Spelling

Friday 06 September 2019

This week, our spelling focus is homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently).

There, their they’re

here, hear

to, too, two

witch, which

where, wear, were

For homework, children will need to write a short story using all the homophones correctly.

12 July 2019

Review and revise all the ‘Common Exception Words’. These are words should be able to spell by the end of the year. The test next week will be on a surprise selection of these words.

Year 1s – use the Year 1 list.

Year 2s – use both the Year 1 and 2 lists.

5 July 2019

Use last week’s spellings. Colour the vowels in a different colour to the consonants.

Friday 5 July 2019

Spelling

This week, we have started our Reuse, Recycle, Reduce topic.

We have found a link between these words and would like children to explore the prefix ‘re-‘

Learn the following words for a test on Friday 12^th July 2019.

• reuse, reuses, reusing, reusable,   reused
• recycle, recycles, recycling, recyclable, recycled
• reduce, reduces, reducing, reduced

Other topic words to learn:

• waste, wastes, wasteful, wasting
• environment, environmental,
• package, packaging,
• plastic

• Top Tips to learn spellings

1. Make a list of the words you have trouble spelling. …
2. Check word origins in the dictionary. …
3. Chunk it into parts …
4. Sound it out. …
5. Draw a picture …

Friday 28 June 2019

This week, we continue to focus on the spelling rule ‘drop the e for ing’. Children should practice spelling the words below in preparation for a test on Friday 05 July 2019.

accommodating                    calculating

managing                               acquiring

surprising                              analysing

deciding                                 debating

Friday 28 June 2019

Spelling

This week’s spelling homework is a word search activity. The words are some common misspelt words taken from the Year 3 / 4 spelling list.

Tips: check the spelling of the word carefully before your child searches for it. Then, check every letter is included.

Challenge: Use the blank template to make one of your own either from the Year 3 / 4 Spelling list, or from topic words in class.

For example: refugee, migrant, choice, border,  movement, environment, welcome, language, safety.

28 June 2019

Year 1

• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

Year 2

• sure
• happened
• wanted
• hopped
• skipped
• through
• thought
• though
• think
• bought

Friday 21 June 2019

Spelling

This week’s spelling home is to learn the following words for a test on Friday 28^th June 2019. 

This list of words uses a range of prefixes and suffixes:

mistaken, careless, really, cheerful, carefully, tasteless, disagree, disbelief, happiness, usually, unaware, underachieve, television, automatic, submarine.

21 June 2019

Use last week’s spellings and write them in fancy writing.

Year 1

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June

Year 2

• was
• saw
• who
• how
• to
• too
• of
• off
• which
• witch

Friday 14 June 2019

This week’s spelling homework is an activity using prefixes and suffixes. It is due on Thursday 20 June 2019.

Investigate how the meaning of words change when a prefix (part of a word added to the beginning) or suffix (part of a word added to the end) is added. What new words can you make?

• How will the spelling change?

dis                              ed

un            use            ing

re                                able

Possible new words:

• used (drop one ‘e’ here)
• using (drop the ‘e’ for ing)
• usable  (drop the ‘e’ for able)
• unused
• disused
• reusing
• unusable

Challenge:   What new word type have you made?

See the homework sheet for more examples.