Homework and Spellings

This page is designed to help keep you updated on your child's homework and spellings for the week. Children in Chestnut copy down their new spellings on a Monday, and are then tested on them the following Monday. Your child should practise their spellings at least three times over the course of the week and record their attempts in their pirate spelling book.
 
Homework is also given out on a Monday and is normally due back in the following Monday. A homework catch up session with Mrs Smith takes place during a Monday lunchtime for those children who fail to hand their homework in on time.
 
As well as spellings and homework, children are also expected to read in preparation for their guided reading sessions with Liz. Our sessions take place on a Friday and Liz will write in a child's reading record the expected number of pages to be read for the next session.  
 
Also, your child has been given log on details for Times Table Rockstars and we ask that they use this website at home to practise their times tables and improve their speed of recall. Children in Year 4 will take part in the National Multiplication Check in June 2020. 
 

16th March – 23rd March 2020

Homework

Worksheet recapping adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator.   

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘oo’ sound spelt ‘u-e’

  1.        June
  2.        Rule
  3.        Rude
  4.        Flute
  5.        Use
  6.        Tube
  7.        Tune
  8.        Huge
  9.        Cute
  10.    Cube

Group 2~ words ending in ‘gue’ and ‘que’

  1.        League
  2.        Plague
  3.        Rogue
  4.        Vague
  5.        Fatigue
  6.        Unique
  7.        Antique
  8.        Mosque
  9.        Cheque
  10.    Technique

Group 3 ~ word families

  1.        Phone
  2.        Phonics
  3.        Microphone
  4.        Telephone
  5.        Homophone
  6.        Real
  7.        Reality
  8.        Realistic
  9.        Unreal
  10.    Realisation

 

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

 

9th March – 16th March 2020

Homework

Worksheet recapping using apostrophes with plurals.  

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘igh’ and ‘oa’ sounds spely ‘i-e’ and ‘o-e’

  1.        Five
  2.        Ride
  3.        Like
  4.        Time
  5.        Side
  6.        Home
  7.        Those
  8.        Woke
  9.        Hope
  10.    Hole

Group 2~ adding the prefixes ‘bi’ and ‘re’

  1.        Bicycle
  2.        Biplane
  3.        Bisect
  4.        Bilingual
  5.        Biannual
  6.        Reappear
  7.        Redecorate
  8.        Reapply
  9.        Repay
  10.    Rebuild

Group 3 ~ words with a soft ‘c’ sound, spelt with ‘ci’

  1.        Circle
  2.        Medicine
  3.        Special
  4.        Decimal
  5.        City
  6.        Decide
  7.        Exercise
  8.        Cinema
  9.        Accident
  10.    Citizen

 

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

 

Monday 2nd March – 9th March 2020

Homework

Worksheet recapping equivalent fractions

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘a-e’ and ‘e-e’ words

  1.        Made
  2.        Came
  3.        Same
  4.        Take
  5.        Safe
  6.        Date
  7.        Lake
  8.        These
  9.        Theme
  10.         Complete

Group 2~ homophones and near homophones

  1.        Scent
  2.        Sent
  3.        Vain
  4.        Vein
  5.        Rode
  6.        Road
  7.        Steel
  8.        Steal
  9.        Waist
  10.       Waste

Group 3 ~ ‘soft c’ sound, spelt ‘ce’

  1.        Centre
  2.        Century
  3.        Certain
  4.        Recent
  5.        Experience
  6.        Sentence
  7.        Notice
  8.        Celebrate
  9.        Ceremony
  10.       Certificate

 

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

 

 Monday 24th February – Monday 2nd March 2020

Homework

Worksheet recapping adverbs and fronted adverbials.

