29 April 2021
Next week, we’re learning about apostrophes for possession. There isn’t a list of words to learn. Instead, your child has a task to complete.
23 April 2021
The spellings this week all contain the or phoneme. This phoneme can be spelled in lots of different ways. We’re focusing on or, aw, au, augh, ough.
caught
forward
history
important
naughty
ordinary
quarter
thought
awful
drawn
23 / 30 April 2021
This week’s spellings are common exception words (common words that don’t follow the usual spelling rules).
Year 1
- was
- where
- we
- you
- were
- your
Year 2
- every
- everybody
- eye
- father
- fast
- find
- floor
- gold
- grass
- great
26 March 2021
This week, we are learning about words that end in sure. Here is the list of words that you need to learn.
treasure
pleasure
measure
enclosure
closure
assure
reassure
leisure
pressure
26 March 2021
This week’s spellings are common exception words (words that we use a lot but do not follow the usual spelling patterns).
Year 1
- there
- their
- they
- to
- today
Year 2
- child
- children
- Christmas
- class
- climb
- clothes
- cold
- could
- door
- even
19 March 2021
This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –er and -est to words.
We will investigate the spelling rules throughout the week. Here is a list of the root words that we will investigate. Can you complete the table?
Watch out for words that don’t make sense! There is space to add four of your own root words.
| add – er | add – est | |
| jump | ||
| talk | ||
| walk | ||
| bright | ||
| loud | ||
| crazy | ||
| clumsy | ||
| pretty | ||
| spiky | ||
| build | ||
| slow | ||
| weak | ||
| busy | ||
| shop | ||
| old | ||
| soft | ||
| shiny | ||
| begin | ||
| bake | ||
| rude | ||
| brave | ||
| happy | ||
| grumpy | ||
19 March 2021
Use last week’s spellings and write them showing ascenders (tall letters) and descenders (letters that go below the line), like this –
Year 1
- school
- some
- so
- the
- she
Year 2
- after
- because
- again
- behind
- any
- both
- bath
- break
- beautiful
- busy
12 March 2021
This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –ed and -ing to words. We will investigate the spelling rules for adding these suffixes throughout the week (drop the e, drop the y for an i, double up for a short vowel sound).
Spelling task: here is a list of the root words that we will investigate this week. Can you complete the table? Watch out for the irregular verbs!
| add – ed | add – ing | |
| jump | ||
| talk | ||
| walk | ||
| frown | ||
| steam | ||
| step | ||
| grin | ||
| clap | ||
| toast | ||
| live | ||
| bake | ||
| frame | ||
| blame | ||
| faint | ||
| mend | ||
| try | ||
| fry | ||
| worry | ||
| sail | ||
| hop | ||
| shop | ||
| laugh | ||
| separate | ||
| care | ||
| begin | ||
| eat | ||
| fall |
12 March 2021
This week’s spellings are common exception words – words that are used frequently but don’t always following the usual spelling rules.
Year 1
- school
- some
- so
- the
- she
Year 2
- after
- because
- again
- behind
- any
- both
- bath
- break
- beautiful
- busy
05 March 2021
This week, we are looking at adding the suffix –ly.
Here are some of the words that we will be learning. Can you work out the root word for each spelling?
e.g. The root word of completely is complete.
Spelling list:
- accidentally
- completely
- closely
- frantically
- particularly
- occasionally
- separately
- basically
- probably
- surprisingly