Attention

There is no poem this week. Enjoy the break.

Spelling List 5/2-5/6

1. entry
2. limit
3. talent
4. disturb
5. entire
6. wisdom
7. dozen
8. impress
9. respond
10. fortress
11. neglect
12. patrol 
13. kitchen
14. forbid
15. pirate
16. spinach
17. adopt
18. frighten
19. surround
20. challenge

Spelling 4/25-4/29

1. storage
2. olive 
3. service
4. relative
5. cabbage
6. courage
7. native 
8. passage
9. voyage
10. knowledge
11.  image
12. creative
13. average
14. justice
15. detective
16. postage
17. cowardice
18. adjective
19. village
20. language

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

Spelling 4/18-4/22

1. nature
2. certain
3. future
4. villain
5. mountain
6. mixture
7. pleasure
8. captain
9. departure
10. surgeon
11. texture
12. curtain
13. creature
14. treasure
15. gesture
16. fountain
17. furniture
18. measure
19. feature
20. adventure

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

Spelling List 4/11-4/15

1. salsa
2. mattress
3. tycoon
4. burrito
5. bandanna
6. tomato
7. poncho
8. dungarees 
9. lasso
10. patio
11. siesta
12. cargo
13. vanilla
14. tsunami
15. iguana
16. plaza
17. caravan
18. hammock
19. pajamas
20. gallant

Poem of the Week

Mosquito

O Mrs. Mosquito, quit biting me please!
I’m happy my blood type with your type agrees.
    I’m glad that my flavor
    Has met with your favor.
    I’m touched by your care;
    Yes, I’m touched everywhere:
On my arms and my legs, on my elbows and knees,
    Till I cannot tell which
    Is the itchiest itch
    Or which itch in the batch
    Needs the scratchiest scratch.
Your taste for my taste is the reason for these,
So Mrs. Mosquito, quit biting me please!
       
            Mary Ann Hoberman

Spelling 4/4-4/8

1. lately
2. settlement
3. watchful
4. countless
5. steadily
6. closeness
7. calmly
8. government
9. agreement
10. cloudiness
11. delightful
12. noisily
13. tardiness
14. forgetful
15. forgiveness
16. harmless
17. enjoyment
18. appointment
19. effortless
20. plentiful

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