We hope you have still managed to have a Happy Easter!
The suffixes -ment, -ness and -ful
enjoyment
sadness
careful
playful
plainness
argument
merriment
happiness
plentiful
Here are some Easter words you might like to spell over the holidays;
Easter, chocolate, bunny, rabbit, chick, lamb, basket, hide, hiding.
Can you write some Easter sentences with these words included?
We hope you are all well and enjoying the home learning activities for Year 2.
We wouldn’t usually send spellings to learn over the holidays, but we recognise you might want to keep a bit of routine over the break. Here are some common exception words activities that you can try at home.
Maybe you could play a game of ‘hangman’ using the common exception words for your family to guess?
How many common exception words can you spell reliably? Colour in the fish to see how well you are doing.
If you’d like to still have a spellings test, you can try these words-
clothes, children, parents, beautiful, pretty, whole, every, prove, improve
The stressed /er/ sound spelt with ‘or’ after w and the /or/ sound spelt ‘ar’ after w
word, work, worm, world, worth, worst, war, warm, towards
The children love wordsearches! Here is one you can do at home, or maybe children could make their own? 30.3.20 Word Search Black and White
We hope you are all well, we really miss seeing Swifts and Swallows!
Keep checking the school’s Home Learning page as the Senior Leadership Team are working hard to add videos and interactivity to Pelham’s home schooling experience.
Our aim is to keep the same routine with spellings as if we were at school;
Tues/ Weds– new spellings on blog
Throughout the week– practise your spellings in a variety of ways
Monday– have a spelling test at home, mark your spellings with the help of an adult and make corrections with a different coloured pen.
Spellings are something that are good to keep ‘ticking over’ as they can be easily forgotten without regular practice, so we hope you keep up the great work at home.
want, watch, wander, quantity, squash, quality, squabble, squad, quad
We hope that you and your families are well.
We are trying to keep the timetable for spellings the same as if we were at school.
Tuesdays/ Wednesdays- spelling blog is updated with new spellings
Rest of the week- learn your spellings, using a variety of ways, this is listed in the home learning section for Year 2 as ‘interesting ways’ on Friday e.g. bubble writing, write a definition etc.
Monday- give your child a short spelling test, as they would have at school. Children are used to marking the tests themselves and making their corrections in a different coloured pen. Children can be extended by writing a sentence with the spelling word included.
Remember you can skip back to the previous week’s spellings if you need to look at them again.
We are writing our own version of the story, ‘STUCK’ by Oliver Jeffers over the next few weeks.
Oliver uses contractions in his stories to help the words to flow.
We are therefore concentrating on contractions in our spelling this week, to inspire our story writing.
can’t
won’t
didn’t
shouldn’t
couldn’t
wouldn’t
weren’t
hadn’t
hasn’t
The sound /ee/ spelt with ‘-ey’
key
donkey
monkey
chimney
valley
trolley
turkey
hockey
parsley
/u/ sound spelt as ‘o’
other, mother, brother, nothing, Monday, money, cover, honey, discover
Remember to try different ways to learn your spellings, this helps them to stick in your brain!
How many different, creative ways can you practise your spellings?
For example:
Next spellings will be sent home on Wednesday 26th February, for a test on Monday 2nd March.
In the meantime, Miss Singh and I talked a lot around consistency with spellings at Parents’ Evening, especially when children write independently.
Children are welcome to write about something they did over the half term and bring it in to share with the class, showing us they remembered to spell the Common Exception Words and High Frequency Word correctly. Children might like to start using a simple dictionary to help look for spelling corrections themselves.
We are looking at some common exception words.
Remember, these words like to break the spelling rules! These particular words are often pronounced differently, depending on the accent you have!
fast
last
father
class
grass
pass
plant
path
bath