No Excuse words are spelling words for the year. Once we have had the spelling test on these words (each Friday) there is "No excuse" for not spelling them correctly. These words must be spelled correctly in all writing assignments.

1. (Class President) cancel, travel, castle, salad, catalog, cabinet, blanket, tractor, magnet, cabin, palace, glance, paddle, sang, shampoo, accident, activity, classroom, absent, and ballot.

2. (The Marble Champ) sense, plenty, enemy, welcome, swept, edit, tennis, meant, health, breath, shelter, sweater, wealth, quest, feather, treasure, bedspread, chess, strengthen, and shelf.

3. (Juggling) congress, topic, promise, proper, collar, common, comet, cause, broad, caught, awful, ought, fought, brought, thought, volleyball, office, lockers, intercom, and offered.

4. (The Abacus Contest) width, glimpse, twist, blizzard, lyrics, simple, built, system, igloo, mystery, limit, visit, imitate, whistle, thrift, mistake, giggled, quilt, begin, and division.

5. (S.O.S. Losers) study, clumsy, trumpet, trouble, hunger, none, bundle, struggle, money, mutter, country, honey, chuckle, thunder, bulb, support, hundred, done, something, and supposed

6. (Founders of the Rain Forest) jazz, double, freckle, glove, pause, bumblebee, myth, leather, strict, taxi, prompt, bought, pansy, taught, quilt, minute, rabbit, tropical, jungle, and pasture.

7. (Galileo) scrape, favor, daily, great, layer, sleigh, hasty, straight, danger, stale, explain, eight, praise, neighbor, reins, sailors, wavy, crazy, amazed, and bathed.

8. (Telescope) steep, decide, repeat, freeze, leader, complete, reindeer, sleeves, appear, beaver, screen, feature, scene, beneath, needle, peer, degree, previous, reduce, and sequence.

9. (The Heavenly Zoo) brief, grieve, nasty, receive, memory, scary, gasoline, piece, ceiling, ski, chief, belief, monkey, field, every, shield, journey, seized, story, and safety.

10. (Circles, Squares, and Daggers) dome, boast, flown, overgrown, motor, postpone, hotel, quote, mostly, lifeboat, growth, robot, float, chosen, locate, social, spokes, shone, Mexico, and adobe.

11. (The Mystery of Mars) tiger, skyline, stride, lightning, silent, design, excite, describe, style, cycle, deny, surprise, survive, entire, overnight, and site.

12. tower, however, pouch, towel, amount, powder, thousand, browse, pronounce, blouse, power coward, account pout, outward, downtown, mountains, surround, houses, and hour.

13. () title, final, level, middle, petal, sandal, model, dial, barrel, baffle, marvel, mammal, local, trial, signal, hospital, survival, metal, people, and circle.

Unit 5

(Sacagawea's Journey) tied, tide, stake, steak, hymn, horse, hoarse, throne, thrown, sweet, suite, brake, break, reel, real, plain, plane, waist, waste, and heard.

(Buffalo Hunt) mistook, dislike, disagree, mistreat, disloyal, discover, misspell, disgrace, mislaid, misprint, displease, disconnect, mislead, misjudge, distrust, distance, distinct, disappear, disturb, and discuss.