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 nataliebeatson@spherefederation.org
- 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
11 September 2020
We will be working our way through the ‘common exception words’ (words that do not follow the usual spelling rules).
Encourage children to write their spellings out a few times over the week, ready to be tested at school on a Friday.
Year 1
• are
• ask
• be
• by
• come
Year 2
• are
• ask
• be
• by
• come
• do
• for
• friend
• full
• go
06 March 2020
‘shun’ endings: tion, sion, ssion
Learn for a spelling test next week.
- ambition
- reflection
- infection
- collision
- explosion
- comprehension
- invasion
- profession
- confession
- discussion
Tricky words: sure, people, where
Friday 06 March
This week we have been focusing on the suffixes –ful and –less
Take the root word and rewrite it by adding one of the suffixes –ful and –less to make a adjective.
| Root word | + ful | + less |
| fruit | ||
| heart | ||
| thought | ||
| care | ||
| use | ||
| hope | ||
| thank | ||
| harm | ||
| doubt | ||
| help |
Can you find any more words with –ful and –less as suffixes?
Friday 28 February
This week we have been focusing on apostrophes of ownership. Eg: The children’s shoes were wet.
We have also practised some of the Y3/4 spelling list.
For homework this week, you need to learn these spellings from the Y3/4 spelling list.
Use the Look, cover, say, write, check method to learn these words.