Spellings

TERM 2
 

For checking on Friday 31st October:

We are learning words with the long /a/ sound spelt with 'ai'.

• straight
• contain
• brain
• faint
• waist
• praise
• complaint
• afraid

For checking on Friday 7th November:

We are learning words with the /ur/ sound spelt with 'ear'.

• earth
• early
• earn
• learn
• search
• heard
• pearl
• rehearse

For checking on Friday 14th November:

We are increasing to 10 spellings this week (unless I have discussed with you otherwise). For the next two weeks, we will be learning homophones and near homophones. While the words themselves seem a little easier, remember that you are going to have to know the meanings to understand which word it is that I’m looking for.

• here
• hear
• heel
• heal
• main
• mane
• mail
• male
• knot
• not

For checking on Friday 21st November:

This week, we will be learning homophones and near homophones again.

• berry
• bury
• break
• brake
• meet
• meat
• ball
• bawl
• fair
• fare

For checking on Friday 28th November:

For the remainder of the term, we will be creating adverbs using the suffix -ly. This week, there is no change to the root word to do so.

• kindly
• quickly
• safely
• rudely
• sweetly
• strongly
• bravely
• firstly
• finally
• usually

For checking on Friday 5th December:

We are continuing to create adverbs using the suffix -ly. This week, the root word has more than one syllable and already ends with -y. To make the adverb, the -y is replaced with an -i before the suffix -ly is added.

• happily
• angrily
• lazily
• easily
• busily
• greedily
• messily
• wearily
• cheekily
• clumsily

For checking on Friday 12th December:

We are, once again, creating adverbs using the suffix -ly. This week, we removed the -le from the root word before adding the suffix.

• gently
• simply
• humbly
• nobly
• horribly
• terribly
• possibly
• incredibly
• comfortably
• probably

TERM 1
 

For checking on Friday 26th September:

We are going to practise some KS1 words that we have found tricky before so that we definitely know them for year 3! 

• of
• off
• were
• where
• our
• are
• there
• their
• would
• could

For checking on Friday 3rd October:

We are going to practise some more KS1 words that we found tricky before so that we definitely know them for year 3! 

• friend
• beautiful
• again
• sure
• only
• school
• after
• people
• because
• half

For checking on Friday 10th October:

As we start to learn the Y3 words, we are going to start with just 8 spellings, instead of 10. We are learning words with the long /a/ sound spelt with 'ei' or 'eigh'.

• eight
• eighty
• weight
• neighbour
• sleigh
• vein
• veil
• beige

For checking on Thursday 16th October:

We only have 6 spellings this week because it is a shorter week and we will be checking on Thursday instead. We are learning words with the long /a/ sound spelt with 'ey'.

• hey
• they
• obey
• grey
• prey
• disobey