Spellings and homework

Term 1 Homework

1) Please read with your child daily or encourage them to read independently for pleasure. 

2) Spellings - please encourage your child to practice the weekly words using any suitable method. Have a look at the spelling strategy sheet for some ideas.

3) Times tables / TimesTable Rockstars - all Y4 children need to learn their tables up to 12 x 12. Please encourage your children to go on TT rockstars regularly at home and test/chant the times tables. 

4)  There is no homework project this term. 

 

Term 1 spellings 

We will be teaching a range of spellings across the term and will have 3 spellings tests in the year.

Week 1 – common exception words:

caught, heard, minute, eight, circle, thought, often, answer

 

Week 2 – common exception words:

height, question, though, difficult, through, island, early, separate

 

Week 3 - homophones:

grown, groan, missed, mist, fair, fare meet, meat

 

Week 4 - homophones:

he’ll, heal, heel, who’s whose

 

Week 5 – suffix ‘ly’:

finally, greedily, properly, steadily, basically, practically, shyly friendly

 

Week 6 - common exception words:

experiment, February, different, disappear, length, opposite, actual, business

 

Week 7 – homophones:

they’re, there, their, are, our, blew, blue, knot, not