Spelling

05 January 2018

Your spellings to learn this week are words that include the ough letter string. Your child will be tested on Friday 12 January:

• bough
• cough
• dough
• enough
• although
• thought
• plough
• ought

The task is to add other words to this list that include the ough letter string and categorise them by the sound the letter string makes in that word. For example, plough and bough both make the ‘ow’ sound.

05 January 2018

This week’s spelling challenge is to make a list of words containing the different graphemes for the long ‘a’ sound. Here is one of each to get you started.

05 January 2018

This week’s spellings for Year 1 are high frequency words.

• by
• my
• say
• says
• they

This week’s spellings for Year 2 are common exception words.

• child
• children
• Christmas
• class
• classes
• climb
• climbed
• cloth
• clothes

08 December 2017

Use last week’s spellings and write them across and down.

Year 1

• some
• come
• home
• done
• gone
• one

Year 2

• would
• could
• should
• wouldn’t
• shouldn’t
• couldn’t

08 December 2017

This week’s spellings are taken from the National Curriculum’s Y3/4 spelling list. They’ll be tested on Thursday 14 December. 

• famous
• favourite
• February (remember this one must have a capital letter because it’s a proper noun)
• forwards
• fruit

08 December 2017

Your spellings to learn this week are words that fit the spelling rules and patterns we have learnt so far this year. Your child will be tested on Friday 15 December:

• suspicious
• artificial
• influential
• edible
• ferocious
• opportunity
• essential

Your task is to identify the rule or pattern for each word. List another five words that fit these rules or patterns. You will be tested on words that fit the rules and patterns we have learnt so far this year.

1 December 2017

Spelling challenge

This week’s spelling challenge is to learn five more words from the Y3/4 spelling list.  Write five sentences, one for each of the following words:

• famous
• favourite
• February (remember this one must have a capital letter because it’s a proper noun)
• forwards
• fruit

Please return homework books on Thursday 07 November.

01 December 2017

Your spellings to learn this week are words that link with our topic of Power. Your child will be tested on Friday 08 December:

• insulator
• insulating
• electricity
• current
• conductor
• conductivity
• battery
• circuit

Your task is to create a glossary of terms for these words. Don’t forget to put them in alphabetical order first!

01 December 2017

Year 1 spellings are common exception words that children find tricky in their writing.

Year 1

• some
• come
• home
• done
• gone
• one

Year 2 spellings this week are common exception words and some are contractions.

Year 2

• would
• could
• should
• wouldn’t
• shouldn’t
• couldn’t

24 November 2017

This week’s spellings are taken from the National Curriculum’s Y3/4 spelling list. They’ll be tested on Thursday 30 November. 

• accident
• accidentally
• actual
• actually
• address
• answer