Author: Sallie Roberts

6 years ago
Posted on by

11th March 2019 – spellings

Year 2 – The ‘er’ sound spelt with ‘or’ and the ‘or’ sound spelt with ‘ar’

word            worst

work            war

worm          warm

world           towards

worth           wand

 

Year 3 – words ending in the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’ and the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘que’

league       plague

rogue    vague

fatigue      unique

antique     mosque

cheque       technique

6 years ago
Posted on by

Homework Friday 8th March

Grammar

This week the children have been given some work on grammar.

  1. Were or was? they need to add the correct word to the given sentences.
  2. Adding is, am, are, was, were to sentences.

Also to show evidence of times table practise

year 2s – 2x, 3x, 5x and 10x

year 3s – 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8,x 10x

Homework is due in before the next Thursday (14th March 2019)

6 years ago
Posted on by

Monday 4th March 2019

Year 2 – The ‘o’ sound spelt with ‘a’ after ‘w’ or ‘qu’

want         watch

wander      quantity

squash         quality

squabble        squad

quad         quarrel

 

Year 3  – adding the prefixes ‘bi’ meaning ‘two’ or ‘twice’ and ‘re’ meaning ‘again’ or ‘back’

bicycle              biplane

bisect                bilingual

biannual           reappear

redecorate          reapply

repay            rebuild

6 years ago
Posted on by

Spellings 4th February 2019

Year 2

Common exception words

fast            last

father        class

grass         pass

plant          path

bath            people

 

Year 3

words with a ‘k’ sound spelt using ‘ch’

scheme          chaos

chorus              stomach

echo                  chemistry

character          orchestra

ache                technology

6 years ago
Posted on by

Spellings 28th January 2019

Year 2

the sound ‘or’ spelt ‘a’ before ‘l’ or ‘ll’

all          ball

call          walk

talk         always

small        wall

fall          altogether

 

Year 3

creating negative meanings using prefix ‘dis’

dislike              dishonest

disobey             disallow

discolour             disbelieve

discover             disapprove

disappear         discontinue

 

 

6 years ago
Posted on by

Spelling practise at home

Can I please remind parents that their child should be practising spellings for about 5 minutes each evening. They can use the look, cover, write, check method.

A few minutes a day really does make a huge difference.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Mrs Roberts

6 years ago
Posted on by

Week of 21st January 2019

Year 2s

adding -ing, -ed, -er, -est, and -y to words of one syllable

patting                              dropping

patted                               dropped

humming                         sadder

hummed                            saddest

runner                                   runny

 

Year 3s

Words with the prefix mis-

misspell                                    mislead

mistreat                                   misbehave

mistrust                                    misprint

misuse                                      misplace

misheard                                   misread