Spelling Words

The spelling words for the week of January 6-10 are:

death, learn, wonder, pair, pear, pare, check, prove, heard, hear, inspect, itself, always, something, expect, need, thus, woman, women, young, fair, fare, dollar, evening, plan, broke, feel, sure, sugar, least

Spelling Words

The spelling words for the week of December 16-20 are:

monkey, myself, noise, pencil, pie, pull, sew, sow, so, steam, thread, thunder, tried, try, vein, except, aunt, ant, capture, else, bridge, offer, suffer, center, front, running, run, rule, carry, chain

Phonograms

The phonograms for the week of December 16-20 are:

gu, igh, ey, ee, eigh, ay, ei, g, ie, ai, ea, ed, gn, j, kn, ough, oi, aw, ui, oy, ew, dge, ou, oo, e, i, au, ow, ng, u

Spelling Words

The spelling words for the week of December 9-13 are:

pleasant, please, picture, pitcher, pitch, money, ready, omit, anyway, eight, breakfast, chance, climb, coffee, color, contains, daily, day, eagle, fancy, fly, forest, freeze, gentle, grow, holes, hotel, iron, living, live

Poems

Poems are due Wednesday, December 18.  


How Creatures Move

The lion walks on padded paws,

The squirrel leaps from limb to limb,

While flies can crawl straight up a wall,

And seals can dive and swim.

The worm, he wiggles all around,

The monkey swings by his tail,

And birds may hop upon the ground,

Or spread their wings and sail.

But boys and girls have much more fun;

They leap and dance

And walk and run.

~Anonymous

Upside Down

It's funny how beetles

And creatures like that

Can walk upside down

as well as walk flat.

They crawl on a ceiling

and climb on a wall

without any practice

or trouble at all.

While I have been trying

For a year (maybe more)

and still I can't stand

with my head on the floor.

~Aileen Fisher

Little Talk

Don't you think it's probable

that beetles, bugs, and bees

talk about a lot of things--

you know, such things as these:

The kind of weather where they live

in jungles tall with grass

and earthquakes in their villages

whenever people pass!

Of course, we'll never know if bugs

talk very much at all,

because our ears are far too big

for talk that is so small.

~Aileen Fisher

Spider

I saw a little spider

With the smartest spider head:

She made-somewhere inside her-

A magic silken thread.

I saw her sliding down it.

She dangled in the air.

I saw her climbing up it

And pulling up each stair.

She made it look so easy

I wished all day I knew

How I could spin a magic thread

So I could dangle too.

~Aileen Fisher