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘k’ sound

  1. Kent
  2. Sketch
  3. Kit
  4. Skin
  5. Frisky
  6. Skill
  7. Risky
  8. Kettle
  9. Kilt
  10. King

Group 2~ homophones and near homophones

  1. Grate
  2. Great
  3. Grown
  4. Groan
  5. Plain
  6. Plane
  7. Peace
  8. Piece
  9. Rain
  10. Reign

Group 3 ~ ‘s’ sound spelt with ‘sc’

  1. Science
  2. Crescent
  3. Discipline
  4. Fascinate
  5. Scent
  6. Scissors
  7. Ascent
  8. Descent
  9. Scientist
  10. Scenery

 

Hope you have had a lovely half term and if you have any issues, please get in touch!

 

Monday 10th February – Monday 24th February 2020

Homework

Worksheet recapping perimeter.

 

Spellings

Group 1, 2 and 3 ~ a selection of 10 words from the last half term will be retested. Please revise all words from Monday 6th January – Monday 3rd February.  

 

Hope you have a lovely half term and if you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 3rd February – Monday 10th February 2020

Homework

Learning lines and song words for our class assembly.

Spellings

Group 1 ~ adding ‘er’ and ‘est’ to adjectives  

  1.        Grander
  2.        Grandest
  3.        Fresher
  4.        Freshest
  5.        Quicker
  6.        Quickest
  7.        Taller
  8.        Tallest
  9.        Slower
  10.    Slowest

Group 2 ~ adding the prefix ‘dis-‘

  1.        Dislike
  2.        Disobey
  3.        Discolour
  4.        Discover
  5.        Disappear
  6.        Dishonest
  7.        Disallow
  8.        Disbelieve
  9.        Disapprove
  10.    Discontinue

Group 3 ~ adding the prefixes ’sub-’ and ‘super-’

  1.        Submerge
  2.        Subheading
  3.        Submarine
  4.        Subordinate
  5.        Subway
  6.        Superman
  7.        Supervise
  8.        Supersede
  9.        Superpower
  10.    Superhuman

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 27th January – Monday 3rd February 2020

Homework

Learning lines and song words for our class assembly.

Spellings

Group 1 ~ vowel diagraph ‘ir’ and ‘ur’

  1.        Girl
  2.        Bird
  3.        Shirt
  4.        First
  5.        Third
  6.        Turn
  7.        Hurt
  8.        Church
  9.        Burst
  10.    Burn

Group 2 ~ adding the prefix ‘mis-‘

  1.        Misspell
  2.        Mislead
  3.        Mistreat
  4.        Misbehave
  5.        Mistrust
  6.        Misprint
  7.        Misuse
  8.        Misplace
  9.        Misheard
  10.    Misread

Group 3 ~ adding the suffix ‘ation’

  1.        Creation
  2.        Radiation
  3.        Indication
  4.        Ventilation
  5.        Relegation
  6.        Dedication
  7.        Demonstration
  8.        Abbreviation
  9.        Translation
  10.    Vibration

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 20th – Monday 27th January 2020

Homework

Superlative adjectives worksheet

Spellings

Group 1 ~ vowel diagraph ‘er’

  1.        Better
  2.        Under
  3.        Summer
  4.        Winter
  5.        Sister
  6.        Rubber
  7.        Her
  8.        Term
  9.        Verb
  10.    Person

Group 2 ~ adding the suffixes –er –ed and -ing

  1.        Forgetting
  2.        Forgotten
  3.        Beginning
  4.        Beginner
  5.        Preferred
  6.        Preferring
  7.        Occurred
  8.        Occurring
  9.        Forbidden
  10.    Committed

Group 3 ~ adding the suffix ‘ation’

  1.        Information
  2.        Adoration
  3.        Sensation
  4.        Preparation
  5.        Education
  6.        Location
  7.        Exaggeration
  8.        Concentration
  9.        Imagination
  10.        Organisation

I hope you have had a lovely Christmas break, if you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 13th January – Monday 20th January 2020

Homework

Addition and subtraction word problems

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘ar’ words and ‘ar’ sound

  1.        Car
  2.        Start
  3.        Park
  4.        Arm
  5.        Garden
  6.        Artist
  7.        Star
  8.        Are
  9.        Were
  10.    Our

