Over the last few weeks we’ve been settling into our new routines in Year 3 whilst starting to enjoy some new topics. During this time we have been slowly working through our lists of spellings to evaluate where each child is with their spellings. We do this so throughout the year we can offer completely individual spellings that are at your child’s level and should give them a small yet manageable challenge each week, working towards their own goals.
These spellings will be ‘quizzed’ on a Monday and then new ones sent home on a Tuesday (there are a few exceptions to this, for instance if we have a trip). Please can you make sure your child has their reading diary and book in their bag every day. We glue the spellings for the week in here. If for any reason they don’t have their diary we give them the small bit of paper to take home.
Spellings will look like this. At the top there is their name and their total from the previous week (this is out of 5). Then 5 of our common exception word spellings that we have assessed that they need to work on. This is different for every child.
At the bottom of the sheet you will notice the ‘phonic family’ words. These are graphemes that we have noticed they do not spell consistently. It is important to notice the sound and spelling being the same in each word as it helps pattern recognition.
It is important to remember that this is a challenge, and one that we often find the class love, but if they are really starting to struggle as their spellings get a bit tougher please do contact Mrs Hardinge on the Year 3 email as we can make some changes to help.