Spelling Words

The spelling words for the week of May 19-23 are:

debt, dried, dry, exhaust, exercise, explosion, grammar, Indian, journey, journal, courage, laid, lay, package, pack, physical, praise, properly, searched, smooth, thirteen

Spelling Words

The spelling words for the week of May 12-16 are:

statement, state, perhaps, their, they, imprison, written, writ, arrange, ankle, appears, bracelet, brace, breathe, breath, calm, circus, consented, continued, continue, dangerous

Spelling Words

There will be no spelling words for the week of May 5-9.  We have our field trip, end-of-the-year testing, an assembly, and all sorts of fun stuff.  We will have regular words May 12-16. 

Spelling Words

The spelling words for the week of April 28-May 2 are:

present, present, action, act, justice, just, gentleman, gentle, enclose, await, suppose, wonderful, forward, backward, toward, although, prompt, attempt, whose, who

*20 words this week

Spelling Words

The spelling words for the week of April 21-25 are:

due, dew, include, allow, position, ledge, claim, primary, result, appoint, information, whom, who, arrest, themselves, self, calves, calf, halves, half, special

Shoe Boxes

If you have shoe boxes, will you send one to school with your child?  We need them for an upcoming project in science.  Please send them by Friday, May 2.  Thanks for your help!

Poems

The poems for the last grading period are below.  Please help your child pick one to memorize.  They will be presented in class on Wednesday, May 21.  

Sing Me a Song of Teapots and Trumpets

Sing me a song

of teapots and trumpets:

trumpots and teapets

and tippets and taps,

trippers and trappers

and jelly bean wrappers

and pigs in pajamas

with zippers and snaps.

Sing me a song

Of sneakers and snoopers:

Snookers and sneapers

And snappers and snacks,

Snorkels and snarkles,

A seagull that gargles,

And gargoyles and gryphons

And other knickknacks.

Sing me a song-

But never you mind it!

I've had enough

Of this nonsense.  Don't cry.

Criers and fliers

And onion ring fryers-

It's more than I want to put up with!

Good-bye!

-by N. M. Bodeker

Mrs. Brownish Beetle

When it was October

and a hard frost came

Mrs. Brownish Beetle

(I don't know her other name)

said:  “Dear me, it's chilly,”

said:  “My coat is thin,”

said:  “Land sakes, I'd better find

A place to cuddle in.”

So, Mrs. Brownish Beetle

After several tries

Found a hole beneath a stone

That was a beetle's size,

And said:  “Oh my, how lucky,”

Said:  “How very nice,”

Said:  “I'll snuggle down away

From wind and snow and ice.

“I'll set my clock at April,”

Mrs. Beetle said,

I'll wind it up and put it here

beside my little bed.”

So Mrs. Brownish Beetle

(I don't know her other name)

nestled down and went to sleep

and slept till April came.

-by Aileen Fisher

The Snail

The snail is very odd and slow.

He has his mind made up to go

The longest way to anywhere

And will not let you steer him there.

Today I met one in the grass

And hadn't time to watch him pass,

But coming back at sunset, I

Discovered him still traveling by.

The grass-blades grew so thick and tall

I asked him why he climbed them all,

And told him I had sometimes found

The shortest way was going 'round.

He was not easy to persuade,

To judge by any sign he made,

And when I lectured him some more

Went in his house and shut the door.

-Grace Hazard Conkling