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
30 November 2012
This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘y’.
Talk with your child about the sound it makes (usually an ‘e’ sound), and see if you can they can think of more words like this at home. The words here are all adjectives – they describe something (a noun). Can your child put these words into sentences? They could write one or two of them to practise handwriting skills and punctuation, too.
Your child will be tested on Friday 07 December 2012.
- bony
- greasy
- lazy
- scary
- shiny
- tasty
- slimy
- wavy
- nosy
- spiky
23 November 2012
This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘ing’. Your child will be tested on Friday 30 November 2012.
- joining
- fishing
- floating
- reading
- teaching
- writing
- sleeping
- looking
- thinking
- beating
16 November 2012
This week’s spellings are words with ‘igh’. Your child will be tested on Friday 23 November 2012.
- high
- night
- height
- fright
- right
- fight
- tight
- light
- might
- sight