19 May 2017
This week’s spellings end in -ation -ative and -ly. Learn the spellings for a test on Friday 02 June. Remember to use the spelling strategies at the front of your homework book.
19 May 2017
The spellings this week are all plurals of words. The singular version is listed first. Look carefully to see what happens to each word when it is made a plural.
| pencil pencils |
| table tables |
| camel camels |
| petal petals |
| bus buses |
| fox foxes |
| witch witches |
| cherry cherries |
| story stories |
| monkey monkeys |
19 May 2017
Due to there being quite a few tests in class this week, we have decided to keep the same spellings as last week. Children need to learn these ready for a test on Friday 25 May.
In the front of homework books, there is a spelling guidance sheet. This gives examples of different strategies to aid learning spellings. Children have been told to use ideas from this to help.
Dictation is another great way to help with spelling and punctuation.
19 May 2017
This week’s spelling activity aims to build the children’s understanding of where words in the English language have come from and how this has contributed to spelling being difficult to master. This activity is due on Thursday 25 May.
Using these Greek and Latin roots and their meanings, create your own animals where their name gives you an idea of their appearance and/or behaviour.
For example, punctata quadrocornisbiped (a dotted, four-horned, two footed animal).
Create at least five different names and then choose one to draw and write a paragraph informing us about it.
| geo – means “the earth” | photo – “means light” |
| path – means “feeling or suffering” | gress – means “to walk” |
| phon – means “sound” | dict – which means “to say” |
| therm – means “heat” | tract – means “to pull” |
| mem – means “keep in mind” | scribe – means “to write” |
| tele – means “far away” | mit – means “to send” |
| fract – means “to break” | graph – means “to write” |
| bi – means “two” | ped – means “foot” |
| corni – means “horn” | punct – means “point, pricked, pierced” |
19 May 2017
For the next week, we’ll continue our focus on using apostrophes correctly.
However, this week, instead of giving the children a list of words to learn, I would instead like them to create a poster that would help other people learn. They can go about this however they feel best. It may be wise to concentrate on the two main rules (apostrophes for possession or contraction). For an extra challenge, create a poster educating people about some common apostrophe related mistakes.
11 May 2017
For the next two weeks, our spelling focus will be all about adding apostrophes. We add apostrophes for possession (to show that something belongs to someone – eg Jack’s hat) or for contraction (to shorten words – eg isn’t).
To get our learning started, children have been given a sheet to complete. This should be returned by Thursday 18 May.
11 May 2017
This week, the spellings all have a prefix.
prefix – trans…, sub… and super…
Question your child on their knowledge of prefixes. They will be tested on these words on Friday 19 May.
- transmit
- transport
- transplant
- submarine
- subheading
- subdivide
- superman
- supermarket
- superstar
- superior
11 May 2017
The spellings this week are all numbers. By the end of Year 2, children need to be able to write any number up to 100. Children will be tested on eight of the words.
| zero | ten | eleven |
| one | twenty | twelve |
| two | thirty | thirteen |
| three | forty | fourteen |
| four | fifty | fifteen |
| five | sixty | sixteen |
| six | seventy | seventeen |
| seven | eighty | eighteen |
| eight | ninety | nineteen |
| nine | hundred | twenty |
11 May 2017
This week, the children have been given three spelling activities. They need to use these to help them to learn the words given last week.
Consonants and Vowels
Write your spellings words; use a blue coloured pencil for consonants and a red coloured pencil for vowels.
Stair steps
Write your spellings as ‘stair steps’.
Alliterative Phrases or Sentences
Choose five of your spelling words and write five alliterative phrases or sentences. An alliterative phrase uses the same initial letter. You may include a word or two that does not begin the same letter. Be sure to underline your spelling words.
05 May 2017
This weeks spellings follow the rule ‘ou‘ making the short /u/ sound (sounds like the ‘uh’ in ‘cut’ and ‘shut’). Use the spelling activities from your homework book to learn these spellings. The spellings will be tested on Friday 19 May.
