Year 2 Feelings vocabulary worksheet

“Happy Words, Bigger and Smaller” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 English unit “Feelings vocabulary”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 22 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 27 to 28 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Happy Words, Bigger and Smaller

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · English · about 22 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can choose the most precise happy word for how someone feels.

A Look back3 min

1.
Put the words in order to make a sentence. Write the numbers 1, 2, 3 in the boxes.
1. home
2. went
3. Ola
2.
Which word is a name for a thing? Circle one.
tablequicklyrun
3.
Which word joins the two parts? The park was closed ___ it was raining. Circle one.
becauseunderblue

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola sits on the sand, smiling and humming, with the sun on her face. Which word fits best: cheerful or euphoric?

A sunny beach with a sandcastle and empty deckchairs, no people

Watch me

Ola is smiling and humming.

Cheerful means full of smiles.

Cheerful fits. Euphoric is far bigger than this.

Now you

1.
Zara sits in the garden with a warm cup of cocoa. Nothing needs doing and everything feels perfect. Which word fits Zara best? Circle one.
blissfuleuphoric

C Your turn6 min

Read each story. Circle the word that fits best. The stories get bigger as you go.

1.
Noah hums and smiles on a sunny walk to school. Noah feels... Circle one.
cheerfuleuphoric
2.
Sam reads by the window with a warm drink, and there is nothing else to do. Sam feels... Circle one.
blissfuleuphoric
3.
Ali sees the sea for the first time. He feels like he could float. Ali feels... Circle one.
cheerfulelated
4.
Leo wins the prize he has dreamed of for years. It is the happiest he has ever felt, and he cannot stop shouting. Leo feels... Circle one.
elatedeuphoric

Say it out loud: Which of the four words is the biggest feeling? What in the story made it feel bigger?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Ali says: “When I won first prize, I felt cheerful. Cheerful is the biggest happy word of all.”

1.
Which word is really the biggest happy word? Circle one.
cheerfuleuphoricblissfulelated

E Think deeper4 min

Choose a word for a moment that is much bigger than cheerful.

An empty school sports day finish line with flags and sunshine

1.
Write one sentence about a moment that makes someone feel euphoric. Then say in one sentence why cheerful is not strong enough.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Happy Words, Bigger and Smaller · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 1 Ola · 2 went · 3 home

2. table

3. because

B

1. blissful If your child chose euphoric, ask what is happening. Euphoric is huge, jumping-for-joy happiness. Zara is calm and content, so blissful fits.

C

1. cheerful If your child chose euphoric, ask: is Noah jumping for joy or just smiling? A smile on a sunny walk is cheerful.

2. blissful If your child chose euphoric, ask whether Sam is excited or calm and content. Calm and perfect means blissful.

3. elated If your child chose cheerful, ask how big the feeling is. Feeling so happy you could float is elated.

4. euphoric If your child chose elated, ask: is this the happiest Leo has ever felt? The very biggest happiness is euphoric.

D

1. euphoric If your child circled cheerful, they have believed Ali's claim. Cheerful means full of smiles. Ask your child which word means jumping for joy.

E

1. Look for: A sentence using euphoric about a clear moment, and a reason showing euphoric is bigger or stronger than cheerful.

Words to use

Say“Which word feels bigger, cheerful or euphoric? Tell me how you know.”

Instead of“Just tell them the word is euphoric and move on.”

After the sheet

At teatime, say a made-up moment, such as a dog finding its ball, and ask your child to pick a happy word from cheerful, blissful, elated or euphoric. They use it in a sentence, then swap turns.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Words for feeling sad(with a plan)
Angry Feeling Words(with a plan)
Friendship words to know(with a plan)
Words for Big Feelings(with a plan)

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