Group 2 ~ adding the suffixes –er. –ed and -ing

  1.        Gardener
  2.        Gardening
  3.        Limited
  4.        Limiting
  5.        Offering
  6.        Offered
  7.        Benefited
  8.        Benefiting
  9.        Focused
  10.    Focusing

Group 3 ~ homophones and near homophones

  1.        Cereal
  2.        Serial
  3.        Check
  4.        Cheque
  5.        Through
  6.        Threw
  7.        Draft
  8.        Draught
  9.        Stares
  10.    Stairs

I hope you have had a lovely Christmas break, if you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 6th January – Monday 13th January 2020

Homework

Handwriting and spelling activities.

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘i' sound

  1. Right
  2. Bright
  3. Light
  4. Night
  5. Fright
  6. Tight
  7. High
  8. I
  9. By
  10. My

Group 2 ~ short ‘i’ sound, spelt with a ‘y’

  1.  Myth
  2. Gym
  3. Egypt
  4. Pyramid
  5. Mystery
  6. Hymn
  7. System
  8. Symbol
  9. Lyric
  10. Typical

Group 3 ~ homophones and near homophones

  1. Accept
  2. Except
  3. Affect
  4. Effect
  5. Aloud
  6. Allowed
  7. Weather
  8. Whether
  9. Whose
  10. Who’s

I hope you have had a lovely Christmas break, if you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 2nd December ~ Monday 16th December 2019

Homework

Learning lines and song words for our pantomime.

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘ea’ words

  1.        Sea
  2.        Dream
  3.        Meat
  4.        Each
  5.        Scream
  6.        Read
  7.        Head
  8.        Bead
  9.        Meant
  10.        Instead

Group 2 ~ creating adverbs

  1.        Truly
  2.        Duly
  3.        Wholly
  4.        Fully
  5.        Daily
  6.        Publicly
  7.        Dryly
  8.        Slyly
  9.        Shyly
  10.        Coyly

Group 3 ~ ‘ough’ words

  1.        Though
  2.        Although
  3.        Dough
  4.        Through
  5.        Breakthrough
  6.        Thought
  7.        Bought
  8.        Brought
  9.        Fought
  10.        Ought

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 25th November ~ Monday 2nd December 2019

Homework

Learning lines and song words for our pantomime.

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘e’ and ‘ee’ words

  1.        Me
  2.        She
  3.        We
  4.        Be
  5.        He
  6.        See
  7.        Tree
  8.        Green
  9.        Meet
  10.       Week

 

Group 2 ~ using the suffix ‘ly’ when the root word ends in ‘ic’ or ‘al’

  1.        Basically
  2.        Frantically
  3.        Dramatically
  4.        Magically
  5.        Tragically
  6.        Comically
  7.        Actually
  8.        Accidentally
  9.        Occasionally
  10.        Eventually

Group 3 ~ ‘cian’ ending

  1.        Musician
  2.        Politician
  3.        Electrician
  4.        Magician
  5.        Mathematician
  6.        Dietician
  7.        Statistician
  8.        Technician
  9.        Clinician
  10.        Beautician

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 18th ~ Monday 25th November 2019

Homework

Spelling related activities  

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘oa’ words

  1.        Goal
  2.        Coach
  3.        Own
  4.        Snow
  5.        Grow
  6.        Toe
  7.        Goes
  8.        Go
  9.        No
  10.       So

Group 2 ~ using the suffix ‘ly’ when the root word ends in ‘le’

  1.        Gently
  2.        Simply
  3.        Humbly
  4.        Nobly
  5.        Horribly
  6.        Terribly
  7.        Possibly
  8.        Incredibly
  9.        Comfortably
  10.        Probably

Group 3 ~ ‘tion’ ending

  1.        Intervention
  2.        Injection
  3.        Action
  4.        Question
  5.        Mention
  6.        Attraction
  7.        Translation
  8.        Devotion
  9.        Position
  10.       Solution

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 11th ~ Monday 18th November 2019

Homework

To compete in the Times Table Rockstars ‘Rock Out’ challenge.

