What do all of these words have in

• • • What do all of these words have in common? scent scenic descend scenery discipline • They all have the letters ‘sc’ in them… • BUT they all make the /s/ sound!

LO: To recognise and spell the /s/ sound spelled ‘sc’ st Tuesday 21 March

2 minutes to think of as many words as you can that have ‘sc’ in them, but sound like /s/. FOR EXAMPLE! “Science” or “Discipline”

Is there a rule? • Another week, another list of spellings without a rule! • HOWEVER, there may be a reason why there are words that use this rule. • In the Latin words from which these words come, the Romans probably pronounced the c and the k as two sounds rather than one – /s/ /k/

Shmangman • We’re going to play a game similar to ‘hangman’ • The difference is that you must guess the letters in order before you can move on. • When do you think the game will be hardest? When do you

Spllngs wtht vwls • Your teacher will give you some words to spell on your white boards. • The difference is, you need to spell the words without using any vowels. • In case you forgot, vowels are

Seriously Strange Spellings • This is a game to play in pairs! • One player will pick a word from this week’s spelling list. • They then write the word on their whiteboard, but with the letters in a mixed up order. • Your partner then has to work out what the word is. If they get it, they win a point. If they don’t you do! However, if you have misspelled the word, they get a point.

Silly Sentences • Try using some of these /s/ sound spelled ‘sc’ words in a sentence – how many can you get in one? • Science • Scent • Scenery • Scenic • Discipline • Descent

Which one is correct? • • scene / sene disipline / discipline fascinate / fasinate sink / scink descend / desend sandy / scandy respect / rescpect

Can you create any words spelled ‘sc’ with the /s/ sound from this grid? ? You can use each letter more than once! S E L D C I P T N

Use your knowledge of the /s/ sound spelled ‘sc’ to identify whether these are right or wrong. scent – right desend - ? ? scenery - ? ? sience - ? ? crescent - ? ? senic - ? ?

Use your knowledge of the /s/ sound spelled ‘sc’ to identify whether these are right or wrong. scent – right desend - wrong scenery - right sience - wrong crescent - right senic - wrong

Group 1 Spellings 1. scent 2. scenic 3. descend 4. science 5. crescent 6. scenery 7. unique 8. league 9. guard 10. naughty

Group 2 Spellings Adding –es to nouns and verbs ending in –y 1. flies 2. tries 3. replies 4. babies 5. copies 6. July 7. reply 8. mention 9. possession 10. purpose

Tuesday 21 st March Assembly • Adding –es to nouns and verbs ending in –y • Last week we looked at words ending in –y. • If there is more than one, then we change the ‘y’ to an ‘I’ and add ‘es’ on the end. • E. g. ‘Fly’ becomes ‘Flies’ • Baby… How would you spell this word if there were more than one baby? • Can you think of any other examples? • Let’s try this rule in a few activities!

Can you create any words with ‘ies’ at the end of the word? You can use each letter more than once! I E S F R T P C L

Use your knowledge of our new spelling rule to identify whether these are right or wrong. flies – right crys - ? ? babies - ? ? carrys - ? ? copies - ? ? replys - ? ?

Use your knowledge of our new spelling rule to identify whether these are right or wrong. flies – right crys - wrong babies - right carrys - wrong copies - right replys - wrong