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SPELLING TASK BOARDTERM 4 2010

Week 1- Unit focus words Sustainability

Week 2-Unit words Marine/water words

Week 3- Demon words double letters

Week 4- Unit Words

Australian Bush

Week 5- Compound words

Week 6- Unit Words

Antarctica

Week 7 -Unit Words

Rainforests

Week 8- Silent Letters

Week 9 - Unit Words

Australian Desert

Week 10- Revision

Group One – The Tigers

WEEK ONE- TIGERS

Spelling List Words - Sustainability

weather

energy animals

planes

waste sun power gasheat plants food lightsworld forests cars

APLHABETICAL ORDER

write out your spelling words, sort them in alphabetical order, and write them on the numbered squares.

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

10 11 12

13 14 15

world heat animals

forests energy power

cars sun food

weather plants planes

waste gas lights

WEEK 2 – THE TIGERS

Spelling Word List – Marine Words

filter ocean coralebb lakes shoretide seawee

dfreshwater

kelp waves riverswetlands

reef runoff

WORD FIND

Create a word find using all of your spelling words.

WEEK 3 - TIGERS

Spelling Word List- Demon Words

library witch sugar

film hiccups every

Wednesday

burglar safety

destroy tongue doctor

always material fuel

TRICKY WORDS

Write, and say each of your tricky spelling words out loud.

Which letter/s make/s the word a tricky word?

Circle this part of the word. Can you find other words that have

“tricky” letters? List them.

WEEK 4 - TIGERS

Spelling Word List – Australian bush

decay ozone seedsground paper seepsburned rain trunkleaves sandy twigslogging roots fuel

WEEK 5- TIGERS

Spelling word List – Compound Words

footprint aircraft birthdaypipeline below breakfastwindmill goodbye nightmareseahorse lifeboat butterflyrainbow saltwater starfish

WEEK 6 – THE TIGERS

Spelling Word List – Antarctica

cloudy ice snowstorm

drifted inland iglooepic krill sealsexplorers melts thermalfrozen polar woollen

ALLITERATIONS

Choose 5 of your spelling words to help you choose five sets of words that begin with the same letter and write alliterative sentences.

E.g. Blustering blizzards battered brave biologists.

WEEK 7 -TIGERS

Spelling Word List – The Rainforest

moss equator forestvines warm fernscanopy wildlife sunraystropical rainfall moisthumid balance damp

WEEK 8 -TIGERS

Spelling Word List – Silent Letters

lamb wreck scenttomb comb castleanswer gnome knowheir dough wrongknit knead crumbs

WEEK 9 – TIGERS

Spelling word List – Australian Desert

dunes rocks saltbushheat snakes waterholemelting lizards shelteroutback stump degreesburnt dusk insects

WEEK 10 – TIGERS

Revision

Group Two – The Bees

WEEK ONE – THE BEES

Spelling List Words - Sustainability

climate population

fossil fuel

electricity

degrees cyclones solar energy

tidal power

oceans appliances

wind power

machinery

floods drought factories

ALPHABETICAL ORDER

write out your spelling words, sort them in alphabetical order, and write them on the numbered squares.

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

10 11 12

13 14 15

WEEK 2 – THE BEES

Spelling word list- Marine/Water

infiltration marine kelp forestbarnacle whelk barrier reefcurrents condensati

onharbour

dolphin tidal wave pierkrill evaporatio

nfisheries

WORD FIND

Create a word find using all of your spelling words.

WEEK 3 – THE BEES

Spelling Word List- Demon Words

exhausted

taught village

tongue which cottonmaterial governme

ntache

probably aviator pieceladies unusual neighbour

TRICKY WORDS

Write, and say each of your tricky spelling words out loud.

Which letter/s make/s the word a tricky word?

Circle this part of the word. Can you find other words that have

“tricky” letters? List them.

