Spelling

02 October 2020

This week, please learn the following spellings ready to be tested on Friday 09 October. There are many ways to practise these, for example:

• Rainbow write (write them in many different colours)
• Speed write (how many times can you write a word in a minute)
• Pyramid write (write one letter, then two, then three etc till you’ve written the whole word
• Look, cover, write

This week, all of your spellings contain the “a” sound but spelt in different ways.

02 October 2020

Use last week’s spellings and write them with a  shape around them, showing the ascenders and descenders (bits that stick up above the line or below the line).

Year 1

• do
• for
• friend
• full
• go

Year 2

• has
• he
• here
• his
• house
• is
• love
• me
• my
• no

25 September 2020

This week, please learn the following spellings ready to be tested on Friday 02 October. There are many ways to practise these, for example:

• Rainbow write (write them in many different colours)
• Speed write (how many times can you write a word in a minute)
• Pyramid write (write one letter, then two, then three etc till you’ve written the whole word)
• Look, cover, write

25 September 2020

This week’s spelling activity is all about words where you have to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ when changing the word’s suffix. Your challenge is to play Speed Write against someone at home! Who can write the word correctly the most times in 30 seconds? If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out!

• category/ies
• community/ies
• identity/ies
• dictionary/ies
• funny/iest
• happy/ier
• worry/ier

25 September 2020

This week’s spellings are more Common Exception words – words that we use lots but that don’t follow the usual spelling rules.

Year 1

• do
• for
• friend
• full
• go

Year 2

• has
• he
• here
• his
• house
• is
• love
• me
• my
• no

18 September 2020

This week we have been learning the spelling rule: double up for a short vowel. Please learn how to spell the following words ready for a spelling test on Thursday 24 September.

• accommodate
• aggressive
• attached
• correspond
• embarrass
• exaggerate
• immediately
• occupy
• apparent
• opportunity

18 September 2020

Spelling Challenge:

This week’s spellings are below. This week, practise them ready for a test on Friday 25 September.

class

grass

pass

great

break

many

money

18 September 2020

Use last week’s spellings and write each one in ‘rainbow writing’.

Year 1

• are
• ask
• be
• by
• come

Year 2

• are
• ask
• be
• by
• come
• do
• for
• friend
• full
• go

11 September 2020

This week, we’ve been learning about homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have a different meaning. Choose a homophone from each bullet point and write it in a sentence- in the right context. Can you up-level your sentences by using fronted adverbials?

Please email me your sentences to [email protected]

• there/their/they’re
• hear/here
• to/too/two
• which/witch
• wear/where/were
• of/off
• threw/through

11 September 2020

Spelling Challenge:

This week’s spellings are below. This week, practise them ready for a test on Friday 18 September.

could            should          would           (ould – oh you lucky duck)

old                cold              gold,

who              whole

were             where