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
09 November 2012
This week’s spellings are a recap of split digraphs (a-e, i-e, o-e and u-e). The ‘e’ at the end of the word indicates the word has a longer vowel-sound in the middle – think about the difference between hop and hope, for example.
Your child will be tested on Wednesday 14 November 2012.
- make
- take
- spike
- broke
- smoke
- snake
- brake
- like
- huge
- came
19 October 2012
This week’s spellings begin with ‘th’. Your child will be tested on Friday 26 October 2012.
- three
- throat
- throne
- thigh
- thin
- thing
- thick
- throw
- threw
- think
12 October 2012
This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘ed’ for the past tense. Your child will be tested on Friday 19 October 2012.
- walked
- talked
- helped
- played
- climbed
- asked
- looked
- wished
- picked
- fixed
05 October 2012
This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘ck’. Your child will be tested on Friday 12 October 2012.
- shock
- stuck
- trick
- track
- back
- lick
- click
- pick
- lock
- flick
28 September 2012
This week’s spellings are words containing ‘oa’. Your child will be tested on Friday 05 October.
- load
- road
- loaf
- soak
- boat
- coat
- float
- goat
- throat
- soap
21 September 2012
This week’s spellings are words containing ‘ou’. These spellings will be tested on Friday 28 September 2012.
- cloud
- around
- found
- round
- sound
- pound
- count
- house
- mouse
- mouth
14 September 2012
This week’s spellings are words containing ‘ea’. Your child will be tested on Friday 21 September 2012.
- speak
- steal
- cream
- dream
- team
- mean
- please
- ear
- near
- easy