17 May 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 24 May 2013.
Zebras
Words using ‘igh’
- high
- night
- height
- fright
- right
- fight
- tight
- light
- might
- sight
Tigers
Adverbs ending in ‘ly’
- sadly
- fairly
- slowly
- quickly
- kindly
- shyly
- proudly
- nicely
- loudly
- sweetly
Lions
Lions will also be learning to change adjectives into adverbs. They will learn that if an adjective ends in ‘y’ they drop the ‘y’ and then add ‘ily’.
- sadly
- calmly
- slowly
- quickly
- smartly
- angrily
- happily
- scarily
- nastily
- stealthily
10 May 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 17 May 2013.
Zebras
Words with i_e split digraph – these make a ‘long i’ sound
- bite
- kite
- quite
- site
- white
- write
- invite
- drive
- five
- hive
Tigers
Words using ‘oo’, ‘u’ and ‘oul’ to make similar sounds.
- hood
- would
- should
- could
- good
- shook
- took
- push
- pull
- just
Lions
Words using ‘augh’ and ‘ough’.
- bought
- sought
- fought
- brought
- nought
- thought
- naughty
- daughter
- taught
- caught
03 May 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 10 May 2013.
Zebras
These are words that end in ‘ck’.
- shock
- stuck
- trick
- track
- back
- lick
- click
- pick
- lock
- flick
Tigers/ Lions
These are words with ‘tch’ to make the ‘ch’ sound.
- catch
- watch
- patch
- witch
- stretch
- match
- kitchen
- stitch
- snatch
- switch
26 April 2013
This week’s spellings are homophones again. This time we are thinking about ‘n’ and ‘kn’ words. Your child will be tested on Friday 03 May 2013.
- know
- no
- knew
- new
- knot
- not
- knight
- night
- knit
- nit
19 April 2013
This week’s spellings are homophones. These are words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning. Your child will be tested on Friday 26 April 2013.
- meet
- meat
- deer
- dear
- see
- sea
- flee
- flea
- bare
- bear
We’ll be thinking about other homophones during the week too.
22 March 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Thursday 28 March 2013.
Lions
The spellings are plurals ending in ‘ies’. When we change singular words that end in ‘y’ to make plurals, we need to drop the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’.
- tries
- cherries
- stories
- flies
- berries
- babies
- lorries
- ladies
- families
- cities
Tigers
This week’s spellings are words that make the ‘f’ sound using ‘ph’.
- graph
- phonics
- dolphin
- elephant
- sphere
- nephew
- alphabet
- telephone
- photo
- phase
Zebras
- bony
- greasy
- lazy
- scary
- shiny
- tasty
- slimy
- wavy
- nosy
- spiky
15 March 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 22 March 2013.
Lions
Words that end in ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘x’, ‘s’ or ‘ss’ need ‘es’ instead of ‘s’ at the end when you are saying more than one of them.
- bushes
- foxes
- churches
- boxes
- brushes
- torches
- hisses
- buses
- wishes
- classes
Tigers
The rule is words ending in ‘le’.
- handle
- angle
- table
- little
- ankle
- candle
- able
- simple
- grumble
- dawdle
Zebras
These words are common words that are being spelt incorrectly.
- from
- some
- said
- went
- so
- do
- little
- one
08 March 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 15 March.
Lions
This week’s spellings are plurals ending in ‘s’.
- pencils
- buckets
- windows
- computers
- teachers
- friends
- stickers
- shoes
- clothes
- schools
Tigers/ Zebras
This week’s spellings are high frequency words (words that children will often use in their writing).
- about
- here
- very
- your
- time
- house
- Mr
- could
- Mrs
- would
01 March 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 08 March.
Lions
These are compound words. These are words that are made up of two other words.
- bedroom
- football
- goodnight
- handbag
- outside
- paintbrush
- playground
- weekend
- cupboard
- blackbird
Tigers
These are words beginning with ‘wh’.
- who
- what
- why
- where
- when
- which
- white
- while
- wheel
- whale
Zebras
Please practise these tricky words.
- saw
- come
- what
- have
- went
- was
- came
- the
- some
- and
08 February 2013
Here are this week’s spellings.
For Lions group, they are all contractions (two words made into one, using an apostrophe to show missing letters). For other children, the words all use ai to make a long a sound.
Your child will be tested on Friday 15 February 2013.
Lions
- I’m
- can’t
- didn’t
- won’t
- couldn’t
- wouldn’t
- shouldn’t
- they’re
- don’t
- we’ll
Tigers / Zebras
- air
- hair
- fair
- stairs
- pair
- chair
- repair
- dairy
- fairy
- hairy