Spellings by year 5

[LIZS]

ds(10) has some spellings to learn this weekend, I assume based on commonly confused words among his English set ie. their, there, they're, where, were, our etc. I'd have thought these should be entrenched by now although he has extra one-to-one for spelling and handwriting. He recently covered some contractions although he is now struggling to recall them. Should we be concerned that he cannot hear the differences , subtle though they may be, nor get them right each time from context ? Any tips on how to memorise them , he is working on mnemonics (sp) for them atm.

ds (Y4) recently had these too. His teacher asked them to spell them by saying a sentence. Ie the teacher would say 'there is the bus', and the children had to write 'there'.

So that is the way I helped ds learn them, not on their own as it is too easy to confuse them, but in the context of a sentence.

hth.

With where and there I always remind pupils that they relate to a place: like here with an extra letter at the front. I get them to remind themselves by saying "here, there and everywhere"

And the words he is struggling with (apart from our) are called homophones, meaning they sound exactly the same.. and they are certainly not 'entrenched' in many many pupils' minds even by secondary school, unfortunately!

LIZS, no advice on yur OP but went to ballet this am and Miss I has moved to another class in another school. We has Miss P...? what's going on? you know?

So did we, what time do you leave , dd starts at 11 . No idea what is happening as we only found out late yesterday who it would be. They run other sessions at a state infants in H on a Saturday so maybe she is there ?

That's reassuring Moomin, thank you . We'll work on them slowly. I hadn't noticed him getting them wrong very often when writing but learning by rote stumps him. He's going word by word then we'll do sentences.

we are there 9.30 - 10.45, but not in sports hall
we are in the plebs' class, all non-H pupils

dd said Miss P said she had gone somewhere else to teach and it would be Miss P or Miss T teaching from now on

has dd done her pre-primary? was it nerve-wracking for her?

ballet ? yes last summer, got Primary (I think) this time. We must have just missed you this am ! I had ds in tow too. There was ballet just before dd's class presumably with Miss T then .