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

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.
My grandfather still drives his vintage car which he bought
5. vintage car
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.
A lizard has sticky pads on its legs so that it will not fall
4. lizard
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.

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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.
Muskrat looks like a rodent and is sometimes called water
5. muskrat
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.
A beetle eats almost everything, plants, other insects,
9. beetle
carcasses and dung.
10. everyone Everyone in the class loves to read about animals.

Week 9 Date:
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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.