Year 6 Holly Class – Metacognition and Spelling 30.4.21.
This week in Holly Class, we have been practising our personalised spellings. We used the metacognition cycle to plan how we were going to do this, then we monitored throughout the lesson. Finally, we evaluated at the end to see if our strategy was effective, or if we need to use a different strategy next time. Here are some of the excellent strategies the pupils used.
Today, we had a class competition based on year 3/4 spelling words. We worked collaboratively to choose the correct spelling from multiple choice questions. We needed to be speedy and accurate to hatch our monsters. We loved this so much, we played 4 rounds before going home. We can’t wait to play this again soon!
Year 3 have been exploring homophones today. Our main focus was understanding which ‘to’, ‘two’, ‘too’ and ‘there’, ‘they’re’, ‘their’ to use. We even recapped some of the previous homophones we have looked at. We marched, clapped and tapped our heads to spell the correct homophone for the sentence. We had a lot of fun doing this and we can’t wait to learn more about homophones.
We have been having fun with spelling in Year Three.
Have a look at the table below and the photos of us. Can you find and object and say what the rules for that object is if it becomes plural?
Welcome to our new class – Hobeny (A cominbation of Holly and Ebony).
We have had a very busy week this week. We have started following the new lockdown approach and been working very hard.
In our SPaG session we found a new method for trying to rememeber tricky words. This is called the ‘naughty letters’ method. In this method, you write the word out but make the letters that catch you out look different. In my example, some people find spelling the word ‘necessary’ tricky as it can be hard to recall which letters are doubled.
We also looked at simple mnemonics that can help us. For the same word, we learnt the mnemonic ‘one collar and two sleeves’.
Some of the children have been demonstrating their technology skills in SOLE. One of our MUSTS was to present some information about Charles Darwin. some children chose to create a website, whilst others created short video presentations.
We hope you enjoy our work.
In Holly Class, we have been working really hard on our spellings. At the beginning of the term, we were tested on our year 5/6 spelling words which created our own personalised spelling list. We then used a range of strategies to practise our personal spellings. This week, we have tested on these spellings again. We used metacognition (thinking about thinking) to reflect on and evaluate the strategies that helped us, or didn’t help us, to make progress.
Here are a couple of examples of the progress made:
This week in Ebony, we have been talking about metacognition.
Part of this has been during our spelling sessions. At the start of the term, we were tested on the first half of our Year 6 spelling list. Then, over the course of the term, we used a ranged a strategies to learn those spellings we did not get correct. This week, we were tested on the same words again. We then compared our results to the results from the start of term.
Most of us had improved, but some had not (or only improved a small amount).
This whole process involved metacognition (or thinking about learning).
To start with we identified areas we needed to improve, then we planned our approach by choosing a strategy that we thought would work and finally we evaluated our approach by seeing how much we had improved.
When we work on the second half of the Year 6 spellings, we will need to look back at our approach and consider if we need to change it or keep it the same.
This morning Monkey Puzzle had fun testing each other on the ‘ly’ suffix that we have been focussing on this week. They played a super suffix board game which allowed them to practice the ‘ly’ words and if they made a mistake they had to write them out and miss a go. I think great fun was had by all. Fantastic collaboration skills were shown and the morning flew by…time flies when you’re having fun!
In Phonics today, we were looking at different ai sounds. We focused on ai, ay and the split a-e digraph. In pairs, we acted as sound detectives and circled the ai sounds in a story. Some of us even spotted other alternatives, such as eight, great and grey.
We noticed that ai usually comes in the middle of a word and ay usually comes at the end of a word.
We care about our spellings. Getting them right helps us to communicate. Have a look at some of the ways we can show that we are taking pride in our spellings. What can you do to improve your spellings?
We have been working collaboratively today as we have started to create word webs. To begin with, we made sure we could use a dictionary correctly by finding chosen words and their definitions. After this, we wrote a word in the middle of our paper, and then we found its definition. Next, we split the word into its prefix and root word and found out what they meant. Our next step will be to find other words containing our chosen prefix and root word.
