15 March 2013
This week’s spellings are a mixture of the previous week’s two rules. For the tenth spelling, children should think of their own word which fits one of the rules. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words.
| Double up for a short vowel sound | |
| 1. | flurry |
| 2. | madder |
| 3. | spinning |
| 4. | travelled |
| 5. | terrible |
| Drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ | |
| 6. | shaking |
| 7. | smiling |
| 8. | surprising |
| 9. | frustrating |
| 10. | ??????? |
08 March 2013
This week’s spelling rule is:
If the word ends in ‘e’, drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’.
| ride | riding |
| take | taking |
| joke | joking |
| dance | dancing |
| come | coming |
| tune | tuning |
| hide | hiding |
| hope | hoping |
| fake | faking |
| evaporate | evaporating |
These words will be tested on Friday 15 March.
01 March 2013
The spellings this week are all words which have a short vowel sound and require a ‘double up’ after the short vowel sound. A lot of the spellings are also in the past tense so will practise our ‘ed’ endings again. The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 08 March.
stopped
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ripped
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dropped
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spotted
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stepped
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messily
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happily
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staggered
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sniggered
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spluttered
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08 February 2013
We are reviewing our work on silent letters this week. The children will be tested on any of the words from the previous two spelling lists. As always, they will be tested on eight words.
01 February 2013
This is the second week of investigating words which contain silent letters. This week, we’re looking at words with a silent h and words with a silent b.
| 1. |
when |
| 2. |
which |
| 3. |
whale |
| 4. |
while |
| 5. |
bomb |
| 6. |
numb |
| 7. |
doubt |
| 8. |
crumb |
25 January 2013
For the next couple of weeks, we’ll investigate words which contain silent letters. This week, they are mostly at the start of the word. Can you spot the one which isn’t?
| 1. | know |
| 2. | knee |
| 3. | knock |
| 4. | knife |
| 5. | write |
| 6. | wrong |
| 7. | wreck |
| 8. | answer |
18 January 2013
All the spellings this week contain the letter string ough. It’s important to practise reading these words as well as writing them down as there are a variety of sounds that the ough words can make.
| 1. | rough |
| 2. | cough |
| 3. | enough |
| 4. | tough |
| 5. | though |
| 6. | dough |
| 7. | although |
| 8. | thought |
Children will be tested on all eight words on Friday 25 January.
11 January 2013
All the spellings this week contain a long i sound which is spelt igh. Children could also think of other words which contain igh or make other words from one of the spellings. For example: fright, frightening, frightened, frightful.
Children will be tested on all eight words on Friday 18 January.
| 1. | might |
| 2. | sight |
| 3. | height |
| 4. | flight |
| 5. | night |
| 6. | slightly |
| 7. | lightning |
| 8. | frightened |
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 contractions: words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. I’ve noticed that children are struggling to read these words and/or write them correctly.
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1. |
do not |
don’t |
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2. |
can not |
can’t |
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3. |
is not |
isn’t |
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4. |
does not |
doesn’t |
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5. |
will not |
won’t |
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6. |
there is |
there’s |
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7. |
it is |
it’s |
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8. |
I will |
I’ll |
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9. |
I have |
I’ve |
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10. |
I will |
I’ll |
Just noticed that I’ve listed I’ll twice. Sorry!
