4th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

1. tonight
2. whole
3. while
4. could
5. world
6. writing
7. build
8. school
9. finished
10. morning
11. coming
12. stopped
13. getting
14. goes
15. going

Challenge Words

1. happened
2. received
3. believe
4. quit
5. quite

5th Grade Spelling List

Mom's Best Friend

Spelling Words

1. poem
2. idea
3. create
4. diary
5. area
6. giant
7. usual
8. radio
9. cruel
10. quiet
11. diet
12. liar
13. fuel
14. riot
15. actual
16. lion
17. ruin
18. trial
19. rodeo
20. science

Challenge Words

1. appreciate
2. variety
3. enthusiastic
4. realize
5. eventually

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Cendrillon

Spelling Words

1. harbor
2. final
3. middle
4. weather
5. labor
6. model
7. chapter
8. special
9. sugar
10. bottle
11. medal
12. collar
13. proper
14. towel
15. beggar
16. battle
17. trouble
18. shower
19. uncle
20. doctor

Challenge Words

1. shoulder
2. decimal
3. trifle
4. solar
5. cancel

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Animal Encounters
Reading-Writing Workshop

Spelling Words

1. heard
2. your
3. you're
4. field
5. buy
6. friend
7. guess
8. cousin
9. build
10. family
11. can't
12. cannot
13. didn't
14. haven't
15. don't

Challenge Words

1. truly
2. benefited
3. height
4. believe
5. received

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

The Stranger

Spelling Words

1. railroad
2. airport
3. seat belt
4. everywhere
5. homesick
6. understand
7. background
8. anything
9. ninety-nine
10. already
11. fireplace
12. ourselves
13. all right
14. forever
15. breakfast
16. whenever
17. everything
18. meanwhile
19. afternoon
20. make-believe

Challenge Words

1. landmark
2. nationwide
3. postscript
4. motorcycle
5. handkerchief

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

A Very Important Day

Spelling Words

1. horse
2. chore
3. firm
4. learn
5. dirty
6. curve
7. world
8. pure
9. board
10. course
11. heard
12. return
13. cure
14. score
15. worm
16. thirteen
17. worn
18. curl
19. shirt
20. search

Challenge Words

1. thoroughbred
2. fortunate
3. hurdle
4. foreign
5. earnest

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

James Forten

Spelling Words

1. jewel
2. sparkle
3. angle
4. shovel
5. single
6. normal
7. angel
8. legal
9. whistle
10. fossil
11. puzzle
12. bushel
13. mortal
14. gentle
15. level
16. label
17. pedal
18. ankle
19. needle
20. devil

Challenge Words

1. mineral
2. influential
3. vital
4. neutral
5. kernel

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Boss of the Plains

Spelling Words

1. gear
2. spear
3. sharp
4. stare
5. alarm
6. cheer
7. square
8. hairy
9. heart
10. weird
11. starve
12. charm
13. beard
14. hardly
15. spare
16. stairs
17. year
18. charge
19. dairy
20. scarce

Challenge Words

1. pioneer
2. awareness
3. startle
4. marvel
5. weary

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Katie's Trunk

Spelling Words

1. equal
2. parlor
3. collect
4. closet
5. perhaps
6. wedding
7. rapid
8. value
9. arrive
10. behave
11. shoulder
12. novel
13. tulip
14. sorrow
15. vanish
16. essay
17. publish
18. aware
19. subject
20. prefer

Challenge Words

1. device
2. skittish
3. logic
4. sincere
5. nuisance

4th Grade Spelling List

Tanya's Reunion

Spelling Words

1. wood
2. brook
3. tool
4. put
5. wool
6. push
7. full
8. roof
9. group
10. prove
11. stood
12. stool
13. hook
14. smooth
15. shoot
16. bush
17. fool
18. pull
19. soup
20. move

Challenge Words

1. soot
2. marooned
3. pudding
4. cocoon
5. superb

5th Grade Spelling List

And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

Spelling Words

1. theater
2. actor
3. mirror
4. powder
5. humor
6. anger
7. banner
8. pillar
9. major
10. thunder
11. flavor
12. finger
13. mayor
14. polar
15. clover
16. burglar
17. tractor
18. matter
19. lunar
20. quarter

Challenge Words

1. oyster
2. clamor
3. tremor
4. scholar
5. chamber

4th Grade Spelling List

Grade 4

Tomás and the Library Lady

Spelling Words

1. pound
2. howl
3. jaw
4. bounce
5. cause
6. always
7. shout
8. aloud
9. south
10. couple
11. drawn
12. scout
13. false
14. proud
15. frown
16. sauce
17. gown
18. couch
19. dawn
20. mount