Year 6 have been working hard on their spelling. We have used a spelling test that we did at the end of half term to focus on learning from our mistakes. There were lots of learning attitudes on show including collaboration, resilience and resourcefulness.
Group 1
Focus: Silent Letters
Handed out on Monday 20th May; Tested on Monday 3rd June.
- Doubt
- Comb
- Island
- Foreign
- Limb
- Reign
- Gnome
- Suggest
- Marvellous
- Accommodate
Group 2
Focus: Silent Letters
Handed out on Monday 20th May; Tested on Monday 3rd June.
- Knee
- Autumn
- Soften
- Wrong
- Foreign
- Lamb
- Crumb
- Suggest
- Marvellous
- Accommodate
Group 3
Focus: ‘ly’ suffix
Handed out on Monday 20th May; Tested on Monday 3rd June.
- Hardly
- Fairly
- Lonely
- Nicely
- Slowly
- Curly
- Likely
- Shouted
- Car
- After
Group 1
Focus: ‘ent/ence’ words
Handed out on Monday 13th May; Tested on Monday 20th May.
- Obedient
- Confidence
- Abhorrent
- Ambivalent
- Transient
- Licence
- Audience
- Obedient
- Transparent
- Government
Group 2
Focus: ‘ent/ence’ words
Handed out on Monday 13th May; Tested on Monday 20th May.
- Accident
- Sufficient
- Fluent
- Client
- Sentence
- Silence
- Absence
- Obedient
- Transparent
- Government
Group 3
Focus: ‘less’ suffix
Handed out on Monday 13th May; Tested on Monday 20th May.
- Spotless
- Timeless
- Thankless
- Endless
- Homeless
- Useless
- Reckless
- Small
- Did
- New
Group 1 Week 3 Focus: ‘c/s’ words
Handed out on Tuesday 7th May; Tested on Monday 13th May.
- Dessert
- Decent
- Proceed
- Cycle
- Criticism
- Electrician
- Musical
- Desert
- Bruise
- Occurred
Group 2 Week 3 Focus: ‘c/s’ words
Handed out on Tuesday 7th May; Tested on Monday 13th May.
- Notice
- Bounce
- Police
- Cycle
- Pencil
- Dice
- Acid
- Desert
- Bruise
- Occurred
Group 3 Week 3 Focus: ‘ful’ suffix
Handed out on Tuesday 7th May; Tested on Monday 13th May.
- Joyful
- Useful
- Playful
- Cheerful
- Wishful
- Painful
- Hopeful
- Never
- Narrator
- How
Group 1 Week 2 Focus: ‘ough’ words
Handed out on Monday 29th March; Tested on Tuesday 7th May.
- Although
- Dough
- Enough
- Cough
- Drought
- Thoroughly
- Wrought
- Develop
- Exist
- Attached
Group 2 Week 2 Focus: ‘ough’ words
Handed out on Monday 29th March; Tested on Tuesday 7th May.
- Fought
- Plough
- Dough
- Cough
- Ought
- Thought
- Through
- Develop
- Exist
- Attached
Group 3 Week 2 Focus: ‘ness’ suffix
Handed out on Monday 29th ; Tested on Tuesday 7th May.
- Darkness
- Sadness
- Kindness
- Sickness
- Fitness
- Weakness
- Sweetness
- Long
- Over
- Tree
Handed out on Monday 18th March; Tested on Monday 25th March.
