07 September 2012
This week’s spellings are words using ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. A useful way to remember which to use is ‘oi’ is usually in the middle of a word and ‘oy’ is usually at the end. These spellings will be tested on Friday 14 September.
- coin
- foil
- join
- oil
- point
- joy
- toy
- enjoy
- destroy
- employ
07 September 2012
This week’s spellings all have an ‘ing’ at the end and replace the ‘e’ in the root word.
The spelling rule to chant is drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’.
There will be a bonus question where you will have to spell a word that follows the rule.
| LO: Words ending with ‘ing’. | ||
| hope | > | hoping |
| write | > | writing |
| decide | > | deciding |
| make | > | making |
| smile | > | smiling |
| muddle | > | muddling |
| translate | > | translating |
| raise | > | raising |
Can you come up with any more words that follow the rule?
07 September 2012
This week’s spellings are looking at regular verb endings. There are 15 spellings this week because they are regular words that the children are familiar with.
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Spellings: Regular verb endings 07.09.12 |
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| cooks | cooked | cooking |
| plays | played | playing |
| invents | invented | inventing |
| jumps | jumped | jumping |
| looks | looked | looking |
06 July 2012
This week’s spellings end in ‘tion’. Encourage splitting the word into its syllables to help with the spelling of these words. Your child will be tested on Friday 13th July 2012.
- action
- option
- addition
- infection
- situation
- creation
- donation
- education
- election
- emotion
06 July 2012
We’ll be writing instructions in our literacy lessons next week so the spellings are all adverbs which could be used to describe how to do something.
Top tip for writing: You can move the adverb to the start of the sentence with a comma after it to make it an adverb opener. For example:
Stir the porridge gently.
Could become…
Gently, stir the porridge.
| 1. | quickly |
| 2. | slowly |
| 3. | gently |
| 4. | roughly |
| 5. | smoothly |
| 6. | carefully |
| 7. | firmly |
| 8. | angrily |
| 9. | furiously |
| 10. | energetically |
06 July 2012
This week’s spellings are all words which have been misspelled in our writing recently. Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 13 July.
| under |
| looking |
| wish |
| park |
| birds |
| liked |
| grow |
| girl |
| boat |
| with |
06 July 2012
This week’s spellings are all synonyms for said.
We are learning about news reports at the moment and these spellings will be helpful when writing quotes.
| LO: Synonyms for said |
| stated |
| announced |
| declared |
| asserted |
| reported |
| recalled |
| added |
| remarked |
29 June 2012
This week we are learning to spell words with aw.
These words will be tested on Friday 06 July.
| paw |
| claw |
| dawn |
| saw |
| draw |
| jigsaw |
| lawn |
| sawdust |
| seesaws |
| yawn |
29 June 2012
This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix ful which means ‘full of’.
Notice how when full is added on to the end it loses one of its ls. For example, wish and full becomes wishful.
| 1. | wishful |
| 2. | hopeful |
| 3. | painful |
| 4. | awful |
| 5. | helpful |
| 6. | careful |
| 7. | powerful |
| 8. | wonderful |
| 9. | beautiful |
| 10. | successful |
29 June 2012
The suffix we are going to be learning this week is tion.
Some of the time, these suffixes can be added with simply replacing the final t in the route word with tion. For example. correct and correction. However, there are a few exceptions which we’ll go through in the week.
| LO: Words that end with ‘tion’. |
| correction |
| construction |
| production |
| variation |
| conversation |
| creation |
| examination |
| education |