Poem of the Week

Crab Dance

Play moonlight
and the red crabs dance
their scuttle-foot dance
on the mud-packed beach

Play moonlight
and the red crabs dance
their sideways dance
to the soft-sea beat

Play moonlight
and the red crabs dance
their bulb-eye dance
their last crab dance

Grace Nichols

Spelling List

1. speech
2. claim
3. strike
4. stray
5. fade
6. sign
7. leaf
8. thigh
9. thief
10. height
11. mild
12. waist
13. sway
14. beast
15. stain
16. fleet
17. stride
18. praise
19. slight
20. niece

Challenge
campaign
describe
cease
sacrifice
plight

Spelling List

1. enough
2. caught
3. brought
4. thought
5. every
6. ninety
7. their
8. they're
9. there
10. there's
11. know
12. knew
13. o'clock
14. we're
15. people

Challenge
decent
stationery
stationary
correspond
reversible

Poem of the Week

Lighthouse

This giant white
Land candle burns
The edges of
The fog by turns.

The lonely keeper
Of the flame
Illuminates
One picture frame.

A ship returning
Welcome light
And slipping safely
Through the night.

Start of the Year Announcements

I intend to post the spelling list and the poem to recite on Fridays, the week before they are due. They will be due by the following Friday, generally. If there are changes to our schedule, your child will have received reminders to let folks at home know what is happening. This blog is intended for use by both 5th grade classrooms at Corridor. Thanks and we look forward to a fabulous year.

Tom and Maria

Spelling List

1. bunk
2. staff
3. dock
4. slept
5. mist
6. bunch
7. swift
8. struck
9. breath
10. tough
11. fond
12. crush
13. grasp
14. dwell
15. fund
16. ditch
17. split
18. swept
19. deaf
20. rough

Challenge
trek
frantic
summit
rustic
mascot

Poem of the Week

Jellyfish Stew

Jellyfish stew, I’m loony for you,
I dearly adore you,
Oh truly I do,
you’re creepy to see,
revolting to chew
you slide down inside
with a hullabaloo.

You’re soggy, you’re smelly,
you taste like shampoo,
you bog down my belly
with oodles of goo,
yet I would glue noodles
and prunes to my shoe,
for one oozy spoonful
of jellyfish stew.