WEEK 4 – THE BEES

Spelling word List – Australian Bush

absorb draining grasslands

flora shrubs groundwater

canopy wasteland greenhouse

carbon problem sunlight

compost rainforest mudflats

WEEK 5 – THE BEES

Spelling Word List – Compound Words

coastline downpour

undergo

offshore overseas whoeversignpost everyone lifestyleforehead guideline windsurfafternoon soundpro

oftreetop

WEEK 6 – THE BEES

Spelling Word List – Antarctica

blizzard mariners naturalcobalt polar charterfrostbite sledges dieselglaciers sealers iciclesgaleforce reflection exposed

ALLITERATIONS

Choose 8 of your spelling words to help you choose five sets of words that begin with the same letter and write alliterative sentences.

E.g. Blustering blizzards battered brave biologists.

WEEK 7 – THE BEES

Spelling Word List - Rainforest

tropical species endangered

fungus predators extincthumid conditions diversitymangroves

fauna vegetation

swamps habitats dense

WEEK 8 – THE BEES

Spelling word List – Silent Letters

handsome

wholemeal

knight

honest signpost climbedschedule thistle scentedwrinkled aisle wheelsoften knitting choir

WEEK 9 – THE BEES

Spelling Word List – Australian Desert

abundant

desolate thirst

beetles exposure reptilescamels famine clambere

dcondenses

hydration vastness

conserve quenched horizon

WEEK 10 – THE BEES

Revision

Group Three – The Racers

WEEK ONE – THE RACERS

Spelling List Words – Sustainability

deforestation

emissions atmosphere

chemicals

biodiversity

toxics sustainability

evidence

contamination

celsius carbon dioxide

resources

synthetic organic environment

ALPHABETICAL ORDER

write out your spelling words, sort them in alphabetical order, and write them on the numbered squares.

Now write a paragraph using all your words to describe the effects they have on our environment.

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

10 11 12

13 14 15

WEEK 2 – THE RACERS

Spelling Word List – Marine Words

algae nautilus mollusc

saturation salinity crustacean

oceanography

tsunami sewage

biodegradable

permeable estuary

depletion precipitation

seepage

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Create a crossword puzzle using all of your spelling words.

Find the meaning of each word and use this as clues.

WEEK 3 – THE RACERS

Spelling Word List – Demon Words

cemetery

exhausted

cologne

exaggerate

colonel precede

pyjamas probably adviceathletic morale affectlightning adapt formally

TRICKY WORDS

Write, and say each of your tricky spelling words out loud.

Which letter/s make/s the word a tricky word?

Circle this part of the word. Can you find other words that have

“tricky” letters? List them.

WEEK 4 – THE RACERS

Spelling Word List – Australian Bush

camouflage ecosystems

maturation

chlorophyll efficient moisture

conservation erosion oxygen

decomposition

germinate regeneration

deciduous vegetation subtropical

WEEK 5 – THE RACERS

Spelling Word List – Compound Words

aftershock highlight copyright

foreshore greyhound downpour

airtight stockbroker spreadsheet

backdrop shareholder evergreen

campsite guideline waterproof

WEEK 6 – THE RACERS

Spelling word List – Antarctica

acclimatising

hemisphere

plateau

balaclavas isolated wilderness

carcasses inhospitable

surveyed

expedition refraction inaccessible

fossilised skiers crevasses

ALLITERATIONS

Choose 10 of your spelling words to help you choose five sets of words that begin with the same letter and write alliterative sentences.

E.g. Blustering blizzards battered brave biologists.

WEEK 7 – THE RACERS

Spelling Word List – The Rainforest

humidity understory

extinction

biodiversity

biomass bromeliad

forest floor

adaptation

fauna

canopy sultry seasonalemergent medicinal parasites

WEEK 8 – THE RACERS

Spelling Word List – Silent Letters

depot campaign

handkerchief

scenery resign psychology

knowledgeable

bustle solemn

catalogue weight column

mortgage psalm jeopardy

WEEK 9 – THE RACERS

Spelling Word List – Australian Desert

scorpion extremes

hinterland

carnivorous

herbivorous

searing

crevice laborious solitarydehydration

scurried survival

endurance

nomadic tenacious

WEEK 10 – THE RACERS

Revision