What a busy week so far! We have been using phoneme fans and magnetic lettters to help us learn sounds and spell words.
Some children have been reading Phase 2 decodable words and writing them on whiteboards.
Here are some of those words: got, mum, his, big, not, him,dad and get.
Yesterday we tried to find as many words in
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The longest ones we have found so far have six letters - yippee and Christ.
Can you find a longer word? Make a comment or bring your word in on a piece of paper.
There's a prize for the longest word found!
Follow this link to practise the Year 2 exception words:
https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/folder-67
Follow this link to practise the Year 3/4 exception words:
https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/folder-61
Much fun had with this website this week, as we have been investigating the ways to make the 'dge' phoneme:
https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-71.htm
Practise using the games to help you learn the spelling and the definition of the word.
This week in our phonics and spelling session, we have been investigating the homophones 'to, too and two' and identifying when to use which one.
We have also investigated other homophones and explained the meaning of each word. Here a few games to help you to practise this skill:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en21watc-game-paris-word
https://gotkidsgames.com/hom/HomophonesCarsAdpt.html
To earn a merit, choose 5 different homophones and write a sentence to show you understand the difference between the words.
| read / red | steel / steal | tour / tore |
rose / rows |
| weather / whether | mist / missed | hi / high | cereal / serial |
| scent / cent / sent | bread / bred | dye / die | Board / bored |
| not / knot | site / sight | higher / hire | mind / mined |
| sawed / sword | would / wood | break / brake | tire / tyre |
| heard / herd | some / sum | air / heir | groan / grown |
| piece / peace | none / nun | allowed / aloud | road / rowed |
| be / B / bee | root / route | whale / wail | so / sew / sow |
| he'll / heal / heel | flower / flour | toes / tows | soul / sole |
| which / witch | bear / bare | deer / dear | bite / byte |
| here / hear | |||
Well done children!
This week we have been looking at real and nonsense words with the trigraph igh.
Can you sort the following words into real and nonsense groups? Good luck!
jight, high, might, quight, tight, moonlight, dight, midnight, bright, gight, fright, sunlight
This week, we are recapping our knowledge of the spelling rules we have learnt so far.
Please follow this link to help you:
This week we have been investigating the spelling of words which have the sound /zh/ in them, as well as feather, heather, leather, weather.
This week we have been looking at final blends. Everyone worked hard cutting and sticking letters to spell cvcc words. Here are the ones we practised.
mp, st, lt, nt, sk Have fun playing the game.