Year 2 Spelling

09 December 2011

This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘le’. Your child will be tested on Friday 16 December 2011.

• handle
• angle
• table
• uncle
• ankle
• candle
• able
• simple
• grumble
• dawdle

02 December 2011

This week’s spellings are words ending in ‘ed’ for the past tense. Your child will be tested on Friday 09 December 2011.

• handed
• lifted
• landed
• melted
• planted
• mended
• ended
• dusted
• rusted
• tested

25 November 2011

This week’s spellings are time connectives. We are using them to help us write instructions. Your child will be tested on Friday 02 December 2011.

• First,
• Secondly,
• Next,
• Then,
• After that,
• Meanwhile,
• Later,
• Finally,

18 November 2011

This week’s spellings use ‘oa‘ to make a long ‘oh’ sound. Your child will be tested on Friday 25 November 2011.

• load
• road
• loaf
• soak
• boat
• coat
• float
• goat
• throat
• soap

11 November 2011

This week’s spellings are words with ‘ea’ – this creates a long ‘eee’ sound when you say the word (unlike a short ‘e’ such as in ‘tell’ or ‘incredible’).

Your child will be tested on Friday 18 November 2011.

• speak
• steal
• cream
• dream
• team
• mean
• please
• ear
• near
• easy

04 November 2011

This week’s spellings are ‘ly’ words. Your child will be tested on Friday 11 November 2011. It’d be great if the children could think of some of their own ‘ly’ words too!

• bravely
• proudly
• loudly
• sadly
• wisely
• quietly
• shyly
• weakly
• sweetly
• kindly

It’s the holiday…

…so there are no homework or spellings.

However, there are lots of ways you can support you child’s learning, first and foremost by visiting our Help Your Child section.

There are lots of things to do in or near Leeds, from geo-caching on Monday to a spooky Halloween walk on Sunday.  Here are a few other ideas to fill the October half-term holiday with activities…

• take your child for an autumnal walk in Roundhay Park to collect chestnuts for a game of conkers or autumn leaves for an autumn collage;
• on a cold, autumn day, stay indoors and spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
• take a trip to Leeds Art Gallery – the Damien Hirst exhibition should prove a great opportunity for lots of discussion, description and possibly disagreement!
• and, as always, enjoy some relaxing reading (why not read some Tintin stories from a local library in preparation for the forthcoming film?)

School re-opens on Tuesday 01 November 2011 (following a training day on Monday 31 October 2011).

14 October 2011

This week’s spellings are words that end in ‘er’. Your child will be tested on Friday 21 october 2011.

• richer
• smaller
• smoother
• taller
• braver
• safer
• older
• colder
• closer
• longer

10 October 2011

This week’s spellings are words with  ‘oi‘ and ‘oy‘. Your child will be tested on Friday 14 October 2011.

Top tip:

oi – usually if the sound is at the beginning or in the middle

oy – usually if the sound is at the end

• coin
• foil
• join
• oil
• point
• joy
• toy
• enjoy
• destroy
• employ

30 September 2011

This week’s spellings have the ‘ou‘ sound. Your child will be tested on Friday 07 October 2011.