06 December 2013
This week, we are learning to spell words which have a silent h. Can you think of anymore?
| 1. | when |
| 2. | what |
| 3. | where |
| 4. | which |
| 5. | white |
| 6. | ghost |
| 7. | honest |
| 8. | Christmas |
29 November 2013
The spellings this week are all words with silent letters, e.g. knee, gnat, wrinkle.
| 1. | knee |
| 2. | knock |
| 3. | knife |
| 4. | wrong |
| 5. | wreck |
| 6. | write |
| 7. | sword |
| 8. | when |
| 9. | whine |
| 10. | gnarled |
22 November 2013
We are revisiting one of our key spelling rules this week. The spellings are all words where you have to drop the y for an i when adding ly.
| 1. | moody | moodily |
| 2. | nasty | nastily |
| 3. | easy | easily |
| 4. | giddy | giddily |
| 5. | greedy | greedily |
| 6. | hasty | hastily |
| 7. | speedy | speedily |
| 8. | noisy | noisily |
| 9. | naughty | naughtily |
| 10. | stealthy | stealthily |
14 November 2013
This week’s spellings are all words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. I’ve noticed that some children are struggling to read these words and/or write them correctly.
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1. |
do not |
don’t |
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2. |
can not |
can’t |
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3. |
is not |
isn’t |
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4. |
does not |
doesn’t |
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5. |
will not |
won’t |
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6. |
there is |
there’s |
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7. |
it is |
it’s |
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8. |
I will |
I’ll |
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9. |
I have |
I’ve |
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10. |
I would |
I’d |
08 November 2013
It’s a welcome back to school and a welcome back to one of our key spelling rules this week: double up for short vowel sounds. This week’s spellings all have le endings as well.
| 1. | puddle |
| 2. | bubble |
| 3. | meddle |
| 4. | puzzle |
| 5. | battle |
| 6. | pebble |
| 7. | shuttle |
| 8. | middle |
| 9. | shuffle |
| 10. | impossible |
It’s half-term…
…so no specific homework, spellings or tables this week. It’s a good time to relax and enjoy some time with your children – have you visited the free exhibition of Anthony Browne pictures at Leeds City Museum, for example?
18 October 2013
Plurals again! This time we are investigating how the spelling changes when making plurals for words that end in y. There are two options…
- Add s if the final letter is preceded by a vowel.
- If not preceded by a vowel, change the y to an i and add es.
| 1. | donkey | donkeys |
| 2. | ray | rays |
| 3. | play | plays |
| 4. | boy | boys |
| 5. | day | days |
| 6. | puppy | puppies |
| 7. | army | armies |
| 8. | party | parties |
| 9. | city | cities |
| 10. | berry | berries |
11 October 2013
We are revisiting one of our key spelling rules this week: double up for short vowel sounds. This week’s spellings are all in the past tense so have ed endings as well (but be careful – sometimes ed sounds like a t!).
| 1. | snapped |
| 2. | trapped |
| 3. | stepped |
| 4. | flipped |
| 5. | slammed |
| 6. | dripped |
| 7. | stuffed |
| 8. | slipped |
| 9. | popped |
| 10. | plodded |
04 October 2013
We are learning about plurals this week. Some of the spellings are made into a plural by just adding s. The others you have to add es to make into a plural. You add es if you hear an extra syllable when you make it plural.
| 1. | pen | pens |
| 2. | book | books |
| 3. | boy | boys |
| 4. | table | tables |
| 5. | pockets | |
| 6. | bush | bushes |
| 7. | watch | watches |
| 8. | brush | brushes |
| 9. | fox | foxes |
| 10. | kiss | kisses |
27 September 2013
This week, the spellings are all words where you have to drop the y for an i when adding ly. This is one of three key spelling rules which we will be revisiting throughout the year.
In the list below, the words change from being adjectives (words which describe a noun – in this case, a person for example eg a grumpy waiter) to adverbs (words which describe a verb eg to smile sneakily, to reply angrily).
| 1. | happy | happily |
| 2. | angry | angrily |
| 3. | pretty | prettily |
| 4. | grumpy | grumpily |
| 5. | messy | messily |
| 6. | sneaky | sneakily |
| 7. | cheeky | cheekily |
| 8. | clumsy | clumsily |
| 9. | hungry | hungrily |
| 10. | lazy | lazily |
