Students receive a list of new words to practice spelling each Tuesday. If you’re absent from the lesson where you get the words, you should still practise them. All the new words can be found on Peda.net. 

The spelling challenge is on the following week's Monday. The spelling challenge consists of five new words and five words that are either old or fully decodable (for example “a boat”). The idea with old words is to encourage the students to try to remember the spelling of the words long-term and not just for the challenge.

If you’re absent you can do the week’s spelling challenge on the following week.

Full list of the new words below:

1. I
2. the
3. he
4. she
5. me

6. we
7. be
8. was
9. to
10. do

11. are
12. all
13. you
14. your
15. come

16. some
17. said
18. here
19. there
20. they

21. go
22. no
23. so
24. my
25. one

26. by
27. only
28. old
29. like
30. have

31. live
32. give
33. little
34. down
35. any

36. when
37. where
38. who
39. which
40. what

41. many
42. more
43. before
44. other
45. were

46. because
47. want
48. saw
49. put
50. could

51. should
52. would
53. right
54. two
55. four

56. goes
57. does
58. made
59. their
60. always

61. once
62. upon
63. also
64. of
65. eight

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3rd grade:

66. love
67. after
68. every
69. mother
70. father

71. get
72. through
73. back
74. much
75. before

76. go
77. good
78. new
79. write
80. our

81. used
82. me
83. same
84. right
85. look

86. think
87. also
88. around
89. another
90. came

91. work
92. three
93. word
94. must
95. does

- fluffy
- river
- exciting
- adventure
- scary

96. part
97. even
98. place
99. well
100. such

101. here
102. take
103. why
104. thing
105. help

106. put
107. year
108. different
109. away
110. again

111. off
112. went
113. old
114. number
115. great

116. tell
117. men
118. say
119. small
120. every

121. found
122. still
123. between
124. name
125. should

126. home
127. big
128. give
129. air
130. line

130. because
131. does
132. part
133. even
134. place
135. well
136. such
137. here
138. take
139. why

140. things
141. help
142. put
143. years
144. different
145. away
146. again
147. off
148. went
149. old

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151. great
152. tell
153. number
154. say
155. small
156. every
157. found
158. still
159. between
160. January

161. should
162. men
163. home
164. February
165. give
166. air
167. line
168. set
169. own
170. under

171. read
172. last
173. never
174. us
175. left
176. end
177. along
178. while
179. might
180. next

181. sound
182. below
183. saw
184. something
185. thought
186. both
187. few
188. those
189. always
190. looked

191. show
192. large
193. often
194. together
195. asked
196. house
197. don't
198. world
199. going
200. want

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irregular verbs (Feb 2025 onwards)

1. arise – arose
2. be – was/were
3. beat – beat
4. become – became
5. begin – began
6. bend – bent
7. bite – bit
8. bleed – bled
9. blow – blew
10. break – broke
11. bring – brought
12. build – built
13. buy – bought
14. catch – caught
15. choose – chose
16. come – came
17. cost – cost
18. creep - crept
19. cut – cut
20. deal – dealt
21. dig – dug
22. do – did
23. draw – drew
24. dream – dreamt
25. drink – drank
26. drive – drove
27. eat – ate
28. fall – fell
29. feed – fed
30. feel – felt
31. fight – fought
32. find – found
33. fly – flew
34. forget – forgot
35. forgive – forgave
36. freeze – froze
37. get – got
38. give – gave
39. go – went
40. grow – grew
41. hang – hung
42. have – had
43. hear – heard
44. hide – hid
45. hit – hit
46. hold – held
47. hurt – hurt
48. keep – kept
49. know – knew
50. lay – laid
51. lead – led
52. learn – learnt/learned
53. leave – left
54. lend – lent
55. let – let
56. light – lit/lighted
57. lose – lost
58. make – made
59. mean – meant
60. meet – met
61. pay – paid
62. put – put
63. read – read
64. ride – rode
65. ring – rang
66. rise – rose
67. run – ran
68. say – said
69. see – saw
70. sell – sold
71. send – sent
72. set – set
73. shake – shook
74. shine – shone
75. shoot – shot
76. show – showed
77. shut – shut
78. sing – sang
79. sink – sank
80. sit – sat
81. sleep – slept
82. speak – spoke
83. spend – spent
84. stand – stood
85. steal – stole
86. stick – stuck
87. sweep - swept
88. swim – swam
89. take – took
90. teach – taught
91. tear – tore
92. tell – told
93. think – thought
94. throw – threw
95. understand – understood
96. wake – woke
97. wear – wore
98. win – won
99. write – wrote
100. -

101. earth - maa
102. world - maailma
103. house - talo
104. picture - kuva
105. head - pää
106. stand - seistä
107. answer - vastata
108. science - tiede
109. those - ne
110. school - koulu

111. January - tammikuu
112. February - helmikuu
113. March - maaliskuu
114. April - huhtikuu
115. May - toukokuu
116. June - kesäkuu
117. July - heinäkuu
118. August - elokuu
119. September - syyskuu
120. October - lokakuu
121. November - marraskuu
122. December - joulukuu