Spelling

08 February 2013

We are reviewing our work on silent letters this week. The children will be tested on any of the words from the previous two spelling lists. As always, they will be tested on eight words.

08 February 2013

Please learn these words for a test on Friday 15 February.

Words containing the ’th‘ letter pattern.

For those of you that want a challenge…

You could write the words in a sentence, such as:

• I have a bath every night.
• I use my brain to think.

08 February 2013

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about plurals.

This week, I want you to revisit all the spellings we have learnt about plurals. The test next week will be on:

• plurals where you just add s
• plurals where you add es
• plurals that end with ies
• plurals that end with ves

There will be no more than eight spellings from the four lists. However, I will not reveal which ones they are until the test.

08 February 2013

We are continuing to look at suffixes in spellings in Year Six. This week the suffix is ic.

Children need to learn the words from the list and find four more spellings with the same suffix.

• historic
• organic
• supersonic
• atomic
• specific
• traffic
• horrific
• metallic
• angelic
• epidemic
• rhythmic

Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 February.

08 February 2013

Here are this week’s spellings.

For Lions group, they are all contractions (two words made into one, using an apostrophe to show missing letters). For other children, the words all use ai to make a long a sound.

Your child will be tested on Friday 15 February 2013.

Lions

• I’m
• can’t
• didn’t
• won’t
• couldn’t
• wouldn’t
• shouldn’t
• they’re
• don’t
• we’ll

Tigers / Zebras

• air
• hair
• fair
• stairs
• pair
• chair
• repair
• dairy
• fairy
• hairy

01 February 2013

This week, we look at words with the split vowel digraph o-e: two letters, split by a consonant, which make a ‘long oh‘ sound.

These words will be tested on Friday 08 February.

01 February 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 08 February 2013.

Lions

This week’s spellings are adding ‘ing’ to verbs. Because there is a short vowel sound, you need to double the consonant after it.

• running
• swimming
• skipping
• hopping
• stopping
• rubbing
• shopping
• dropping
• putting
• digging

Tigers/Zebras

This week we are learning to spell words with double consonants after the vowel.  The double consonant often mean the sound before is a ‘short’ sound (think of the difference between dinner and diner, supper and super, for example).

• better
• daddy
• dinner
• happy
• letter
• supper
• lolly
• button
• summer
• rabbit

01 February 2013

This is the second week of investigating words which contain silent letters. This week, we’re looking at words with a silent h and words with a silent b.

01 February 2013

This week’s spellings are plurals where the route word ends with an f. However, when the word is pluralized, the f is dropped and replaced with ves.

For example, leaf becomes leaves.

01 February 2013

We’re continuing to look at suffixes. This week, we’re spelling words with the suffix al.

Children have the following words to learn and need to find four more that fit the rule.

• medical
• traditional
• personal
• capital
• seasonal
• historical
• exceptional
• occasional
• national
• sensational
• additional

Spellings will be tested on Friday 08 February.