Spelling

25 January 2019

Spelling

Focus : the gu- sound
Learn these words for a test next week. For each word: speedwrite it three times; draw it as a pyramid word, and use it in a sentence.

guide
guest
guard
guess
guitar
guardian
spluttering
clustered

18 January 2019

Focus : drop the y for an i

Having learn a lot of the words last week, your task this week is to make a poster explaining the rule and think of some of your own examples.

Think about:
Does this apply to all words ending in y?
What words do NOT fit this rule?

Some of the words from last week were: easier, clumsiest, laziness

18 January 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a spelling list to be tested on Friday 25 January.

Year 1 words:

Year 2 words:

11 January 2019

You can change nouns and adjectives into verbs by using the suffixes: ify, ate and ise.

The spelling activity this week is to sort nouns and adjectives by adding these suffixes.

Examples include popular, advert, pure, real, computer, active, author and equal. Which suffix can you add to these words?

11 January 2019

This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Thursday 17 January.

Year 1 words

Year 2 words

Choose one of the following activities to complete.

11 January 2019

Focus : drop the y for an i

This week, we have been studying how the spelling of words ending in y changes when suffixes are added.

Your task is to learn these words for a test next week. Remember you should try to speed write the word three times and then put the word into a pyramid so that you can fully learn it.

loneliness
happiness
easier
clumsiest
lazier
craziness
hungrier
easiest
summoned
quarrelling

07 December 2018

This week, we’ve continued to learn about prefixes.

Please learn all the words we created in class ready for a spelling test next week. The words we looked at had the prefixes:

• mid
• pre
• fore
• un

Play this game!

07 December 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a spelling list to be tested on Friday 14 December.

Year 1

Year 2

07 December 2018

Focus : the suffixes -er -en -ing -ed

This week, we’ve been studying suffixes and how words change when they are added to the end of a word.

Your task is to learn these words for a test next week. Remember you should try to speed write the word three times and then put the word into a pyramid so that you can fully learn it.

1. fastening
2. cornering
3. preferred
4. limited
5. awakening
6. beginning
7. forgetting
8. forgotten
9. beginner
10. gardening

30 November 2018

This week’s spelling activity is about prefixes. You must find out the meaning of different prefixes:

• re
• bi
• dis
• mis
• pre
• over
• un

Then, write down three examples of words with these prefixes.