Spelling

13 November 2020

Spelling in English can be tricky. There’s lots of ways to write the ‘o’ sound in our spelling (oe, o, ow, oa). This week, we’d like you to practise the following words to help consolidate this learning. Remember, the words may appear ‘random’, but we are being exposed to different ways of writing similar sounds.

notice                                   suppose                                though                                  although

homeless                              hero                                      goes                                     glowing

To keep it fun, practise these spellings in different ways, check out the ‘super spelling strategies’ on this week’s spelling post (go to the St James’ website, learn more, spelling, Year 3 & 4). Children should practise in preparation for a test on Thursday 19  November 2020.

Fancy a challenge? Use these words in sentences. Or, create silly sentences using as many of them as you can – can you use them all?

13 November 2020

Spelling pattern ‘ough’

Learn for a spelling test next week.

• thorough
• enough
• cough
• thought
• plough
• dough
• ought
• bough
• although
• rough

13 November 2020

Use last week’s spellings and write them in dotty writing.

Year 1

• is
• love
• me
• my
• no

Year 2

• school
• she
• so
• some
• the
• there
• their
• they
• to
• today

06 November 2020

Spellings

This week, please learn the following spellings ready to be tested on Thursday 12 November. There are many ways to practise these, for example:

• Rainbow write (write them in many different colours)
• Speed write (how many times can you write a word in a minute)
• Pyramid write (write one letter, then two, then three etc till you’ve written the whole word
• Look, cover, write

This week, all of your spellings are based around the phoneme “i”. It can be spelt in many different ways whilst sounding the same.

06 November 2020

This week, we’ve been learning how to change nouns from singular to plural. Click here to remind yourself of the rules for plurals.

Change these nouns from singular to plural.

bargain

bruise

puppy

category

hoof

community

dictionary

wolf

bush

crutch

design

opportunity

Choose some words and put them into sentences.

Challenge: add parenthesis (extra information) by using brackets, dashes or commas.

06 November 2020

This week’s spellings are more common exception words (words that don’t follow the usual spelling rules). There are lots of ideas in our super spelling strategies to help you child learn them.

Year 1

• is
• love
• me
• my
• no

Year 2

• school
• she
• so
• some
• the
• there
• their
• they
• to
• today

02 November 2020

Before half term, we were been recapping one of our key spelling rules: adding –ed or –ing to change the tense of a verb.

Here’s an example…

First, we’d like you to complete this table. Be careful, there may be some irregular ones to catch you out!

Then, practise these spellings in different ways, check out the ‘super spelling strategies’ on this week’s spelling post.

Fancy a challenge? Use these words in sentences. Or, create silly sentences using as many of them as you can – can you use them all?

16 October 2020

This week, we’ve been learning about prefixes- complete this sheet.

Match the correct prefix with the root word and write the new word in a sentence.

Please send a photograph of your sentences to nataliebeatson@spherefederation.org

16 October 2020

This week, please learn the following spellings ready to be tested on Thursday 22 October. There are many ways to practise these, for example:

• Rainbow write (write them in many different colours)
• Speed write (how many times can you write a word in a minute)
• Pyramid write (write one letter, then two, then three etc till you’ve written the whole word
• Look, cover, write

This week, all of your spellings have a suffix (ed or ing). Remember the three rules:

• Just add the suffix
• Drop the e and add the suffix
• Double the last consonant and add the suffix

See if you can explain to your adult which rule each of these words has followed.

16 October 2020

Use last week’s spellings and write them in fancy writing – any you choose!

Year 1

• has
• he
• here
• his
• house

Year 2

• of
• push
• once
• put
• one
• said
• our
• saw
• pull
• says