KUO CHUAN PRESBYTERIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY 1 SPELLING LIST TERM 3 (2009) Name: ______________________ ( ) 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 Can you count one to twenty? There are three tens in thirty. There are four tens in forty. Thirty-eight girls are going for the performance. Twenty-nine is after twenty-eight. Thirty-four is three tens and four ones. Thirty-three is three tens and three ones. Twenty-five is before twenty-six. Thirty-five is greater than thirty-one. Thirty-seven is greater than thirty-four.

1. twenty 2. thirty 3. forty 4. thirty-eight 5. twenty-nine 6. thirty-four 7. thirty-three 8. twenty-five 9. thirty-one 10. thirty-seven

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Week 3 Date: Spelling words Words used in context A bulldozer is used to plough the field. A helicopter has two propellers. Fire-engine is a vehicle designed to assist in fighting fires. My father rides a motor bike to work. My grandfather still drives his vintage car which he bought in 1924. Yellow is my favourite colour. Green is the colour of the grass. My sisters favourite colour is orange. Most metal spoons are silver in colour. The ocean is blue.

1. bulldozer 2. helicopter 3. fire-engine 4. motor bike 5. vintage car 6. yellow 7. green 8. orange 9. silver 10. blue

Week 4 Date: Spelling words Words used in context An anteater has a tapered snout and powerful front claws. Baboon is a large African monkey. A bug is an insect. A lizard has sticky pads on its legs so that it will not fall off while crawling on the ceiling. Mother likes to bake apple pie. The strings around the box snap because it was too tight. An exclamation mark is used to express surprise or anger. The monkey likes to hang on the tree branch. We should not walk on the grass. It will destroy them. Tigers like to eat meat.2

1. anteater 2. baboon 3. bug 4. lizard 5. pie 6. snap 7. exclamation 8. branch 9. grass 10. meat

Week 6 Date: Spelling words Words used in context We eat breakfast in the morning. We eat dinner in the evening. A doorway is the entrance way to a room or a building. The little boys like to eat ice cream. We eat lunch in the afternoon. My parents are organising a party on my birthday. We eat supper late at night. My foot was stuck in the mud. Purple is the colour of grapes and mangosteens. The crocodile skin is tough and scaly.

1. breakfast 2. dinner 3. doorway 4. ice cream 5. lunch 6. party 7. supper 8. stuck 9. purple 10. tough

Week 7 Date: Spelling words Words used in context A crayfish looks like a lobster but it is smaller. Dragonfly is an insect that preys on mosquitoes. An eel is a snakelike marine or freshwater fish. A fish has scales and fins. Muskrat looks like a rodent and is sometimes called water rat. Salamander eats insects, worms, snails and sometimes fish. A turtle is different from a tortoise. Turtles are reptiles. We drink eight glasses of water everyday. A beetle eats almost everything, plants, other insects, carcasses and dung. Everyone in the class loves to read about animals.

1. crayfish 2. dragonfly 3. eel 4. fish 5. muskrat 6. salamander 7. turtle 8. water 9. beetle 10. everyoneWeek 9 Date:

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Spelling words

Words used in context My brother and I always share our toys. We must try and divide the money equally. Another word for multiply is times. Lets divide the cake into four parts. The group that participate the most will be rewarded. Can you tell me the time now? One minute is equal to sixty seconds. The movie lasted for one hour. The time now is 7 oclock. We will go home at half past 8 today.

1. share 2. equally 3. multiply 4. divide 5. group 6. time 7. minute 8. hour 9. o clock 10.half past

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