Spelling.

Remember those two words that I suggested M learned yesterday?  Just in case you don't they were 'they' and 'said'.  We I asked her this morning if she could remember how to spell them and she could, so I asked if she'd like any more and she said she'd like one more.  I cheated a bit and gave her 'there', 'their' and 'they're' (if she manages all of those she'll be ahead of quite a lot of adults!).  At tea, over the pizza we'd made (I still that still counts as baking doesn't it?), I asked again about yesterday's words and she still had those and had one of the three new ones and was closer than she had been with the other two.  K has decided that she'd like to learn some useful tricky to spell words too, so she's got the same ones as M (minus 'they' of which she was already confident).  It's not unusual for us to start something like this and for it to tail off after a while, but I will attempt to keep it going for a while at least, because even if K & M only end up learning a dozen or so tricky, common words that's a good thing. 
When we started HEing spelling was one of those things that I thought we 'should' do and we did have a list of tricky common words up on the door in the kitchen for quite a long time.  As with many other things though (writing generally, reading, maths) I have found myself getting more and more relaxed about these 'necessities' of education as time goes on, because I've seen that, firstly they learn no matter what I do or how much I stress about things, and secondly when they decide they want to do something, rather than me attempting to push them into doing things, everyone is much happier and it works out much more successfully anyway!
Now I'm off to find some common tricky words - I know we've got a Jolly Phonics word book somewhere which should give me some ideas.