12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are continuing the rule of changing the “y” to “i”. They will be tested on Friday 19 October 2012.
There seem to be a lot of spellings on this list but the children have been learning about this rule all week and are familiar with these words. Please encourage them to add any more words that they can think of. The spelling test will test them on 8 of these words and we will be verbally discussing all of them.
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Spellings |
Year 5 |
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y + i + ful |
y + i + es |
y + i + ly |
y + i + er / est |
y + i + ed |
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beautiful |
babies |
happily |
happier / happiest |
tried |
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plentiful |
puppies |
crazily |
crazier / craziest |
fried |
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fanciful |
cities |
funnily |
funnier / funniest |
cried |
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pitiful |
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luckily |
luckier / luckiest |
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friendlier / friendliest |
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12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are all months of the year. You won’t be tested on all of them. However, you’ll have to learn them all as I’m not going to reveal which ones are going to be tested.
| LO: months of the year |
| January |
| February |
| March |
| April |
| May |
| June |
| July |
| August |
| September |
| October |
| November |
| December |
12 October 2012
This week, the children are focussing on learning to spell and use the correct homophone at the right time and in the right context.
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. For example:
where were we’re
through threw
Children have been given a list of commonly misused homophones to learn, including the correct meaning. They will be tested on the spelling and, as importantly, the meaning of these words.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 19 October.
12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘ed’ for the past tense. Your child will be tested on Friday 19 October 2012.
- walked
- talked
- helped
- played
- climbed
- asked
- looked
- wished
- picked
- fixed
05 October 2012
This week’s spellings are all words that are contractions. That’s (a contraction of That is) where two words have been joined together with an apostrophe. Your child should learn both, but will be only tested on the contractions.
| LO: apostrophes for contractions | |
| don’t | do not |
| we’ll | we will |
| doesn’t | does not |
| he’d | he would |
| they’ve | they have |
| won’t | will not |
| we’re | we are |
| fish ‘n’ chips | fish and chips |
05 October 2012
We are focussing on plurals this week.
Some of the spellings are made into a plural by just adding s. The others you have to add es to make into a plural. You add es if you hear an extra syllable when you make it plural.
Children should learn all ten spellings but will be tested on eight out of the ten on Friday 12 October.
| 1. | pen | pens |
| 2. | book | books |
| 3. | boy | boys |
| 4. | table | tables |
| 5. | pockets | |
| 6. | bush | bushes |
| 7. | watch | watches |
| 8. | brush | brushes |
| 9. | fox | foxes |
| 10. | kiss | kisses |
05 October 2012
This week’s spellings are words where you need drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’. There are lots of words that could have been chosen for this rule; we’ve chosen words that will help to make our narrative writing more interesting next week. They will be tested on Friday 12 October 2012.
The words in orange are abstract nouns. Can you think of any other abstract nouns?
| Drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ |
| moody
moodier moodiest mood terrify terrifies terror hungry hungrier hungriest hunger |
05 October 2012
In order to build the children’s vocabulary, this week we are focusing on spelling wow words…
- ecstatic
- despondent
- devastated
- monstrous
- petrified
- terrified
- morose
- delighted
- disgruntled
Your child will also be tested on the meanings of the word. He / she will be tested on Friday 12 October 2012.
05 October 2012
This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘ck’. Your child will be tested on Friday 12 October 2012.
- shock
- stuck
- trick
- track
- back
- lick
- click
- pick
- lock
- flick
05 October 2012
This week, we’re learning to spell words with oo and sh.
These words will be tested on Friday 12 October.
| moon |
| soon |
| cool |
| pool |
| ship |
| shut |
| cash |
| mash |