These are the spelling patterns that we are learning in Class 4 this week:

Year 3 Seals

Creating adverbs by adding the suffix –ly to root words ending in ‘y’ with more than one syllable (change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ then add ‘ly’ – happy to happily) e.g. happily, angrily, lazily, easily, busily, greedily, messily, wearily, cheekily,  clumsily.

Year 4 Surfers 

Words with a /shuhn/ sound spelt with ‘tion’ (if the root word ends in ‘te’ or ‘t’ or has no definite root word) e.g. invention, injection, action, question, mention, attraction,  translation, devotion, position, solution.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘ow’ phoneme e.g. down, gown, frown, clown, town, howl, growl, owl, now, how.

These are the spelling patterns that we are learning in Class 4 this week:

Year 3 Seals

Adverbs created by adding the suffix –ly to adjectives where the root word is not changed e.g. kindly, quickly, safely, rudely, sweetly, strongly, bravely, secretly, finally, usually.

Year 4 Surfers

Words with a /shuhn/ sound spelt with ‘ssion’ (if the root word ends in ‘ss’ or ‘mit’) e.g. expression, discussion, confession, permission, admission, transmission, possession, profession, depression, impression.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘z’ sound spelt ‘zz’ e.g. jazz, jazzy, buzz, buzzed, dizzy, fizz, fizzy, fizzed, fizzing, fuzzy.

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3 – Seals: More homophones (A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning and may also differ in spelling.) e.g. berry / bury, brake / break, meat / meet, ball / bawl, fare / fair.

Year 4 – Surfers: Words with /shun/ endings spelt with ‘sion’ (if root word ends in ‘se’, ‘de’ or ‘d’) e.g. division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television, revision, erosion, inclusion, explosion.

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the ‘er’ phoneme e.g. term, fern, herd, herb, adder, letter, river, farmer, better, super.

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3 – Seals: Homophones (A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning and may also differ in spelling.) e.g. hear / here, main / mane, heal / heel, mail / male, not / knot.

Year 4 – Surfers: Homophones (see above) e.g. medal / meddle, mist / missed, bored / board, which / witch, scene / seen

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the ‘air’ phoneme e.g. air, pair, stair, hair, flair, chair.

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3 – Seals: Words with the /ur/ sound spelt ‘ear’, e.g. earth, early, heard, learn, searched, earning.

Year 4 – Surfers: Adding the prefixes ‘il’ and ‘ir’ before root words starting with ‘l’ or ‘r’ e.g. illegal, illegible, illogical, irregular, irrelevant, irresistible.

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the trigraph ‘ure’ e.g. cure, lure sure, pure, mixture, picture.

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3: long ‘ai’ sound, e.g. rain, container, brain, strain

Year 4: adding the prefix ‘im’ before root words starting with ‘m’ or ‘p’ e.g. immature, immortal, impolite, impatient