Happy New Year

Below is the 4th grade spelling list, the 5th grade spelling list and the poem of the week for the first week back, January 7-11. Remember it is a short week, with kids returning Jan. 8.

4th Grade Spelling List

1. heard
2. herd
3. loan
4. lone
5. flea
6. flee
7. hall
8. haul
9. forth
10. fourth
11. heal
12. heel
13. steak
14. stake
15. pare
16. pair
17. berry
18. bury
19. groan
20. grown

5th Grade Spelling List

1. cord
2. chord
3. pray
4. prey
5. seam
6. seem
7. sole
8. soul
9. piece
10. peace
11. role
12. roll
13. peel
14. peal
15. shone
16. shown
17. pain
18. pane
19. pole
20. poll
21. aisle
22. isle
23. rein
24. reign

Poem of the Week

Homework Machine

The Homework Machine,
oh the Homework Machine,
Most perfect contraption
that’s ever been seen.
Just put in your homework,
then drop in a dime,
Snap on the switch,
and in ten seconds time,
Your homework comes out,
quick and clean as can be.
Here it is--- “nine plus four?”
and the answer is “three.”
Three?
Oh me . . .
I guess it’s not as perfect
As I thought it would be.

by Shel Silverstein

Announcements

Due to play auditions this week, there will not be a weekly poem to draw and recite. Enjoy the break!

5th Grade Spelling

1. weekend
2. hawk
3. flair
4. stir
5. first aid
6. halt
7. royal
8. carve
9. worth
10. hurl
11. up-to-date
12. noisy
13. soar
14. barge
15. steer
16. wildlife
17. coward
18. gorge
19. return
20. smear
21. brother-in-law
22. thousand
23. tore
24. early
25. pearl
26. test tube
27. launch
28. snare
29. perch
30. wheelchair
31. dreary
32. yearn
33. extraordinary
34. emergency
35. announce
36. loiter
37. self-assured
38. marvelous
39. ordinary
40. somersault    

4th Grade Spelling List

1. howl
2. false
3. sauce
4. put
5. roof
6. hardly
7. dairy
8. charge
9. dirty
10.world
11. bounce
12. couch
13. wood
14. push
15. pull
16. year
17. alarm
18. horse
19. curl
20. return
21. jaw
22. dawn
23. tool
24. full
25. gear
26. spare
27. cheer
28. chore
29. heard
30. search

5th Grade Spelling List

1. smear
2. germ
3. return
4. peer
5. stir
6. squirm
7. nerve
8. early
9. worth
10. pier
11. thirst
12. burnt
13. rear
14. term
15. steer
16. pearl
17. squirt
18. perch
19. hurl
20. worse

Challenge
interpret
yearn
emergency
dreary
career

Poem of the Week

Come Skating

They said come skating;
They said it’s so nice.
They said come skating;
I’d done it twice.
They said come skating;
It sounded nice. . . .
I wore roller--
They meant ice.

by Shel Silverstein