Challenge Words

1. gnaw
2. prowl
3. pounce
4. doubt
5. scrawny

5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

Mae Jemison

Spelling Words

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 Words

1. interpret
2. yearn
3. emergency
4. dreary
5. career

4th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

1. shake
2. desk
3. block
4. fright
5. neat
6. roast
7. prune
8. spray
9. plant
10. bread
11. speed
12. drain
13. fist
14. pride
15. truck
16. flock
17. cone
18. crew
19. blade
20. dead

Challenge Words

1. proceed
2. cocoa
3. imitate
4. erase
5. polish

5th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

1. hare
2. scar
3. torch
4. soar
5. harsh
6. sore
7. lord
8. flair
9. warn
10. floor
11. tore
12. lair
13. snare
14. carve
15. bore
16. fare
17. gorge
18. barge
19. flare
20. rare

Challenge Words

1. folklore
2. unicorn
3. ordinary
4. marvelous
5. hoard

4th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

1. safe
2. kept
3. gray
4. grown
5. wrote
6. blind
7. suit
8. crumb
9. wait
10. creak
11. steep
12. gain
13. still
14. gold
15. crime
16. few
17. trunk
18. steal
19. weight
20. meat
21. past
22. reach
23. coast
24. odd
25. sigh
26. true
27. tube
28. steel
29. creek
30. meet

Challenge Words

1. descent
2. graceful
3. rigid
4. newscast
5. knead
6. remind
7. continue
8. pour
9. slumber
10. pore
11. thermometer

5th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

1. hawk
2. claw
3. bald
4. tower
5. halt
6. prowl
7. loyal
8. pause
9. moist
10. ounce
11. launch
12. royal
13. scowl
14. haunt
15. noisy
16. coward
17. fawn
18. thousand
19. drown
20. fault

Challenge Words

1. announce
2. poise
3. loiter
4. somersault
5. awkward

4th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

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 Words

1. newscast
2. commute
3. continue
4. attitude
5. slumber

5th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

1. basketball
2. wheelchair
3. cheerleader
4. newscast
5. weekend
6. everybody
7. up-to-date
8. grandparent
9. first aid
10. wildlife
11. highway
12. daytime
13. whoever
14. test tube
15. turnpike
16. shipyard
17. homemade
18. household
19. salesperson
20. brother-in-law

Challenge Words

1. extraordinary
2. self-assured
3. quick-witted
4. limelight
5. junior high school

4th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

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 Words

1. remind
2. approach
3. rigid
4. recognize
5. continent

5th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

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 Words

1. subdue
2. pursuit
3. molten
4. reproach
5. presume

4th Grade Spelling

Spelling Words

1. cannot
2. can't
3. don't
4. haven't
5. won't
6. wouldn't
7. I'd
8. I'll
9. let's
10. we're
11. I'm
12. didn't
13. o'clock
14. that's
15. there's

Challenge Words

1. minute
2. stretch
3. instead
4. ninety
5. divide

5th Grade Spelling

Spelling Words

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 Words

1. campaign
2. describe
3. cease
4. sacrifice
5. plight

4th Grade Spelling

Spelling Words

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 Words

1. graceful
2. descent
3. athletic
4. knead
5. activity

5th Grade Spelling

Spelling Words

1. bunk
2. staff
3. dock
4. slept
5. mist
6. bunch
7. swift
8. stuck
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 Words

1. trek
2. frantic
3. summit
4. rustic
5. mascot

4th Grade Spelling List

1. deliver
2. favorite
3. camera
4. yesterday
5. tomorrow
6. important
7. together
8. victory
9. remember
10. library
11. enemy
12. animal
13. another
14. however
15. banana
16. alphabet
17. hospital
18. hamburger
19. carpenter
20. several

Challenge Words

1. interview
2. article
3. halibut
4. edition
5. photograph

5th Grade Spelling List

1. dangerous
2. history
3. vacation
4. popular
5. favorite
6. memory
7. personal
8. educate
9. regular
10. continue
11. potato
12. natural
13. sensitive
14. energy
15. emotion
16. period
17. property
18. condition
19. imagine
20. attention

Challenge Words

1. juvenile
2. astonish
3. ovation
4. amateur
5. obvious

Poem of the Week

Wynken, Blynken and Nod (Selections)

The old moon laughed and sang a song,
As they rocked in the wooden shoe;
And the wind that sped them all night long
Ruffled the waves of dew;
The little stars were the herring-fish
That lived in the beautiful sea.
“Now cast your nets wherever you wish,--
Never afraid are we!”
So cried the stars to the fisherman three,
Wynken
Blynken
And Nod.

