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 |
19 May 2017
The spellings this week are all plurals of words. The singular version is listed first. Look carefully to see what happens to each word when it is made a plural.
| pencil pencils |
| table tables |
| camel camels |
| petal petals |
| bus buses |
| fox foxes |
| witch witches |
| cherry cherries |
| story stories |
| monkey monkeys |
11 May 2017
The spellings this week are all numbers. By the end of Year 2, children need to be able to write any number up to 100. Children will be tested on eight of the words.
| zero | ten | eleven |
| one | twenty | twelve |
| two | thirty | thirteen |
| three | forty | fourteen |
| four | fifty | fifteen |
| five | sixty | sixteen |
| six | seventy | seventeen |
| seven | eighty | eighteen |
| eight | ninety | nineteen |
| nine | hundred | twenty |
05 May 2017
This week, all the words contain the -tion ending. The test will be on Thursday next week due to the training day on Friday.
| station |
| fiction |
| action |
| addition |
| national |
| position |
| emotion |
| information |
| election |
| fraction |
28 April 2017
We are looking at the suffixes -er and -est again this week. The first four require you to drop the e from the root word before adding the suffix. The last four require you to double up the last letter before adding the suffixes.
| nice nicer nicest |
| large larger largest |
| wise wiser wisest |
| strange stranger strangest |
| thin thinner thinnest |
| big bigger biggest |
| sad sadder saddest |
| hot hotter hottest |
24 March 2017
The words this week all contain the short vowel o sound (hot) which is spelled with an a. This is the most common spelling after w or qu.
| wanted |
| watched |
| wandering |
| washing |
| swamp |
| quality |
| squashed |
| quarrel |
17 March 2017
The spellings this week are homophones and near homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings and often spellings.
| sea |
| see |
| one |
| won |
| quite |
| quiet |
| here |
| hear |
| blue |
| blew |
10 March 2017
The spellings this week all have a double up for a short vowel sound. They also all end with the suffix ed or ing. The root word (eg pat, hop, etc) is also included in the list.
| pat patted |
| hop hopped |
| drop dropped |
| trap trapped |
| hum humming |
| slip slipping |
| clap clapping |
| grin grinning |