24 November 2017
This week’s spelling homework is to write the spellings from last week in fancy writing. You could try curly, dotty, bubble or spiky writing.
Year 1 – high frequency words
- of
- off
- there
- were
- where
Year 2 – alternative pronunciations of the grapheme ‘o’ – the long vowel sound.
- old
- cold
- gold
- hold
- told
- both
- most
- only
- also
- ago
17 November 2017
This week’s spellings for Year 1 are high frequency words.
- of
- off
- there
- were
- where
This week’s spellings for Year 2 contain one of the alternative pronunciations of the grapheme ‘o’ – the long vowel sound.
- old
- cold
- gold
- hold
- told
- both
- most
- only
- also
- ago
17 November 2017
Spelling challenge
This week’s spelling challenge is to use the ‘pyramid words’ strategy to help learn the following words from the Y3/4 spelling list:
accident accidentally actual actually address answer
Please return homework books on Thursday 23 November.
10 November 2017
This week’s spellings all have the ed suffix added to verbs ending in either er or er. They’ll be tested on Thursday 16 November.
Y3:
- opened
- happened
- frightened
- listened
- hardened
- covered
- discovered
- entered
- suffered
- offered
Y4:
- wondered
- gathered
- answered
- angered
- discovered
- happened
- threatened
- sharpened
- brightened
- deafened
Please return homework books on Thursday 16 November.
10 November 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words with double consonants. Your child will be tested on Friday 17 November:
- accommodate
- aggressive
- committee
- communicate
- recommend
- apparently
- suggest
- accompany
- attached
- necessary
We’ll also test your child on two extra words, not on this list. Encourage your child to look out for other words belonging to the list.
10 November 2017
Use last week’s spelling lists to practise the words in the ways below.
Year 1
- wet
- went
- let
- lent
- set
- sent
Year 2
- bath
- path
- after
- past
- fast
- last
- plant
- has
- pass
- was
03 November 2017
Spelling Challenge
This week’s spelling challenge links to our work on the ed suffix. Adding ed to verbs ending in …er or ...en is a common ‘tricky’ point for lots of children. They often miss out the ‘e’, only adding the ‘d’.
Your child’s spelling tasks this week are to:
- find and list verbs that end in er or en
- add the ed suffix to each word.
Here are some to get you started:
- cover – covered
- offer – offered
- happen – happened
- open – opened
Please return homework books on Thursday 09 November.
03 November 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words ending ‘-cious’ and ‘-tious’. Your child will be tested on Friday 10 November:
- conscious
- delicious
- ferocious
- malicious
- precious
- ambitious
- nutritious
- scrumptious
- cautious
- fictitious
We’ll also test your child on two extra words, not on this list. Encourage your child to look out for other words belonging to the list.
3 November 2017
This week’s spellings for Year 1 are common errors that children make in writing.
- wet
- went
- let
- lent
- set
- sent
This week’s spellings for Year 2 contain one of the alternative pronunciations of the grapheme ‘a’ – the short vowel sound (except one).
- bath
- path
- after
- past
- fast
- last
- plant
- has
- pass
- was
13 October 2017
This week’s spellings are common homophones (or near homophones).
Homophones are words which sound the same (or similar) but have a different spelling and meaning. The tricky part is knowing when to use each.
Words will be tested on Thursday 19 October. We’ll say a sentence containing one of the words and children will need to spell the correct one. Help your child at home by doing the same and checking they know which homophone is in the sentence. For example, ‘I turned the light off’.
- of off
- are our
- your you’re
- were where
- there their they’re