Week 5 of 36 · 8 words · ages 6–7
1st Grade spelling words, week 5: short u
1st Grade spelling words · week 5 · short u · spellchirp.com
- truck
- A big vehicle that carries heavy loads.
- brush
- You use it to tidy hair or paint a picture.
- stuck
- Not able to move or get free.
- thump
- A dull heavy knock, like a drum.
- crunch
- The noise you make biting a crispy apple.
- bunch
- A group of things held together, like flowers.
- bucket
- A pail with a handle for carrying water.
- muffin
- A small round cake you can eat at breakfast.
Ten minutes a day this week
Short and daily beats long and once. A word met on five separate days is remembered; a word met five times on Thursday night mostly is not.
Monday
Read the list together. Say each word, clap its syllables and find the pattern in it.
Tuesday
Look, say, cover, write, check — each word once from memory, then check the letters.
Wednesday
Use every word in a sentence, out loud or on paper, so each one means something.
Thursday
Practice test: a grown-up reads each word aloud. Circle the misses for tomorrow.
Friday
The test. One try per word, no letters given. The circled words go first.
Practise these 8 words, free
One tap puts this week’s list in SpellChirp. It reads each word aloud, checks the spelling, brings back the ones that went wrong, and can write them into a story your child stars in. No account needed to start, and no advertising.