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To ask what your year 1 spellings are

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Stumpted88 · 06/11/2018 21:13

So my DS has had his first lot of spellings back from school, he is on the second stage of oxford reading tree and is probably still guessing/memorising lots of words with some understanding of blending and the basic phonics.

His first ever spellings to learn at home (tested on Friday) are all 4 (bare one) letter words comprising of the likes of;

Year
Hair
Secure
Your

Etc etc. What happened to cat, dog, mum etc? He is so frustrated with it. Not to mention they also have to be written in cursive hand writing...

AIBU to think this is just tooo much?

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Stumpted88 · 06/11/2018 21:15

Pa he is 5 summer born!

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puzzledlady · 06/11/2018 21:15

I’m not sure but maybe different schools have different ways/lists? I think cat/dog/mum is stuff they learn in kindergarten? Just from our schools experience. HTH.

blamethewitchescat · 06/11/2018 21:18

So far we have mainly had words using the same sounds each week, such as 'ai' so rain, train,paid,afraid then a random Mr, 'ea' leaf, team, seat, beak and them. We have also had a change and have one,two,three, four and five.

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Stumpted88 · 06/11/2018 21:21

He has been doing phonics etc since preschool (he went to a really fantastic outstanding rated, eye watering expensive private one).

But they didn’t do written words (I assume kindergarten is the same as preschool, 3 and 4 year olds).

They just seem really hard, my MIL (retired primary school teacher) tried to get him to practice tonight and he was so frustrated and upset he couldn’t do it.

I am happy for him to be challenged, but I would also prefer to teach a love of reading and writing not an expectation...

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porkinmyteeth · 06/11/2018 21:23

This is from year one

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vicviking · 06/11/2018 21:23

Those seem like year 2 spellings to me. I'd double check with the teacher.

BMOT · 06/11/2018 21:24

As a Primary Teacher, I must say I think they are the most random words ever! We tend to work on spelling patterns and exploring words rather than setting tests, which has been proven to not be an effective way to teach spellings!

porkinmyteeth · 06/11/2018 21:24

This is her current year 2...

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AnotherRoadsideAttraction · 06/11/2018 21:25

Oh, god. Our YR1 spellings are far more easy - tree, me, be, the...Confused

AnotherRoadsideAttraction · 06/11/2018 21:26

But I'm foreign, so maybe have different expectations??

iwantasofa · 06/11/2018 21:28

They look really random and far too hard for his first ever spellings.

mumtomaxwell · 06/11/2018 21:29

My year 1 child has similar lists to porkinmyteeth

There have been significant changes to the curriculum in recent years - it has got A LOT harder at every level.

Dancingbea · 06/11/2018 21:32

Yep we just had those exact ones last week. My dd (5) got 2/10!! But she did write them out very nicely if wildly inaccurately Smile It is absurd.

snowone · 06/11/2018 21:32

I think this is the current spelling list for year 1 and 2 - some of them are on there but others not. I could well be wrong though

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Wednesdaypig · 06/11/2018 21:34

They are words using phonic sounds that would have been covered in reception. Air, ear, ure are in phase 3 of Letters and Sounds phonics scheme.

xJessica · 06/11/2018 21:34

My DD's were ridiculous in Year 1, one week she had subtraction, addition and suspicious and 7 others that I can't remember but those 3 stuck in my head because we spent so long working on them with her. She got so stressed that year and I hated it.

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Stumpted88 · 06/11/2018 22:24

Thanks, seems a mix of responses!

I must stress he is quite able for his age, but more in mathematics and sciences. HE loves books, his favourite is a children’s encyclopaedia and he knows to look up things he has learned at school in there, he also asks us to google things etc etc.

I would HATE him to be put off learning by some impossible tasks that he is basically set up to fail on every weekly test (this also sounds strange for a 5 year old to be tested weekly)

We just encourage a love of learning, that’s our motto! Be kind and love what you do.

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TheOxymoron · 07/11/2018 08:44

It’s comprising, not comprising of.

LongWalkShortPlank · 07/11/2018 08:56

My little girl had spring, summer, autumn, winter, plus two lots of phonic noises, ai and ea maybe? I don't remember. Then she had to find her own words with those sounds and she has a writing and drawing exercise to do too. Then we also have a reading book.

It is a lot. But at the end of the day she's learning from it, even if she doesn't get it right every time. It doesn't need to be perfect. It's just important that the learning is encouraged at home too because a lot of parents don't bother. Ours get it on a Monday and it's due back thursday, so we usually stagger it, doing a little each night. Just have them do their best, encourage them to do as much as they can so they don't grow up with that I hate school and homework attitude.

Wejustdontknow · 07/11/2018 09:54

Wow that seems like a lot, all my year one ds gets is reading which the school encourages us to try and do 4 times a week. I can’t decide if this is a good thing or if he could potentially be much further behind than others his age who are given much more homework

xJessica · 07/11/2018 10:27

My DD has had weekly spelling tests since reception. She started with 5 then moved to 10 whilst still in reception. It always seemed like a lot to expect.

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