4th Grade Spelling List

pelling Words

1. pilot
2. depend
3. visit
4. human
5. seven
6. chosen
7. paper
8. reason
9. become
10. parent
11. never
12. modern
13. tiny
14. tuna
15. event
16. fever
17. moment
18. prison
19. basic
20. open

Challenge Words

1. alert
2. license
3. select
4. radar
5. feature

5th Grade Spelling List

1. propose
2. convince
3. concern
4. enforce
5. compare
6. excuse
7. conduct
8. preserve
9. contain
10. excite
11. extend
12. prefix
13. engage
14. pronoun
15. consist
16. enclose
17. consent
18. proverb
19. complete
20. exchange

Challenge Words

1. enactment
2. procedure
3. confront
4. preamble
5. concise

Poem of the Week

Wynken, Blynken and Nod (Selections)

Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe. --
Sailed on a river of crystal light
Into a sea of dew. 
“Where are you going, and what do you wish?”
The old moon asked the three.
“We have come to fish for the herring-fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we,”
Said Wynken
Blynken
And Nod.

4th Grade Spelling List

1. sunnier
2. cloudier
3. windier
4. cities
5. heaviest
6. prettiest
7. studied
8. easier
9. noisier
10. families
11. ferries
12. crazier
13. funnier
14. earlier
15. copied
16. hobbies
17. angriest
18. emptied
19. worried
20. happiest

Challenge Words

1. iciest
2. hazier
3. breezier
4. companies
5. qualities

5th Grade 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 Words

1. unified
2. levied
3. colonies
4. loveliest
5. strategies

Poem of the Week

The Muddy Puddle

I am sitting
In the middle
Of a rather Muddy,
Puddle,
With my bottom
Full of bubbles
And my boots
Full of mud,

While my jacket
and my sweater
Go on slowly
Getting wetter
As I very
Slowly settle
To the bottom
Of the mud.

And I find that
What a person
With a puddle
Round his middle
Thinks mostly
In the muddle
Is the Muddi-
Ness of Mud

        By  Dennis Lee

4th Grade Spelling List

1. blade
2. blame
3. blaze
4. brave
5. shake
6. stake
7. skate
8. scale
9. lend
10. bend
11. melt
12. deck
13. flock
14. shock
15. blocks
16. pocket

5th Grade 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 Words

1. departure
2. leisure
3. architecture
4. texture
5. villain

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

4th Grade Spelling List

1. omit
2. only
3. ocean
4. opening
5. poem
6. hotel
7. clothes
8. clothing 
9. dash
10. ranch
11. branch
12. handy
13. packed
14. package
15. landing
16. evening
17. fever
18. everyone
19. everybody
20. everything  

5th Grade 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 Words

1. inquiry
2. unnecessary
3. responsible
4. except
5. exception

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

4th Grade Spelling List

1. beef
2. heel
3. sheep
4. steep
5. agree
6. cheer
7. jar
8. yard
9. harm
10. party
11. partly
12. candle
13. handle
14. paddle
15. saddle
16. banner
17. battle
18. cattle 

5th Grade Spelling List

1. dreadful
2. enjoyment
3. safely
4. watchful
5. speechless
6. paleness
7. breathless
8. government
9. cheerful
10. actively
11. closeness
12. lately
13. goodness
14. retirement
15. forgetful
16. basement
17. softness
18. delightful
19. settlement
20. countless

Challenge Words

1. suspenseful
2. suspiciously
3. defenseless
4. seriousness
5. contentment

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

4th Grade Spelling List

1. until
2. study
3. lucky
4. bucket
5. number
6. Sunday
7. sir
8. shirt
9. dirty
10. birthday
11. leaf
12. leak
13. leading
14. heating
15. scold
16. oldest
17. holding
18. poster 

5th Grade Spelling List

1. covered
2. directing
3. bragging
4. amusing
5. offered
6. planned
7. rising
8. deserved
9. visiting
10. mixed
11. swimming
12. sheltered
13. resulting
14. spotted
15. suffering
16. arrested
17. squeezing
18. ordered
19. decided
20. hitting

Challenge Words

1. rehearsing
2. shredded
3. anticipated
4. scalloped
5. entertaining

Announcement

There will be no spelling lists this first week back due to the shortened week and our field trip. The poem below titled Praying Mantis will be recited at the end of next week, April 12. Spelling lists for next week will be posted on Friday, April 5.

