08 July 2016
08 July 2016
This week’s spellings have been chosen by the children from an end of year test we did, identifying those which we’ve made mistakes on or find more difficult.
Think about what other spellings are similar to this: adding ‘ed‘, ‘ing‘ and any homophones that we might get confused with.
Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 July.
- marvellous
- interfere
- sincere
- comb
- secretary
- accommodate
- stationery
- category
- confidence
- suggest
- island
- reasonable
- relevant
- dough
- physical
- principle
- essential
- compliment
- proceed
- environment
01 July 2016
As you know, we have had to close school on Friday 01 July – Shadwell Lane had its water turned off. For that reason, and because two classes are out of school today, there hasn’t been chance to set homework or spellings for this week.
Even though there is no set homework or spellings, please remember there are lots of things that the children can be doing to reflect on their learning from this week.
Again, I would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused by the school closure.
24 June 2016
| Word Families
This week’s spellings activity is to explore some common word families. Words we use every day but might not stop to think about. Spellings will be tested on Friday 01 July. Children will not be given a list to learn but should explore the following word families: |
| graph (e.g. telegraph) |
| phone (e.g. homophone) |
| auto (e.g. automobile) |
| micro (e.g. microphone) |
| tele (e.g. television) |
24 June 2016
24 June 2016
This week’s spellings all follow the double up for a short vowel sound rule and are from the Year 3/4 spelling curriculum.
accidentally
actually
business
disappear
different
difficult
occasionally
thousand
opposite
possession
Some of these spellings may seem familiar but it is essential that we keep revisiting the double up for a short vowel sound rule. Within this list, there are examples where the double up rule isn’t always followed. Can you child spot these? There is also a red herring within this list. Can you spot it?
double up for a short vowel sound
In English spelling, we come across two types of vowel sounds – short vowel sounds like ‘a’ in apple and ‘e’ in berry and long vowel sounds like ‘a’ in change. Usually (but not always), the consonants after a short vowel sound are doubled. For example, opposite has a short ‘o’ at the start and is followed by a pair of ‘p’s.
24 June 2016
This week’s spellings highlight some words which require a hyphen along with some other simple words which have tricky spellings which we often forget.
- to co-operate
- co-operated
- co-operating
- to co-ordinate
- co-ordinated
- co-ordinating
- to co-own
- to re-enter
- re-entering
- re-entered
- queue
- rhythm
- rhyme
- shoulder
These spellings will be tested on Friday 01 July. Spelling should be practised at least four times a week for about ten minutes each time and we’ve created lots of different ways to practise spelling while in class which children can use at home.
17 June 2016
The spellings this week are again for all Year 2 children.
17 June 2016
Red and yellow group:
are
come
here
said
some
there
were
where
These are more words where phonics doesn’t help a whole lot to spell them. Please help your child to hear and understand the difference between where and were.
Green group:
I will ask you any ten spellings of the days of the week and the months of the year.
17 June 2016
This week’s spellings have come about as a result of all the spelling learning we have done around the letter w.
wait
weight
went
where
were
woman
women
weather
whether
wrong
There are some homophones (two words that sound the same but are spelt differently), an irregular plural and some high frequency words that are commonly spelt wrong. Why not try encouraging your child to spot words within words to help memorise spellings (the response to “where?” could be “here!”)?