It’s half term…
It’s half-term holidays next week, so there are no homework tasks or spellings next week.
Of course, regular practice and learning can still happen: reading each day, swimming, tables practice, trips to the library, walks around Roundhay Park… All will help your child have a happy and healthy holiday!
11 February 2011
The spellings for this week are all words that we are commonly misspelling in class:
1. when
2. does
3. among
4. which
5. until
6. really
7. when
8. coming
9. using
10. believe
Adjectives and adverbs also have to choose two words that they are not sure how to spell and find the correct spelling. You will be tested on these words as well!
The spellings will be tested on Friday 18 February.
Friday 03 February
The spellings for this week are all contractions – words that have been shortened by adding an apostrophe.
You’ll be tested on the words in the right hand column (the words with the apostrophes in them).
1. do not don’t
2. cannot 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. it is it’s
10. there is there’s
Adjectives and adverbs:
Can you think of any of your own?
The spellings will be tested on Friday 12 February. Good luck!
28 January 2011
The spellings this week are the same homophones as last week. Children need to keep practising them. They might be tested on any of the words. When practising at home with your child, try to put each word into a sentence so that the meaning of each word and it’s spelling becomes securely embedded.
(For an extra challenge, try creating a sentence with both homophones eg I knew the new toy was a good choice.)
Don’t forget – school is closed on Friday so the test will be a day earlier!
1. new knew
2. right write
3. through threw
4. great grate
5. their there
6. hole whole
7. no know
8. pair pear
9. heard herd
10. poor pour
11. bored board
12. peace piece
13. aloud allowed
Spellings will be tested on Friday 4 February. Good luck!
21 January 2011
The spellings this week are all homophones. These are words that sound the same but
are spelt differently:
1. new knew
2. right write
3, through threw
4. great grate
5. their there
6. hole whole
7. no know
8. pair pear
9. heard herd
10. poor pour
11. bored board
12. peace piece
13. aloud allowed
Spellings will be tested on Friday 28 January. Good luck.
14 January 2011
The spellings this week are all time connectives. We are going to be practising using these connectives as openers to sentences in our new literacy unit. This is why they all start with a capital letter and have a comma at the end of the word.
Spellings will be marked wrong if the capital letter and comma aren’t present!
1. Before,
2. After,
3. Then,
4. Later,
5. Just then,
6. Finally,
7. Next,
8. Suddenly,
9. Meanwhile,
10. Afterwards,
Spellings will be tested on Friday 21 January. Good luck!
07 January 2011
The spelling rule this week is to drop the ‘e’ when adding ‘ing’ to words that end in an ‘e’
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. care caring
11. decide deciding
12. become becoming
13. improve improving
Spellings will be tested on Friday 14 January. Good luck.
Holidays approaching…
…so there are no spelling lists, tables or other homework this week.
Enjoy reading, writing (and possibly making?) Christmas cards, reflecting on this term’s topics and other activities.
06 December 2010
All the spellings this week are commonly used words.
Spellings 1-10 should be practised by the Nouns and Verbs. 1-13 should be practised by the Adjectives and Adverbs.
1. there
2. really
3. going
4. because
5. were
6. about
7. coming
8. believe
9. when
10. angry
11. happening
12. scared
13. shivering
Spellings will be tested on Friday 10 December. Good luck!
26 November 2010
This is our final week of spelling words with prefixes. The spellings this week all have prefixes which change the meaning of the word to convey the opposite (synonyms). For example, tidy and untidy.
You will only be tested on the word with the prefix (words in bold). Nouns and verbs practise 1-10. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-15.
1. well unwell
2. tidy untidy
3. usual unusual
4. certain uncertain
5. friendly unfriendly
6. selfish unselfish
7. agree disagree
8. comfort discomfort
9. appear disappear
10. obey disobey
11. pleasant unpleasant
12. approve disapprove
13. trust distrust
14. necessary unnecessary
15. appealing unappealing
Good luck!
