23.06.23 and 30.06.23
This week’s spellings for Year 1 return to spellings that children are frequently making mistakes with in their writing. Year 2 are learning a new spelling rule : drop the y for an i
Use the look, say, cover, write, check method the first week, then choose a writing style to write them in the second week.
Year 1
- have
- has
- were
- where
- when
- give
- gave
- house
- school
- people
Year 2
- cry
- cries
- fly
- flies
- dry
- dries
- try
- tries
- reply
- replies
09.06.23 and 16.06.23
This week’s spellings for Year 1 are all about adding a suffixes (endings) to words. The start with the root word then add -er and -est. Year 2 are learning to spell words ending with el or al.
Use the look, say, cover, write, check method the first week, then choose a writing style to write them in the second week.
Year 1
- grander
- grandest
- fresher
- freshest
- slower
- slowest
- quicker
- quickest
- smaller
- smallest
Year 2
- camel
- tunnel
- travel
- towel
- squirrel
- metal
- pedal
- capital
- animal
- hospital
19.05.23 and 26.05.23
This week’s spellings for Year 1 are all about adding a suffixes (endings) to words. The start with the root word then add -er, -ed, -ing. Year 2 are learning the wr spellings making the w sound at the beginning of words and le at the end of words.
Use the look, say, cover, write, check method the first week, then choose a writing style to write them in the second week.
Year 1
- jump
- jumper
- jumped
- jumping
- hunter
- hunted
- hunting
- buzzed
- buzzer
- buzzing
- write
- written
- wrote
- wrong
- wrap
- table
- apple
- bottle
- little
- middle
05.05.23 and 12.05.23
This week’s spellings focus on a certain spelling rule. Year 1’s are focusing on plurals – adding s or es to show more than one. Year 2’s are looking at c making an s sound and silent k at the beginning of words.
Use the look, say, cover, write, check method the first week, then choose a writing style to write them in the second week.
Year 1
- cats
- dogs
- rocks
- trains
- books
- brushes
- glasses
- witches
- boxes
- buzzes
Year 2
- race
- city
- space
- fancy
- ice
- knock
- knee
- know
- knitting
- knife
21.04.23 and 28.04.23
The spellings for the next two weeks for Year 1 are double consonants that come after a vowel (nk, tch). The Year 2 spellings are common exception words (words that are exceptions to the common spelling rules).
Use the look, say, cover, write, check method the first week, then choose a writing style to write them.
Year 1
- think
- bank
- sunk
- honk
- wink
- witch
- fetch
- catch
- hutch
- stitch
Year 2
- who
- what
- where
- when
- why
- whole
- wild
- would
- should
- could
24.03.23 and 17.04.23
The spellings for the next two weeks for Year 1 are double consonants that come after a vowel. The Year 2 spellings are common exception words (words that are exceptions to the common spelling rules).
Use the look, say, cover, write, check method the first week, then choose a writing style to write them.
Year 1
- off
- huff
- well
- hill
- buzz
- whizz
- miss
- boss
- back
- duck
Year 2
- plant
- poor
- pretty
- prove
- should
- steak
- sugar
- sure
- told
- water
10.03.23 and 17.03.23
Spellings are continuing with common exception words (words that are exceptions to the common spelling rules). Use the look, say, cover, write, check method then choose a writing style to write them.
Y1
- who
- what
- when
- why
- which
- how
Y2
- move
- Mr
- Mrs
- old
- only
- parents
- pass
- past
- path
- people
24.02.23 and 03.03.23
Year 1s spellings are the days of the week and Year 2 are continuing with common exception words (words that are exceptions to the common spelling rules). Use the look, say, cover, write, check method then choose a writing style to write them.
Year 1
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Year 2
- half
- hold
- hour
- improve
- kind
- last
- many
- mind
- money
- most
03.02.23 and 10.02.23
We are continuing with common exception words (words that are exceptions to the common spelling rules). Use the look, say, cover, write, check method then write a story (it could be silly) using all your words.
Year 1
- was
- we
- were
- where
- you
- your
Year 2
- every
- everybody
- eye
- fast
- father
- find
- floor
- gold
- grass
- great
20.01.23 and 27.01.23
The spellings for the next two weeks continue to be common exception words – words that don’t follow the usual spellings rules or are an exception in some way. In the first week, learn your spellings using the look, say, cover, write, check method. In the second week, try ‘fancy writing’ to write your spellings.
Year 1
- there
- their
- they
- to
- today
Year 2
- child
- children
- Christmas
- class
- climb
- clothes
- cold
- could
- door
- even