Spelling Lesson 35: Bonus Words

Write the bonus word that matches each synonym.

1. nervous: overwrought
2. grumpy: grouchy
3. doubtful: skeptical
4. arrogant: haughty
5. dragged: rambled
6. tripped: stumbled
7. gasped: wheezed
8. ate: devoured
9. nauseous: queasy
10. roamed: shuffled

Spelling Lesson 34 Proofreading

Motorcycling became popular throughout the world shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century. The first gas-powered motorcycle was, in fact, invented in 1885 by Gottlieb Daimler, a German engineer. Aside from a leather seat, handlebars, and two wheels it looked very little like today's machines. In America, the Harley-Davidson company manufactured it's first cycle in 1903, and it wouldn't take an expert bookkeeper to track the company's success. By 1913, Harley-Davidson was manufacturing over 12,000 cycles annually. Today, able-bodied people everywhere use motorcycles for both recreation and people everywhere use motorcycles for both recreation and transportation, especially in areas such as Europe where gasoline is more expensive than it is in the United States.

Spelling Lesson 34

Write the list words to answer the following questions.

1. What do you call someone who is always forgetting things?
absent-minded

2. What do you call someone who is in good health?
able-bodied

3. What is a two-wheeled motor vehicle?
motorcycle

4. What is another name for a rocket?
spacecraft

5. What protects someone from stealing a story?
copyright

6. What kind of place keeps you cool in the summer?
air-conditioned

7. What is another name for an accountant?
bookkeeper

8. What do you call paper that fits in a three-ring binder?
loose-leaf

9. What do you call it when you deprive yourself of something?
self-sacrifice

10. What kind of job would you have if you worked only ten hours weekly?
part-time

11. What do you call someone who sees a historic event take place?
eyewitness

Spelling Practice Word Analysis

1. Pitcher is to baseball as quarterback is to football.
2. Steering wheel is to car as handlebars are to bicycle.
3. Sailor is to ship as astronaut is to spacecraft.
4. Grapes are to vineyard as vegetables are to farm.

What is another way to say "all the way through"?
5. throughout

What is another name for a motion picture presentation?
6. audio-visual

What list words do these numerals represent?
7. .09 nine hundredths
8. 3/4 three-fourths
9. 20 twenty-nine
10. .002 two-thousandths

Spelling Lesson 34

Write the list word that matches each sound spelling.

1. twenty-nine
2. handlebars
3. quarterback
4. bookkeeper
5. absentminded
6. nine-hundredths
7. two-thousandths
8. audio-visual
9. vineyard
10. parttime

Spelling Lesson 33 Proofreading

Juggling is the act of throwing and catching more than one object in one hand, or multipel objects in two hands. No one knows when juggling first began. At least one ancient Egyptian tomb painting, however, shows a panorana of jugglers providing entertainment for the Pharaoh. Juggling requires equilibruim and, to all appearances, an almost omnisceint sense of timing. From the entertainers at the Pharaoh's court to the jugglers who work in today's circuses it is safe to say that juggling has entertained a multatude of people.

1. multiple
2. panorama
3. equilibrium
4. omniscient
5. multitude

Spelling lesson 33 Word Analysis

Write the list words containing the prefixes given below.

poly

1. polytheism
2. polysyllabic
3. polyester
4. polygamy
5. polygon

pan

6. panorama
7. pandemonium
8. pantomime

hyper

9. hyperactive
10. hyperbole

equi

11. equinox
12. equilibrium
13. equidistant

multi

14. multitude
15. multicolored
16. multiple
17. multimedia

omni

18. omnipotent
19. omnipresent
20. omniscient

Lesson 33

Write the list word that matches each sound-spelling.

1. polygon
2. polygamy
3. multiple
4. panorama
5. equinox
6. multicolored
7. pantomime
8. equidistant
9. equilibrium
10. multimedia

Lesson 32 Bonus Words

Write the bonus word that matches each clue given.

1. animal food kept in silo: silage
2. science of growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, shrubs: horticulture
3. vehicle for hauling loads: tractor
4. pen for holding animals: corral
5. public sale with items going to the highest bidder: auction
6. repair to working order
7. machine for loosening earth around the growing plants: overhaul
8. farm animals: livestock
9. holds water for the animals: trough
10. offspring of two animals or plants of different species: hybrid

Spelling Lesson 32 Analogies and Word Application

ANALOGIES

Write a list word to complete each analogy.

1. Nimble is to lively as gymnastics is to flexible.
2. Five is to pentathlon as ten is to decathlon.
3. Wrist is to hand as ankle is to foot.
4. Sedan is to car as kayak is to canoe.
5. Judge is to courtroom as referee is to ball game.
6. Baseball is to catcher as goalkeeper is to goalie.
7. Basket is to basketball as target is to archery.
8. Movie reviewer is to film as Olympics is to athletic event.

WORD APPLICATION

Italic the list word in each sentence that is used incorrectly. Write the correct list word on the line.

