SPELLING: Week of May 4th

This week's patterns:

Simple Machine Words

Here is our list:

1. simple
2. machine
3. design
4. pulley
5. wedge
6. inclined plane
7. wheel
8. axle
9. lever
10. screw
11. push
12. pull
13. load
14. force
15. fulcrum

SPELLING: Week of April 20th

This week's patterns:

Review "r-controlled vowels"

Here is our list:

1. circus
2. thirsty
3. thirteen
4. person
5. hermit
6. Vermont
7. turnip
8. urgent
9. outburst
10. garlic
11. target
12. barber
13. forty
14. forests
15. absorption

Watch Out Words
16. packed
17. pact
18. paste
19. paced

SPELLING: Week of March 23rd

This week's patterns:

Closed Prefixes (prefix ends with a consonant)
un-, im-, in-, mis-, dis- (all meaning "not" or "opposite" of base word)

Open Prefixes (prefix ends with a vowel)
re- (meaning "again"), pre- (meaning "before")

Here is our list:

1. unafraid
2. unintentional
3. imperfect
4. impolite
5. inactive
6. incomplete
7. mislead
8. mispronounce
9. distrust
10. dismount

11. repaint
12. renumber
13. rebound
14. preschool
15. prepaid 
16. pretest

Watch Out Words
17. vein  (like a blood vessel)
18. vain  (only worried about looks)
19. vane  (like a weather vane)

SPELLING: Week of March 16th

This week's patterns:

-tial
-cious
-tious

Here is our list:

1. spatial
2. initial
3. partial
4. essential
5. potential

6. delicious
7. precious
8. suspicious
9. spacious
10. vicious

11. cautious
12. nutritious
13. superstitious


Watch Out Words
14. knew
15. new
16. pour (like you pour some water)
17. pore (tiny opening in your skin)

SPELLING: Week of March 9th

This week's patterns:

'qua'
'y' as /i/
'cial'

Here is our list:

1. quacks
2. quality
3. quart
4. quadrangle
5. quantity

6. gym
7. symbol
8. myth
9. crystal
10. system
11. mystery

12. social
13. facial
14. special
15. glacial
16. crucial

Watch Out Words
17. sore (ouch!)
18. soar (fly!)
19. whether
20. weather (rain...)

SPELLING: Week of February 9th

This week's patterns:

'eu'
'ch' (tricky sounds: /k/ and /sh/
'ar' (when sounding like /er/)

Here is our list:

1. neutral
2. sleuth
3. maneuver
4. feud

5. school
6. scheme
7. chord
8. chorus
9. orchid

10. chef
11. chaperone

12. pillar
13. cellar
14. burglar
15. regular
16. popular
17. poplar

SPELLING: Week of February 2nd

This week's patterns:

'augh' (usually followed by 't')
'gn' (begins or ends a word)
'ei'

Here is our list:

1. caught
2. taught
3. naughty
4. daughter

5. gnaw
6. sign
7. align
8. assignment
9. gnat

10. either
11. weird
12. protein
13. vein
14. reindeer


Watch Out Words
15. woman
16. women
17. lose
18. loose 
19. where
20. were
 

SPELLING: Week of January 26th

This week's patterns:

'ough' (usually followed by 't')
'wr'
'ui' (in the middle of words)

Here is our list:

1. brought
2. fought
3. thought
4. rough

5. wrong
6. write
7. wrist
8. wreck
9. unwrap
10. wrestle

11. fruit
12. juice
13. bruise
14. cruise
15. suite

Watch Out Words
16. people
17. arrange
18. answer
19. laugh

SPELLING: Week of January 20th

This week's patterns:
ph
-stle
-ey (at the end of multi-syllable words)

Here is our list:

1. phone
2. phrase
3. graph
4. sphinx
5. dolphin
6. typhoon

7. rustle
8. castle
9. whistle
10. hustle
11. nestle

12. hockey
13. chimney
14. kidney
15. Hershey
16. monkey

Watch Out Words
17. beauty
18. friend
19. because
20. minute

SPELLING: Week of January 12th

This week's patterns:
-sion (1st sound: 'shun' like in 'session'  2nd sound: 'zhun' like in vision)
-ie- (1st sound: long 'i' at the end of short words. 2nd sound: 'ee' in the middle of words like 'chief')
-ue (1st sound: 'oo' like in 'blue'  2nd sound: long 'u' like in rescue)

Here is our list:

1. mansion
2. tension
3. mission
4. session
5. vision
6. illusion

7. pie
8. tie
9. lie
10. field
11. shriek
12. achieve

13. glue
14. due
15. argue
16. tissue
17. value
18. rescue

Watch Out Words
19. peak
20. peek

SPELLING: Week of January 1st

This week's patterns:
ur
tion
age

Here is our list:

1. burp
2. jury
3. purse
4. curve
5. turtle

6. action
7. station
8. location
9. donation
10. portion

11. cage
12. page
13. stage
14. average 
15. manage

Watch Out Words

16. write
17. right
18. through
19. though
20. thought

SPELLING for Week of December 15th

This week's patterns:
ew (often at the end of words)
eigh (often followed by 't')
-ture (at the end of longer words)

Here is our list:

1. stew
2. threw
3. grew
4. newt
5. blew

6. sleigh
7. freight
8. eight
9. weight

10. picture
11. adventure
12. capture
13. culture
14. mixture

Watch Out Words
15. guessed
16. guest
17. root
18. route

SPELLING for Week of December 8th

This week's patterns:
au (at the beginning or middle of a word)
aw (at end of word OR followed by a single 'l' or 'n')
oe (at the end of very short words)

Here is our list:

1. fraud
2. launch
3. vault
4. taunt
5. haunt

6. straw
7. crawl
8. yawn
9. jaw
10. drawn

11. toe
12. Joe
13. doe

Watch Out Words
14. some
15. sum
16. weed
17. we'd

18. which
19. thought

SPELLING for Week of December 1st

This week's patterns:
ir (another sound like "er")
soft 'c' (sounds like "s" when followed by e, i, or y)
soft 'g' (sounds like "j" when followed by e, i, or y)

Here is our list:

1. bird
2. swirl
3. third
4. quirk

5. cent
6. spicy
7. racing
8. cell
9. trace

10. huge
11. stage
12. germ
13. gentle
14. gemologist
15. gym

Watch Out Words
16. sun
17. son
18. rays
19. raise

SPELLING: List for Week of November 17th

This week's patterns:
ow (two sounds: like in "cow" and like in "slow")
kn (sounds like 'n,' usually at beginning of word)

Here is our list:

1. flow
2. snowing
3. throw
4. crow

5. owl
6. growl
7. frown
8. chowder
9. flower

10. knot
11. knitting
12. knee
13. knight
14. known

Watch Out Words
15. so
16. sew
17. sow
18. which
19. through


 

SPELLING: List for Week of November 10th

This week's patterns:
ea (two sounds)
ou
Here is our list:

1. leash
2. speak
3. stream
4. breathe
5. wheat

6. head
7. dreamt
8. thread
9. dread
10. sweat

11. proud
12. sprout
13. couch
14. found
15. mound

Watch Out Words
16. crook
17. tooth
18. doctor
19. collar
20. where

SPELLING: List for Week of November 3rd

This week's patterns:
oa (in middle of word and says long 'o')
y (says long 'i' at the end of a word)
oo (2 sounds)

Here is our list:

1. throat
2. road
3. soap
4. hoax
5. goal

6. try
7. sly
8. reply
9. supply
10. magnify

11. moon
12. choose
13. smooth
14. stood
15. took
16. wooden

Watch Out Words
17. berry (like the fruit)
18. bury (like when you dig)
19. beet (like you grow)
20. beat (like hit a drum or defeat)

SPELLING: List for Week of Oct. 27th

This week's patterns:
ay (Rule: at the end of a word)

er (Rule: first choice when you hear "er")
igh (Rule: usually followed by 't')


Here is our list:

1. today
2. stray
3. Saturday
4. clay

5. stern
6. verse
7. verb
8. fern
9. term
10. certain

11. might
12. fright
13. flight
14. brightly
15. night

Watch Out Words
16. heel
17. heal
18. he'll
19. I'll

SPELLING: List for Week of October 21st

This week's patterns:
ee

ai 
or (*also at the end of longer words after 't')



Here is our list:

1. screen
2. freeze 
3. cheese
4. squeeze

5. waist
6. brain
7. quaint
8. strain
9. frail

10. porch
11. storm
12. proctor
13. actor
14. visitor

Watch Out Words
15. hair
16. hare
17. though
18. through

SPELLING: List for Week of October 13th

This week's patterns:
oi   (Rule: use 'oi' in the middle of a word)

oy  (Rule: use 'oy' at the end of a word)

ar  


Here is our list:

1. joint
2. coil
3. boiled
4. noise
5. soil

6. ploy
7. joyful
8. toys
9. enjoy
10. destroy
11. start
12. dollar
13. starch
14. yardstick
15. March
Watch Out Words
16. rose
17. rows
18. were
19. we're