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
01 February 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 08 February 2013.
Lions
This week’s spellings are adding ‘ing’ to verbs. Because there is a short vowel sound, you need to double the consonant after it.
- running
- swimming
- skipping
- hopping
- stopping
- rubbing
- shopping
- dropping
- putting
- digging
Tigers/Zebras
This week we are learning to spell words with double consonants after the vowel. The double consonant often mean the sound before is a ‘short’ sound (think of the difference between dinner and diner, supper and super, for example).
- better
- daddy
- dinner
- happy
- letter
- supper
- lolly
- button
- summer
- rabbit
25 January 2013
This week’s spellings will be tested on Friday 01 February 2013.
Lions
The rule is ‘drop the e for ing’, so, for example, ‘make’ becomes ‘making’.
- liking
- riding
- waving
- taming
- smiling
- hiding
- moving
- having
- writing
- shaking
Tigers
- girl
- bird
- burger
- hurt
- first
- after
- her
- return
- turn
- dirt
Zebras
Zebras are working on their split digraph spellings again this week.
18 January 2013
This week’s spellings for Lions and Tigers end in ‘ge’ or ‘dge’. A useful tip is that if the word has a short vowel sound followed by the ‘j’ sound then you use ‘dge’. If the word has a long vowel sound followed by the ‘j’ sound then you use ‘ge’.
- bridge
- hedge
- huge
- damage
- village
- badge
- stage
- judge
- message
- badger
This week’s spellings for Zebras are words with the split digraph.
- take
- make
- bike
- like
- spoke
- came
- cake
- ride
- spike
- broke
Spellings will be tested on Friday 25 January 2013.
11 January 2013
Lions, Tigers and Zebras are the names of our three spelling groups. The name of your child’s group will be written on their spelling book. Spellings, as usual, will be tested on Friday (18 January).
Lions: the ‘tion’ ending
- action
- option
- addition
- infection
- situation
- creation
- donation
- education
- election
- emotion
Tigers and Zebras: ‘sh’ and ‘ch’
- shirt
- church
- sharp
- shark
- catch
- chart
- smash
- wash
- short
- shift