WALT: revise using the apostrophe for possession Spring Term 1 Group 1 Wk 4 WALT: revise using the apostrophe for possession Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Final Check 1. girl’s 2. girls’ 3. its 4. mice’s 5. babies’ 6. baby’s Common exception words 7. any 8. beautiful Practise your spellings every evening (check, cover, write then check again). Task: use your spellings in a sentence which requires the possessive apostrophe e.g. The girl’s painting was beautiful. Some of your spellings are plural words: Toy belonging to one girl: the girl’s toy Toy belonging to more than one girl: the girls’ toy

WALT: revise using the apostrophe for possession Spring Term 1 Group 2 Wk 4 WALT: revise using the apostrophe for possession Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Final Check 1. men’s 2. man’s 3. mice’s 4. children’s 5. girl’s 6. girls’ Statutory word list – 1 7. guard 8. guide 9. heard Statutory word list – 2 10. embarrass 11. environment 1) Practise your spellings every evening (check, cover, write then check). Task: use your spellings in a sentence which requires the possessive apostrophe e.g. The children’s laughter could be heard from the playground.

WALT: revise using the apostrophe for possession Spring Term 1 Group 3 Wk 4 WALT: revise using the apostrophe for possession Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Final Check 1. men’s 2. man’s 3. mice’s 4. children’s 5. woman’s 6. women’s 7. people’s Statutory word list 8. familiar 9. foreign 10. forty 11. frequently 1) Practise your spellings every evening (check, cover, write then check). Task: use your spellings in a sentence which requires the possessive apostrophe e.g. The woman’s face was familiar.

Rules and Guidance The apostrophe is placed after the plural form of the word; –s is not added if the plural already ends in –s, but is added if the plural does not end in –s (i.e. is an irregular plural – e.g. children’s).