5th Grade Spelling List

1. awake
2. feast
3. stray
4. greet
5. praise
6. disease
7. repeat
8. display
9. braces
10. thief
11. ashamed
12. sleeve
13. waist
14. beneath
15. sheepish
16. release
17. remain
18. sway
19. training
20. niece
21. terrain
22. succeed
23. betray
24. motivate
25. upheaval

Poem of the Week

Lighthouse

This giant white
  Land candle burns
The edges of
  The fog by turns.

The lonely keeper
  Of the flame
Illuminates
  One picture frame.

A ship returning
  Welcome light
And slipping safely
  Through the night.

Information

This is my first post of the school year. During normal weeks, students will see the weekly poem. A piece of art pertaining to the poem will be due on Tuesdays. The poem will be recited from memory each Friday. Please help your child by having her/him practice in front of you a few times. In addition, each Friday students will take a spelling quiz on the weekly spelling words from our new Journeys language arts program. 

For the first week and a half the schedule is different. The poem art for Jellyfish Stew is due Friday, September 11. The same poem will be recited by students on Friday, September 18. The first spelling quiz will also happen on Friday the 18th. 

Poem of the Week

Jellyfish Stew

Jellyfish stew, I’m loony for you,
I dearly adore you,
Oh truly I do,
you’re creepy to see,
revolting to chew
you slide down inside
with a hullabaloo.

You’re soggy, you’re smelly,
you taste like shampoo,
you bog down my belly
with oodles of goo,
yet I would glue noodles
and prunes to my shoe,
for one oozy spoonful
of jellyfish stew.

Spelling List

Journeys: A Package for Mrs. Jewls

1.

direct

2.

comic

3.

solid

4.

hymn

5.

energy

6.

grasp

7.

promise

8.

bundle

9.

gravity

10.

wobble

11.

stingy

12.

blister

13.

weather

14.

swift

15.

shovel

16.

feather

17.

breath

18.

crush

19.

numb

20.

frantic