Poem of the Week

Praying Mantis

That praying mantis over there
Is really not engaged in prayer.
That praying mantis that you see
Is really preying (with an “e”).
It preys upon the garter snake.
It preys upon the bumble bee.
It preys upon the cabbage worm,
The wasp, the fly, the moth, the flea.
(And sometimes, if its need is great,
It even preys upon its mate.)

With prey and preying both so endless,
It tends to end up rather friendless
And seldom is commended much
Except by gardeners and such.

    By: Mary Ann Hoberman

Announcement

There is no poem or spelling lists this week because of the play performances. Enjoy the break!

4th Grade Spelling List

1. redo
2. treatment
3. rebuild
4. discolor
5. careless
6. dislike
7. sickness
8. beautiful
9. unlucky
10. awful
11. reread
12. unsure
13. movement
14. peaceful
15. unpaid
16. distrust
17. kindness
18. useless
19. displease
20. powerful

Challenge Words

1. unusual
2. rearrange
3. appointment
4. discontinue
5. resourceful

5th Grade Spelling List

1. a lot
2. because
3. school
4. its
5. it's
6. tonight
7. might
8. right
9. write
10. again
11. to
12. too
13. two
14. they
15. that's

Challenge Words

1. opposite
2. scenery
3. questionnaire
4. excellence
5. pennant

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

4th Grade Spelling

1. bottom
2. picture
3. other
4. attend
5. capture
6. common
7. danger
8. afraid
9. borrow
10. office
11. arrow
12. suppose
13. escape
14. whether
15. pillow
16. dinner
17. thirty
18. degree
19. allow
20. corner

Challenge Words

1. method
2. concert
3. narrate
4. abrupt
5. challenge

Poem of the Week

Who Am I?

by Felice Holman


The trees ask me,
And the sky,
And the sea asks me
        Who am I?

The grass asks me,
And the sand,
And the rocks ask me
        Who I am.

The wind tells me
At nightfall,
And the rain tells me
        Someone small.

        Someone small
        Someone small
        But a piece
                   of
                    it
                 all.

4th Grade Spelling List

1. village
2. cottage
3. bridge
4. fence
5. strange
6. chance
7. twice
8. cage
9. change
10. carriage
11. glance
12. ridge
13. manage
14. damage
15. since
16. marriage
17. edge
18. lodge
19. cabbage
20. dodge

Challenge Words

1. fleece
2. fragrance
3. homage
4. fringe
5. excellence

5th Grade Spelling List

1. poem
2. idea
3. create
4. diary
5. area
6. giant
7. usual
8. radio
9. cruel
10. quiet
11. diet
12. liar
13. fuel
14. riot
15. actual
16. lion
17. ruin
18. trial
19. rodeo
20. science

Challenge Words

1. appreciate
2. variety
3. enthusiastic
4. realize
5. eventually

Poem of the Week

Chocolate

   C hocolate is so yummy to eat.

   H aving it is a special treat.

   O ne little bite of a Hershey’s Kiss

   C an put me in a state of bliss.

   O r

   L icking a frozen chocolate bar

   A s I take a summer ride in a car.

   T otal pleasure is a chocolate treat.

   E agerly I wait for chocolate to eat!

4th Grade Spelling List

1. beauty
2. ugly
3. lazy
4. marry
5. ready
6. sorry
7. empty
8. honey
9. valley
10. movie
11. duty
12. hungry
13. lonely
14. alley
15. body
16. twenty
17. turkey
18. hockey
19. fifty
20. monkey

Challenge Words

1. fiery
2. envy
3. mercy
4. chimney
5. imaginary

5th Grade Spelling List

1. district
2. address
3. complain
4. explain
5. improve
6. farther
7. simply
8. hundred
9. although
10. laughter
11. mischief
12. complex
13. partner
14. orphan
15. constant
16. dolphin
17. employ
18. sandwich
19. monster
20. orchard

Challenge Words

1. control
2. abstain
3. conscience
4. function
5. extreme

Poem of the Week

The Wrong Start


I got up this morning and meant to be good,
But things didn’t happen the way
that they should.

I lost my toothbrush,
I slammed the door,
I dropped an egg
On the kitchen floor,
I spilled some sugar
And after that
I tried to hurry
And tripped on the cat.

Things may get better.  I don’t know when.
I think I’ll go back and start over again.