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘ay’ and ‘oy’ words

  1. Play
  2. Way
  3. Stay
  4. Today
  5. Says
  6. Boy
  7. Toy
  8. Enjoy
  9. Annoy
  10. Royal

Group 2 ~ using the suffix ‘ly’

  1. Happily
  2. Angrily
  3. Lazily
  4. Easily
  5. Busily
  6. Greedily
  7. Messily
  8. Wearily
  9. Cheekily
  10. Clumsily

Group 3 ~ ‘ssion’ ending

  1. Expression
  2. Discussion
  3. Confession
  4. Permission
  5. Admission
  6. Transmission
  7. Possession
  8. Profession
  9. Depression
  10. Impression

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Tuesday 5th November - Monday 11th November 2019
 
Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘ng’ words

  1. Ear
  2. Dear
  3. Fear
  4. Hear
  5. Near
  6. Bear
  7. Pear
  8. Wear
  9. Tear
  10. Swear

Group 2 ~ using the suffix ‘ly’

  1. Kindly
  2. Quickly
  3. Safely
  4. Sweetly
  5. Strongly
  6. Bravely
  7. Secretly
  8. Finally
  9. Usually
  10. Rudely

Group 3 ~ ‘sion’ ending

  1. Expansion
  2. Extension
  3. Comprehension
  4. Tension
  5. Corrosion
  6. Supervision
  7. Fusion
  8. Conclusion
  9. Persuasion
  10. Suspension

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Tuesday 22nd October 2019 ~ Tuesday 5th November

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘ng’ words

  1.        Sang
  2.        Rang
  3.        Bang
  4.        Gang
  5.        Hang
  6.        Sung
  7.        Rung
  8.        Lung
  9.        Bung
  10.       Hung

Group 2 ~ homophones and near homophones

  1.        Berry
  2.        Bury
  3.        Brake
  4.        Break
  5.        Meet
  6.        Meat
  7.        Ball
  8.        Bawl
  9.        Fair
  10.       Fare

Group 3 ~ ‘sion’ ending

  1.         Division
  2.        Confusion
  3.        Collision
  4.        Revision
  5.        Inclusion
  6.        Invasion
  7.        Decision
  8.        Television
  9.        Erosion
  10.        Explosion

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

 

Monday 14th October ~ Tuesday 22nd October 2019

Homework

Homework this week is to research Charles Dickens, the author of ‘Oliver Twist’. Children are create a poster with the facts they find.

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘sh and th’ words

  1.        Shall
  2.        Shed
  3.        Ship
  4.        Shop
  5.        Shut
  6.        That
  7.        Then
  8.        This
  9.        Thin
  10.        Thug

Group 2 ~ homophones and near homophones

  1.        Here
  2.        Hear
  3.        Heel
  4.        Heal
  5.        Main
  6.        Mane
  7.        Mail
  8.        Male
  9.        Knot
  10.        Not

Group 3 ~ homophones and near homophones

  1.        Medal
  2.        Meddle
  3.        Missed
  4.        Mist
  5.        Scene
  6.        Seen
  7.        Board
  8.        Bored
  9.        Which
  10.        Witch

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 7th October – Monday 14th October 2019

Homework

Homework this week is to learn the songs for our Harvest assembly.  The lyrics and backing tracks are attached below.

