Spelling List

1. liberties
2. victories
3. countries
4. spied
5. enemies
6. armies
7. scariest
8. dirtier
9. happiness
10. abilities
11. pitied
12. ladies
13. busier
14. duties
15. lilies
16. worthiness
17. tiniest
18. emptiness
19. replies
20. dizziness

Challenge
unified
levied
colonies
loveliest
strategies

Poem of the Week

Mosquitoes, Mosquitoes!

Mosquitoes, Mosquitoes,

stop torturing me,

why can’t you behave

more considerately,

you’ve bitten me practically

down to the bone,

mosquitoes, mosquitoes,

please leave me alone!

Mosquitoes, mosquitoes,

you’re hard to ignore,

I itch and I scratch,

I can’t stand anymore,

you’ve bitten my bottom,

you’ve bitten my top,

mosquitoes, mosquitoes,

I’m begging you stop!

Mosquitoes, mosquitoes,

I honestly feel

it’s time that you went

somewhere else for a meal,

you’ve bitten me places

I can’t even see,

mosquitoes, mosquitoes,

stop torturing me!

by Jack Prelutsky

Spelling List

1. mountain
2. treasure
3. culture
4. fountain
5. creature
6. captain
7. future
8. adventure
9. moisture
10. surgeon
11. lecture
12. curtain
13. pasture
14. measure
15. vulture
16. feature
17. furniture
18. pleasure
19. mixture
20. luncheon

Challenge
departure
leisure
architecture
texture
villain

Poem of the Week

A Bug Sat in a Silver Flower

A bug sat in a silver flower

Thinking silver thoughts.

A bigger bug out for a walk

Climbed up that silver flower stalk

And snapped the small bug down his jaws

Without a pause

Without a care

For all the bug’s small silver thoughts.

It isn’t right

It isn’t fair

That big bug ate that little bug

Because that little bug was there.

He also ate his underwear.

By Karla Kuskins

Spelling List

1. dozen
2. voyage
3. forbid
4. native
5. language
6. destroy
7. notice
8. distance
9. carrot
10. knowledge
11. captive
12. spinach
13. solid
14. justice
15. ashamed
16. program
17. message
18. respond
19. service
20. relative

Challenge
adapt
discourage
cooperative
apprentice
somber

Poem of the Week

My Brother’s Bug

My brother’s bug was green and plump,

it did not run, it could not jump,

it had no fur for it to shed,

it slept all night beneath his bed.

My brother’s bug had dainty feet,

it did not need a lot to eat,

it did not need a lot to drink

it did not scream, it did not stink.

It always tried to be polite,

it did not scratch, it did not bite,

the only time it soiled the rug,

was when I squashed my brother’s bug.

By Jack Prelutsky

Spelling List

1. unable
2. discover
3. report
4. disaster
5. unaware
6. remind
7. televise
8. television
9. inspect
10. inspection
11. react
12. reaction
13. tense
14. tension
15. correct
16. correction
17. promote
18. promotion
19. express
20. expression

Challenge
inquiry
unnecessary
responsible
except
exception

Poem of the Week

Bugs Bugs (selection)

Bugs! Bugs!

I love bugs,

yes truly I do,

great big pink ones,

little green stink ones,

yellow bugs and blue.

I put you in my pockets,

and I wear you in my hair.

You are my close companions,

I take you everywhere.

By Jack Prelutsky

Spelling List

1. laughter
2. sandwich
3. mischief
4. actual
5. offered
6. watchful
7. cruel
8. planned
9. lately
10. countless
11. complain
12. address
13. usual
14. riot
15. amusing
16. ordered
17. diary
18. covered
19. visiting
20. government
21. improve
22. farther
23. radio
24. fuel
25. hitting
26. goodness
27. decided
28. actively
29. delightful
30. rodeo

Poem of the Week

Mosquito

O Mrs. Mosquito, quit biting me please!

I’m happy my blood type with your type agrees.

I’m glad that my flavor

Has met with your favor.

I’m touched by your care;

Yes, I’m touched everywhere:

On my arms and my legs, on my elbows and knees,

Till I cannot tell which

Is the itchiest itch

Or which itch in the batch

Needs the scratchiest scratch.

Your taste for my taste is the reason for these,

So Mrs. Mosquito, quit biting me please!

Mary Ann Hoberman