondays and tested the following Monday. To encourage the children to retain their learning, a few words from previous weeks will be included in the tests.

This year we will continue to hand out spellings from the No Nonsense spelling scheme which will be tested weekly. Since it is a while since we launched this programme, I would like to emphasise that the goal is long term retention of spelling ability. The programme uses a combination of spelling patterns which are built up and revised, together with rehearsal and retrieval opportunities for the children. We encourage the children  to think about the way they learn best. Most children do not retain the spellings to use in their own writing unless they are keep practising and retrieving them from their memories. If your child seems to find this skill easy, they can challenge themselves to find other words which use the same pattern or to find exceptions to the rule.

Converting nouns or verbs into adjectives using the suffix ‘ful’

boastful
fruitful
faithful
doubtful
fearful
wonderful
thankful
beautiful
pitiful
plentiful
fanciful
merciful

New spellings for this week:

believe
retrieve
mischief
mischievous
cried
tried
achieve
fierce
pierce
relieve
priest
briefly

Can you think of any words with a long /e/ sound ‘ei’ after c?
Spellings which will be tested on Tuesday this week (5th April)

LO: to investigate words with ei grapheme (Long /a/ Spelt as ‘ei’ )

neighbour
neighbourhood
freight
weight
leisure
foreign
vein
beige
eight
eighteen
eighty

LO: to investigate words with the root “graph”

paragraph
paragraphs
calligraphy
calligrapher
geography
geographer
geographical
photographer
bibliography
cartography

Words Roots—this week we are looking at words with the roots ”fin” and “tach”

define
refine
finished
finishing
finally
attach
attached
attachment
detach
detachable
re-attach

This week we have more spellings from the Year 5_6 statutory list:

controversy
controversial
convenience
convenient
correspond
correspondence
criticise
curious
curiosity
definite

Please keep learning your spellings at home.