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

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.

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.

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.