28 September 2012
Please learn these words for a test on Friday 05 October.
Words containing the ai/ay sound.
| play |
| stay |
| pay |
| spray |
| day |
| rain |
| pain |
| main |
For those of you that want an extra challenge…
You could write the words in a sentence eg I sat in the rain.
28 September 2012
This week the children are focussing on spelling words with suffixes ant or ation. Spellings will be tested on Friday 05 October.
| Group A | Group B |
| pronunciationprotection
imitation consideration separation ventilation imagination variation deprivation termination |
hesitantobservant
dependant contestant assistant occupant tolerant disinfectant significant inhabitant |
22 September 2012
This week, your child has familiar vocabulary to do with their maths learning.
| one |
| two |
| eight |
| nine |
| three |
| four |
| five |
| seven |
These words will be tested on Friday 28 September.
21 September 2012
This week, the children are focusing on spelling words with silent letters. Spellings will be tested on Friday 28 September.
| Group A | Group B |
| generally
guardian advantage pneumonia foreign knowledge average solemn scissors depot |
average
primary Wednesday January February scissors naturally mineral unnatural ledge |
21 September 2012
This week’s spellings are looking at another rule for adding ‘ing’. These spellings will be tested on Friday 28 September.
short vowel sounds – double up and add “ing”
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Short vowel sounds – double up and add “ing” |
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stir |
stirring |
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occur |
occurring |
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commit |
committing |
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begin |
beginning |
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refer |
referring |
21 September 2012
This week, the spellings are a mixture of the previous two weeks’ ing rules and some words where you just have to add ing to the root word.
Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 28 September.
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1. |
meet |
meeting |
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2. |
amaze |
amazing |
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3. |
swim |
swimming |
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4. |
raise |
raising |
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5. |
drive |
driving |
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6. |
kick |
kicking |
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7. |
make |
making |
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8. |
split |
splitting |
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9. |
consider |
considering |
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10. |
begin |
beginning |
21 September 2012
This week the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘double up for short vowel sounds’.
There are lots of types of words where you double up for short vowe sounds.
Here’s a selection of different types of words where the rule applies.
| LO: Double up! |
| dragging |
| humming |
| funny |
| summer |
| swimmer |
| grinning |
| winner |
| spinning |
21 September 2012
This week’s spellings are words containing ‘ou’. These spellings will be tested on Friday 28 September 2012.
- cloud
- around
- found
- round
- sound
- pound
- count
- house
- mouse
- mouth
14 September 2012
This week, the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘drop the y for an i’.
There are lots of types of words where you drop the ‘y‘ for an ‘i‘. Here’s a selection of different types of words where the rule applies.
| LO: Drop the y for an i. |
| cried |
| tried |
| crazily |
| lazily |
| healthier |
| trickiest |
| stories |
| berries |
| beautiful |
14 September 2012
This is the second week of investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to words.
This week’s spellings are all words which have a short vowel sound before the final letter. This means that you need to double the final letter when adding ‘ing’.
The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 21 September.
| 1. | hop | hopping |
| 2. | run | running |
| 3. | shut | shutting |
| 4. | chat | chatting |
| 5. | shop | shopping |
| 6. | plan | planning |
| 7. | win | winning |
| 8. | swim | swimming |
| 9. | begin | beginning |
| 10. | stun | stunning |