Grade 5
Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers
Spelling Words
- covered
- directing
- bragging
- amusing
- offered
- planned
- rising
- deserved
- visiting
- mixed
- swimming
- sheltered
- resulting
- spotted
- suffering
- arrested
- squeezing
- ordered
- decided
- hitting
Challenge Words
- rehearsing
- shredded
- anticipated
- scalloped
- entertaining
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
Grade 5
Mom's Best Friend
Spelling Words
- poem
- idea
- create
- diary
- area
- giant
- usual
- radio
- cruel
- quiet
- diet
- liar
- fuel
- riot
- actual
- lion
- ruin
- trial
- rodeo
- science
Challenge Words
- appreciate
- variety
- enthusiastic
- realize
- eventually
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.
Grade 5
Mariah Keeps Cool
Spelling Words
- district
- address
- complain
- explain
- improve
- farther
- simply
- hundred
- although
- laughter
- mischief
- complex
- partner
- orphan
- constant
- dolphin
- employ
- sandwich
- monster
- orchard
Challenge Words
- control
- abstain
- conscience
- function
- extreme
January
The days are short
The sun a spark
Hung between
The dark and dark.
Fat snowy footsteps
Track the floor
Milk bottles burst
Outside the door.
The river is
A frozen place
Held still beneath
The trees of lace.
The sky is low
The wind is gray
The radiator
Purrs all day.
by John Updike
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.
Grade 5
Voices of the Revolution
Spelling Review
Spelling Words
- powder
- burglar
- rapid
- value
- bushel
- actor
- equal
- publish
- tractor
- pedal
- polar
- aware
- matter
- single
- sparkle
- humor
- behave
- quarter
- whistle
- needle
- mayor
- sorrow
- parlor
- mortal
- gentle
- lunar
- shoulder
- jewel
- legal
- wedding
Challenge Words
- oyster
- skittish
- influential
- kernel
- clamor
- device
- mineral
- vital
- sincere
- scholar
