To think these spellings just take the piss....

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my dd aged 8, year 4. Just about where she should be in reading, spelling etc comes home with her spellings tonight.....

daddy (wtf???????? )
funny
sudden
puppy
letter
dinner
pillow
common

now I am not precious...i know my child is not a rocket scientist but my year 1 child can spell daddy. I think these are seriously unchallenging and abit pointless.

On the bright side we didn't have to learn any

hmm, actually, they are not to bad, because there is no obvious pattern. so she has to actually know them all individually.

yeah they don't do pattern spelling

my ds year 3 had

vicious
hero
heroine
adventurous
greedy
confident

and a few others
he too is average and i think these are considerably harder.

my dd is 7 and comes home with spellings cane, can, buzz, fuzz... she has to write them out three times, and has a spelling test at the end of each week.. they are very easy, so I have never actually asked her to spell them for me... do you think there might be a reason they make them so easy?
Something to do with ticking boxes I reckon.

the thing is as i say my dd is not the best speller in the world, i just thought the point was to actually have to learn them, just not be able to do them outright without bothering.

Well as all the words have double letters in them they're obviously concentrating on that particular spelling challenge so having a word he can spell is a good idea as he will get the idea with the others....

my ds2 would actually have struggled with those at that age but he can't spell to save his life! Ds1 would have known them at 4, he was obsessed with spelling from as soon as he could talk.

yeah but honestly she can do them all, it's not just about 'daddy' although that clearly was the one that made me and when my ds who is a year younger is coming home with spelling s we actually sit down and learn i can't help but think my dd should be getting similar if not harder.

I never understand they need harder homework thing. Homework is not meant to stretch , just to instill what they already know.

DD has always been able to do her spellings without learning them, I don't think I even bothered looking at them after year 1, same with reading.

DS can't spell because of dyslexia, could always to spelling tests reasonably well ie 8/10 because they usually followed a rule, but when he had use those same words while writing a story he had no idea.

There is a pattern though. They are all double consonants in the middle of the word. It is to get the used to the idea of double consonants in the middle of a word as they are commonly mis spelled. They do it with words that the children are already familiar with so that when they get to more unfamiliar words they are prepared to use double consonants. Lots of KS2 children forget the double consonant so practice is always helpful.