Spelling

It’s the summer…

…so there are no homework activities or spellings to learn.

Don’t forget learning can still happen in the holidays:

• take your children to the park and talk about what they can see, hear and smell;
• take a trip using a bus or train, and take time to look at the timetable (Why is it in the 24 hour clock? How long will the journey last? When will we arrive?)
• enjoy visits to the local library;
• spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
• encourage your child to write some postcards to friends and family;
• take a trip to a museum or art gallery.

Research shows that the long summer holidays can mean some children’s learning regresses and they might struggle in the autumn term to keep up.  Frequent talk-times, reading, counting and tables practice are so important!

08 July 2011

This week, we are looking at words we need to spell correctly in our writing.

These words will be tested on Friday 15 July.

08 July 2011

The spellings this week are all words that have an ‘ed’ ending. Nouns and verbs practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise numbers 1-10.

1. asked
2. looked
3. showed
4. stopped
5. dragged
6. explored
7. touched
8. travelled
9. bewildered
10. abandoned

The spellings will be tested on Friday 15 July.

08 July 2011

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges are words that have a consonant followed by a ‘le’ ending.

Apples have words that are plurals ending with ‘s’.

They will be tested on Friday 15 July 2011.

08 July 2011

This is your final piece of spelling homework.

You need to learn the WOW words from the previous four spelling lists. You need to learn all of them but I will only test a random selection.

You also need to learn all the definitions ready to put the words into sentences to show you understand the meanings.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 July 2011.

08 July 2011

This week’s spellings are words with the ‘ible‘ suffix. They will be tested on Friday 15 July 2011.

This week’s ‘Tricky Words’

The ‘Tricky Word’ spellings for this week are:

• all
• are
• the
• to

01 July 2011

The spellings this week are a mixture of ‘ing’ words.

• Some follow the ‘double up for a short vowel’ sound rule.
• Some follow the drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ rule.
• Some just need ‘ing’ adding to the word.

The spellings will be tested on Friday 08 July.

1. trail                         trailing

2. crave                      craving

3. love                        loving

4. drop                       dropping

5. admit                     admitting

6. brave                     braving

8. complete              completing

9. decide                   deciding

10. convince              convincing

01 July 2011

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges are words that have a letter that doubles up followed by a ‘le’ ending.

Apples have words all ending with ‘ed’.

They will be tested on Friday 07 July 2011.

01 July 2011

Once more, spellings for all groups are based on wow words the children should be using if they are to be consistent level 4 and 5 writers.

Spellings and word meanings will be tested on Friday 08 July.

• gorgeous
• delightful
• scrumptious
• delicious
• fabulous
• succulent
• luscious
• extraordinary
• charismatic
• charming
• elegant