Spellings

Group 1 ~ ‘ch’ words

  1.        Catch
  2.        Fetch
  3.        Rich
  4.        Such
  5.        Much
  6.        Chat
  7.        Check
  8.        Chip
  9.        Chop
  10.       Chug

Group 2 ~ ‘ur’ sound spelt using ‘ear’

  1.        Earth
  2.        Early
  3.        Learn
  4.        Heard
  5.        Earn
  6.        Pearl
  7.        Search
  8.        Unearth
  9.        Earl
  10.       Rehearse

Group 3 ~ words with ‘il and ir’ - prefix

  1.        Illegal
  2.        Illogical
  3.        Illicit
  4.        Irrelevant
  5.        Irresponsible
  6.        Illegible
  7.        Illiterate
  8.        Irregular
  9.        Irrational
  10.       Irresistible

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 30th September – Monday 7th October

Homework

Homework this week is a worksheet recapping our maths work on writing, partitioning, ordering and comparing 4 digit numbers.

Spellings

Group 1 ~ sounds pelt using ‘sh’ and ‘th’

  1.        Bash
  2.        Mesh
  3.        Wish
  4.        Posh
  5.        Bush
  6.        Bath
  7.        Path
  8.        With
  9.        Moth
  10.       Tooth

Group 2 ~ long ‘a’ sound spelt using ‘ai’

  1.        Straight
  2.        Campaign
  3.        Contain
  4.        Brain
  5.        Faint
  6.        Waist
  7.        Claim
  8.        Praise
  9.        Complaint
  10.        Afraid

Group 3 ~ words with ‘im’ - prefix

  1.        Immature
  2.        Impossible
  3.        Imperfect
  4.        Immovable
  5.        Important
  6.        Immeasurable
  7.        Immortal
  8.        Impatient
  9.        Impolite
  10.       Improper

If you have any issues, please get in touch! 

Monday 23rd – Monday 30th September:

Homework

Homework this week is a worksheet recapping our grammar work on identifying verbs (doing or being words) and adverbs (words that describe verbs).

Spellings

Group 1 ~ sounds spelt using ‘ll’, ‘ck’ and ‘zz’

  1.        Well
  2.        Pull
  3.        Full
  4.        Wall
  5.        Buzz
  6.        Fizz
  7.        Back
  8.        Stick
  9.        Flick
  10.        Pal

Group 2 ~ long ‘a’ sound spelt using ‘ey’

  1.        Hey
  2.        They
  3.        Obey
  4.        Grey
  5.        Prey
  6.        Whey
  7.        Survey
  8.        Convey
  9.        Disobey
  10.        Purvey

Group 3 ~ words with ‘in’ - prefix

  1.        Inactive
  2.        Inaccurate
  3.        Indefinite
  4.        Infinite
  5.        Incorrect
  6.        Insecure
  7.        Incomplete
  8.        Inedible
  9.        Inability
  10.        Indecisive

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 16th – Monday 23rd September:

Homework

Homework this week is to recap writing and reading Roman Numerals to 100.

Spellings

Group 1~ 'ss’ and ‘ff’ words     

  1.        Off
  2.        Puff
  3.        Sniff
  4.        Miss
  5.        Hiss
  6.        Less
  7.        If
  8.        Us
  9.        Bus
  10.        Yes

Group 2 ~ ‘ei’ or ‘eigh’ words

  1.        Eight
  2.        Eighth
  3.        Eighty
  4.        Weight
  5.        Neighbour
  6.        Vein
  7.        Veil
  8.        Beige
  9.        Sleigh
  10.        Freight 

Group 3 ~ Words with an ‘aw’ sound, spelt ‘aught’ or ‘au’

  1.        Caught
  2.        Taught
  3.        Autumn
  4.        Cause
  5.        Applaud
  6.        Naughty
  7.        Daughter
  8.        Clause
  9.        Astronaut
  10.        Author 

If you have any issues, please get in touch!

Monday 16th December
 
There will be no spellings or written homework to complete during the holidays.
 
I hope you all have a lovely Christmas!
Monday 9th - Monday 16th September 2019
 
Everyone has the same spellings this week and they are the months of the year:
 
1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November 
12. December 
 
There is no English or maths homework this week, this will start next week. 
 
If you have any issues, please get in touch!