5th Grade Spelling

1. thrown
2. stole
3. clue
4. dew
5. choose
6. rule
7. boast
8. cruise
9. stroll
10. route
11. mood
12. loaf
13. growth
14. youth
15. slope
16. bruise
17. loose
18. rude
19. flow
20. flute
Challenge
subdue
pursuit
molten
reproach
presume

4th Grade Spelling

1. brush
2. juice
3. fruit
4. tube
5. lunch
6. crumb
7. few
8. true
9. truth
10. done
11. suit
12. pump
13. due
14. dull
15. tune
16. blew
17.trunk
18. sum
19. glue
20. threw
Challenge
1. newscast
2. commute
3. continue
4. attitude
5. slumber

Poem of the Week

Christopher Columbus

There are lots of strange things that discoverers do
But his was the strangest, I swear.
He discovered our country in One Four Nine Two
By thinking it couldn’t be there.

He paid no attention to protest or squall,
This obstinate son of the mast,
And so in the end, he discovered us all,
Remarking, “Here’s India, at last!”

5th Grade Spelling

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

4th Grade Spelling

1. snow
2. grind
3. still
4. coast
5. odd
6. crime
7. gold
8. wrote
9. flight
10. build
11. broke
12. blind
13. folk
14. grown
15. shock
16. ripe
17. coal
18. inch
19. sigh
20. built
Challenge
1. remind
2. approach
3. rigid
4. recognize
5. continent

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

5th 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

4th spelling List

1. gain
2. cream
3. sweet
4. safe
5. past
6. reach
7. kept
8. gray
9. field
10. break
11. east
12. shape
13. steep
14. pray
15. pain
16. glass
17. west
18. cheap
19. steak
20. chief
Challenge
1. graceful
2. descent
3. athletic
4. knead
5. activity

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.

Spelling List-2nd Week of School

1. where
2. were
3. through
4. threw
5. off
6. of
7. here
8. hear
9. would
10. wood

Announcements

Welcome! This may be your first look at Corridor's 4/5 blog. We will be posting the weekly poem that ALL 4th and 5th graders are expected to memorize and recite on Fridays. This has been a long standing 5th grade tradition at Corridor that we believe helps prepare students to speak in front of groups. It is also a great way for students to practice memorization skills. The poems are usually tied into our unit themes. We hope you have fun helping your child be successful with this activity.

In addition the blog will include a 4th grade weekly spelling list and a separate 5th grade weekly list. These will be tested each Thursday. Again, please help your child be successful in this activity by encouraging her/him to do daily homework and by checking it for spelling accuracy. Students often benefit from pre-test practice at home.

Because of our short first week, the first poem, Jellyfish Stew, will be expected to be memorized and recited on Friday, Sept. 14. The poem art (also a weekly exercise) will be due on Friday, Sept. 7. Normally, the poem art will be due on Tuesday each week. The art should somehow represent the poem. It should be done in crayon or colored pencil only. No markers please! It should be drawn on a single sheet of printer type paper. Thank you for helping your child remember this weekly assignment.

Below, you will find the first poem. The first "official" spelling lists will appear before the second full week. We will be quizzing frequently misspelled words during the first 1 1/2 weeks. Postings for the following weeks will happen Friday afternoons. Thank you in advance for your help in keeping your child on task with school work.

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.