Y5 – Homophones

grate / great (Grate the cheese) (This is great!)

groan / grown (I heard a groan) (I have grown a lot)

brake / break (I had to brake on my bike). (It’s time for a break)

berry / bury (I tasted a berry.) (We had to bury the bird)

here / hear (It’s over here.) (I can’t hear you.)

Y6 – Suffix ‘ous’ ‘ture’

disastrous     conscious     mischievous       fabulous       poisonous      adventure   creature         temperature      departure       furniture

Y5 Spellings – ‘sh’ spelt ‘ch’ and ‘s’ spelt ‘sc’       

machine, chef, parachute, brochure, champagne, science, scene, scissors, ascend, descend

Y6 Expected spellings

foreign, forty, frequency, government, guarantee, harass, hindrance, identity, immediate, individual

Y5 Spellings (Suffix ‘ous’)

tremendous, enormous, dangerous, poisonous, jealous, famous, serious, obvious, delicious, courageous

Y6 Spellings (Homophones)

desert / dessert

draft / draught

practise / practice

guest / guessed

heard / herd

For all weekly Jaguar spellings, they can be accessed on Spelling Shed, which the children all have usernames and passwords for. The children can also be practising their understanding of the Y3&4 and Y5&6 expected spellings lists, which they have a copy of in the back of their homework books.

Here are the spellings for this week:

Y5 – exercise, experience, experiment, extreme, famous, favourite, February, forwards, fruit, grammar

Y6 – (Homophones) aisle / isle, aloud / allowed, alter / altar, bridle / bridal, cereal / serial

SNIP Spellings Y6 – change, jumped, leave, often, opened, started, today, tries, turned

SNIP Spellings – Esme, Sophie and Alfie – brother, house, many, night, that, took, were, what, with

SNIP Spellings – Dylan and Ollie – almost, asked, began, does, found, I’m, know, stopped and walk

Kind regards

Mr G Hughes