Before the holidays we looked at a_e with magic ‘e’. We will continue with a_e and also look at ‘ay‘ which makes the same sound! We will be revising our tricky words this term.
a_e and ay have the same sound but there is a difference:
With magic ‘e’ you can hear the long ‘a’ sound but at the end of the word you hear the second last letter because the ‘e’ is silent e.g. cake, game, lake
However, with ‘ay‘ you do hear the long ‘a’ sound at the end e.g. day, play, tray
Now you know lots of way to spell with the long ‘a’ sound (remember your learned ‘ai‘ in Primary 1 too)
Have a look at these videos:
Task:
- In your jotters, can you try to write ‘ay’ in your best handwriting 5 times.
- Think of some ‘ay’ and ‘a_e’ words and pick 4 words to write and draw them them in your jotter or on paper.
- Now try to write a sentence for each word, remember to use a capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end.
- Can you make a silly rhyme using ‘ay’ or ‘a_e’ words? e.g. It was a bright and sunny day, in the Month of May, is the best time to go out and play! Did you spot the rhyming words?
There will be no spelling tests but if you would still like homework words to learn and want to do your own spelling test at the end of the week then here is a word list. You can add more words onto it:
