Year 1 & 2 Spelling

22 March 2019

Posted on Friday 22 March 2019 by Mrs Latham

This week’s spellings continue to focus on suffixes (a group of letters added on to the root word).

Year 1 – ing

  • do
  • doing
  • have
  • having
  • go
  • going
  • jump
  • jumping

Year 2 – ment, ness, ly

  • excite
  • excitement
  • state
  • statement
  • kind
  • kindness
  • careless
  • quickly
  • slowly
  • lovely

15 March 2019

Posted on Friday 15 March 2019 by Mrs Latham

Write sentences using last week’s spellings. Remember a capital letter at the beginning and a full stop at the end.

Year 1

  • like
  • liked
  • ask
  • asked
  • want
  • wanted
  • walk
  • walked

Year 2

  • grab
  • grabbed
  • skip
  • skipped
  • spot
  • spotted
  • plan
  • planned
  • miss
  • missed

8 March 2019

Posted on Friday 08 March 2019 by Mrs Latham

This week’s spellings for Year 1 focus on adding the suffix ed, which we have been working on in school too.

Year 1

  • like
  • liked
  • ask
  • asked
  • want
  • wanted
  • walk
  • walked

Year 2 spellings focus on doubling the consonant before adding the ed suffix (look out for the exception).

  • grab
  • grabbed
  • skip
  • skipped
  • spot
  • spotted
  • plan
  • planned
  • miss
  • missed

1 March 2019

Posted on Friday 01 March 2019 by Mrs Latham

Use the last spellings to make a pyramid for each word.

Year 1

  •  take
  • name
  • these
  • time
  • like
  • home
  • June
  • tube

Year 2

  • jumping
  • jumped
  • jumper
  • think
  • thinking
  • thought
  • know
  • knowing
  • knew

8 February 2019

Posted on Friday 08 February 2019 by Mrs Latham

This week’s spellings for Year 1 contain split digraphs.

  • take
  • name
  • these
  • time
  • like
  • home
  • June
  • tube

Year 2 spellings are words with different suffixes that can act as verbs (an action, state or occurrence), depending on the context.

  • jumping
  • jumped
  • jumper
  • think
  • thinking
  • thought
  • know
  • knowing
  • knew

1 Feb 2019

Posted on Friday 01 February 2019 by Mrs Latham

Use last week’s spellings and write them in rainbow writing.

Year 1 – adding s to make a plural

  • train
  • trains
  • sweet
  • sweets
  • book
  • books

Year 2 – adding s or es for plurals

  • dance
  • dances
  • church
  • churches
  • fox
  • foxes
  • island
  • islands
  • paper
  • papers

25 January 2019

Posted on Friday 25 January 2019 by Mrs Latham

Spellings this week are looking at plurals.

Year 1 – adding s to make a plural

  • train
  • trains
  • sweet
  • sweets
  • book
  • books

Year 2 – adding s or es for plurals

  • dance
  • dances
  • church
  • churches
  • fox
  • foxes
  • island
  • islands
  • paper
  • papers

18 January 2019

Posted on Friday 18 January 2019 by Mrs Latham

Use last week’s spellings, writing them in fancy writing. This can in whichever style you like!

Year 1

  • come
  • some
  • one
  • once
  • do
  • of

Year 2

  • we’ll
  • he’ll
  • she’ll
  • they’ll
  • I’ll
  • I’ve
  • they’ve
  • we’ve

11 January 2019

Posted on Friday 11 January 2019 by Mrs Latham

This week’s spellings for Year 1 are common exception words that children should be spelling correctly by the end of the year.

Year 1

  • come
  • some
  • one
  • once
  • do
  • of

Year 2 spellings are words with an apostrophe that indicates omission of a letter or letters.

Year 2

  • we’ll
  • he’ll
  • she’ll
  • they’ll
  • I’ll
  • I’ve
  • they’ve
  • we’ve

14 December 2018

Posted on Friday 14 December 2018 by Mrs Latham

This week’s spelling homework is to look at and revise all the spellings from the last 6 weeks – ready for a spelling test next week!