Year 1 spellings?

[LB29]

My DD only receives 2 sheets of homework a week and brings home a reading book every night but wants more homework. She is unbelievably motivated and wants to learn at home and at school.
At her parents evening her teacher said that it was unsurprising as she has the same attitude at school but didn't really come up with many ideas of extra work I could be doing with her.
Her school don't give spellings to KS1 children because they think it is unnecessary as research has shown it doesn't help and instead focus on phonics, which DD doesn't enjoy and has learnt to 'sight read' words instead.
I'm considering doing some spellings with her at home like I did at school, ie learn the spelling, the meaning and put it in a sentence. But which words should she be learning? Do we take them out of the ORT books she brings home or is there a list somewhere?
Thanks.

How about when she reads, if she gets stuck on a word, you make a note of it, then she writes that word a few times as an extra bit of work. If she's able to, she could put it into a sentence, draw a picture or something like that. Great she's enjoying it so much.

How about just encouraging her to read more? Seeing a variety of words is a good introduction to the craziness of English spelling, and reading outside the ORT books has to be more rewarding for both of you!

Oh, and getting her to help you with shopping lists/menu plans and so on - gets her writing more fluent, and could lead into some maths work too?

She normally reads twice a day; her school book and then one of the vast collection she has in her bookcase at bedtime. She is currently on ORT stage 7 and is one of the youngest in year 1.
We have spent the last 6 months doing pages of sums each week and reading tonnes of books but she never seems satisfied.
She says she wants more of the worksheets she brings home. I like the idea of going over the words she gets stuck on.
Unfortunately her school won't offer extra music lessons at her age, next year she will be able to learn to play the keyboard, guitar, clarinet or violin.

Blimey - she is motivated! (I won't feel jealous, I won't feel jealous)

If you can stand it, how about getting a recorder and a basic how-to book? Or find some other 'research' projects around the house?

You shouldn't feel jealous it is actually a bit of a nightmare lol! I'm a full time open university student so she see that I do allot of work and wants to do the same. There just seems to be no limits to her concentration span. One day she did about 150 sums, adding and taking away with numbers up to twenty and still wanted more. I just feel guilty, if she wants to study then surely it is bad to try and put her off?
I think the recorder sounds like a brilliant idea, maybe from father christmas in her stocking.

. I'm an OU student and I work full time. Ds (year 1) sees me studying and takes no interest in doing the homework he is set let alone anything extra.

We get 10 spelling a week and these are a mix of key words and themed words, eg 'ch', 'sh' etc. Words range in length from he,she, of etc up to chicken and thinking.

In order to do spellings she needs to know her phonics.

You say she sight reads. Does she also know her phonics and her blends, etc?

Because if she doesn't you need to make sure she does.

Then spelling will be fine. You won't need spelling lists and tests as such. Her good reading ability will help, but reading ability doesn't always mean good speller, especially for a sight reader.

Her teacher says that she knows how to produce sounds by putting letters together, like ow, an,at,or etc. Is this blends? She also knows the sounds of all the letters.
Her writing is good but although she can read the word 'when' she will write it as 'wen'.

Well familiarity's one of the best ways of seeing and learning the different spellings IMO. Repetition means that - even if you haven't 'learnt' the spelling, after a while words register as being wrong or right - dyslexia aside, obviously.

Good that she knows her sounds, etc.

Does hse know things like sh,ch, th and then oa, ie, ee, ea, ng, ph, etc?

And through, thorough, enough, though...

Oh it's much more fun to just read a few books!

Oh and poems - lots of pronunciation clues there!

my DD is yr1 and sounds very similar to yours with her thirst for knowledge.

she has 10 spellings every week and they are usually in a pattern, e.g this weeks are - spot/spit/spill/spat/spin/spam/speak/sweet/swill & sweat.

they have to say the word, cover the word and then write the word 3 times. works well at our school.

Yes she does, the homework sheets that she bought home at the start of the year were all about pairs of letters and combing them to make 5-6 letter words. The only homework that she seems to have struggled with is an alliteration task, she basically just made up words.

aristocat does your DD enjoy doing her spellings?

was just gonna suggest simple poems [acrostic ones are good] but PerArdua beat me to it.

If her phonics is good then she should be fine with spellings then, and coupled with the reading should not be an issue.

Whilst I agree reading makes spelling easier and more fun, many children just can't transfer it across to written words.

The teacher will correct wen to when, etc as and when necessary.

I'd just go for learning through lay rather than worksheets at home, or extra homework.

DD and her friend loved to play schools - they still do TBH. They get the babies out and set up school, set work, tests, reading, etc and have the babies do it all. if they can rope it friend's little sister to be a pupil even better - well, from their point of view! They make up cafes and shops, and write menus or order forms, prices, serve us, work out prices, etc. Similar things for all types of scenarios - and loads of writing practise and maths rolled in