Weekly Spellings – soft g sound
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 – soft g sound.
Soft g sound at the beginning of words
- gel
- germ
- gym
- giant
Soft g with an e
- age
- cage
- page
- stage
Soft g with an i
- magic
- digit
Extension Challenge
- gentle
- gently
- gigantic
- giraffe
- manage
- luggage
- strange
- orange
- engine
- imagine
Additional writing challenge
Write the spellings in joined-up handwriting.
Arithmetic – doubling and halving numbers
Below is an outline of how to develop skills in doubling and halving numbers
- Write a list of odd and even numbers starting at 1 and finishing at 20.
- Double the odd numbers in order, starting with 1 then 3 then 5 etc.
- Halve all the even numbers in order, starting with 2 then 4 then 6 etc.
Extension
- Write a range of 2-digit numbers between 10 and 99 and sort them into odd and even numbers.
- Partition the numbers into tens and units, e.g. 43 = 40 and 3
- Double the odd numbers and halve the even numbers.
The tests will be on Friday 10th June.