29 September 2017
This week, we’re focussing on the o phoneme and its alternative spellings: Joe, snow, so, rode, toast.
| pony |
| cold |
| slow |
| know |
| home |
| stroke |
| coat |
| loaf |
22 September 2017
We continue to recap the different vowel sounds and their alternative spellings. This week, it’s the i sound which be made in different ways: right, kind, cry, hide, lie.
| right |
| cry |
| kind |
| idea |
| write |
| hide |
| tie |
| cried |
15 September 2017
We continue to recap the different vowel sounds and their alternative spellings. This time, it’s the ee sound which be made in different ways: tree, meat, happy, Pete, me.
| beach |
| cream |
| wheel |
| knee |
| hurry |
| puppy |
| sea |
| Pete |
08 September 2017
For the next few weeks we’ll be spending time recapping the different vowel sounds and their alternative sounds. This week we’re focussing on the ai sound which can be made in different ways: play, rain, grey, plate, eight.
| shake |
| mistake |
| train |
| Spain |
| day |
| stay |
| they |
| grey |
14 July 2017
The spellings this week all contain double up for short vowel sounds.The words also have a range of the different suffixes we’ve learned in class across the year.
| grabbed |
| winning |
| sunny |
| trapped |
| clapping |
| funnier |
| messiest |
| bubbles |
| happiness |
| stressful |
07 July 2017
This week, the words have either an il, el or al ending.
The el ending sounds the same as the le ending (which we’ve previously practised) but is less common.
| pencil |
| evil |
| pupil |
| camel |
| tunnel |
| towel |
| metal |
| pedal |
| hospital |
30 June 2017
There are only five spellings this week. They are all homophones or near-homophones. The children will have to use the words correctly in context to get the spelling correct.
| There are three cows. |
| Their cat is naughty. |
| They’re playing tennis. |
| Our class work hard. |
| Are we nearly there? |
23 June 2017
We’re learning about …ness and …ment suffixes in phonics next week. Usually, you just add the suffix on to the root word. The exceptions are when the word ends in a y and is more than one syllable long eg happiness or merriment. Argument is another exception as you drop the e from argue.
| happy happiness |
| sad sadness |
| kind kindness |
| quiet quietness |
| dark darkness |
| punish punishment |
| enjoy enjoyment |
| move movement |
| amaze amazement |
| measure measurement |
16 June 2017
We’re learning about suffixes for the next few weeks.
This week’s suffixes are either -ful (which means full of) or -less (which means without). We’ve used a Venn diagram to group the spellings. If you’re not sure about what this is, ask your child – or me. The underlined words are words where you need to drop the y for an i before adding the suffix. Children will be tested on 8 of the possible words. Please ask me if you have any questions.
09 June 2017
The spellings this week are all contracted words. We’ve looked at some of these words before but we are not always spelling them incorrectly in our writing.
| do not don’t |
| can not can’t |
| will not won’t |
| did not didn’t |
| have not haven’t |
| has not hasn’t |
| does not doesn’t |
| must not mustn’t |
| should not shouldn’t |
| could not couldn’t |
| would not wouldn’t |