Yr 2 spellings tests

[DoingTheBestICan]

My ds is in yr 2,and when they moved up they started having spellings tests,they have to write down the words on a Friday afternoon and they have a week to learn them for a test the following Friday morning.
So far the words have been what you would expect,however recently they have gotten more tricky,for eg conspire,bonfire.
So he came home yesterday with his new list,words including congratulations,suspicious.
Is this the norm? I'm not bragging or showing off,ds is just a normal,average little boy.
What spellings do your dc get at this age?

Thanks everyone,there are some interesting points here for me to read over with more care later.
The yr is split into different groups according to their ability,ds is in the top group,they have a phonics session every Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday morning with a spelling test on Friday.
We have been looking over his spellings and he seems to know them,he enjoys writing them out and I have been getting him to make up sentences with the words in them,so he knows the meaning of the word.

Seriously, does anybody pronounce the word funny as fun-ee, as mrz suggests?

' the end of the word

f-u-n-ee'

I have never heard the word pronounced that way, unless the speaker is being very sarcastic!

unless the speaker is being very sarcastic!
have you read masha's lists?

Just out of interest, penny, how do you pronounce funny?

dd's spellings seem to be based around shapes this week so she has pyramid, triangle, square, sphere, diamond and I can't remember what else