Wednesday, February 18, 2015

5th Grade Spelling Test 2/25/15


  1. menace
  2. sanatorium
  3. barrack
  4. antiseptic
  5. prostration
  6. greasewood
  7. daunt
  8. relic
  9. foresighted
  10. barren
  11. contingent
  12. affidavit
  13. descend
  14. orderly
  15. sympathetic
Please learn these vocabulary words for your spelling test next Wednesday.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

5th Grade Spelling Test 2/18/15


  1. crude
  2. luxurious
  3. ornate
  4. turbulence
  5. expedite
  6. chide
  7. scourge
  8. regiment
  9. haggard
  10. barracks
  11. contraband
  12. corpse
  13. euphemism
  14. inadequacies
  15. latrines
These tests onward will only have 15 words, because they are vocabulary words from the text: Journey to Topaz.  There will be dictation.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

5th Grade Spelling Test 2/11/15

This spelling test includes the vocabulary from Chapters 1 - 4 of our novel.


  1. reveries
  2. dignify
  3. fanatic
  4. apprehensive
  5. frantically
  6. Caucasian
  7. ominous
  8. solace
  9. hostage
  10. Nisei
  11. freighter
  12. detention
  13. sabotage
  14. evacuation
  15. austere
  16. hysterical
  17. excluded
  18. refugee
  19. tentatively
  20. occupants


Saturday, January 31, 2015

5th Grade Spelling Test 2/3/15

This spelling list is only 15 words long.  These were selected because they were misspelled on previous tests and writing assignments.  Please study them for a test on Wednesday 2/3/15.


  1. tyrannical
  2. debt
  3. lieutenant
  4. phlegm
  5. exercise
  6. principal
  7. principle
  8. brake
  9. break
  10. subtle
  11. independent
  12. success
  13. benefit
  14. forty
  15. fifth


Thursday, January 15, 2015

No more blogs until further notice.

Dear Students,

If you have been completing these assignments along with your daily exercise, you are champions!!!

There will not be any more blog assignments until our next break.  Please take the time to go back and check your work, reread your responses, and bring your work to school.

A few suggestions:  

  • Exercise is important for everyone, so don't skip!  
  • Read daily, and check out books from our amazing public libraries.  It's free and it's fun!  
  • You may complete your Scholastic Counts tests at school, because school is open while the other tracks are in session.
  • Get plenty of rest, and be prepared for when you return!


Hiking trip, 2013.  Sweetwater Trail, Folsom, CA.