Spelling

16 October 2020

Use last week’s spellings and write them in fancy writing – any you choose!

Year 1

• has
• he
• here
• his
• house

Year 2

• of
• push
• once
• put
• one
• said
• our
• saw
• pull
• says

09 October 2020

This week, please learn the following spellings ready to be tested on Friday 16 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 “e” sound but spelt in different ways.

09 October 2020

This week’s spellings are more common exception words (words that don’t follow the usual spelling rules). There are lots of ideas in our super spelling strategies to help you child learn them.

Year 1

• has
• he
• here
• his
• house

Year 2

• of
• push
• once
• put
• one
• said
• our
• saw
• pull
• says

03 October 2020

This week, we’ve been learning about apostrophes for missing letters (contracted form). Complete the activities below and email me a picture to nataliebeatson@spherefederation.org by Thursday 08 October.

Shorten these words using an apostrophe:

she will    ______________________

they have _____________________

they are _______________________

where is ______________________

he is _________________________

must not ______________________

can not _______________________

Write a sentence using shortened versions of the words below.

should have

____________________________________________

will not

____________________________________________

could have

____________________________________________

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