08 March 2019
Year 1
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Friday 15 March. This week we have been writing about the characters in our story. Here are some of the high frequency words that we have been trying to spell within our work.
| about | got | see | very | down | now | house | oh |
Year 2
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Friday 15 March. This week we have been learning about the suffixes ‘-er’ and ‘-est’. Here are a few words that may need spelling rules applied to them. Don’t forget that in some words we drop the ‘y’ and add an ‘i’.
| nastier | break | sneakiest | Mrs | grumpier | Mr | happiest | climb |
01 March 2019
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Suffix tial or cial |
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| potential | crucial |
| residential | racial |
| influential | artificial |
| confidential | unofficial |
| torrential | special |
Friday 01 March 2019
Focus : apostrophes for possession
We have been learning about how apostrophes can show possession or ownership in a sentence.Create a series of questions that you can give to a partner to test them on apostrophes.
You could have questions on:
- correct/incorrect use of apostrophes
- insert apostrophes in sentences
- spot the incorrect use of an apostrophe
or anything else you can think of.
1 March 2019
Spelling Homework
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling list to be tested on Friday 8 March.
Year 1 words:
| she | help | saw | into | your | little | one | do |
Year 2 words:
| poor | pour | saw | floor | your | call | sure | pure |
08 February 2019
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
suffixes: –able or -ible |
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| adorable | horrible |
| considerable | Possible |
| comfortable | legible |
| enjoyable | incredible |
| reliable | sensible |
| changeable | terrible |
| laughable | visible |
01 February 2019
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Suffix ‘shun’ : -cian |
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| magician | dietician |
| musician | politician |
| technician | clinician |
| optician | mathematician |
| electrician | statistician |
25 January 2019
A reminder of the spelling activity grid.
| 1. Spot the Word
Look to see if you can spot smaller words inside the spelling word eg; friend, vegetable. |
2. Speed Write
Choose some words from the spelling list. How many times can you write the same word in one minute? |
3. Rainbow Words
Break a word down into syllables and write each part in a different colour eg; im / poss / i / ble |
| 4. Mnemonic
Write a mnemonic to remember the spelling: the first letter of each word in the sentence spells the word eg; because: big elephants can’t always use small exits. |
5. Backwards Words
Write out the spelling word forwards and then backwards eg; communicate / etacinummoc |
6. Silly Sentences
Write silly sentences with a spelling word in each. Underline the spelling word. |
| 7. Connect the Dots
Write the spelling words using dots, then connect the dots by tracing over them with a coloured pencil. |
8. Spelling Tennis
Play with somebody at home and evidence it in your homework book. One person starts with the first letter of the word; the other person says the next letter. The last person to add a letter, wins! |
9. Musical Words
Make up a little thyme, rap or song to remember words or rules for spellings eg; Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs F,F,I, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs L, T, Y- difficulty. |
25 January 2019
This week’s spelling list
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Suffix ‘shun’ : tion, sion, ssion |
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| protection | persuasion |
| competition | infusion |
| occupation | confession |
| accommodation | expression |
| explosion | mission |
| occasion | discussion |
25 January 2019
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Thursday 31 January.
Year 1
This week, we have been looking at adding the suffix ‘ed’ to a word to use it in the past tense. Don’t get tricked out when it sometimes sounds like a ‘t’ though!
| look | looked | call | called | ask | asked | jump | jumped |
Year 2
In phonics, you’ve been learning about the alternative pronunciations of vowels. All of these words have vowels in that are said differently.
| bath | class | half | many | busy | money | sugar | only |
Choose one of the following activities to complete using your spelling words.
Choose one of the following activities to complete using your spelling words.
25 January 2019
Spelling
Focus : the gu- sound
Learn these words for a test next week. For each word: speedwrite it three times; draw it as a pyramid word, and use it in a sentence.
guide
guest
guard
guess
guitar
guardian
spluttering
clustered