Spelling

24 April 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 01 May 2015.

24th April 2015

This week’s spellings focus on prefixes and suffixes.

• untied
• unhappy
• dislike
• disagree
• dangerous
• comfortable
• impossible
• kindness
• decrease
• accidentally

Can your child identify the prefix or suffix in each word?

27 March 2015

Year 2 will not have any spellings this week as we are doing mock SATs papers next week which will include a spelling test. To help at home you can practise spellings from previous weeks or see how your child does with common words that they haven’t necessarily had to learn.

27 March 2015

Group 1 – This week, the spellings are all words which have a doubled consonant after a short vowel sound. These words are all taken from the National Curriculum spelling list.

Group 2 – The spellings this week also contain a double consonant after a short vowel sound. These words also have an ed ending as they are in the past tense.

27 March 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Thursday 02 April.

All of Year 1 have got the same spellings this week – I think you can tell the theme quite easily!  Take care: these can be tricky…

• Monday sounds like Munday (perhaps talk about the origins of the word… Moon day)
• Tuesday is often pronounced ‘Chooseday’, so make a special effort to pronounce the ‘T’
• Wednesday has three syllables, but that middle one is often said lazily! Again, make a special effort to say ‘Wed – nes – day’
• It’s Saturday, not Saterday
• …and don’t forget to make sure your child is using capitals because they’re all proper nouns!

20 March 2015

There will be no spelling test on Friday 27 March  as the children will be doing end of term assessments.

13 March 2015

There are just three spellings this week:

In class, lots of children are getting these words mixed up.

There

There represents a place.

eg The boy is over there.

It also can show that something exists.

eg There are two apples.

Their  

There is used to show possession.

eg Their house is close to ours.

They’re

They’re is a shortened version of ‘they are’.

eg They’re coming all the way from London.

When practising these words, you should read a sentence with either of the words in and your child should tell you which word is correct. 

13 March 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 20 March.

A note for Green group – This week, we’ve been learning about using apostrophes for possession and not for plurals.  These spellings will be given as part of a sentence and children will have to identify whether they need to use the apostrophe or whether it is plural.

For example:  There are lots of dogs.  It is the dog’s bone.

06 March 2015

This week, the words all end in tial. Usually tial is used after a consonant letter but there are some exceptions like initial.

The spellings this week all have the suffix ful.

06 March 2015

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 13 March 2015.