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