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
15 September 2017
Your spelling rule to learn this week is adding suffixes to words ending in ‘-fer’.
- transfer
- prefer
- refer
Create some ‘word families’ – Make a list in your homework book of all the words you can create from the words above by adding suffixes.
Remember sometimes the ‘r’ gets doubled up!
- The ‘r’ is doubled if the ‘-fer’ is still stressed when an ending is added – transferring.
- The ‘r’ is not doubled if the ‘-fer’ is no longer stressed – referal.
15 September 2017
Spelling Challenge: Your child’s spelling tasks this week are to:
- find and list more words that end in ck
- list words that end in k
- write a ‘rule’ to explain when to use ck and when to use just k
Please return homework books on Thursday 21 September.
15 September 2017
This week’s spelling homework is to put each word from last week’s list into a sentence. Write your sentences in your homework book. Remember capital letters and full stops. Spelling homework is due on Thursday 21 September 2017.
08 September 2017
This week’s spellings link to our work on double consonants. ck was a common ‘tricky’ point for lots of children. We’ve also added some simple suffixes to words ending in ck. They will be tested on Thursday 14 September. We’ll test two extra words, to see if your child can apply their learning.
Y3:
- packed
- locked
- ticking
- pecked
- checking
- clicked
- stacking
- smacked
- flicker
- tricked
Y4:
- shocked
- tricked
- wrecked
- knocking
- stacked
- unpacked
- homesick
- feedback
- attacking
- joystick
08 September 2017
Your spellings to learn this week are words ending ‘-able’/‘-ably’ and ‘-ible’/‘-ibly’. Your child will be tested on Friday 14 September:
- horrible
- possible
- edible
- reversible
- invincible
- legible
- terrible
- adorable
- disposable
- enjoyable
- valuable
- breakable
- identifiable
We’ll also test your child on two extra words, not on this list, to see if your child can apply the same suffix pattern. Encourage your child to look out for other words belonging to the list.
08 September 2017
This week’s spellings are high frequency words. They will be tested on Thursday 14 September.
Y1:
- the
- to
- said
- were
- his
Y2:
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
- day
- week
- year