14 October 2011
This week, the spellings are a mixture of the ‘ing’ rules:
- just add ‘ing’
- drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’
- double up when there’s a short vowel sound
1. |
meet |
meeting |
2. |
amaze |
amazing |
3. |
swim |
swimming |
4. |
raise |
raising |
5. |
drive |
driving |
6. |
kick |
kicking |
7. |
make |
making |
8. |
split |
splitting |
9. |
consider |
considering |
10. |
begin |
beginning |
Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 21 October.
07 October 2011
The spellings this week are all words where you have to drop the ‘e’ for ‘i n g’ at the end of the word.
Children will be tested on eight out of the ten spellings on Friday 14 October.
1. |
hope |
hoping |
2. |
use |
using |
3. |
write |
writing |
4. |
take |
taking |
5. |
shake |
shaking |
6. |
joke |
joking |
7. |
share |
sharing |
8. |
smile |
smiling |
9. |
have |
having |
10. |
shuffle |
shuffling |
30 September 2011
This is the second week of investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to words.
This week’s spellings are all words which have a short vowel sound before the final letter (think of the difference between the ‘o’ in hop – a short ‘o’ sound) compared to ‘hope’ (a longer sound, like ‘oh’).
When there’s a short vowel sound, you need to double up the final letter when adding ‘ing’.
Your child will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 07 October.
1. |
hop |
hopping |
2. |
run |
running |
3. |
shut |
shutting |
4. |
chat |
chatting |
5. |
shop |
shopping |
6. |
plan |
planning |
7. |
win |
winning |
8. |
swim |
swimming |
9. |
begin |
beginning |
10. |
stun |
stunning |
23 September 2011
Spelling rule:
This week’s spellings are all time connectives.
These will be used in next week’s lessons because the text type we’ll learn about is Instructions, where you often see time connectives to help you work out the sequence of what to do.
Time connectives are very often at the start of the sentence (as an ‘opener’). Because of this, commas and capital letters have to be remembered to be awarded the mark.
LO: Time connectives |
Firstly, |
Previously, |
Meanwhile, |
Before long, |
Eventually, |
Later on, |
Earlier, |
Finally, |
Can you come up with any more time connectives?
16 September 2011
For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be investigating the effect of adding ‘ing’ to verbs (actions or ‘doing words’). This week the spellings are all words which you just have to add ‘ing’ to the root word.
The children will be tested on eight out of the ten words. They’ll be tested on Friday 23 September.
1. |
help |
helping |
2. |
ask |
asking |
3. |
pull |
pulling |
4. |
jump |
jumping |
5. |
walk |
walking |
6. |
look |
looking |
7. |
start |
starting |
8. |
enjoy |
enjoying |
9. |
conduct |
conducting |
10. |
experiment |
experimenting |
It’s the summer…
…so there are no homework activities or spellings to learn.
Don’t forget learning can still happen in the holidays:
- take your children to the park and talk about what they can see, hear and smell;
- take a trip using a bus or train, and take time to look at the timetable (Why is it in the 24 hour clock? How long will the journey last? When will we arrive?)
- enjoy visits to the local library;
- 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?);
- encourage your child to write some postcards to friends and family;
- take a trip to a museum or art gallery.
Research shows that the long summer holidays can mean some children’s learning regresses and they might struggle in the autumn term to keep up. Frequent talk-times, reading, counting and tables practice are so important!
08 July 2011
The spellings this week are all words that have an ‘ed’ ending. Nouns and verbs practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise numbers 1-10.
- asked
- looked
- showed
- stopped
- dragged
- explored
- touched
- travelled
- bewildered
- abandoned
The spellings will be tested on Friday 15 July.
01 July 2011
The spellings this week are a mixture of ‘ing’ words.
- Some follow the ‘double up for a short vowel’ sound rule.
- Some follow the drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’ rule.
- Some just need ‘ing’ adding to the word.
The spellings will be tested on Friday 08 July.
1. trail trailing
2. crave craving
3. love loving
4. drop dropping
5. admit admitting
6. brave braving
8. complete completing
9. decide deciding
10. convince convincing
24 June 2011
The spellings this week are all words which require a letter to be doubled up because of a short vowel sound just before.
For example: hopping. The short ‘o’ (different to the ‘o’ in ‘hope’) sound means that the ‘p’ must be doubled up. (If it was a long ‘o’ sound the word would be hoping and wouldn’t need a double ‘p’.)
Nouns and verbs should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs should practise 1-10.
- follow
- happy
- banning
- swimming
- batter
- spinner
- trigger
- different
- accommodation
Spellings will be tested on Friday 29 June. Practise hard!
17 June 2011
The spellings this week are all words that end in ‘ch’, ‘sh’ or ‘ss’ and take ‘es’ endings. For example, the plural of witch is witches.
Nouns and verbs practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.
1. church churches
2. touch touches
3. wash washes
4. clash clashes
5. class classes
6. watch watches
7. miss misses
8. scratch scratches
9. embarrass embarrasses
10. approach approaches
The spellings will be tested on Friday 24 June.