Weekly Spellings – words with an ied ending
Below are the spellings for this week’s Spelling Test in Class 2. The theme for this week’s spellings is –verbs with a y ending that change to an ied ending in the past tense. Please note, the children will only be tested on the word with the ied ending.
Words with an ied ending
- marry – married
- worry – worried
- carry – carried
- hurry – hurried
- bury – buried
- copy – copied
- cry – cried
- try – tried
- dry – dried
- fry – fried
Extension Challenge
- classify – classified
- deny – denied
- empty – emptied
- justify – justified
- miscopy – miscopied
- multiply – multiplied
Additional spelling challenge
Find synonyms (words that have a similar meaning) for these words, e.g.
Cried – wept, sobbed
Worried – concerned
Additional writing challenge – write these words in different sentence types
There are four different sentence types: commands (an instruction); statements (give facts); questions (need answering); and exclamations (in Y2 they take the form of What or How statements. What a mistake! or How noisy!
Who emptied the bin? How empty is this party bag! Empty the bin now. I emptied the bin earlier this morning.
More SPaG resources are now available on the Class 2 blog.
Arithmetic – Creating equivalent calculations
Below is an outline of how to develop skills in creating equivalent calculations
- Write out multiplication facts from the 2, 5 and 10 times tables, e.g. 5 x 7 = 35
- Write out addition facts that give the same answer, e.g. 10 + 20 + 5 = 35
- Write the multiplication facts together in one number sentence, e.g. 5 x 7 = 10 + 20 + 5
- Write different examples using the same multiplication facts, e.g. 5 x 7 = 15 + 15 + 2 + 3
The tests will be on Friday 18th March.