02 February 2018
The spellings this week are all words which have an -al or a -il ending.
| metal |
| pedal |
| capital |
| animal |
| hospital |
| pencil |
| nostril |
| fossil |
26 January 2018
The spellings this week all contain the -el ending.
| camel |
| tunnel |
| travel |
| towel |
| tinsel |
| squirrel |
| label |
| model |
19 January 2018
This week, the spellings are all words which have an -le ending. This spelling is the most common one for this ‘ul’ sound at the end of words.
| table |
| apple |
| middle |
| bottle |
| little |
| gentle |
| people |
| trouble |
12 January 2018
The spellings this week are all words which have a silent w.
| write |
| wrote |
| wrist |
| wrong |
| wrap |
| wriggle |
| wreck |
| sword |
Can you find any more? I’ll look forward to hearing your answers!
05 January 2018
Next week, we’re learning about words which have a silent ‘k’ at the beginning.
| knock |
| know |
| knew |
| knee |
| knight |
| knot |
| knife |
| knit |
08 December 2017
There are no new spellings this week as we didn’t test on Friday. We’ll test last week’s -dge spellings on Thursday 14 December.
01 December 2017
Next week, in our phonics lessons, we’ll be learning about the j sound at the end of a word.
This is spelled -dge straight after short vowel sounds and -ge after all other sounds.
| badge |
| edge |
| bridge |
| fudge |
| age |
| huge |
| change |
| village |
24 November 2017
Next week, we’re continuing to learn about irregular past tense verbs. Usually when we change a verb to the past tense, we just need to add ‘ed’. Irritatingly, irregular verbs are different!
Challenge your child to find some more examples of irregular verbs.
| to go went |
| to dig dug |
| to know knew |
| to give gave |
| to buy bought |
| to drink drank |
| to send sent |
| to write wrote |
17 November 2017
Next week, we’re learning about irregular past tense verbs. Usually when we change a verb to the past tense, we just need to add -ed. Irregular verbs are annoyingly different!
| to eat ate |
| to fly flew |
| to drive drove |
| to blow blew |
| to see saw |
| to draw drew |
| to swim swam |
| to take took |
10 November 2017
This week we’re looking at the ing version of a verb and how this could be written in the past or present tense. This is called the present progressive or past progressive tense. Below are two examples. The first is written in the present progressive and the second in the past progressive.
- I am enjoying this apple.
- I was enjoying that apple.
(Top tip – it’s ‘progressive’ because it is or it was in progress.)
| to ask asking |
| to cook cooking |
| to laugh laughing |
| to play playing |
| to help helping |
| to look looking |
| to enjoy enjoying |
| to yell yelling |