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
It’s Christmas…
…so enjoy the break.
We don’t give homework or spellings and tables to learn during holidays. Instead, we hope you all enjoy the break and spend some fabulously festive family time, whether it’s playing board games, enjoying a book or two or simply relaxing in front of the telly for a treat.
14 December 2012
This week’s spellings are tricky words. Your child will be tested on Friday 21 December 2012.
After the holidays, the children will be split into different spelling groups. You will know which group your child is in as it will be written on the inside of their spelling book.
- their (used for a name/person)
- there (used for places and has the word ‘here’ in it)
- people
- asked
- could
- saw
- thought
- friend
- once
- were
07 December 2012
This week’s spellings have the suffix ‘ful’. Your child will be tested on Friday 14 December 2012.
- careful
- harmful
- helpful
- painful
- playful
- powerful
- useful
- boastful
- grateful
- thankful