13 October 2017
Your spelling homework this week is to understand the appropriate use of different homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same, but are spelt differently: sea / see, allowed / aloud.
Create sentences (minimum 8) or a paragraph, which contain homophones. For example: When I gaze out my window, I see the sea.
13 October 2017
This week’s spelling task is to practise writing the words from last week really fast and really s l o w l y. Write each word at least twice.
Year 1 spelling list
- he
- she
- we
- be
- me
Year 2 spelling list
- November
- December
- find
- kind
- mind
- behind
- child
- wild
06 October 2017
This week’s spellings are high frequency words. Please practise writing them in your homework book. You could try look-say-cover-write-check, rainbow writing or pyramid writing to help. There are more ideas below.
Year 1 spelling list
- he
- she
- we
- be
- me
Year 2 spelling list
- November
- December
- find
- kind
- mind
- behind
- child
- wild
06 October 2017
Your spelling rule this week is using apostrophes for omission. For example:
- should not = shouldn’t
- I would = I’d
- there is = there’s
Write a list of contractions and the words before omission.
For the second week, times tables focus will be the 12 times table (up to 12 x 12) and including division facts. Practise counting forwards, backwards, starting from zero and then starting from a multiple, and don’t forget the traditional way to support your child: a couple of mock tests to see how well your child knows their tables!
29 September 2017
This week’s spellings all contain apostrophes. Remember to put the apostrophe in place of any omitted letter(s). They’ll be tested on Thursday 05 October.
Y3:
- can’t
- don’t
- didn’t
- I’m
- I’ve
- didn’t
- couldn’t
- shouldn’t
- they’re
- you’re
Y4:
- we’re
- we’ve
- they’re
- they’ve
- you’re
- you’ve
- haven’t
- isn’t
- wasn’t
- didn’t
Please return homework books on Thursday 05 October.
29 September 2017
Your spelling rule this week is pluralising words ending in a y.
The rule is y to i and add es.
Pluralise these words:
activity
library
story
variety
beauty
try
cry
fly
history
baby
carry
cherry
Create a nonsense story including as many of these pluralised words as possible.
29 September 2017
This week’s Spelling Homework is to use rainbow writing to write the spellings from last week. Homework is due on 05 October.
22 September 2017
Spelling Challenge: Your child’s spelling tasks this week are to:
- find words with apostrophes for contraction
- write the words before they are contracted and write the new word with the apostrophe to mark the omitted letter(s)
Here are some to get you started:
- would not – wouldn’t
- I have – I’ve
- your are – you’re
Please return homework books on Thursday 28 September.
22 September 2017
Your spelling rule to learn this week is adding a suffix (ed, ing) to a short vowel sound.
- A short vowel is in stop.
- A long vowel sound is in stoat.
hop – hopping – hopped
trot – trotted – trotting
Create some ‘word families’ like those above – make a list in your homework book of all the words you can create.
22 September 2017
This week’s spellings are high frequency words and will be tested on Thursday 28 September.
Year 1
- no
- go
- so
- on
- not
Year 2
- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October