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.
10 June 2011
The spelling rule for this week is an old but important spelling rule that we are practising again. It is drop ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’. Nouns and verbs practise 1-8 and adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.
1. smile smiling
2. drive driving
3. shine shining
4. time timing
5. write writing
6. like liking
7. come coming
8. arrive arriving
9. believe believing
10. amaze amazing
Practise hard and you will get full marks.
13 May 2011
The spellings this week are all words that have silent letters within them. Nouns and verbs practise 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.
1. knife
2. write
3. when
4. could
5. would
6. should
7. knock
8. know
9. wrinkle
10. honest
The spellings will be tested on Friday 20 May.
06 May 2011
The spellings this week are all words that we can shorten using an apostrophe (these are called contractions). We’ve done these spellings before, but it’s still an objective we need to practise.
Nouns and verbs practise 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.
1. do not don’t
2. can not can’t
3. is not isn’t
4. does not doesn’t
5. will not won’t
6. I have I’ve
7. I am I’m
8. I will I’ll
9. here is here’s
10. could have could’ve
Spellings will be tested on Friday 13 May.
28 April 2011
The spellings this week are all high frequency words. Nouns and verbs should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.
1. across
2. almost
3. could
4. next
5. should
6. where
7. thought
8. although
9. important
10. through
The spellings will be tested on Friday 06 May.
21 April 2011
The spellings this week are all high frequency words. Nouns and verbs should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.
1. about
2. because
3. before
4. every
5. think
6. knew
7. might
8. would
9. thought
10. suddenly
The spellings will be tested on Thursday 28 April.
25 March 2011
The spellings this week are all words that have the prefix mis… or non…
Nouns and verbs should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.
1. mistake
2. misfit
3. mischief
4. misfortune
5. mistreat
6. nonsense
7. non-stop
8. non-fiction
9. mischievous
10. non-violent
The spellings will be tested on Friday 01 April.
18 March 2011
The spelling rule this week is to drop the ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’ to words that end in ‘e’.
1. like liking
2. use using
3. dare daring
4. shake shaking
5. smile smiling
6. take taking
7. pierce piercing
8. stare staring
9. breathe breathing
10. amaze amazing
We have practised this rule before so let’s aim for some high scores!
Spellings will be tested on Friday 25 March.
11 March 2011
The spellings this week are all words that we will be using in our new literacy unit to add extra information to sentences. Nouns and verbs should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.
1. with
2. while
3. which
4. when
5. because
6. where
7. meaning
8. that
9. although
10. however
Spellings wil be tested on Friday 18 March.
04 March 2011
The spellings for this week are all adverbs that we might use when writing stories in literacy.
Nouns and verbs groups should practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs groups should practise 1-10.
If anyone thinks of another wow adverb, they can write this at the end of the test on Friday for an extra mark!
1. sadly
2. scarily
3. happily
4. quickly
5. fiercely
6. friendly
7. excitedly
8. nervously
9. cautiously
10. anxiously
Spellings will be tested on Friday 11 February. Good luck!
