01 July 2022
Year 1: rain wait train afraid oil join coin point
Year 2: cry cried cries fly flied flies reply replies replied every
23 June 2022
Year 1: grander grandest fresher freshest quicker quickest
Year 2: metal pedal capital hospital animal pencil fossil nostril many again
17 June 2022
Year 1: hunting hunted hunter buzzing buzzed buzzer
Year 2: camel tunnel squirrel travel towel tinsel could would looked people
10 June 2022
Year 1: pencil, fossil, nostril, cry, fly, try
Year 2: write, written, wrote, wrong, wrap, table, apple, bottle, little, middle.
20 May 2022
Please practise your spellings for another week.
Y1: have live give love was
Y2: race ice cell city fancy knock know knee gnat gnaw
13 May 2022
Y1: have live give love was
Y2: race ice cell city fancy knock know knee gnat gnaw
22 April 2022
The -t sound is usually spelt as -tch in the spoken word. Words of more than one syllable often have an unstressed syllable in which the vowel sound is unclear. There are some exceptions.
Y1: catch, fetch, kitchen, much, which
Adding -ed and -ing to words of one syllable ending in a single constant letter after a single vowel letter. The last constant letter of the root word is doubled to keep the short vowel sound. Exception: the letter ‘x’ is never doubled
Y2: pat, patted, patting hum, hummed, humming drop, dropped, dropping mix, mixed, mixing
25 March 2022
Please practise your spellings for another week.
Y1: off, well, miss, buzz, back
Challenge: Can you think of any other words that end in ff, ll, ss, zz, ck? Bring them in to share.
Y2: enjoyment, amazement, sadness, kindness, careful, playful, hopeless, plainness, badly, loudly
Challenge: Can you think of any other words that end in ment, ness, ful, less, ness or ly? Bring them in to share.
18 March 2022
The /f/, /l/, /s/, /z/ and /k/ sounds are usually spelt as ff, ll, ss, zz, ck if they come straight after a single vowel letter in short words. This week’s spellings for year 1 follow this rule.
Y1: off, well, miss, buzz, back
This week’s spellings for year 2 will focus on suffixes. A suffix is a letter or group of letters that goes on the end of a word. Adding suffixes changes their meaning.
Y2: enjoyment, amazement, sadness, kindness, careful, playful, hopeless, plainness, badly, loudly
11 March 2022
Y1: was, we, were, where, you, your
This week, Year 2 have been looking at plurals by adding s and es to words and -es to nouns and verbs ending in -y. The y is changed to i before -es is added.
Y2: thanks, spends, catches, rocks, flies, tries, replies, copies, babies, carries.
