This Week's Spelling List

Unit 5: Culture                                                

Week 5                                                                                                                                           

                                                               

This week we are reading “Me and Uncle Romie” by Claire Hartfield.  We will focus on some vocabulary words in this story.  It would be helpful if you will reinforce the meaning of these words at home with your child.   Be sure to refer to the spelling rule described below.  Please listen to your child read the spelling words aloud. 

Vocabulary Words:  fierce, feast, stoops, cardboard, treasure, pitcher, ruined, flights

            

      Spelling Rule:  Suffixes -y, -ish, -hood, -ment

     When  -y, -ish, -hood, -ment is added to most 

     base words, the base word stays the same: 

            rocky, foolish, childhood, treatment.

1.  rocky     2.  foolish     3.  rainy     4.  childhood     5.  selfish     6.  treatment     7.  movement     8.  neighborhood     9.   childish   10.  parenthood

11.  crunchy       12.  bumpy    13.  payment    14.  sleepy 15.  shipment

                          EXTRA CHALLENGE WORDS

16.  assignment        17.  livelihood        18.  stylish        19.  environment        20.  guilty                            EXTRA  CHALLENGE WORDS                 21.   achievement        22.   government        23.   establish        24.  accomplishment      25.  extinguish