25 June 2021
This week’s spelling are words ending in the ‘est’ suffix.
fast – fastest
happy – happiest
long – longest
short – shortest
silly – silliest
muddy – muddiest
tall – tallest
tasty – tastiest
Remember, when the word ends in a ‘y’, drop the ‘y’, add an ‘i’ and add ‘est’.
18 June 2021
In lessons, the children have been learning another key spelling rule: drop the e for ing. All of the words in the list are verbs.
Before the suffix ing is added to the verb, the e needs to be removed.
- to have having
- to hike hiking
- to write writing
- to use using
- to make making
- to like liking
- to give giving
- to excite exciting
11 June 2021
For this week’s spellings, we were looking at spelling the /o/ phoneme with an ‘a’ after a ‘w’.
We were also looking at spelling the /ir/ phoneme with an ‘or’ after a ‘w’.
watch
wasp
swamp
wallet
worm
worth
word
world
21 May 2021
This week’s spellings are common exception words (words that we use a lot but do not follow the usual spelling patterns).
only
old
parents
who
plant
any
many
pretty
07 May 2021
Spellings:
This week’s spellings are common exception words (words that we use a lot but do not follow the usual spelling patterns).
pass
grass
father
hold
told
gold
prove
move
last
fast
30 April 2021
This week’s spellings are common exception words (words that we use a lot but do not follow the usual spelling patterns).
- child
- children
- Christmas
- class
- climb
- clothes
- cold
- could
- door
- even
23 April 2020
We’ve continued learning about alternative spellings as part of our Phase 5 phonics learning, focusing on the ‘ai’ sound.
- stray
- train
- baby
- cake
- mate
- weigh
- grey
- great
26 March 2021
We’ve continued learning about alternative spellings as part of our Phase 5 phonics learning, focusing on the ‘oa’ sound.
- coat
- road
- stone
- throne
- blow
- show
- hold
- gold
19 March 2021
We’ve continued learning about alternative spellings as part of our Phase 5 phonics learning, focusing on the ‘igh’ sound.
- fight
- might
- time
- Friday
- tidy
- pie
- cry
- kite
Practise these spellings, writing them into sentences and discussing meaning. The children will be tested on them on Friday 26 March.
12 March 2021
This week’s spellings are based on words with Phase 5 alternative spellings that we’ve been recapping this week:
- teddy
- eight
- straight
- delete
- stream
- plate
- monkey
- train
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 19 March. When checking the spellings with your child, it is useful to put the word in a sentence so they understand its meaning. Look at the spelling activities guide on the website and in your child’s homework books for some ideas to practise these words.
