Saturday's Blog Post

Keep a notebook or make one for your blog assignments.  Make sure your name is on it.

Make a list of what you see on a one dollar bill.

Sophie! What happened?!

I guess it's "the end" for this toy!

Spelling Test on Wednesday, December 16, 2014

Here is our list of words from our text, George Washington's Socks: 

1. reluctant
2. beckon
3. ongoing
4. instinct
5. overwhelming
6. divert
7. eerie
8. queer
9. ingenuity
10. colonel
11. riveting
12. floe
13. mercenaries
14. bayonet
15. quizzical
16. pigeon
17. vexed
18. lieutenant
19. extinguish
20. tyranical
21. beseech
22. phlegm
23. scholarship
24. plunder
25. coax

Spelling Test: Wednesday, December 10, 2014

TWO MORE WORDS have been added:  ominous and grimace for a total of 27 words.

Here are the spelling words for the next test, which'll be on Wednesday, December 10.
The spelling pattern we are studying here is the ar/er/or/ sound.

1. binocular
2. gentler
3. scissors
4. founder
5. director
6. remainder
7. semester
8. laborer
9. commander
10. clamor
11. charter
12. pillar
13. splendor
14. peddler
15. professor
16. stagger
17. governor
18. vaporize
19. equator
20. soldier
21. refrigerator
22. scholarship
23. nocturnal
24. royal
25. incidental

Tip:  when you study for your test, find words that are similar and put them in groups.

Example 1:  binocular, pillar

Example 2: gentler, founder, remainder, semester, laborer, commander, charter, peddler, stagger, soldier, refrigerator.

You create the other lists….

Spelling Test Thursday, December 4, 2014

This week's spelling test will be on Thursday.  

Notice the ending patterns:  le and al  These two spellings sound the same, but don't get confused.

1. unstable
2. saddle
3. nocturnal
4. noble
5. chronicle
6. stumble
7. maternal
8. beetle
9. kettle
10. eagle
11. royal
12. cripple
13. hospital
14. illegally
15. label
16. fundamental
17. journalists
18. monumental
19. several
20. castle
21. incident
22. environment
23. encounter
24. southern