18 April 2019
Spelling
Negative prefixes
This week, to improve the children’s spelling and understanding of unfamiliar words, we’d like them to do two things:
- Write a list of lots words that use a negative prefix (see the list below).
- Write lots of them in sentences.
Examples of negative prefixes:
| in – inaccurate | ir – irresponsible | un – unimaginative | mis – misunderstand |
| im – impossible | il – illegal | dis – distrust | de – defrost |
22 March 2019
This week, we will continue with our previous spelling focus: words with double consonants. These words follow one of our main spelling rules – double up for a short vowel sound. For example, in the word hopping, the double ‘p’ makes us say the short vowel version of the letter ‘o’. Without doubling up, the word would be hoping which has a long vowel sound for the ‘o’.
Children should learn the words below in preparation for a spelling test on Friday 29 March 2019.
| opportunity | appreciate | committee |
| occur | aggressive | according |
| community | accompany |
22 March 2019
This week’s spellings continue to focus on suffixes (a group of letters added on to the root word).
Year 1 – ing
- do
- doing
- have
- having
- go
- going
- jump
- jumping
Year 2 – ment, ness, ly
- excite
- excitement
- state
- statement
- kind
- kindness
- careless
- quickly
- slowly
- lovely
15 March 2019
Write sentences using last week’s spellings. Remember a capital letter at the beginning and a full stop at the end.
Year 1
- like
- liked
- ask
- asked
- want
- wanted
- walk
- walked
Year 2
- grab
- grabbed
- skip
- skipped
- spot
- spotted
- plan
- planned
- miss
- missed
8 March 2019
This week’s spellings for Year 1 focus on adding the suffix ed, which we have been working on in school too.
Year 1
- like
- liked
- ask
- asked
- want
- wanted
- walk
- walked
Year 2 spellings focus on doubling the consonant before adding the ed suffix (look out for the exception).
- grab
- grabbed
- skip
- skipped
- spot
- spotted
- plan
- planned
- miss
- missed
Friday 01 March 2019
I before e is one of the most common spelling rules we hear. However, it doesn’t always work. In fact, “I before e, except after c when the sound is ee” is much more accurate – of course, there are exceptions to this rule: either, weird, their. In fact, sometimes, ‘I’ and ‘e’ are just adjacent. To help them learn (and remember) this rule, children should learn the following words in preparation for a test on Friday 08 March 2019.
| foreign
|
achieve | convenience |
| mischievous
|
soldier | sufficient |
| variety | ancient |
1 March 2019
Use the last spellings to make a pyramid for each word.
Year 1
- take
- name
- these
- time
- like
- home
- June
- tube
Year 2
- jumping
- jumped
- jumper
- think
- thinking
- thought
- know
- knowing
- knew
Friday 08 February 2019
This week, our spellings will be a revision of everything we’ve learnt this half-term. Children should evidence their practice in their homework books.
8 February 2019
Spelling
This week, we would like children to investigate the suffix –ful.
Add –ful to the root word so the words become adjectives. Can you add it to any word?
How many words can you think of that has the suffix –ful. Create a list and write them in a sentence correctly.
Take care to only add one ‘l’ at the end and not a double!
skill – skilful , power – powerful, care – careful
8 February 2019
This week’s spellings for Year 1 contain split digraphs.
- take
- name
- these
- time
- like
- home
- June
- tube
Year 2 spellings are words with different suffixes that can act as verbs (an action, state or occurrence), depending on the context.
- jumping
- jumped
- jumper
- think
- thinking
- thought
- know
- knowing
- knew