09 October 2015
This week’s spellings follow the rule drop the e for ing.
| arrive – arriving |
| believe – believing |
| breathe – breathing |
| cycle – cycling |
| complete – completing |
| decide – deciding |
| describe – describing |
| exercise – exercising |
| guide – guiding |
| imagine – imagining |
09 October 2015
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 16 October. They all end in ‘cious‘. Children can practise on their own using their red Learning Lists book but it is also great to practise writing the words into sentences to check that they understand the meaning.
- vicious
- precious
- conscious
- delicious
- malicious
- suspicious
- ferocious
- gracious
- spacious
- atrocious
02 October 2015
This week’s spellings follow the “drop the e for an ing” rule. Your child will be tested on the words in bold.
- centre centring
- believe circling
- continue continuing
- increase increasing
- minute minuting
- pressure pressuring
- promise promising
- separate separating
- suppose supposing
- surprise surprising
02 October 2015
Here are the spellings for this week.
02 October 2015
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 09 October.
They are homophones whose spelling shouldn’t be difficult, but understanding their role in the sentence (noun or verb) is trickier.
advise – advice
- Verb – I advise you to stop smoking.
- Noun – That was good advice you gave me.
devise – device
- Verb – We need to devise a plan.
- Noun – This device will help us with our plan.
license – licence
- Verb – I am licensed to drive.
- Noun – I hope I can get my driving licence.
practise – practice
- Verb – I’m going to go and practise my piano.
- Noun – I need to walk to the piano practice.
prophesy – prophecy
- Verb – I prophesy that I will get top marks.
- Noun – The prophecy said I would get top marks.
compliment – complement
- Verb – That jumper complements your eyes.
- Noun – A full complement of workers built the house.
- Verb – I complimented my mum’s eyes.
- Noun – What a lovely compliment.
descent – dissent
- Verb – The crew dissented from the captain’s decision.
- Noun – A steep descent loomed in front of me.
25 September 2015
25 September 2015
This week, our spellings will focus on a common spelling rule: double up for a short vowel sound.
- different
- difficult
- disappear
- grammar
- happen
- opposite
- possess
- possession
- possible
- suppose
Some of these words are included in the Year 3 and 4 spelling list in the National Curriculum. Therefore, it is key that your child knows these spellings but even more importantly, the rule that applies. When consonants are doubled up (accident), it forces the vowel in front to be a short sound (accident).
Feel free to pop in if you’d like some advice on helping your child to spell at home.
25 September 2015
This week’s spellings focus on the ‘double up for a short vowel‘ rule and will be tested on Friday 02 October.
- aggression
- accommodate
- accompany
- according
- lugging
- possibility
- approached
- clattering
- pummelled
- toppled
Your child will be tested on six of these spellings. In addition, they’ll be tested on two spellings they’ve learnt in previous weeks and two spellings that follow the double up rule but aren’t on the spelling list.
18 September 2015
Children in Year 1 and Year 2 split into groups to learn phonics. There are three groups: Red Group (taught by Mrs Weekes), Yellow Group (taught by Mrs Wells) and Green Group (taught by Mr Wilks). Each week, your child will have a set of spellings in their Learning Lists which matches the phonics group they are in.
Below, are the spellings for each group. If you have any questions, please ask.
Additional spellings
Although we’re learning the spellings given in our red learning list books, here are some additional ones picked from mistakes in books this week.
- thing
- there
- for
- no-one
- found
- saw