Weekly Spellings –double consonant
Below are the spellings for this week’s Spelling Test in Class 2. To prepare for Year 3, we will be focusing more closely on spellings over the coming weeks. As there will be more spellings to learn each week in the Extension Challenge we will complete less SPaG work.
The theme for this week’s spellings is – words with double consonants
- ladder
- manners
- better
- bigger
- happen
- collect
- bitter
- success
- channel
- traffic
Extension Challenge
- beginning
- annoyed
- yellow
- bullying
- bottle
- darkness
- emptiness
- kindness
- challenge
- happiness
Additional writing challenge
Write the spellings in joined-up handwriting.
Arithmetic – subtracting numbers
Below is an outline of how to develop skills in subtracting numbers.
- Subtract multiples of 10 from 100, e.g. 100 – 40 = 60
- Subtract one-digit numbers from 100, e.g. 100 – 8 = 92
- Subtract two-digit numbers from 100, e.g. 100 – 28 = 72
Extension
- Subtract two-digit numbers from 100, e.g. 100 – 28 – 34 = 38
The tests will be on Friday 1st July.