Spelling for DD in year 1..........

[npg1]

Just wondering out of curiosity what you all think of these spellings DD came home with tonight from school. She is 6yrs old and in yr 1.

thin
them
they
then
with
throw
teeth
think
birthday
thursday

I think they are quite tricky.

[deegward]

we had chaffinch last week!!! ds2 is 5.5 and in yr 1

[mrsmaidamess]

Yes they are tricky. I work with year 1's and we are doing nothing approximating spellings. We want to children to have a try phonetically first of all.

[Monkeyblue]

DD is 5 and has these kind of spelling
I think they are hard and a lot to learn on top of reading and homework

[Blackduck]

done a lot of those - chaffinch this week, but the bugger was the week that had 'wednesday' thursday, tuesday and yesterday in it and we had three days!! I ask you, surprising very few children got 10/10 that week....

[wheresthehamster]

They would have covered all those digraphs in phonics by now - ow, ee, ir, ay etc. The only non-phonetic one is 'they' and they should know that is a 'tricky' word. So not too bad I suppose.

[npg1]

Wow, chaffinch!

I know there are 2 groups in her class, one group spell phonetically and then this is the other group which im guessing is the harder group.

[morningpaper]

seems about right to me

[nell12]

seems fine to me... which scheme are they following?

[Blackduck]

Chaffinch isn't actually hard - the joke in the playground is 'Has anyone ever seen one!'

[npg1]

I have no idea which scheme they are following!

[Troutpout]

They seem ok

[Hulababy]

More tricky than what the Y1s in DD's school are getting in their spelling tests. Seeing as research shows that spelling tests have no real correlation with overall literacy/spelling abilities late on I do wonder why schools bother so much so early/

[dinny]

seem fine to me

chaffinch seems such a weird word to include in spellings - surely the point is to learn to spell high frequency words?

[lucysmum]

we had chaffinch last week. It is from a standard Jolly Phonics weekly list that the teacher has told us she is following. That was the hardest one in the 'ff' list.

[dinny]

ah, I see

our school does a sort of mix of JP and kind of learning by rote, I think...

[lucysmum]

like blackduck we also had the days of the week the previous two weeks - even my y4 dd (and my DH ) struggled with those.

[dinny]

we had days of the week last wek, funnily enough

[imaginaryfriend]

Dd (6) is in Y1 and they get 5 spellings a week. So far they've been concentrated on the 'tricky' words like have / some / they. Or if they've been working on something specific like Owl Babies they've had words relevant to that like owl / branch / tree.

They've only had one spelling test though, they don't get tested every week.

[seeker]

A lot of schools don't do spelling tests any more - there is evidence that they don't work. My dd is living proof. All through primary school she got top marks for spelling tests (and there were lots of them!) but was completly unable to spell the same words if asked to write them in a sentence. She is in year 8 now, and her spelling is still pretty grim!

[Littlefish]

I agree with Seeker.