Here is another page to add to our wet break/holiday activities section. It is a word search which looks at the ordinal numbers from first to tenth and is probably best suited to Years 1/2. It can also be used as an activity sheet to help with spellings. Once children have learnt the numbers from 1 to 10 it is important to get them used to these ordinal numbers and their spellings. The spellings are not easy to explain as some seem to follow a pattern and some don't. For example fourth, sixth, seventh and tenth just have the th added to the end of the equivalent number. However, with fifth the v in five becomes an f, and with ninth the e on the end of nine disappears. Watch out also for eighth, where just an h is added to the word eight. I wonder why we don't use oneth instead of first, twoth instead of second and threeth instead of third, words I have heard children use, as well as the occasional mathematician! I do know that secundus means following or next in order and that the English language we use today has various origins, from Latin to Middle English to Norse. Go to ordinal numbers wordsearch