Spelling

29.11.19

Posted on Saturday 30 November 2019 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘oy’, ‘ir’ and ‘aw’ digraph.

toy
loyal
shirt
bird
saw
claw

 

29 November 2019

Posted on Friday 29 November 2019 by Mrs Freeman

Next week, the phoneme we’re learning about is u which is spelled with an o.

  • Monday
  • nothing
  • brother
  • mother
  • money
  • worry
  • love
  • other

The children will be tested on these words on Friday 6th December.

29 November 2019

Posted on Thursday 28 November 2019 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s spelling focuses on adding er and est. Practise these spellings – think about how creative you can be. There will be a test on Friday 06 December where ten of these words will be tested.

adding er and adding est
nice

late

ripe

rude

brave

big

happy

silly

funny

hot

tall

weird

fat

hot

scary

pretty

 

 

22 November 2019

Posted on Friday 22 November 2019 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘ou’, ‘ie’ and ‘ea’ digraph.

loud
shout
cried
tied
team
dream

22 November 2019

Posted on Friday 22 November 2019 by Mrs Freeman

Next week, we will be learning the phoneme or. This is spelt with an a before l and ll.

  • all
  • ball
  • call
  • small
  • talk
  • walk
  • always
  • altogether

15 November 2019

Posted on Friday 15 November 2019 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘ay’ digraph.

play
say
clay
stray
stay
pay

 

15 Novemeber 2019

Posted on Friday 15 November 2019 by Miss Wilson

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

Posted on Friday 15 November 2019 by Mrs Freeman

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:

 

fly        flies
try        tries
cry        cries
spy        spies
reply       replies
baby        babies
carry      carries
copy     copies

14 November 2019

Posted on Thursday 14 November 2019 by Mr Wain

‘ough’ words

This week’s spelling list is formed using words that contain the letters ‘ough’. These words have the same letters but sound completely different. Practise saying them aloud, writing them down and using them in your own sentences. If you don’t know what any of the words mean, find out. As always, come and see me before the deadline if you have any questions!
although bought brought cough enough
rough sought thorough though tough

08 November 2019

Posted on Friday 08 November 2019 by Mrs Freeman

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

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