5th Grade Spelling List

Grade 5

La Bamba

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

Poem of the Week

from:  Paul Revere’s Ride

So listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, “If the British march
By  land or sea from the town tonight,
Hang a  lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,---
One if by land and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and arm.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5th Grade Spelling

Grade 5

Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion

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

Poem of the Week

Lazy Witch

Lazy witch,
What’s wrong with you?
    Get up and stir your magic brew.
    Here’s candlelight to chase the gloom.
    Jump up and mount your flying broom
    And muster up your charms and spells
    And wicked grins and piercing yells.
    It’s Halloween!  There’s work to do!
Lazy witch,
What’s wrong with you?

Poem of the Week

Toltecs

The Toltecs were wise
They conversed
with their own hearts

They played their drums
They were singers
They made songs
They guarded their songs in their memories

The Toltecs were wise
They conversed
with their own hearts.

5th Grade Spelling

Grade 5

Focus on Tall Tales

Spelling Words

1. steal
2. stealth
3. cave
4. cavity
5. wise
6. wisdom
7. deal
8. dealt
9. athlete
10. athletic
11. crime
12. criminal
13. breathe
14. breath
15. wild
16. wilderness
17. shade
18. shadow
19. revise
20. revision

Challenge Words

1. volcano
2. volcanic
3. cycle
4. bicycle

Poem of the Week

12 October

From where I stand now
    the world is flat
    flat out flat,
    no end to that.

Where my eyes go the land moves out.
    How is it then
    five hundred years ago (about)
    Columbus found
    that far beyond flat on flat
    the world was round?

5th Grade Spelling

Grade 5

Nature's Fury
Spelling Review

Spelling Words

1. slept
2. split
3. staff
4. fade
5. praise
6. slope
7. claim
8. stroll
9. mood
10. beast
11. crush
12. fond
13. dwell
14. strike
15. clue
16. boast
17. flute
18. sway
19. cruise
20. mild
21. grasp
22. swift
23. bunk
24. slight
25. thrown
26. stole
27. fleet
28. dew
29. youth
30. thigh

Challenge Words

1. frantic
2. trek
3. cease
4. molten
5. pursuit
6. rustic
7. describe
8. campaign
9. subdue
10. reproach