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 |
28 September 2012
This week’s spellings are all about shortened forms of words. They are known as contractions. The table shows the full version and the shortened form; the children are only expected to learn the shortened form. The apostrophe replaces the letters that have been missed out.
They will be tested on Friday 05 October 2012.
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could not |
couldn’t |
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should not |
shouldn’t |
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would not |
wouldn’t |
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have not |
haven’t |
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cannot |
can’t |
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will not |
won’t |
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does not |
doesn’t |
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they have |
they’ve |
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they are |
they’re |
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are not |
aren’t |
28 September 2012
This week our spellings are a review of the three previous lists. These rules are:
- drop the e for ing
- drop the y for an i
- double up for short vowel sounds
Not all words from the three previous lists will be tested. They will only be tested on eight of the previous words. There will also be a couple of bonus words which have not previously been seen but which follow one of the three rules.
28 September 2012
This week, the spellings are words where you have to drop the y for an i when adding ly.
Children should learn all ten spellings and will be tested on eight out of the ten.
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1. |
happy |
happily |
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2. |
angry |
angrily |
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3. |
pretty |
prettily |
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4. |
grumpy |
grumpily |
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5. |
messy |
messily |
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6. |
sneaky |
sneakily |
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7. |
cheeky |
cheekily |
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8. |
clumsy |
clumsily |
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9. |
hungry |
hungrily |
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10. |
lazy |
lazily |
28 September 2012
This week’s spellings are words containing ‘oa’. Your child will be tested on Friday 05 October.
- load
- road
- loaf
- soak
- boat
- coat
- float
- goat
- throat
- soap