By Marchette Chute

4th Grade Spelling List

1. shark
2. attack
3. risk
4. public
5. sink
6. question
7. electric
8. jacket
9. blank
10. ache
11. crooked
12. drink
13. topic
14. track
15. blanket
16. struck
17. mistake
18. junk
19. squirrel
20. stomach

Challenge Words

1. aquatic
2. comic
3. tropical
4. speckled
5. peculiar

5th Grade Spelling List

1. powder
2. burglar
3. rapid
4. value
5. bushel
6. actor
7. equal
8. publish
9. tractor
10. pedal
11. polar
12. aware
13. matter
14. single
15. sparkle
16. humor
17. behave
18. quarter
19. whistle
20. needle
21. mayor
22. sorrow
23. parlor
24. mortal
25. gentle
26. lunar
27. shoulder
28. jewel
29. legal
30. wedding

Challenge Words

1. oyster
2. skittish
3. influential
4. kernel
5. clamor
6. device
7. mineral
8. vital
9. sincere
10. scholar

Poem of the Week

The New Kid on the Block

There’s a new kid on the block,
    and boy, that kid is tough,
    that new kid punches hard,
    that new kid plays real rough.

That new kid’s big and strong,
    with muscles everywhere,
    that new kid tweaked my arm,
    that new kid pulled my hair.

That new kid likes to fight,
    and picks on all the guys,
    that new kid scares me some,
    (that new kid’s twice my size).

That new kid stomped my toes,
    that new kid swiped my ball,
    that new kid’s really bad,
    I don’t care for her at all.

4th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

1. dancing
2. skipped
3. hiking
4. flipped
5. snapping
6. raced
7. landed
8. pleasing
9. checking
10. dared
11. dimmed
12. rubbing
13. striped
14. wasting
15. traced
16. stripped
17. tanning
18. smelling
19. phoning
20. fainted

Challenge Words

1. breathing
2. tiring
3. urged
4. scrubbed
5. striving

5th Grade Spelling List

Spelling Words

1. jewel
2. sparkle
3. angle
4. shovel
5. single
6. normal
7. angel
8. legal
9. whistle
10. fossil
11. puzzle
12. bushel
13. mortal
14. gentle
15. level
16. label
17. pedal
18. ankle
19. needle
20. devil

Challenge Words

1. mineral
2. influential
3. vital
4. neutral
5. kernel

Poem of the Week

Catherine

Catherine said, “I think I’ll bake
A most delicious chocolate cake.”
She took some mud and mixed it up
While adding water from a cup
And then some weeds and nuts and bark
And special gravel from the park.
A thistle and a dash of sand.
She beat out all the lumps by hand.
And on the top she wrote “To You”
The way she says the bakers do
And then she signed it, “Fondly C.”
And gave the whole of it to me.
I thanked her but I wouldn’t dream
of eating cake without ice cream

4th Grade Spelling List

1. harbor
2. final
3. middle
4. weather
5. labor
6. model
7. chapter
8. special
9. sugar
10. bottle
11. medal
12. collar
13. proper
14. towel
15. beggar
16. battle
17. trouble
18. shower
19. uncle
20. doctor

Challenge Words

1. shoulder
2. decimal
3. trifle
4. solar
5. cancel

5th Grade Spelling List

1. equal
2. parlor
3. collect
4. closet
5. perhaps
6. wedding
7. rapid
8. value
9. arrive
10. behave
11. shoulder
12. novel
13. tulip
14. sorrow
15. vanish
16. essay
17. publish
18. aware
19. subject
20. prefer

Challenge Words

1. device
2. skittish
3. logic
4. sincere
5. nuisance

Poem of the Week

My Sister Ate an Orange
       by Jack Prelutsky

My sister ate an orange,
I’m astonished that she did,
she swallowed it completely,
she’s a disconcerting kid.

My sister ate an orange,
first she chewed it for awhile,
then digested it entirely
with a silly sort of smile.

My sister ate an orange,
it’s a novel thing to do,
then she ate a yellow
and a purple and a blue.

5th Grade Spelling List

1. happily
2. minute
3. beautiful
4. usually
5. instead
6. stretch
7. lying
8. excite
9. millimeter
10. divide
11. until
12. writing
13. tried
14. before
15. Saturday
Challenge
fatigue
antique
accumulate
camouflage
tongue

4th Grade Spelling

1. railroad
2. airport
3. seat belt
4. everywhere
5. homesick
6. understand
7.background
8. anything
9. ninety-nine
10. already
11. fireplace
12. ourselves
13. all right
14. forever
15. breakfast
16. whenever
17. everything
18. meanwhile
19. afternoon
20. make-believe
Challenge
1. landmark
2. nationwide
3. postscript
4. motorcycle
5.handkerchief