Spelling

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.

25 January 2013

Here is the Year Six spelling list for this week. Children are continuing to look at ly words and learning the meanings of the words to extend their vocabulary for writing.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 01 February.

• carelessly
• sorrowfully
• especially
• successfully
• fearlessly
• eventually
• originally
• forgetfully
• personally
• beautifully
• resentfully
• mercilessly

25 January 2013

This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 01 February 2013.

Lions

The rule is ‘drop the e for ing’, so, for example, ‘make’ becomes ‘making’.

• liking
• riding
• waving
• taming
• smiling
• hiding
• moving
• having
• writing
• shaking

Tigers

• girl
• bird
• burger
• hurt
• first
• after
• her
• return
• turn
• dirt

Zebras

Zebras are working on their split digraph spellings again this week.

25 January 2013

For the next couple of weeks, we’ll investigate words which contain silent letters. This week, they are mostly at the start of the word. Can you spot the one which isn’t?

25 January 2013

This week’s spellings are plurals again. However, this week our spellings require you to drop a y from the route word and replace it with ies.

This is very similar to one of our main spelling rules. Do you know which one it is?