The spellings this week have the prefix ‘in’ meaning – not. The children all have a list of the words which we have discussed in our lesson today. They will be bringing home a list of the words and we are trying a new scheme to encourage them to learn and remember their spellings.

All children have a log in to ‘Edshed.com’. We have looked at this today. Children need to select the Spelling Shed and they have been assigned a task relating to the spellings we are learning. This is the first week so please see if your child can get on at home and play some of the games relating to ‘in’. These can be found by clicking on assignments.

Group 1: little, are, by, made (This group have the ‘in’ words to play on Spelling Shed too.

Group 2: inactive, incorrect, invisible, insecure, inflexible

Group 3: inactive, incorrect, invisible, insecure, inflexible, incurable.

This week, the words are taken from common errors made by children in their own writing.

Group 1: when, every, tired, could.  Some children have individual words including words: could, were, little, back, of.

Group 2: when, every, clean, tired, stepping, covered, could, beautiful

Group 3: sore, right, diet, quiet, special, healthy, disgusting, covered, clean.

Reading diaries have not been checked today – they will be checked next week.

This week, we are learning words from the statutory word list. This week, the ‘s’ sound is spelt with a ‘c’ before i and e.

Group 1: notice, decide, circle

Group 2: notice, decide, circle, certain, exercise

Group 3: notice, recent, decide, circle, certain, exercise

We are learning more homophones this week.

Group 1: by, buy, flower, flour

Group 2: by, buy, flower, flour, great, grate

Group 3: cereal, serial, by, buy, flower, flour, great, grate

Remember to learn them in sentences with their meanings e.g.

I went to buy some potatoes. The word is ‘buy’.