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Challenge Spelling List
“Red, White, and Blue: The Story of the American Flag”
Congratulations! You can already spell all twelve of our
weekly spelling words. That means you are ready for a
Challenge List!!
For homework, you may either complete the regular
weekly spelling pages that I send home - or you can
choose to do a different activity from the back of this
spelling list. You should complete something each
night... either a spelling practice page or an activity
from the list so that you are ready for this week’s
test!
1. beginning
7. unhappiest
2. continued
8. reapplied
3. happened
9. loneliest
4. scampered
10. friendlier
5. sleepiest
11. funniest
6. unluckiest
12. prettiest
Spelling Activities
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Write the words in ABC order
Rainbow Writing - write the words using different color crayons or markers
Use each word in a sentence
Look up each word in the dictionary and write the definition
Write each word three times each
Fancy Letters - Use old magazines, catalogs, or newspapers to cut out letters
and glue them down to spell your words!
7. Spelling Baseball - Draw four bases on a piece of paper or set up four chairs to
be the bases. Pitcher selects a word. If batter can spell it correctly, he moves
forward one base. If batter cannot spell word, he remains where he is. Child
receives point every time he passes home base.
8. Memory Game - Make pairs of word cards. Flip them over and try to match the
pairs!
9.
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.
10. Practice Test - Take a practice test (this is especially good on Thursday night
before the REAL test!)
12. Scrabble - Use Scrabble tiles to spell your words.
13. 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!
14. Stairsteps - Write words as if they are stairs, adding one letter each time. (If
you are using lined paper, begin up against the left margin line. If you are using
graph paper, begin on the left.)