Did you forget your folder or lose your spelling packet?   You can download spelling sheets and class forms here so you can get your homework done on time!   Blank Homework Sheet   Blank Writing Paper   Graph Paper (Small)   Graph Paper (Large)   ABC/ZYX Order Sheet   Write 3 Times (Print)   Write 3 Times (Cursive)   Look-Cover-Write-Check

Here are the only rules for Spelling MENU NIGHT (usually on Wednesday night):

1. Make sure you write the name of your selected MENU NIGHT activity in your spelling packet. Be sure to have mom or dad sign the sheet so I know you completed a task for homework. You do not have to bring finished products to school unless you want to share them with the class.

2. Do not do the same menu activity more than once per month.

Interactive and Online Activities Interactive Look - Cover - Write - Check Version 1 - You can only do 10 words at a time. Do the first 10 words and then the last 5. HINT: You can also do this activity in place of the Look-Cover-Write-Check paper the night before a test (usually Thursday night)! Just have mom or dad sign the LCWC sheet if you choose to do it ONLINE instead!   Interactive Look - Cover - Write - Check Version 2 - You can only do 8 words at a time. Do the first 10 words and then the last 7. HINT: You can also do this activity in place of the Look-Cover-Write-Check paper the night before a test (usually Thursday night)! Just have mom or dad sign the LCWC sheet if you choose to do it ONLINE instead!   Interactive Word Search Version 1 - You can only do 10 words at a time. Do the first 10 words and then the last 5. You can even print it! Some VERY LONG words might not fit!   Online Word Search Version 2 - You can only do all of your words and print the Word Search! All sizes of words will fit! This link will take you to DiscoverySchool.com.   Interactive Word Scramble - You can only do 10 words at a time. Do the first 10 words and then the last 5. You can even print it!   Interactive Word Safari - What a great way to learn how to spell! Play this fun interactive 3D Game with great sound effects as you fly through the air finding letters but avoiding certain obstacles. You can enter your own spelling word list to play in the game. Lots of fun! You can only enter 7 words per round.

On Your Own Type ‘Em - Type all of your spelling words on the computer or on a typewriter. You can even email them to me! (Click here and then type out your words in the message section!)    Sign Your Words - Use sign language to sign your words! Here's a chart to help you.   Fancy Letters - Use old magazines, catalogs, or newspapers to cut out letters and glue them down to spell your words!   Chalk It Up - (Warm day required!) Use sidewalk chalk to write your words on the sidewalk!   What’s A Word Worth? - Each letter is worth a different amount of money. Write what each letter is worth and add it up to see which spelling word is worth the most. This would be an example: A=1 cent, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, G=7, H=8, I=9, J=10, K=11, L=12, M=13, N=14, O=15, P=16, Q=17, R=18, S=19, T=20, U=21, V=22, W=23, X=24, Y=25, Z= 26 cents.   CAT: would equal 3 (C) + 1 (A) + 20 (T) = 24 Cents.   You can change the values of the letters if you would like to challenge yourself!   Phone Spelling - Use the number/letter pad on a phone. Write each spelling word and its phone number. The phone number for the word "school" is 724665!   Trace Around - Print one of your spelling words neatly. Take a colored pen and draw an outline around the word, closely following the shapes of the letters. Close your eyes and remember the shape. Now try to write the word.   Riddle Me - Write a riddle for each word.   Story, Story - Write a story using ALL of your spelling words.   Sentence Please - Write a sentence for each spelling word.   Colorful Words - Use two different color pens to write your spelling words. Use one color to write the consonants and the other for the vowels. Do this one more time. Close your eyes and picture the word in your mind. Now try and write the word with just one color.   Memory Game - Make pairs of word cards. Flip them over and try to match the pairs!   Scrabble - Use Scrabble tiles to spell your words.

With A Grown Up   Spelling Baseball - Draw four bases on a piece of paper or set up four chairs to be the bases. The Pitcher (a grown up) selects a word. If the Batter (you) can spell the word correctly, you move forward one base. If you cannot spell word, you remain where you are on base. You receive a point every time you home base.   Finger Tracing - Use your finger to spell out each of your words one letter at a time on your Mom or Dad’s back. Then it’s YOUR turn to feel and spell.   Sing Them Loud, Sing Them Soft - Have your Mom or Dad sing the letters of a spelling word to you in a loud voice. You echo the spelling and then sing it again softly. Now BOTH of you sing the word in the voice you choose!   Practice Test - Take a practice test.   Record a Word - Spell your words out loud and record yourself. Use a tape recorder, video camera or computer microphone to practice your spelling words.   Partner Word Step- On large piece of butcher paper print the letters of the alphabet. Have a grown up read the word aloud. You must step on the letters to spell the word.   Tissue Paper Tracing - Have a grown up write your weekly spelling words on a large piece of paper. Then place tissue paper over the words and trace over them with crayon.

Be Creative Paint With Water - Dip a Q-tip in water and practice spelling the words on a chalkboard. The words will disappear like magic, leaving the chalkboard clean!   Shaving Cream Practice - Spread white shaving cream on a table or cookie sheet. Write your words in the shaving cream.   Spelling Magic - Try a little magic to teach spelling words! Write words on white construction paper with white crayon. Then paint over the paper with watered down tempera paint or watercolors. Words appear like magic!   Magnetic Cookie Sheet - Arranges assorted magnet letters on a cookie sheet. Use the letters to form the weekly spelling words.   Paint Your Words - Use small paint brushes to paint your words 5 times each.   Salt Box Spelling - Have a grown up pour salt in the lid of a box (approx. 1/4"). You can practice writing the words in the salt.   Alpha-Bit Spelling - Use Alpha-Bits cereal to reproduce your spelling words. Don't forget to have a snack with the words you make.   Sandy Words - Write your spelling words in glue and sprinkle sand over the glue. Trace over the words with your fingers for practice. (Make sure the glue dries first!)   Spell It With Beans - Use dry lima or kidney beans to spell the weekly spelling words.   Pipe Cleaners - Use pipe cleaners to form your spelling words.   Toothpicks - Use toothpicks to form your spelling words.   Word Collage - Design a collage using all of your words using markers, colored pencils, paper. newspaper, etc.   Playdough or Clay Word Sculptures - Form the dough or clay into letters and spell your words.

Student Invented Activities Olivia's Award Winning Cookie Spelling - Use small letter shaped cookie cutters and sugar cookie dough. Spell your words, bake them, decorate them and then eat them up! Remember to save one for your teacher!   Allyson's Rainbow Spelling - Write your words as "Rainbow Words." Use the colors in the order they appear in a rainbow. Write the first letter red, the second orange, the third yellow, etc. (Remember the colors of the rainbow spell "Roy G. Biv" - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet!) Austin's Beginning Letter Blitz - Write each spelling word in a "Beginning Letter Blitz" by writing the word over and over to make the shape of the first letter. Example: l e t t e r l e t t e r l e t t e r Shannon's Word Wedges - Write your words as word wedges. Example : Bookworm B Bo Boo Book Bookw Bookwo Bookwor Bookworm

 

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