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
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