Spelling Each week you will study a new list of 20 core words plus 5 challenge words. On Monday, you will be given a “pretest” on the words. If you get all of the 20 core words correct on the pretest, you are done with spelling for the week. Also, if you get any of the challenge words correct, they are worth ½ point extra credit each, so it is possible that you could get a spelling test score of 22.5/20! If you do not get all of the 20 core words correct on the pretest, you will be given extra practice during the week and then have the opportunity to take the spelling test again on Friday. The extra practice comes in the form of writing each misspelled word five times each and using the words to complete a spelling packet. Please do not feel that having to do the extra practice and take another test is a punishment. It is not. I feel that if, on Monday, you can prove to me that you have mastered the spelling of the words for the week, I am not going to make you practice the words more. If you have not mastered the words on the pretest given Monday, I want you to be successful at mastering every word on Friday. Also, we will chart our spelling test scores each week so you can see your progress and set realistic spelling goals. Here are your words for weeks 6-10: Week 6 Words-Number the Stars 1. shoulder Challenge Words 2. Roman heroically 3. mental soldier 4. frighten medal 5. feather Holocaust 6. individual surrender 7. anger 8. original 9. German Vocabulary 10. dozen occupation 11. hunger disdainfully 12. musical belligerently 13. political soothingly 14. citizen exasperated 15. oxygen unwavering 16. quarter 17. manual 18. computer 19. terror 20. medical Week 7 Words-The Summer of the Swans 1. there Challenge Words 2. their civilization 3. raise wilderness 4. aloud territory 5. hole vegetation 6. through permanent 7. sent 8. raze 9. threw Vocabulary 10. whole expanse 11. scent engulf 12. allowed compulsion 13. principal anguish 14. course waver 15. principle disbelief 16. coarse wailed 17. dual 18. flare 19. flair 20. duel Week 8 Words-Old Yeller 1. watt Challenge Words 2. braille wedge 3. sandwich lever 4. tangerine pulley 5. saxophone axle 6. leotard friction 7. frankfurter 8. diesel 9. denim Vocabulary 10. mercury yarns 11. Fahrenheit charging 12. atlas romping 13. Celsius frantic 14. odyssey lunging 15. tuxedo pounced 16. limousine 17. china 18. attic 19. volt 20. cereal Week 9 Words-Trapped by the Ice 1. effect Challenge Words 2. angel iceburg 3. desert summit 4. older polar 5. dessert Antarctica 6. adopt fossils 7. decent 8. affect 9. angle Vocabulary 10. elder perilous 11. descent dehydration 12. adapt bailed 13. broad grueling 14. device impassable 15. personal rancid 16. board 17. devise 18. access 19. personnel 20. excess Week 10 Words-Flood: Wrestling the Mississippi 1. children’s Challenge Words 2. class’s volcanic 3. classes’ eruption 4. country’s tributary 5. countries’ humidity 6. sky’s forecast 7. skies 8. sun’s 9. safety’s Vocabulary 10. storms levees 11. city’s seeping 12. cities reservoirs 13. goose’s crested 14. oxen’s floodplain 15. people’s awed 16. strangers’ yearned 17. geese’s 18. armies’ 19. allergies 20. mosquitoes Handwriting-Each week we will practice the art of producing neatly-written cursive. Accelerated Reader-Language Arts students are required to be reading at least 20 minutes each night at home. Each student will have the opportunity to earn 5 extra credit points if they turn in reading chart signed by their parents each month. Students are to be reading AR books and their AR points must be met by Mid-May. Each student has been given a specific AR point goal based on their reading level. We are really excited about the two new reading incentive programs we have. Every Thursday students listen to a passage from a particular book, and if they guess the correct book, they may win a prize. Also on Fridays, students can spend the AR points they have earned.