01 December 2017
The spellings this week are focusing on homophones-words with the same sound but different meanings and sometimes spellings.
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Homophones and other words that are often confused. |
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| advice/advise | led/lead |
| practice/practise | aloud/allowed |
| steal/steel | desert/dessert |
| heard/herd | cereal/serial |
| morning/mourning | altar/alter |
| past/passed | guessed/guest |
01 December 2017
For all children in Year 1, this week’s spelling is to learn how to spell the days of the week. Because these are proper nouns, they must have a capital letter to be correct.
For all children in Year 2, this week’s spelling is to learn how to spell the days of the week and the months of the year. They must have a capital letter to be correct.
01 December 2017
Focus: -er and -est
This week’s spelling homework will be investigating suffixes and is due on Thursday 07 December.
- Task: Make a list of ten adjectives eg brave, heavy etc.
Write them out with the –er and –est suffix and then use them in a sentence.
Do the spellings of the words change at all? Is it possible to use the suffixes with all the adjectives you pick? - fast, fast, fastest
- brave, braver, bravest
- heavy, heavier, heaviest
24 November 2017
Learn spellings with silent letters for a test on Friday 01 December.
| doubt | resign |
| island | plumber |
| column | wrong |
| thistle | write |
| solemn | knife |
| sign | knot |
| foreign | wrinkle |
24 November 2017
Focus: Homophones
Homophones are some of the trickiest spellings to get right. This week, we’d like your child to create a poster that would help you, or somebody else, remember the difference between:
- there, their and they’re
- to, too and two
- your and you’re
Friday 17 November
This week, our spellings homework is a list of words to learn for a test based on our phonics learning. Have a look in your child’s book or ask me at the gate if you are unsure of which group they are in.
Group 1
Group 2
17 November 2017
This week, we’ll learn to spell words with silent letters.
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Words containing silent letters. |
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| doubt | resign |
| island | plumber |
| column | wrong |
| thistle | write |
| solemn | knife |
| sign | knot |
| foreign | wrinkle |
17 November 2017
Focus: homophones -part 2
sail sale
maid made
mail male
plain plane
waist waste
main mane
vein vane
Learn each word and use them in a sentence in the correct context.
e.g the words eight and ate
The eight children ran onto the playground.
Last night, my brother ate a whole bar of chocolate.
10 November 2017
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task.
Year 1 have a phonics based spelling task. The children need to use their growing phonics knowledge to recognise the sounds in the words. Using the key at the top, colour the box the correct colour. What picture will it reveal? Have a look in the homework books to see which picture your child has.
Year 2 have a homophones task to complete. Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently. This week we are focusing on to, too and two:
- I went to the park.
- I would like to come too.
- I had two bananas.
10 November 2017
Please learn the weekly spellings below for a test on Friday 17 November.
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i before e, except after c and the exceptions to the rule! |
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| deceive | protein |
| receive | caffeine |
| perceive | seize |
| ceiling | field |
| receipt | friend |
| deceit | fierce |