Year 2 Spelling

28 September 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task based on your new spelling words. It’s to be handed in on Thursday 04 October.

Year 1 words:

Year 2 words:

Choose one of these activities to complete using your spelling words.

21 September 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a set of words to learn, to be tested on Friday 28 September.

For Mrs Rowley’s and Miss Hardy’s phonics groups, please learn the following words:

the, and, to, I, said, of, he, was

For Mrs Walton’s phonics group, please learn the following words:

after, should, any, could, again, would, because, who

14 September 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task due in on Thursday 20 September.

Year 1
In your child’s homework book, you’ll see the 100 High-Frequency Words. By the end of year 1, children are expected to read and write these words. Therefore, we will begin by learning to spell some of these words.

This week’s task is to choose 5 of your spelling words. Write a silly sentence for each of the chosen words.
the       and
to          I
said     of
he        was

Year 2

In your child’s homework book, you’ll see the Year 2 Common Exception Words. By the end of year 2, children are expected to read and write these words. Therefore, we will begin by learning to spell some of these words.

This week’s task is to choose 5 of your spelling words. Write a silly sentence for each of the chosen words.
after               should
any                 could
again             would
because        who

07 September 2018

Year 1 spellings

This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task with a test on Friday 14 September.

As the children enter year 1, it is expected that when they write their names they will write their first name and their surname. Therefore, this week’s spelling homework is to practise spelling their surnames. We’ll also be practising this in our writing area this week, too.

Year 2 spellings 

This week’s homework is a spelling list to be tested on Friday 14 September.
As the children become more independent in year 2, they are expected to spell the days of the week correctly. Therefore, this week’s spelling words are the seven days of the week. To be marked as correct, they must have a capital letter!
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

22 June 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a set of words to learn.

Group 1:

Here is a list of 6 words to learn that all include a suffix ‘ed’ – think about how to spell the root word before you add your suffix. Don’t get tricked out by the ‘ed’ sounding like a ‘t’.

jumped, helped, pushed, looked, washed, worked

Group 2:

Here is a list of 8 words to learn that all include a suffix – think about how to spell the root word before you add your suffix.

jumped, helped, walking, playing, fastest, smartest, taller, higher

Group 3:

Here is a list of 10 words to learn that all include a suffix – think about how to spell the root word before you add your suffix.

delightful, cheerful, sadly, strangely, entertainment, enjoyment, safely, bravely, painless, harmless

15 June 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a list of words due to be tested on Thursday 21 June.

We have been learning to read contraction words. Here is a list of words to learn – don’t forget to include an apostrophe.

Year 1: I’ll, don’t, didn’t, can’t, it’s

Year 2:

I’ll, don’t, didn’t, can’t, it’s, wouldn’t, shouldn’t, haven’t, shan’t, won’t

08 June 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Thursday 14 June.

Year 1 have a phonics task to complete. It has a range of phonics activities, such as reading real and nonsense words, to complete.

Year 2 have a Common Exception Words word search to complete. At this point in the year, year 2 children should be spelling the majority of the Common Exception Words correctly.

11 May 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a list of words due to be tested on Thursday 17 May.

Group 1

All of these words are based on our phonics learning over the past two weeks.

boy, toy, joy, flew, new, knew

Group 2

All of these words are based on our phonics learning over the past two weeks – the sounds we know can often have an alternative pronunciation.

head, happy, acorn, was, what, why, they, how, now, low

Group 3

All of these words are based on our phonics learning over the past two weeks.

lamb, crumb, thumb, limb, know, knew, knight, knee, gnome, knock, knot

04 May 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Thursday 10 May.

Each child has a SPAG (Spelling,Punctuation and Grammar) task in their homework books practising a range of different skills from spelling high-frequency words, reading real and alien words, adding suffixes and prefixes and unscrambling misspelled words. Have a look in your child’s homework book to find the activities to complete.

27 April 2018

This week’s spelling homework is a list of words to learn for Thursday 03 May.

Year 1:

Group 1 – This week’s spellings homework is based on our phonics learning: pea, lead (a dog’s lead), boy, toy, tie, pie.

Group 2 – This week in phonics, we’ve looked at how some letters can be pronounced differently, such as i in fin or find. This week’s spelling homework is based on our phonics learning:

find, kind, wild, old, cold, don’t, gym, gem, magic.

Year 2:

Each of these words have a suffix (ly or less). This about how to spell the root word and the rules for adding suffixes.

badly, happily, hopeless, penniless, lovely, joyless, slowly, quickly, careless, fearless.