Make a JOYful Noise!

Make a JOYful Noise!

Spelling Words (2025-26)




SPELLING WORDS for the Week of August 29th:

Story: Because of Winn Dixie (Chapters 1-7)

blade, gray, past, afraid, magic, delay, amaze, drain, maybe, break,

sale, hang, stain, glass, raft, jail, crayon, fact, stale, steak, fraction, trait

Challenge Word: peculiar


SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 5th:

Story: Because of Winn Dixie (Chapters 7-15)

admire, magnet, contest, method, custom, rally, soccer, engine, sudden, finger, accident, mitten, intend, fabric, flatten, rascal, gutter, mammal, happen, cannon

Challenge Word:  concoction


SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 12th:

Story: Because of Winn Dixie (Chapters 16-26)

skill, crime, grind, tonight, brick, flight, live, chill, delight, build, ditch, decide, witness, wind, district, inch, sigh, fright, remind, split

Challenge Word:  melancholy

SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 19th:

Story: Stormalong

wait, weight, heard, herd, days, daze, heel, heal, peak, peek, sent, cent, scent, feet, feat, vain, vane, vein, miner, minor, principal, principle

Challenge Word: treacherous


SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 26th:

Story: The Power of W.O.W.

block, shown, oatmeal, wrote, fellow, scold, coast, odd, locate, slope, throat, host, online, shock, solve, known, remote, stock, boast, globe, bonus, approach

Challenge Word: copasetic


SPELLING WORDS for the Week of October 10th:

Story: Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude

bunch, fruit, argue, crumb, crew, tune, juice, refuse, truth, young, clue, trunk, amuse, suit, rude, trust, dew, stuck, rescue, brush, computer, mustard

Challenge Word: horrendous


SPELLING WORDS for the Week of October 17th:

Story: Coming Distractions

bloom, cookbook, tool, shampoo, put, wool, stool, proof, prove, group, brook, foolish, bush, crooked, booth, raccoon, hook, groom, roof, soup, bulletin, cocoon

Challenge Word: omnipotent


SPELLING Words for Friday, October 24th:

Story: Me and Uncle Romie

aloud, bald, hawk, south, faucet, proud, claw, tower, stalk, couple, howl, false, dawn, allow, drown, pause, fault, cause, amount, cloudier, applaud, foul

Challenge Word: mesmerize


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, October 31st:

Martin Luther, afraid, church, knight, monk, trust, choir, shield, scare, forgiveness, indulgence, Lutheran, heaven, victory, statements

Challenge Word: Reformation


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, November 7th:  

Story: The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco

aunt, women, unusually, village, school, dream, window, confection, soldier, whisper, protect, understand, glorious, children, ditch, precious, squeeze, flutter, iris, shabby

Challenge Word: omniscient


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, November 14th: 

Story: Molly’s Pilgrim

1. admired, 2. ignorant, 3. pilgrim, 4. model, 5. naturally, 6. taunted, 7. modern, 8.tenement, 9. giggle, 10. clothespin

Challenge Word:  Wampanoag

 

SPELLING WORDS for Friday, November 21st:  Plymouth, Thanksgiving, praise, compact, Mayflower, pumpkin, barter, America, holiday, settlement

Challenge Word: conundrum


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, December 5th: 

Story: Sacajawea

million, collect, lumber, pepper, plastic, borrow, support, thirty, perfect, attend, canyon, traffic, fortune, danger, soccer, engine, picture, survive, seldom, effort

Challenge Word: interpreter


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, December 12th:

Story: Dear Mr. Winston

spark, prepare, cheer, tear, scarf, scare, repair, earring, scarce, weird, sharp,

rear, spare, gear, hairy, compare, alarm, harsh, upstairs, square, weary, startle

Challenge Word: omnipresent


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, January 9th:

Story: My Brother Martin

west, steep, member, gleam, fresh, freedom, speed, steam, beast, believe,

speck, kept, cheap, pretend, greed, shelf, least, eager, reason, chief, echo, menu

Challenge Word: segregation


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, January 16th: 

Story: Happy Birthday, Dr. King!

peaceful, protest, fare, injustice, boycott, civil rights, dream, equality, freedom, movement, treatment, kindness

Challenge Word: stupendous


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, January 23rd:

Story: "Riding in the Cars,” an excerpt from By the Shores of Silver Lake:

steel, steal, led, lead, wait, weight, wear, ware, creak, creek, beet, beat, meet, meat, peek, peak, deer, dear, ring, wring

Challenge Word: conductor


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, February 6th:

Story: I Could Do That!

dentist, final, finish, narrow, shelter, ahead, corner, hollow, divide, famous,

recent, silver, capture, cabin, dinner, minus, minute, value, reward, broken,

decent, secure

Challenge Word: legislature


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, February 13th:

Story: Jose! Born to Dance

learn, dirty, worn, sore, thirst, burn, record, cure, board, course, worth, early, return, pure, world, search, worse, thirteen, sport, current, curious, thorough, Challenge Word: aghast


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, February 20th:

from The Screech Owl Who Loved Television:

somebody, fireplace, nearby, toothbrush, homesick, make-believe, anything, all right, goodbye, forehead, classmate, flashlight, haircut, twenty-two, driveway, alarm clock, baby-sit, airport, forever, mailbox, field trip, absent-minded

Challenge Word: pompous


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, February 27th:

Story: Harvesting Hope)

colorful, weakness, movement, endless, truthful, illness, cheerful, useless, beautiful, restless, clumsiness, pavement, peaceful, fondness, neatness, speechless, statement, wasteful, penniless, treatment, numbness, ailment

Challenge Word: malicious


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, March 6th:

Story: Ramona and Her Father

genuine, anxious, comet, pretend, utilize, cross, urge, coax, swifter, outrunning, Challenge Word: unfortunately

SPELLING WORDS for Friday, March 13th:

Story: Ramona and Her Father

pest, grownup, kindergarten, tricycle, sloppy, disappointed, cleverness, managed, alarmed, costume

Challenge Word: especially



SPELLING WORDS for Friday, March 20th:

Story: Ramona and Her Father

scarcely, enough, laughed, ferocious, idea, million, worried, happier, evening, pajamas

Challenge Word: crestfallen


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, March 27th:

Story: A Very Important Day

horse, chore, firm, learn, dirty, curve, world, pure, board, course, heard, return, cure, score, worm, thirteen, worn, curl, shirt, search

Challenge Word: allegiance


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, April 10th:

Book: Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President of the United States

unfortunately, breakfast, handkerchief, cautiously, prayer, caress, doctor, notice, anxious, pamper

Challenge Word: Missouri


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, April 17th:

Book: Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President of the United States

although, magazine, introduce, predicted, tremendous, stomach, disease, probably, gradually, difficult

Challenge Word: diphtheria


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, April 24th:

Book: Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President of the United States

positive, believe, presence, wonderful, interesting, delicious, schedule, temperature, church, request

Challenge Word: excruciating


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, May 1st:

Book: Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President of the United States

government, lumberyard, courthouse, fountain, responsibility, reputation, disappointed, graduated, president

Challenge Word: foreign


SPELLING WORDS for Friday, May 7th:

Story: The World According to Humphreyevent, humor, rapid, music, relief, planet, detail, unite, frozen, figure, siren, polite, hotel, protest, punish, defend, relay, habit, student, moment, rumor, jealous

Challenge Word: consensus



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