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    SPELLING:  On Mondays, the Spelling Pretest will come home to use as a study guide with the words for the week.  Spelling Workbook pages or other activities will come home during the week as homework to practice these words and patterns. The Spelling Post Test will be on Fridays unless otherwise noted.  An * denotes bonus words worth 1 point each.
     
    Spelling week 1  /short vowels/   
    clap, step, sick, rock, luck, crop, snack, mess, head, shut, miss, stamp, jump, click, pond, *bathtub, *anthill 
     
    Spelling week 2  /long vowel- CVCe pattern/  
     date, fine, rose, lake, life, home, safe, rice, globe, plane, wise, smoke, grade, smile, come, *sneeze, *escape
     
    Spelling week 3  /long a/  
    fail, bay, pail, ray, plain, tray, trail, May, braid, sway, gray, plays, paint, snail, great, *lady, *afraid 
     
    Spelling week 4   /long o/   
     gold, bowl, soak, sold, snow, loaf, roast, coast, scold, coal, slow, grows, show, float, blow,*window, *program
     
    Spelling week 5   /long i/   
     mild, sky, pie, might, find, fight, ties, right, fry, tight, child, flight, bright, buy, dye, *wind, *children
     
    Spelling week 6   /long e/   
    heel, seal, weak, week, bean, creek, speaks, team, free, green, clean, cream, street, freeze, field, *sixteen, *peanut 
     
    Spelling week 7   /ch, tch/   
    chick, much, pitch, teacher, chum, lunch, ditch, cheek, hatch, cheese, bench, chunk, stretch, watching, crunching, *catcher, *sandwich
     
    Spelling week 8   /th, wh, sh/   
    thread, scrubs, spree, screams, stream, scratch, spread, throne, three, screens, spray, throw, strong, scraped, strength, *streamer, scribble 
     
    Spelling week 9  /consonant blends/   
    thread, scrubs, spree, screams, stream, scratch, spread, throne, three, screens, spray, throw, strong, scraped, strength, *streamer, *scribble 
     
    Spelling week 10 /n/ gn, kn; /r/ wr   
    wrap, knit, gnat, wrists, knots, wrote, knight, sign, knock, wreck, know, wring, gnaws, write, wrong,
    *wristwatch, *knapsack
     
    Spelling week 11 /ar, or/  
    bark, shorts, sharp, sore, hard, storms, yard, sport, sharks, porch, pour, story, chore, word, carve, *orchard, *artist 
     
    Spelling week 12 /ar/   
    stairs, mare, bear, bare, share, wear, dares, chairs, glare, pairs, hare, their, pears, square, haircut, *airport, *beware 
     
    Spelling week 13  /ur/   
    turns, first, herds, learn, purr, third, earn, nurse, perch, girls, firm, word, world, serve, worth, *perfect, *Thursday
     
    Spelling Week 14  /u/    
    loop, rude, look, clue, spoon, tube, shook, blue, cubes, goose, mules, gloom, true, show, stew, *classroom, *childhood
     
    Spelling week 15  /oi/     
    coy, soil, foil, toil, coins, point, noise, loyal, boiled, spoiled, enjoys, voice, choice, soybean, joyful, *noisy *checkpoint
     
    Spelling week 16  /au, aw, al/  
    yawn, taught, salt, lawn, halls, hauls, hawks, squawk, bought, bawls, drawing, caused, paused, crawled, coughing, *walrus  *autumn
     
    Spelling week 17 /ou/   test
    found, town, shout, owl, couch, bow, scout, round, plow, crowd, proud, clouds, ground louder, bounce, *snowplow, *outline
     
    Spelling week 18 /soft g &c/   
    cell, gems, age, place, gyms, space, nice, giant, changes, pages, gentle, message, *giraffe  *celebrate 
     
    Spelling week 19  /compound words/   
    airplane, daytime, birthday, daylight, hairdo, notebook, birdhouse, barefoot, headlight, sometime, someone, newspaper, sidewalks, basketball, stagecoach, *somebody *handwriting
     
    Spelling week 20  /inflected endings/   
    names, named, naming, hopes, hoped, hoping, dances, danced, dancing, drops, dropped, dropping, wraps, wrapped, wrapping, *driving *traded 
     
    Spelling week 21  /y to i/    
    tries, tried, trying, dries, dried, drying, hurries, hurried, hurrying, studies, studied, studying, plays, played, playing, *obeyed *worrying 
     
    Spelling week 22  /homophones/  
    sale, sail, beet, beat, rode, road, rowed, its, it's, your, you're, there, they're, peace, piece, *seen *scene
     
    Spelling week 23 /prefixes/    
    untied, repay, disagree, preheat, unafraid, return, preschool, dislike, disappear, resell, precook, prepay, unbeaten, reprint, unwrap,
    *unlucky *recover 
     
    Spelling week 24  /suffixes/    
    careful, cheerful, helpful, colorful, harmful, peaceful, pitiful, painless, priceless, helpless, sleepless, rainless, helplessly, carefully, peacefully, *wonderful, *cloudless
     
    Spelling week 25 final /el/  
    able, purple, riddle, handle, towel, eagle, puzzle, castle, little, nickel, camel, pickle, travel, tunnel, squirrel, *motel, *couple
     
    Spelling week 26  final /er/    
    sister, sailor, dollar, toaster, winter, doctor, later, dancer, mayor, writer, silver, cellar, trailer, December, author, *circular, *editor