P1 Term 3 Spelling

KUO CHUAN PRESBYTERIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY 1 SPELLING LIST TERM 3 (2009) Name: ______________________ (

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Class: P1 __________

Important note: Pupils are to learn only the ‘Spelling Words’. The ‘Words used in context’ are for pupils’ reference on how to use the spelling words in sentences. [No spelling on Week 5 and Week 8] Week 2 Date: Spelling words

Words used in context

1. twenty

Can you count one to twenty?

2. thirty

There are three tens in thirty.

3. forty

There are four tens in forty.

4. thirty-eight

Thirty-eight girls are going for the performance.

5. twenty-nine

Twenty-nine is after twenty-eight.

6. thirty-four

Thirty-four is three tens and four ones.

7. thirty-three

Thirty-three is three tens and three ones.

8. twenty-five

Twenty-five is before twenty-six.

9. thirty-one

Thirty-five is greater than thirty-one.

10. thirty-seven

Thirty-seven is greater than thirty-four.

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Week 3 Date: Spelling words

Words used in context

1. bulldozer

A bulldozer is used to plough the field.

2. helicopter

A helicopter has two propellers.

3. fire-engine

Fire-engine is a vehicle designed to assist in fighting fires.

4. motor bike

My father rides a motor bike to work.

5. vintage car

My grandfather still drives his vintage car which he bought in 1924.

6. yellow

Yellow is my favourite colour.

7. green

Green is the colour of the grass.

8. orange

My sister’s favourite colour is orange.

9. silver

Most metal spoons are silver in colour.

10. blue

The ocean is blue.

Week 4 Date: Spelling words

Words used in context

1. anteater

An anteater has a tapered snout and powerful front claws.

2. baboon

Baboon is a large African monkey.

3. bug

A bug is an insect.

4. lizard

A lizard has sticky pads on its legs so that it will not fall off while crawling on the ceiling.

5. pie

Mother likes to bake apple pie.

6. snap

The strings around the box snap because it was too tight.

7. exclamation

An exclamation mark is used to express surprise or anger.

8. branch

The monkey likes to hang on the tree branch.

9. grass

We should not walk on the grass. It will destroy them.

10. meat

Tigers like to eat meat. 2

Week 6 Date: Spelling words

Words used in context

1. breakfast

We eat breakfast in the morning.

2. dinner

We eat dinner in the evening.

3. doorway

A doorway is the entrance way to a room or a building.

4. ice cream

The little boys like to eat ice cream.

5. lunch

We eat lunch in the afternoon.

6. party

My parents are organising a party on my birthday.

7. supper

We eat supper late at night.

8. stuck

My foot was stuck in the mud.

9. purple

Purple is the colour of grapes and mangosteens.

10. tough

The crocodile skin is tough and scaly.

Week 7 Date: Spelling words

Words used in context

1. crayfish

A crayfish looks like a lobster but it is smaller.

2. dragonfly

Dragonfly is an insect that preys on mosquitoes.

3. eel

An eel is a snakelike marine or freshwater fish.

4. fish

A fish has scales and fins.

5. muskrat

Muskrat looks like a rodent and is sometimes called water rat.

6. salamander

Salamander eats insects, worms, snails and sometimes fish.

7. turtle

A turtle is different from a tortoise. Turtles are reptiles.

8. water

We drink eight glasses of water everyday.

9. beetle

A beetle eats almost everything, plants, other insects, carcasses and dung.

10. everyone

Everyone in the class loves to read about animals.

Week 9 Date: 3

Spelling words

Words used in context

1. share

My brother and I always share our toys.

2. equally

We must try and divide the money equally.

3. multiply

Another word for multiply is ‘times’.

4. divide

Let’s divide the cake into four parts.

5. group

The group that participate the most will be rewarded.

6. time

Can you tell me the time now?

7. minute

One minute is equal to sixty seconds.

8. hour

The movie lasted for one hour.

9. o’ clock

The time now is 7 o’clock.

10.half past

We will go home at half past 8 today.

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