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

5th Grade Spelling

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
oyster
clamor
tremor
scholar
chamber

Poem of the Week

Homework! Oh, Homework!

Homework! Oh, homework!
I hate you! You stink!
I wish I could wash you
away in the sink,
if only a bomb
would explode you to bits.
Homework! Oh, homework!
You’re giving me fits.

I’d rather take baths
with a man-eating shark,
or wrestle a lion
alone in the dark,
eat spinach and liver,
pet ten porcupines,
than tackle the homework
my teacher assigns.