26 March 2021
This week’s spellings are common exception words (words that we use a lot but do not follow the usual spelling patterns).
Year 1
- there
- their
- they
- to
- today
Year 2
- child
- children
- Christmas
- class
- climb
- clothes
- cold
- could
- door
- even
19 March 2021
This week, we have been focusing on words that contain the -cial and -tial letter string. Learn the following words using the strategies which we use in our spelling lessons in preparation for a test on Thursday 25 March.
confidential
substantial
residential
essential
torrential
financial
social
racial
partial
influential
controversial
official
commercial
special
artificial
19 March 2021
This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –er and -est to words.
We will investigate the spelling rules throughout the week. Here is a list of the root words that we will investigate. Can you complete the table?
Watch out for words that don’t make sense! There is space to add four of your own root words.
| add – er | add – est | |
| jump | ||
| talk | ||
| walk | ||
| bright | ||
| loud | ||
| crazy | ||
| clumsy | ||
| pretty | ||
| spiky | ||
| build | ||
| slow | ||
| weak | ||
| busy | ||
| shop | ||
| old | ||
| soft | ||
| shiny | ||
| begin | ||
| bake | ||
| rude | ||
| brave | ||
| happy | ||
| grumpy | ||
19 March 2021
Use last week’s spellings and write them showing ascenders (tall letters) and descenders (letters that go below the line), like this –
Year 1
- school
- some
- so
- the
- she
Year 2
- after
- because
- again
- behind
- any
- both
- bath
- break
- beautiful
- busy
12 March 2021
This week, we’ve been learning how to add suffixes to words ending in -fer. Please learn the following words for a test on Thursday 18 March 2021.
- inference
- preferred
- offered
- reference
- referring
- preference
- referral
- inferred
12 March 2021
This week, we are looking at adding the suffixes –ed and -ing to words. We will investigate the spelling rules for adding these suffixes throughout the week (drop the e, drop the y for an i, double up for a short vowel sound).
Spelling task: here is a list of the root words that we will investigate this week. Can you complete the table? Watch out for the irregular verbs!
| add – ed | add – ing | |
| jump | ||
| talk | ||
| walk | ||
| frown | ||
| steam | ||
| step | ||
| grin | ||
| clap | ||
| toast | ||
| live | ||
| bake | ||
| frame | ||
| blame | ||
| faint | ||
| mend | ||
| try | ||
| fry | ||
| worry | ||
| sail | ||
| hop | ||
| shop | ||
| laugh | ||
| separate | ||
| care | ||
| begin | ||
| eat | ||
| fall |
12 March 2021
This week’s spellings are common exception words – words that are used frequently but don’t always following the usual spelling rules.
Year 1
- school
- some
- so
- the
- she
Year 2
- after
- because
- again
- behind
- any
- both
- bath
- break
- beautiful
- busy
05 March 2021
This week, we are looking at adding the suffix –ly.
Here are some of the words that we will be learning. Can you work out the root word for each spelling?
e.g. The root word of completely is complete.
Spelling list:
- accidentally
- completely
- closely
- frantically
- particularly
- occasionally
- separately
- basically
- probably
- surprisingly
Friday 08 March
This week, we have been focusing on words that contain the ‘shun’ sound by using the endings -tion, -sion and -cian. Learn the following words using the strategies which we use in our spelling lessons in preparation for a test on Friday 12 March.
appreciation
communication
desperation
determination
exaggeration
explanation
interruption
occupation
persuasion
explosion
suggestion
optician
electrician
05 March 2021
This week’s spellings are common exception words – words that are used frequently but don’t always following the usual spelling rules.
Year 1
- school
- some
- so
- the
- she
Year 2
- after
- because
- again
- behind
- any
- both
- bath
- break
- beautiful
- busy