15 June 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a list of words due to be tested on Thursday 21 June.
We have been learning to read contraction words. Here is a list of words to learn – don’t forget to include an apostrophe.
Year 1: I’ll, don’t, didn’t, can’t, it’s
Year 2:
I’ll, don’t, didn’t, can’t, it’s, wouldn’t, shouldn’t, haven’t, shan’t, won’t
08 June 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Thursday 14 June.
Year 1 have a phonics task to complete. It has a range of phonics activities, such as reading real and nonsense words, to complete.
Year 2 have a Common Exception Words word search to complete. At this point in the year, year 2 children should be spelling the majority of the Common Exception Words correctly.
11 May 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a list of words due to be tested on Thursday 17 May.
Group 1
All of these words are based on our phonics learning over the past two weeks.
boy, toy, joy, flew, new, knew
Group 2
All of these words are based on our phonics learning over the past two weeks – the sounds we know can often have an alternative pronunciation.
head, happy, acorn, was, what, why, they, how, now, low
Group 3
All of these words are based on our phonics learning over the past two weeks.
lamb, crumb, thumb, limb, know, knew, knight, knee, gnome, knock, knot
04 May 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Thursday 10 May.
Each child has a SPAG (Spelling,Punctuation and Grammar) task in their homework books practising a range of different skills from spelling high-frequency words, reading real and alien words, adding suffixes and prefixes and unscrambling misspelled words. Have a look in your child’s homework book to find the activities to complete.
27 April 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a list of words to learn for Thursday 03 May.
Year 1:
Group 1 – This week’s spellings homework is based on our phonics learning: pea, lead (a dog’s lead), boy, toy, tie, pie.
Group 2 – This week in phonics, we’ve looked at how some letters can be pronounced differently, such as i in fin or find. This week’s spelling homework is based on our phonics learning:
find, kind, wild, old, cold, don’t, gym, gem, magic.
Year 2:
Each of these words have a suffix (ly or less). This about how to spell the root word and the rules for adding suffixes.
badly, happily, hopeless, penniless, lovely, joyless, slowly, quickly, careless, fearless.
23 March 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task. It’s due in on Thursday 29 March.
Year 1
Have a look at the picture below. Sound out the words in the checklist and find them in the picture. (Bonus: add the sound buttons to your checklist words e.g. dog, broom, smile)
Year 2
Cross out the words that are wrong in the sentences below.
- I hang my coat/cote on a peg.
- We have to cleer/clear up before play.
- We learn/lurn how to reed/read at school.
- We lyk/like to look at buks/books.
- Playtime is goud/good fun.
In the paragraph below, there are lots of words that are spelt wrong. Find them and correct them. Use a dictionary if you need to.
At the weekend, I wet shopping with my Mum. We went on the bus to toun and we went to lots of shoppes. Afta that, we went to Mcdonalds for our tea. I had a burger and sum chips. Then we went home. I wanted to wotsh T.V. but my Mum maid me go to bed. I sed it’s not fair. On Sunday, we went out for lunsh to The Vine. It wos my Mum’s birthday. I gave my Mum a card with flours on. She wos pleased.
16 March 2018
This week’s spellings are a list of words to learn based on our phonics.
Group 1 – focusing on two trigraphs. A trigraph is three letters making one sound, like ‘ear’ – I have two ears and ‘air’ – I have a pair of socks.
hair, stairs, pair, year, near, beard
Group 2 – focusing on our split digraphs. A ‘split digraph’ is simply a long vowel sound that has been split. For example, in ‘make’ the long ‘ay’ sound is made by the ‘a_e’ – the two letters have been split. (You might remember how this used to be referred to: ‘magic e’. That term is no longer used as it may be confusing. The ‘e’ is not magic – it’s doing a job.)
make, came, made, even, these, like, bike, bone, those, use
Group 3
path, bath, hour, move, prove, improve, because, want, was, when
09 March 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a task to complete and is due on Thursday 15 March. It is based upon all of their learning so far this half term and this year.
Encourage your child to use their phonics when writing their sentences and matching their words.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
02 March 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a list of spellings to be tested on Thursday 08 March.
In English, we have been looking at making singular words (only one) into plural words (more than one) by add s, es (when the word ends in sh, ch, s, ss, z, zz) or changing the y to ies (when the y is on its own – not when it is part of a digraph e.g oy, ey, ay).
Group 1
foxes, toys, churches, balls, buses
Group 2
foxes, toys, churches, balls, buses, chairs, wishes, boxes
Group 3
foxes, toys, churches, balls, buses, parties, fairies, monkeys, donkeys
23 February 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Thursday 01 March.
Year 1 have a High Frequency Words word search to complete. When completed, can the children write a sentence using one of the words they have found?
Year 2 have a worksheet to practice changing nouns from singular (only one) to plural (more than one). The children have 3 rules to follow in this activity in order to change the noun to plural: just add s, add es (if the noun ends in s, ss, ch, sh, z, zz) or drop the y and add ies.