6th grade spelling will focus on learning words that are most commonly misspelled.  Students will be responsible for 4-5 words per week with a test every Thursday.  The week of December 20 the test will be Wednesday, December 22.  If a student is missing any spelling test day arrangements need to be made ahead of time to take the test before a break.

Week of: (Test Thursday of each week)
September 6: absence, ballet, cafeteria, definite
September 13: embarrass, February, genius, height
September 20: immediate, jewelry, laboratory, misspell
September 27: necessary, parallel, occasion, receipt
October 4: schedule, technology, usually, vacuum
October 11: Wednesday, accidentally, beautiful, canceled
October 18: descend, environment, foreign, government
October 25:  humorous, leisure, molasses, neighborhood
November 1: cumulative 1st quarter spelling test: weeks of September 6-October 25
November 8: original, permanent, recognize, sense
November 15: theory, variety, adviser, beginning
November 22: NO WORDS HAPPY THANKSGIVING
November 29: canoe, disease, forty, grammar
December 6: library, muscle, niece, physical
December 13: recommend, separate, traffic, various
December 20: all right, believe, cemetery, funeral, succeed
December 27: NO SCHOOL HOLIDAY BREAK
January 3: guarantee, license, ninety, probably, attendant
January 10: restaurant, similar, truly, answer, colonel
January 17: athlete, business, choir, rhythm, sincerely
January 24: cumulative 1st and 2nd quarter spelling test: weeks of September 6-January 17
January 31: accomplish, biscuit, calendar, development
February 7: equipment, financially, generally, ignorance
February 14: knowledge, lightning, magically, official
February 21: NO SCHOOL WINTER BREAK
February 28: particular, receive, salary, tomorrow, lose
March 7: until, village, weather, zoology, maintenance
March 14: apparent, broccoli, candidate, disappear, piece
March 21: existence, grateful, independent, religious
March 28: cumulative 3rd quarter spelling test: weeks of January 31-March 21
April 4: NO SCHOOL SPRING BREAK
April 11: sandwich, twelfth, weird, category
April 18: changeable, dominant, intelligence, mosquito
April 25: pleasant, remembrance, shining, usage
May 2: column, potatoes, special, principal
May 9: criticize, privilege, pursuit, barbecue
May 16: completely, deceive, easily, gauge
May 23: happily, ignorance, lovely, realize, quantity
May 30: cumulative 3rd and 4th quarter spelling test: weeks of January 31-May 23
June 6: NO SPELLING LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL