Spelling

01 February 2019

This week, our spellings focus on some tricky words. These words don’t really follow a rule so we just need to learn them. Children should use the strategies in the back of their homework book to practise these words in their homework books.

Children will be tested on these words on Friday 08 February 2019.

bruise                          rhythm

yacht                           muscle

vehicle                         queue

stomach                      language

1 February 2019

Spelling Practice

For this week’s spelling, we would like the children to practice the following words, which all in –ed, for a test (8 words) on Friday 8 February:

These are a mixture of verbs. Some end in e, so just need to add ‘d’, some need -ed and some sound like a ‘t’ but add -ed.

Most are taken from the Y3/4 spelling list and others from current work.

1 Feb 2019

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

Year 1 – adding s to make a plural

• train
• trains
• sweet
• sweets
• book
• books

Year 2 – adding s or es for plurals

• dance
• dances
• church
• churches
• fox
• foxes
• island
• islands
• paper
• papers

25 January 2019

Spelling

This week we have been learning about the suffix –ed , changing verbs to the past tense.

For example:

dance – danced (just add ‘d’ but sounds like a ‘t’).

hop – hopped (double the last letter)

watch – watched (just add ed)

For spelling homework, we would like you to create a word search using as many words as you can that end with –ed. Use the template provided.

25 January 2019

Our spellings this week have focussed on the use of suffixes. Suffixes are added to the end of a root word to alter its meaning. For example, to enjoy (verb) can become enjoyment (abstract noun). This week, children should learn the words in the list below ahead of a spelling test on Friday 01 February 2019.

immediately

happiness

successful

accommodating

government

fascinating

excitable

strengthen

25 January 2019

Spellings this week are looking at plurals.

Year 1 – adding s to make a plural

• train
• trains
• sweet
• sweets
• book
• books

Year 2 – adding s or es for plurals

• dance
• dances
• church
• churches
• fox
• foxes
• island
• islands
• paper
• papers

18 January 2019

Spelling

This week’s spelling task is to learn the following -ing words for a spelling test on Friday 18 January.

We’ve been consolidating our learning on dropping the e for ing through dictation.

Here are some of the words collected from the children’s spelling list. The children will be tested on just eight of them.

18 January 2019

Use last week’s spellings, writing them in fancy writing. This can in whichever style you like!

Year 1

• come
• some
• one
• once
• do
• of

Year 2

• we’ll
• he’ll
• she’ll
• they’ll
• I’ll
• I’ve
• they’ve
• we’ve

11 January 2019

Spelling Activity

This week we have been looking at adding –ing to verbs.

Some verbs that end in e, use the rule ‘drop the e for ing’.

Your task is to make a poster explaining the rule and think of some of your own examples.

Think about:

• Does this apply to all verbs ending in e?
• What verbs do NOT fit this rule?
• When should you double the last letter?

For example:

dance – dancing

believe – believing

shout- shouting

hop – hopping

11 January 2019

Our spellings this week focus on the use of prefixes. Prefixes are added to the start of a root word to change its meaning. For example, interested could have the opposite meaning by adding the prefix un – uninterested. This week, children will not be given a list of words to learn but should practise using the prefixes below to change the meaning of a root word. During our weekly spelling test, children will be asked to use these prefixes correctly in different contexts. Children will have a spelling test on Friday 18 January 2018.

un (eg unusual)

mis (eg misunderstand)

dis (disinterested)

re (eg reorganise)