Group 1 – Focus ‘ent’ words
- Innocent
- Frequent
- Independent
- Adjacent
- Amusement
- Fluorescent
- Tournament
- Neighbour
- Aggressive
- Communicate
Group 2 – ‘ent’ words
- Absent
- Accent
- Apartment
- Complacent
- Current
- Urgent
- Infrequent
- Neighbour
- Aggressive
- Communicate
Group 3 – ‘zh says s’
- Treasure
- Measure
- Vision
- Usual
- Pleasure
- Leisure
- Television
- Can’t
- Good
- I’ll
Handed out on Monday 11th March; Tested on Monday 18th March. ‘
Group 1 – Focus: ’ly’ words
- Frequently
- Possibly
- Effectively
- Absolutely
- Ordinarily
- Virtually
- Monopoly
- Lightning
- Disastrous
Group 2 – Focus: ’ly’ words
- Heavenly
- Patiently
- Currently
- Narrowly
- Exactly
- Lively
- Kindly
- Lightning
- Disastrous
- Vegetable
Group 3 – Focus: ’ment’ words
- Enjoyment
- Apartment
- Department
- Payment
- Movement
- Treatment
- Pavement
- Live
- Say
- More
Year Two Spellings, Week 9 Focus: / oa /
Handed out on Monday 5thNovember; Tested on Monday 12thNovember
- coat
- boat
- moat
- float
- wrote
- most
- throw
- father
- parent
- children
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 1 & 2 word list.
Over the Christmas holidays, please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Friday 5th January.
| Group Specific Words | Year 3/4 Words | ||
| Snake | accident | ||
| Clay | century | ||
| obey | remember | beach | experiment |
| Neighbor | Autumn | extreme | interest |
| they | eight | table | particular |
| afraid | delay | nephew | remember |
| brake | crayon | photo | accidentally |
| Married | station | fluff | certain |
| played | plane | triumph | extreme |
| Stopped | angel | elephant | island |
| slipped | inside | sphere | particular |
| worried | invite | sentence | |
| giggled | fright | actual | |
| Whistled | knight | circle | |
| yellow | night | famous | |
| spoke | tonight | knowledge | |
| envelope | July | perhaps | |
| remote | reply | separate | |
| dough | came | actually | |
| Don’t | escape | complete | |
| frozen | apricot | favourite | |
| sneeze | fame | learn | |
| blizzard | round | popular | |
| wise | found | special | |
| noise | mountain | address | |
| hammer | cushion | consider | |
| summit | pudding | February | |
| crumb | soot | length | |
| column | dream | position | |
| remember | steam | straight | |
Over the Christmas holidays, please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Friday 5th January.
| Group Specific Words | Year 3/4 Words | ||
| choice | argue | coming | accident |
| voice | threw | wanted | century |
| noise | grew | watched | experiment |
| joint | think | looked | interest |
| point | pick | waited | particular |
| foil | click | shouted | remember |
| boil | sock | hopped | accidentally |
| round | ticket | stayed | certain |
| sound | sink | extreme | |
| shout | crack | island | |
| brown | unfair | particular | |
| crowd | share | sentence | |
| house | wear | actual | |
| ground | care | circle | |
| bike | chair | famous | |
| like | scared | knowledge | |
| bright | hair | perhaps | |
| night | these | separate | |
| why | happy | actually | |
| silent | week | complete | |
| best | every | favourite | |
| sting | speak | learn | |
| stick | leader | popular | |
| steal | need | special | |
| twist | writing | address | |
| stir | making | consider | |
| flew | taking | February | |
| knew | looking | length | |
| new | shutting | position | |
| blue | talking | straight | |
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 7 Focus: homophones
Handed out on Friday 16th June; Tested on Friday 23rd June
- accept – except
- effect – affect
- ball – bawl
- berry – bury
- rain – rein – reign
- break – brake
- whose – who’s
- notice
- purpose
- thought
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 4 Focus: word ending – ssion
Handed out on Friday 12th May; Tested on Friday 19th May
- expression
- discussion
- confession
- permission
- admission
- compression
- omission
- breathe
- early
- heard
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 3 Focus: word ending – tion
Handed out on Friday 5th May; Tested on Friday 12th May
- invention
- injection
- action
- hesitation
- completion
- attraction
- correction
- natural
- probably
- though
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 2 Focus: word ending – sion
Handed out on Friday 28th April; Tested on Friday 5th May
- division
- invasion
- confusion
- decision
- collision
- television
- version
- breath
- disappear
- guide
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Miss McManus’ Spelling Group Focus – KS2 Homophones
Handed out on Friday 21st April: Tested on Monday 24th April
- alter / altar
- practise / practice
- weather / whether
- proceed / precede
- bridle / bridal
- dissent / descent
- stationery / stationary
- morning / mourning
- principal / principle
- through / threw
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 1 Focus: word ending – ture
Handed out on Friday 21st April; Tested on Friday 28th April
- creature
- furniture
- picture
- nature
- adventure
- mixture
- future
- minute
- pressure
- therefore
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Spelling Revisit and Review – Mr Pattison’s group
Over the Easter holidays, please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Friday 21st April.
