Spelling

15 Novemeber 2019

This week’s spellings are formed using words containing ‘ough’. As always, if you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out! Write them in sentences, draw their meaning or battle it out and play Speed Write, Killer 12 or Ping Pong.

• although
• bought
• brought
• cough
• enough
• rough
• sought
• thorough
• though
• tough

15 November 2019

Next week, we will be learning about adding –es to nouns and verbs that end with a -y.

The children need to learn to drop the -y  for an -i before adding –es.

Here are the spellings to learn:

14 November 2019

08 November 2019

Next week, we’re learning about words which have an i sound spelt with a –y at the end of the word.  The children will be tested on these words on Friday 15th November.

• cry
• try
• why
• reply
• July
• spy
• identify
• multiply

On top of these words, we are continuing to check some of the common exception words from Year 1. Please help your child by regularly checking the spelling of these words.

Year 1 Common Exception Words 
the    do
to    today      of
said      says    are
were     was      is
his      has 
you     your      they
be      he      me
she      we       ask
go      so       no
by     my       here
there    where       friend
love    come      some
one    once     school
put      push
pull    full
house     our

08 November 2019

This week’s spelling activity focuses on the spelling rule, double up for a short vowel sound.

The following double consonants are common in the English language: gg, ff, tt, ss, pp, ll, bb, dd.

How many words can you come up with that include these double consonants? Once you’ve got your list of words (at least 20), tick the ones that have a short vowel sound before the double consonant.

18 October 2019

Next week, we will be looking at words which have an -il or     -al ending. These are much less frequent than the -le ending.

• metal
• pedal
• capital
• hospital
• animal
• pencil
• nostril
• fossil

The children will be tested on these words on Thursday 24th October 2019.

Following each weekly spelling test, the children are asked to spell random  words that have already been learnt. Often, we find that lots of spellings are correct for a test but soon forgotten.

18 October 2019

This week’s spellings aim to help the children understand when to use different homophones. Practise using these spellings correctly in sentences and discuss ways to remember when to use which homophone – any good ideas you’ve got could be shared in class. There will be a test next week on Thursday 24 October.

11 October 2019

This week’s spelling activity aims to help the children understand when to use different homophones. Practise using these spellings correctly in sentences and discuss ways to remember when to use which homophone – any good ideas you’ve got could be shared in class. There will be no test next week but we will share our spelling practice in our homework review on Thursday 17 October.

Having received feedback from parents, Year 3 and 4 will have no more than 20 spellings across a two week period to practise at home. There will be a test every other week where ten of these spellings will be tested. If you have any questions or concerns, please ask.

11 October 2019

Next week, we will be learning about the –el phoneme at the end of a word.

This spelling is much less common than last week’s –le.

camel

tunnel

wheel

travel

towel

angel

hotel

label

The children will be tested on these words on Friday 18th October 2019.

11 October 2019

This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘ar’, ‘oo’ and ‘or’ digraphs.