This weeks spelling patterns are as follows

Surfers (year 4)- plural possessive apostrophes with plural words. For example- women’s, people’s, girls’

Seals (year 3)- words with the ‘k’ sound spelt with ‘ch’. For example- chorus, ache, stomach

Waves (year 4)- ‘ph’ phoneme. For example- photo, physical, graph

This week Class 4 are practising the following spelling patterns :

Year 3 (seals)- adding suffixes (ed, er, ing, en) doubling the consonant. For example- beginner, occurring, forbidden.

Year 4 (surfers)- nouns ending in the suffix -ation. For example- education, location, information.

Year 4 (waves)- ’ue’ phoneme. For example- blue, Tuesday, clueless.

Class 4 children impressed us with how they tried to learn their new spelling words in the last week of term but we have decided to revisit these spelling patterns and words when we return after the half-term holiday and we will retest children on Friday 8th November.

Here’s a reminder below of their spelling patterns / words.

Year 3 – Seals: Year 3 and 4 statutory words. The words chosen are a sample of these 100 words which we are using frequently in Class 4 this term. (See link below for the full list of words.) although, appear, decide, describe, different, difficult, group, material, notice, through.

Year 3 and 4 statutory spellings

Year 4 – Surfers: More words with /shun/ endings spelt with ‘sion’ (if root word ends in ‘se’, ‘de’ or ‘d’) e.g. expansion, extension, comprehension, tension, corrosion,  supervision, fusion,  conclusion, persuasion, suspension.

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the ‘igh’ phoneme e.g. bright, fight, high, light, might, night
sigh, sight, thigh, tight.