25 May 2012
Our spelling list this week is linked to ‘Money Week’, which takes place next week.
These words will be tested on Friday 01 June.
| coin |
| money |
| pence |
| pound |
| safe |
| cash |
| check |
| lend |
| pay |
| cost |
25 May 2012
This week’s spellings are a mixture of our three main spelling rules. For the tenth spelling, children should think of their own word which fits any of the three rules.
| Double up for a short vowel sound | |
| 1. | snapping |
| 2. | madder |
| 3. | terrible |
| Drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ | |
| 4. | making |
| 5. | surprising |
| 6. | frustrating |
| Drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ | |
| 7. | nastily |
| 8. | craftily |
| 9. | moodily |
| 10. | ???????? |
25 May 2012
This week’s spellings are words beginning with ‘mis’. Your child will be tested on Friday 01 June 2012.
- mistake
- misbehave
- mishear
- misplace
- misread
- misuse
- misfire
- misunderstand
- misspell
- mislead
18 May 2012
Our spelling list this week looks at words that end in ‘nk‘.
These words will be tested on Friday 25 May 2012.
| bank |
| pink |
| ink |
| drink |
| sink |
| tank |
| blank |
| oink |
| plank |
| think |
18 May 2012
This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘ed’ for the past tense. Your child will be tested on Friday 25 May 2012.
- served
- stroked
- refused
- replaced
- dawdled
- included
- grumbled
- surprised
- behaved
- pleased
18 May 2012
This week’s spellings are all tricky words which have been misspelled in our writing recently.
| 1. | opened |
| 2. | through |
| 3. | friends |
| 4. | around |
| 5. | between |
| 6. | different |
| 7. | brought |
| 8. | favourite |
| 9. | whole |
| 10. | together |
18 May 2012
This week’s spellings are all tricky words which have been misspelled in our writing recently. Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 25 May.
| 1. | people |
| 2. | asked |
| 3. | could |
| 4. | because |
| 5. | went |
| 6. | once |
| 7. | which |
| 8. | thought |
| 9. | believe |
| 10. | favourite |
Friday 11 May
There is no spelling homework this week due to SATs
11 May 2012
This week’s spellings are words beginning in ‘un’. Your child will be tested on Friday 18 May 2012.
- unable
- unbeaten
- unfair
- unhappy
- unkind
- unlucky
- unwell
- unwind
- unwilling
- unselfish
11 May 2012
This week we’re revisiting one of the most important spelling rules: drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’. All the words in the list are adjectives that end in a ‘y’. When they are changed into adverbs you need to drop the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ before adding ‘ly’.
Children will be tested on eight out of the 10 words on Friday 18 May.
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1. |
happy |
happily |
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2. |
speedy |
speedily |
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3. |
gloomy |
gloomily |
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4. |
lucky |
luckily |
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5. |
messy |
messily |
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6. |
spooky |
spookily |
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7. |
pretty |
prettily |
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8. |
shabby |
shabbily |
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9. |
greasy |
greasily |
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10. |
hasty |
hastily |