1. People who take part in a contest are called referees: contestants
2. The goalkeeper sprained his ankle running to the finish line: sprinter
3. He trained to be an umpire in the youth soccer league: referee

Spelling Lesson 32 Spelling Practice

Write the lists words to answer the following questions.

Which words end with ics?

1. acrobatics
2. aerobics
3. gymnastics
4. Olympics

Which words contain these double consonants?

5. mm: scrimmage
6. gg: toboggan
7. cc: soccer

Which words contain these double vowels?

8. ii: skiing
9. ee: goalkeeper
10. ee: referee

Which words are compound words?

11. decathlon
12. ankle

Lesson 32 Words From Sports

Write the list word that matches each definition.

1. practice between two terms: decathlon
2. sport played on ice: hockey
3. a short-distance runner: sprinter
4. exercises that give the body oxygen: aerobics
5. participant in athletic event: contestant
6. moving with quickness and ease: agile
7. a judge in a football game: referee
8. a person who oversees a baseball game: sportscaster
9. an athletic contest consisting of ten events: Olympics
10. a type of canoe: kayak

Rewrite each of the following list words to show how they are divided into syllables.

1. acrobatics: ac-ro-bat-ics
2. gymnastics: gym-nas-tics
3. sportscaster: sports-cast-er
4. Olympics: O-lym-pics
5. goalkeeper: goal-keep-er
6. skiing: ski-ing
7. soccer: soc-cer
8. ankle: an-kle
9. archery: arch-er-y
10. toboggan: to-bo-ggan

Spelling Lesson 31:Proofreading

Proofreading

When light passes through a glass prism, it is bent, or refracted. Light of one specific wavelength, however, bends at one specific angle. Sunlight has a number of wavelengths, so when it passes through a prism, it separates into many angles. Forming a vivid band of colors. A rainbow is an arc of color that appears in the sky when sunlight passes through raindrops that act as a prism. Rainbows may look like physical objects you can touch, but they are an illusion - a temporary, if spectacular display of the sun's light. Trying to find the spot where a rainbow ends will forever elude those who search for it.


The real thing is in the book on page 128. I just corrected this on here.

Spelling 31 Spelling Practice 2

Each italic word in the sentences below must be moved to a different sentence to make sense. Write the correct list word for each sentence in the blank.

1. Hannah, a ludicrous athlete, likes to play five different sports. spectacular
2. The spectacular operation of multiplication is division. inverse
3. Milk is usually fortified with vitality D. vitamin
4. Wearing casual sandals with a tuxedo would be carnivorous. ludicrous
5. After jogging, inverse yourself with a glass of water. revive
6. Some plants, like the Venus' flytrap, are vitamin and eat insects. carnivorous
7. Exercise and a balanced diet help to promote revive. vitality
8. The night sky was lit up by a versatile display of fireworks. versatile

Spelling Lesson 31 Spelling Practice

Word Application

Write list words to answer the following questions.

Which words contain the Latin root that means "to turn"?

1. elude
2. inverse
3. introvert
4. extrovert

Which words contain the Latin root that means "time"?

5. temporal
6. temporary
7. tempest
8. extemporaneous

Which words contain the Latin root that means "to see"?

9. vivid
10. vitality
11. illusion

Which words contain the Latin root that means "to play"?

12. ludicrous
13. spectacular
14. suspect
15. retrospect

Which words contain the Latin root that means "to live"?

16. vitality
17. illusion
18. illusive
19. ludicrous

Which word contains the Latin root that means "to eat"?

20. carnivorous

An actual blog post FOR once....

Hola senoras y senores.


My, my. I'm actually doing a blog post... that has nothing to do with grammar!!! see????? no grammar and 2 many ? marks. No not really, just kidding. But seriously, NO GRAMMAR!(for now XD) And school has finally started up after a two week break and a great Christmas! =D

Gilligan! Also known as Gilwey! He's so cayute, I wish I would've taken a cuter picture of him though. :c

Anyway, he's such a barkleruffer, but Jakey loves Gilligan, he's in the other room watching Sesame Street. But when he isn't watching t.v. he's usually in there playing with his HUUUGE train-set, which has a ton of cars and is on a table that's just the right size for Jake and has a train track on it. See that orange and green table behind Gilligan with the stuff on it? That's Jake's train set.

This is a picture of our new computer set-up, Hannah's computer is on the right and mine on the left. I get the pen tablet~ IN YO FAYCE XD JKJKJK It's because I like using the tablet better than the mouse.








Mira, haha. She's pretty funny especially with that killer expression. LoL.

Hope you enjoyed my REAL blog post. I don't have much to say anymore.

Enjoy the pictures below!

Hannah is sooo cayute
Yay! That's me. c:

Mira and her gerbil, Dusty.

Jake watching Sesame Street

Lesson 31: Latin Roots

Word Analysis

Write the list words that have the same Latin root as the word given.

inspector
1. suspect
2. retrospect
3. spectacular

vital
4. vitality
5. revive
6. vitamin
7. vivid

devour
8. extemporaneous

convert
9. versatile
10. introvent
11. inverse
12. carnivorous