| Group Specific Words | Year 3/4 Words | ||
| immature | autobiography | interact | material |
| immortal | autograph | intercity | possession |
| impossible | automobile | international | strength |
| impatient | supermarket | interrelated | appear |
| imperfect | superman | intercept | decide |
| immigrate | superstar | interchangeable | fruit |
| impose | superhuman | interclub | medicine |
| redo | measure | subdivide | possible |
| refresh | treasure | subheading | suppose |
| return | pleasure | submarine | mention |
| reappear | enclosure | submerge | potatoes |
| redecorate | leisure | substantial | surprise |
| regenerate | pressure | subsequent | bicycle |
| refurbish | reassure | subordinate | difficult |
| disappoint | illegible | guard | |
| disagree | illegal | arrive | |
| misbehave | irregular | describe | |
| misspell | irrelevant | grammar | |
| mislead | irresponsible | answer | |
| disobey | illogical | forward | |
| dislike | irrational | continue | |
| library | |||
| possess | |||
| strange | |||
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 8 Focus: word ending – sure
Handed out on Friday 17th March; Tested on Friday 24th March
- measure
- treasure
- pleasure
- enclosure
- leisure
- pressure
- reassure
- bicycle
- difficult
- guard
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 7 Focus: Prefix – super and auto
Handed out on Friday 10th March; Tested on Friday 17th March
- autobiography
- autograph
- automobile
- supermarket
- superman
- superstar
- superhuman
- mention
- potatoes
- surprise
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 6 Focus: Prefix –dis and mis
Handed out on Friday 24th February; Tested on Friday 10th March
- disappoint
- disagree
- misbehave
- misspell
- mislead
- disobey
- dislike
- medicine
- possible
- suppose
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Year 1 – Spring 1
Spelling Week 6 Focus:
Handed out on Friday 10th February; Tested on Friday 24th February.
- lean
- treat
- clean
- your
- saw
Note: Spellings 1-3 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 4-5 are from the Year 1 High-frequency word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 5 Focus: Prefix – il and ir
Handed out on Friday 10th February; Tested on Friday 24th February
- illegible
- illegal
- irregular
- irrelevant
- irresponsible
- illogical
- irrational
- arrive
- describe
- grammar
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 4 Focus: Prefix – im
Handed out on Friday 3rd February; Tested on Friday 10th February
- immature
- immortal
- impossible
- impatient
- imperfect
- immigrate
- impose
- material
- possession
- strength
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 3 Focus: Prefix – re
Handed out on Friday 27th January; Tested on Friday 3rd February
- redo
- refresh
- return
- reappear
- redecorate
- regenerate
- refurbish
- appear
- decide
- fruit
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Spelling Revisit and Review – Mr Pattison’s group
Over the Christmas holidays, please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Friday 6th January.
