Spelling for April 20 - 24

Prefixes  (re means again, pre means before)

1. reread
2. redo
3. repair
4. remember
5. pretest
6. prepare
7. return
8. pretend
9. preschool
10. prepay

Dictation Sentences:

1.  Fern Bluff is a fun place to think!

2.  Home is the place where I am loved every day.



Spelling for April 14 - 17

Suffix is an ending chunk to a word.  The suffix is "ly"

1.  likely
2.  lovely
3.  quickly
4.  lively
5.  brightly
6.  tightly
7.  quietly
8.  swiftly
9.  slowly
10. sadly

Dictation 

1.  Learning to spell helps me read.
2.  I am proud of myself when I help a friend.


Spelling for April 2 - 5

plural add VES and drop the F  

1.  leaves
2.  hooves
3.  shelves
4.  halves
5.  wolves
6.  lives
7.  knives
8.  wives
9.  selves
10. elves

Dictation Sentences:

1.  I feel rested and ready to work hard on my math and science.
2.  Everyone should count their blessings.


Spelling for March 23 - 27

Ti  (tall letter "sh") phonogram

1. diet
2. habitat
3. enemies
4. adaptations
5. interesting
6. rain forest
7. predators
8. fruits
9. plants
10. animals

Dictation:

1. A toucan likes to eat bananas and other fruit.
2. A research paper tells facts about a certain topic.



Spelling for March 9 - 13

1 rain
2 air
3 army ant
4 fruit bat
5 harpy eagle
6 howler monkey
7 anaconda
8 endangered
9 protect
10 destroy

Dictation:
1.  I like to study the beautiful rain forest.
2. Save the trees because they clean the air.

Spelling for March 2 - 6

1. Grinch
2. Sneetch
3. read
4. reading
5. books
6. story
7. think
8. Thing One
9. Lorax
10. Zax

Dictation:
1.  Dr. Seuss wrote fifty books before one was made into a book.
2.  I like Dr. Seuss because he never gave up and wasn't afraid to 
try.

Spelling List for February 23 - 27

(Some words have silent letters.)

1. very
2. really
3. every
4. went
5. with
6. two
7. people
8. because
9. friend
10. again

Dictation:
1.  I will watch the flowers bloom in the spring.
2.  Why is my teacher's favorite animal the sea turtle?