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.
05 May 2017
| Suffixes
This week’s spellings are all words that contain suffixes. A suffix is added to a root word to change/alter its meaning. Children often make spelling mistakes when adding suffixes to words. They should learn how to spell these words in preparation for a test on Friday 12 May. |
| thoughtful |
| enjoyable |
| ownership |
| equipment |
| courageously |
| silliest |
| altruism |
| excitement |
| frequently |
| purposeful |
05 May 2017
This week, all the words contain the -tion ending. The test will be on Thursday next week due to the training day on Friday.
| station |
| fiction |
| action |
| addition |
| national |
| position |
| emotion |
| information |
| election |
| fraction |
28 April 2017
For the next two weeks, we will be focusing all of our ‘spelling energy’ on some tricky suffixes. To help us practise choosing the correct suffix, children should complete the worksheet they have been given. This should be completed by Thursday 04 May.
28 April 2017
This week’s spelling activity is a crossword with contracted words. Pupils need to think about the apostrophe placement in contracted words, what the apostrophe is replacing and what the original words are. Spellings will be tested on Friday 05 May.
28 April 2017
This week, the children have a list of spellings to learn and they’ll be tested on them on Friday 05 May. I’ve chosen spellings which have odd spelling patterns or might have been learnt way back in Year 3 and 4 and, therefore, could have been forgotten.
It is a fair old list, but the children will only be tested on 20 of them.
- height
- forty
- vague
- hindrance
- business
- amateur
- colleagues
- halved
- peculiar
- stomach
- grey
- whistle
- excellent
- monarch
- synchronise
- rhyming
- chauffeur
- moustache
- seized
- tongue
- equipped
- symbol
- awkward
- leisurely
- weird
- cymbals
- queue
- calendar
- twelfth
- thorough
- library
- island
- cemetery
- lightning
28 April 2017
We are looking at the suffixes -er and -est again this week. The first four require you to drop the e from the root word before adding the suffix. The last four require you to double up the last letter before adding the suffixes.
| nice nicer nicest |
| large larger largest |
| wise wiser wisest |
| strange stranger strangest |
| thin thinner thinnest |
| big bigger biggest |
| sad sadder saddest |
| hot hotter hottest |