| Group Specific Words | Year 3/4 Words | ||
| presentation | scheme | grate – great | accident |
| station | chorus | here – hear | century |
| information | chemist | missed – mist | experiment |
| adoration | echo | mail – male | interest |
| sensation | character | knot – not | particular |
| preparation | chaos | meat – meet | remember |
| admiration | stomach | groan – grown | accidentally |
| division | forgetting | science | certain |
| invasion | gardening | scissors | extreme |
| confusion | beginning | scene | island |
| decision | limitation | discipline | particular |
| collision | preferred | fascinate | sentence |
| television | limiting | crescent | actual |
| tension | beginner | scent | circle |
| serious | vein | antiseptic | famous |
| obvious | weigh | anti-clockwise | knowledge |
| curious | eight | antisocial | perhaps |
| hideous | neighbour | antibiotic | separate |
| spontaneous | they | antibody | actually |
| courteous | obey | antibacterial | complete |
| generous | sleigh | favourite | |
| musician | Vikings | learn | |
| electrician | runes | popular | |
| magician | longboat | special | |
| politician | history | address | |
| mathematician | dragon | consider | |
| beautician | Norway | February | |
| optician | Sweden | length | |
| route | Denmark | position | |
| anticlimax | great | straight | |
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 11 Focus: -cian word ending
Handed out on Friday 25th November; Tested on Friday 2nd December
- musician
- electrician
- magician
- politician
- mathematician
- beautician
- optician
- address
- consider
- February
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Handed out on Friday 4th November and tested on Friday 11th November
- Category
- Committee
- Communicate
- Competition
- Controversy
- Convenience
- Correspond
- Criticise
- Curiosity
- Definite
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 5 & 6 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 8 Focus: Homophones
Handed out on Friday 4th November; Tested on Friday 11th November
- grate – great
- here – hear
- missed – mist
- mail – male
- knot – not
- meat – meet
- groan – grown
- knowledge
- perhaps
- separate
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Miss Bal’s Spelling Group – Week 5 Focus: -ly word ending
Handed out on Friday 14th October; Tested on Friday 21st October
- Happy – Happily
- Funny – Funnily
- Dirty – Dirtily
- Crazy – Crazily
- Amazing – Amazingly
- Scary- Scarily
- Naughty – Naughtily
- Actual
- Circle
- Famous
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 5 Focus: -ous word ending
Handed out on Friday 14th October; Tested on Friday 21st October
- Serious
- Obvious
- Curious
- Hideous
- Spontaneous
- Courteous
- Generous
- Actual
- Circle
- Famous
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Miss Bal’s Spelling Group – Week 4 Focus: Suffixes (ing)
Handed out on Friday 7th October; Tested on Friday 14th October
- Swim – Swimming
- Skip – Skipping
- Grab – Grabbing
- Hop – Hopping
- Shop – Shopping
- Close – Closing
- Hope – Hoping
- Island
- Peculiar
- Sentence
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 4 Focus: Suffix with a vowel
Handed out on Friday 7th October; Tested on Friday 14th October
- Forgetting
- Gardening
- Beginning
- Limitation
- Preferred
- Limiting
- Beginner
- Island
- Peculiar
- Sentence
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Miss McManus’s Spelling Group Week 3 Focus – /ai/ graphemes
Handed out on Friday 30th September; Tested on Friday 7th October
- weigh
- veins
- portray
- maintain
- hesitate
- remaining
- calculate
- temperature
- sincerely
- sufficient
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 5 & 6 word list.
Miss Bal’s Spelling Group – Week 3 Focus: Yr 3/4 Spelling Words
Handed out on Thursday 29th September; Tested on Friday 7th October
- Ordinary
- Centre
- Enough
- Through
- Busy
- Build
- Material
- Accidentally
- Certain
- Extreme
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 3 Focus: ch as k
Handed out on Thursday 29th September; Tested on Friday 7th October
- Scheme
- Chorus
- Chemist
- Echo
- Character
- Chaos
- Stomach
- Accidentally
- Certain
- Extreme
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
Mr Hardee’s Spelling Group Week 2 (The ‘ous’ sound)
Handed out on Friday 23rd and tested on Friday 30th
- delicious
- obvious
- infectious
- conscious
- disastrous
- marvellous
- mischievous
- achieve
- aggressive
- amateur
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 5 and 6 word list.
Mr Pattison’s Spelling Group – Week 2 Focus: -sion word ending
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF TEST DAY
Handed out on Friday 23rd September; Tested on Thursday 29th September
- Division
- Invasion
- Confusion
- Decision
- Collision
- Television
- Tension
- Interest
- Particular
- Remember
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.