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SPELLING HOMEWORK

Due on or before Fridays of each week

First Grade only

POINTS

 

5

Write each of your words 5 times.  Say each letter as you write it.

5

Red and Blue Write - Write each of your words with crayons.  Write each vowel letter in red and each consonant in blue.

10

ABC Order - Write each of your words in ABC order. 

10

Rainbow Write - Write each of your words in a rainbow of colors.  First write all the letters with a red crayon, trace over with blue, and then trace over again with green.

10

Secret Agent Words – Number the alphabet 1-26.  Example a=1, b=2, c=3, and so on.  Then convert your words to number code.  You must write the actual spelling word next to the “code word”.

15

Type ‘Em – Type your spelling words on the computer.  Make each word have a different font.

15

Sentence, Please - Write each of your words in an interesting sentence.

15

Word Search - Make a word search puzzle using each of your words. Use the Discovery School’s online Puzzle Maker http://www.puzzlemaker.com.  Then find your words.

15

Newsy Words - Cut out letters from magazines or newspapers to spell each of your words.  Glue them onto a piece of paper.

15

Riddle Me - Write a riddle for each of your words.

15

Define That - Write a definition of each of your words.

20

Pasta Words - Spell your words with alphabet cereal, beads, broken spaghetti noodles, pipe cleaners, tooth picks, other.

20

Story, Story - Write a story, poem, song using each of your words.

Homework needs to equal up to 25 points.