Why has DD (reception) been given 'car' and 'park' as key/sight words?

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I'm new to the whole school thing so have been trying to read up on the early years and key stage one curriculum in order to best support my nearly-5yo.
DD is loving school so far.
Yesterday the teacher gave me a list of 15 sight words for DD to practice at home. The teacher stated that they don't usually give homework this early in the school, but DD had asked for it. I believe this and am happy to make games etc. out of learning these words at home.
Most of the words are what I thought of as sight words; the, I, she etc.
However, I thought car and park were phonetic, using the digraph 'car'. So 'c' 'ar' and 'p' 'ar' 'k'. Just wondering why the teacher would want DD to know these works by sight instead of decoding them?
Thanks.

Exactly Rafa.

It's all about as clear as mud and I agree with you - the writers of the spelling objectives weren't on speaking terms with the writers of the lists.

We teach all three in Y1

If 'steak' was under the spelling pattern 'ea' rather than a section about 'common words

I'd put it in /ae/ alternative spellings

Makes sense.

I think DNiece2 had them in Yr 1. Her school uses Sound Reading System, which AFAIK is similar to Sounds Write.

If I hadn't been trying to put it all together to stick on TES, I don't think I'd have realised how bad it was Feenie. It might be possible to make it work, but I think you'd have to take it apart totally.

Yeah. It was better when I called it the 'ea' spelling of /ai/, earlier.