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.

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

Year 3 Seals

Creating adverbs using the suffix -ly where the root word ends in ‘ic’ or ‘al’ e.g. basically, frantically, dramatically, magically, tragically, comically, actually, accidentally, occasionally, eventually.

Year 4 Surfers 

Words with ‘ough’ to make a long /o/, /oo/ or /or/ sound e.g. though, although, dough, through, breakthrough, thought, bought, brought, fought
ought.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘oa’ phoneme e.g. loaded, soaked, foal, foaming, groan, boasting, coast, roasted, toasted, floating.

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 ‘le’ (replace the final ‘e’ with a ‘y’) e.g. gently, simply, humbly, legibly, horribly, terribly, possibly, incredibly, comfortably, probably.

Year 4 Surfers 

Words with a /shuhn/ sound spelt with ‘cian’ (if the root word ends in ‘c’ or ‘cs’) e.g. musician, politician, electrician, magician, mathematician, dietician, statistician,  technician, clinician, optician.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘oi’ phoneme e.g. oil, boil, soil, foil, spoil, coin, join, loin, point, noise.

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.