Week of 5/6/13:
"Protecting Wildlife"
1. geology
2. geography
3. microphone
4. hydropower
5. phobia
6. telegraph
7. chronology
8. biosphere
9. microscopic
10. astronomy
11. eccentric
12. cyclone
13. physiology
14. telephoto
15. phonics
16. synchronize
17. grammar
18. paragraph
19. atmosphere
20. graphics
21. describe
22. postscript
Week of 3/4/13:
"Gandhi"
1. allowance
2. annoyance
3. defiance
4. distance
5. disturbance
6. endurance
7. guidance
8. ignorance
9. reluctance
10. acquaintance
11. convenience
12. experience
13. patience
14. sequence
15. science
16. diobedience
17. resistance
18. confidence
19. independence
20. influence
port root words
21. transport
22. portable
23. portfolio
Week of 1/19/13
"Riddle of the Rosetta Stone"
1. midsummer
2.underground
3.submarine
4.interchange
5.intramural
6. midnight
7. understated
8. submission
9.intercede
10. interstate
11. midterm
12. underneath
13. subterranean
14. interfere
15. intravenous
16. midyear
17. midmonth
18. midcourse
19. intermission
20. undercover
21. root word "ject" = to throw
Week of 1/28/13:
"The Search for Early Americans"
1. postdate
2. postscript
3. procedure
4. progress
5. propose
6. provoke
7. predict
8. preparation
9. premature
10. protest
11. prefix
12. preview
13. proclamation
14. precaution
15. prearrange
16. preface
17. prehistoric
18. preserved
19. professor
20. protected
Week of 1/2/13:
"The Island of the Bulls"
1. include
2. impose
3. immense
4. increase
5. influx
6. ingredient
7. inhabit
8. innate
9. integrate
10. relaxing
11. remorse
12. relationship
13. recommend
14. reorganize
15. reflect
16. indent
17. imbedded
18. impressions
19. involving
20. inspired
21. root word "ped" = foot
Week of 10/22/12:
"The People of the Beach"
1. subdue
2. submerge
3. subscribe
4. substitute
5. supersonic
6. subsequent
7. subtitle
8. submit
9. superior
10. superstitions
11. supervise
12. superhighway
13. supermarket
14. sublease
15. superb
16. substantial
17. subset
18. subtotal
19. substance
20. suburb
Vocabulary
21. anthropologist
22. balustrade
23. sulphur
24. eruption
25. excavation
Week of 10/8/12:
"The Gold Coin"
1. bit-map
2. burn
3. CD-ROM
4. digitize
5. DVD
6. fax
7. hard drive
8. floppy disk
9. megabyte
10. gigabyte
11. mouse
12. processor
13. RAM
14. scanner
15. tower
16. drive
17. format
18. word processor
19. spreadsheet
20. e-mail
Vocabulary Words
21. insistent
22. distressed
23. ransacked
24. amiably
25. home-cooked
Week of 10/1/12:
No Spelling Words this week
Week of 9/24/12:
"A Picture Book of Jesse Owens"
1. duplicate
2. unruly
3. improve
4. caribou
5. routine
6. consume
7. solitude
8. nuisance
9. jewelry
10. suitable
11. numerous
12. newsstand
13.baboon
14. union
15. cocoon
16. future
17. junior
18. prejudice
19. afternoons
20. community
Vocabulary Words
21. exhibition
22. pneumonia
23. equality
24. sharecroppers
25. spectacle
Week of 9/17/12:
No Spelling Words for this week!
Week of 9/10/12:
"St. George and the Dragon"
1. carbon
2. cargo
3. departure
4. guitar
5. pardon
6. courtyard
7. forceful
8. fortunate
9. ordinary
10. organize
11. discard
12. partially
13. formula
14. forum
15. origin
16. armor
17. horrible
18. scorched
19. forth
20. glorious
Vocabulary Words
21. bellowed
22. brandished
23. devour
24. perils
25. severed
Week of 9/4/12:
No Spelling words this week!
Week of 8/27/12:
1. maintain
2. vacate
3. theme
4. breathe
5. realized
6. released
7. received
8. isolated
9. devoted
10. reply
11. refrain
12. relocated
13. reminder
14. equator
15. migrate
16. cosmos
17. disappered
18. reasoning
19. fearlessness
20. heartbeat
vocabulary
21. transfer
22. energy
23. visible
24. primarily
25. phenomenon
Week of 8/20/12:
"The Fire Builder"
1. establish
2. accent
3. withstand
4. messenger
5. dismiss
6. rapid
7. ancestor
8. mathematics
9. athletic
10. suspense
11. shipwreck
12. significant
13. object
14. publish
15. possible
16. gesture
17. segment
18. tinder
19. stiffness
20. expression
Vocabulary Words
21. flue
22. self-pity
23. smoldered
24. vicious
25. skittered