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?
It’s the half-term break…
…so there’s no homework or spellings this week. Enjoy the holiday, whatever you get up to.
It’s Christmas…
…so enjoy the break.
We don’t give homework or spellings and tables to learn during holidays. Instead, we hope you all enjoy the break and spend some fabulously festive family time, whether it’s playing board games, enjoying a book or two or simply relaxing in front of the telly for a treat.
19 October 2012
This week’s spellings are “irregular” spellings for past tense. They do not follow the regular rules for adding “ed”.
These will be tested on Friday 26 October 2012.
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think |
thought |
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fight |
fought |
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bring |
brought |
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buy |
bought |
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can |
could |
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are |
were |
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catch |
caught |
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teach |
taught |
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hear |
heard |
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find |
found |
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wind |
wound |
12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are continuing the rule of changing the “y” to “i”. They will be tested on Friday 19 October 2012.
There seem to be a lot of spellings on this list but the children have been learning about this rule all week and are familiar with these words. Please encourage them to add any more words that they can think of. The spelling test will test them on 8 of these words and we will be verbally discussing all of them.
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y + i + ful |
y + i + es |
y + i + ly |
y + i + er / est |
y + i + ed |
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beautiful |
babies |
happily |
happier / happiest |
tried |
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plentiful |
puppies |
crazily |
crazier / craziest |
fried |
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fanciful |
cities |
funnily |
funnier / funniest |
cried |
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pitiful |
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luckily |
luckier / luckiest |
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friendlier / friendliest |
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05 October 2012
This week’s spellings are words where you need drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’. There are lots of words that could have been chosen for this rule; we’ve chosen words that will help to make our narrative writing more interesting next week. They will be tested on Friday 12 October 2012.
The words in orange are abstract nouns. Can you think of any other abstract nouns?
| Drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ |
| moody
moodier moodiest mood terrify terrifies terror hungry hungrier hungriest hunger |
28 September 2012
This week’s spellings are all about shortened forms of words. They are known as contractions. The table shows the full version and the shortened form; the children are only expected to learn the shortened form. The apostrophe replaces the letters that have been missed out.
They will be tested on Friday 05 October 2012.
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could not |
couldn’t |
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should not |
shouldn’t |
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would not |
wouldn’t |
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have not |
haven’t |
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cannot |
can’t |
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will not |
won’t |
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does not |
doesn’t |
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they have |
they’ve |
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they are |
they’re |
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are not |
aren’t |
21 September 2012
This week’s spellings are looking at another rule for adding ‘ing’. These spellings will be tested on Friday 28 September.
short vowel sounds – double up and add “ing”
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Short vowel sounds – double up and add “ing” |
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stir |
stirring |
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occur |
occurring |
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commit |
committing |
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begin |
beginning |
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refer |
referring |
14 September 2012
This week’s spellings are following the rule of:
when a verb ends in “e” then drop the “e” for “ing”
These will be tested on Friday 21 September.
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Spellings 14.09.12 Rule: drop the “e” and add “ing” |
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hope |
hoping |
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condense |
condensing |
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evaporate |
evaporating |
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freeze |
freezing |
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amaze |
amazing |
07 September 2012
This week’s spellings are looking at regular verb endings. There are 15 spellings this week because they are regular words that the children are familiar with.
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Spellings: Regular verb endings 07.09.12 |
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| cooks | cooked | cooking |
| plays | played | playing |
| invents | invented | inventing |
| jumps | jumped | jumping |
| looks | looked | looking |