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Fourth Quarter Spelling Words
March 28- April 1 "Boom Town"
Long vowel sound in the first syllable: VCV (Vowel-Consonant-Vowel) pattern
1. belong
2. hotel
3. focus
4. miner
5. pupil
6. begin
7. music
8. future
9. behind
10. tiger
11. become
12. motel
13. baker
14. cabin
15. ocean
Vocabulary:
stagecoach
settle
miners
boom town
nuggets
landmark
skillet
April 4-8 "Cocoa Ice"
Words ending in -ed and -ing: if they end in a short vowel and consonant: double the consonant; if it ends in two consonants, just add the suffix -ed or -ing; if it ends in a consonant and e, drop the e and add the suffix.
1. blooming
2. settled
3. stamping
4. leaving
5. liked
6. taking
7. getting
8. filled
9. swimmming
10. rolled
11. hoping
12. used
13. hurrying
14. buying
15. worried
Vocabulary:
trading
pulp
schooner
bargain
harvest
support
machete
April 11-15 "If You Made a Million"
Words ending in -tion and -sion
1. combination
2. action
3. vision
4. motion
5. section
6. nation
7. permission
8. confusion
9. question
10. attention
11. vacation
12. production
13. quotation
14. tension
15. sensation
Vocabulary:
congratulations
receive
value
combinations
amount
choices
April 18-22 "I'm In Charge of Celebrations"
Suffixes -er, -ful, -ly, and -able
1. farmer
2. useful
3. softly
4. suitable
5. lonely
6. quietly
7. teacher
8. thankful
9. exactly
10. readable
11. nicer
12. safer
13. harmful
14. quietly
16. suddenly
Vocabulary:
signal
tracks
celebrations
admiring
choosy
average
April 25-29 "Alejandro's Gift"
When a word ends in a consonant and y, change the y to an i before adding -es or -ed
1. pennies
2. buried
3. replied
4. candies
5. emptied
6. stories
7. married
8. copies
9. parties
10. studied
11. mysteries
12. discoveries
13. worries
14. families
15. ponies
Vocabulary:
windmill
ample
cherished
shunned
furrows
growth
May 2-6 "Rocking and Rolling"
Contractions (a short way to write two words with an apostrophe replacing any missing letters)
1. it's
2. isn't
3. you've
4. we'd
5. didn't
6. she's
7. we've
8. haven't
9. he'd
10. they'd
11. there's
12. don't
13. we'll
14. won't
15. he's
Vocabulary:
magma
edges
range
epicenter
coast
peak
May 9-13 "The Armadillo from Armarillo"
Ending sound in 'ever'
1. water
2. over
3. never
4. under
5. river
6. number
7. wonder
8. tower
9. rather
10. finger
11. center
12. prefer
13. better
14. border
15. fever
Vocabulary:
eventually
universe
converse
homeward
continent
sphere
May 16-20 "Visitors from Space"
Ending sound in little and petal can be spelled le or al
1. simple
2. total
3. apple
4. title
5. central
6. purple
7. signal
8. normal
9. middle
10. able
11. terrible
12. people
13. medal
14. handle
15. single
Vocabulary:
force
solar wind
nucleus
particles
loops
fluorescent
May 23-27: No spelling words
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