3 Word Lists for February This month we looked at words ending in ‘our’, characters from Great Expectations, and Lunar New Year vocabulary. 13 Ways to Monitor a Student’s Activity and Results on Spellzone On Spellzone, you can click on any student’s name to find out more about how they have been using the resource. Click on the blue ‘Students’ tab or choose a class from the blue ‘Classes’ tab to find a list of your students. 10 Ways to Monitor Your School’s Activity and Results on Spellzone From the most popular activities to a list of every time a student has logged ...
Our Word for Wednesday theme for February is Valentine’s Day. Originally a Christian feast day for St. Valentine, Valentine’s Day in now celebrated all over the world on February 14th. The day is a dedication to all things love and romance. The word Valentine has been used since the fifteenth century to describe the person one chooses to spend Valentine’s Day with. It was first used to describe a card or letter sent on Valentine’s Day in 1824. Over February we’ve looked at the words Cupid, sweetheart, and romance. Our final word for the month is desire. Desire is a strong ...
Our Word for Wednesday theme for February is Valentine’s Day. Originally a Christian feast day for St. Valentine, Valentine’s Day in now celebrated all over the world on February 14th. The day is a dedication to all things love and romance. The word Valentine has been used since the fifteenth century to describe the person one chooses to spend Valentine’s Day with. It was first used to describe a card or letter sent on Valentine’s Day in 1824. So far, we’ve looked at the words Cupid and sweetheart. This week’s word is romance. Romance refers to the exciting and ...
Our Word for Wednesday theme for February is Valentine’s Day. Originally a Christian feast day for St. Valentine, Valentine’s Day in now celebrated all over the world on February 14th. The day is a dedication to all things love and romance. The word Valentine has been used since the fifteenth century to describe the person one chooses to spend Valentine’s Day with. It was first used to describe a card or letter sent on Valentine’s Day in 1824. Last week, we looked at the word Cupid. Today’s word is sweetheart. The word sweetheart is used as an affectionate pet name between lovers or friends. The term might also be used by some...
Our Word for Wednesday theme for February is Valentine’s Day. Originally a Christian feast day for St. Valentine, Valentine’s Day in now celebrated all over the world on February 14th. The day is a dedication to all things love and romance. The word Valentine has been used since the fifteenth century to describe the person one chooses to spend Valentine’s Day with. It was first used to describe a card or letter sent on Valentine’s Day in 1824. Our first word of the month is Cupid. Cupid is the Roman God of Love and takes the form of a cherubic naked boy with wings and a bow and arrow. Today, the phrase playing cupid is used to describe ...
Words ending in ssor and rror In this month’s spelling pattern word list, we’re looking at words ending in 'ssor' and 'rror'. After the letters 'ss' and 'rr', many words use 'or' to spell the weak vowel ending. Learn about 'ssor' and 'rror' word endings in Unit 25 and practise spelling them in this word list. Winter Words Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Whether or not the snow sticks to the ground this year, here in the UK we are sure to get plenty of wind and rain. From blizzard, to flurries, to icicle; this list will teach you how to spell a variety cold-...
Every Christmas Eve, Santa Claus and his reindeer deliver presents to children all over the world. The first time a reindeer appeared in a Christmas story was in the children’s poem Old SanteClaus with Much Delight which was published in New York in 1821 and featured an illustration of a sleigh being pulled by a reindeer. Today, Christmas stories usually feature nine reindeer: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder/Donner, Blixem/Blitzen, and Rudolph. Although most of us recognise Rudolph from the popular song, he first appeared in a booklet by Robert L. May in 1939. The booklet was distributed by a Chicago-based retailer who bought and gave away colourin...
With just over a week to go until Christmas, we couldn’t resist choosing a Christmassy word for this week’s blog post. The word ‘reindeer’ has been used in English since around 1400, and probably comes from a Scandinavian source like the Old Norse ‘hreindyri’. ‘Dyr’ was Old Norse for ‘animal’ or ‘beast’, and the Old English cognate was ‘deor’. ‘Hreinn’ (and the Old English ‘hran’) both likely came from the PIE ‘krei’ meaning ‘horn, head’. ‘Hreindyri’, then, translates to something like ‘horn-headed animal’. Although reindeer have be...
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