Super Surfing Spelling Contract
Contract Details: This contract sheet will be kept in your
child’s reading binder. A small sheet of paper will come home
attached to student pre-tests for spelling. If your child
scores a 100 on the pre-test, he or she will be exempt from
the test. If your child has any wrong, then he or she must
complete 3 activities from this packet practicing only the words he or she had
wrong. Example: If your child had 4 words wrong on the pre-test, then your child
should choose 3 different activities to practice those 4 words. Your child will hand
in the small contract sheet with the activities that must be written. Hands-on
activities do not have to be handed in.
When is it due? Please check your child’s homework log nightly for assignments
and due dates.
Hands-on activities- I will be under the assumption your child honestly completed
these activities based on the parent signature for the assignment. I have had
parents in the past send me in printed pictures in a small version from the
computer. I love it! It’s great to see the kids smiling doing these activities. You are
not required to send in pictures.
**Please vary activities from week to week. All children have different learning
modalities. I tried to create auditory, visual, and kinesthetic activities.
Activities
1. 5 times each- Write each word 5 times.
2. Rainbow Writing- Use crayons or markers to write your words.
3. Sidewalk Chalk- Go outside and use chalk to write your words.
4. Kinesthetic Spelling- Go outside and do anything active while you spell your
words- jumping jacks, jump on a trampoline, skip, hop, etc
5. Whiteboard writing- Practice writing your words using a whiteboard and
marker.
6. Play-doh spelling- Practice writing your words with a Popsicle sticks in playdoh or use letter cookie dough letter cutters.
7. Stamp the words- Use alphabet stamps to spell the words.
8. Pasta Party- Practice your words using letter pasta.
9. Spaghetti Fun- Cook up some spaghetti’s and spell your words out on a pan.
10. Shape Writing- Draw different shapes or pictures and write your words in
each picture.
11. Sentence Writing- Practice writing big 2nd grade sentences using your words.
12. ABC order- Practice writing your words in ABC order.
13. Cookie Baking- Bake cookies and practice either spelling them as you bake or
writing them right in the dough.
14. Crossword Puzzle- Go to puzzlemaker.com- Create a puzzle with your words
and solve it!
15. Word Search- Create one or have someone create it as you hunt for them.
16. Hide and Seek- Write the words on something, then have someone hide them
and you go find them. Once you find a word, you have to spell it out loud.
17. Reversal- Write your words forwards and backwards.
18. Spelling City- Visit spelling city and do some of the activities on that site.
19. Technology Words- Type your words.
20. Magazine Spelling- Cut out the letters to spell your words, glue them on
paper.
21. Newspaper Hunt- Try to find our words in the newspaper, cut them out, glue
them on paper.
22. Cursive Writing- Practice writing the words in cursive. Spelling city has a
printable for this.
23. Telephone Spelling- Call someone and spell your words for them.
24. Silly spelling- Practice spelling your words in all types of silly voices.
25. Palm Spelling- Have a parent say each word as you use your finger and write
it in your parent’s palm.
26. Rhyme Time- Write each spelling word, then write a real word that rhymes
with each word.
27. Opera Sing- Sing the spelling of each word.
28. Consonant/Vowels- Run in place for each consonant, do a jumping jack for
each vowel.
29. Dictionary Detectives- Look up the meaning of each word in a dictionary and
write it on paper.
30. Practice Test- Have someone give you a practice test.
31. Story Writing- Write using your words.
32. Poem Writing- Write a poem using your words.
33. TV Commercial- Videotape a commercial introducing all your words somehow
in your advertisement. Email the video to Mrs. Boyle.
34. Creative Thinking- Come up with cool ways to learn the words you got stuck
on. Write down your ways so we can share them with the class.
35. Pumpkin Decorating- Decorate your pumpkin with our spelling words. Do not
need to hand in.
36. Holiday Decorating- Practice your words while decorating for the holidays.
37. Sports Spelling- Practice your words while kicking a ball, throwing a ball,
hitting a ball, catching a ball, doing flips, cheer them, etc.
38. Sand/Dirt Writing- Write your words in one or both of these.
39. Edible Words- Practice writing your words in honey, whip cream, anything
fun and yummy!
40. Shaving Cream Spelling- Write your words in shaving cream.
41. Ghost words- Use black paper, write your words in black crayon, color over
each word with white crayon to reveal your ghostly words.
42. Paint Party- Paint your spelling words.
43. Grammar Fun- Write each word in a sentence. Then underline all nouns in
blue, verb in red, and adjectives in green.
44. Synonyms/Antonyms- Write a synonym and antonym for each word.
45. FREE Choice- create an activity and explain it on your homework sheet.
46. Bubble Letters- Write your words in bubble letters.
47. Insect Writing- Use your science skills. Draw an insect (Make sure to have
correct number of parts.) and hide your words inside the drawing
somewhere.
48. Pebbles, Sand, and Silt- Use an Earth material to practice writing your
words.
49. Solids and Liquids-Get creative! Use these to practice your words. Explain
what you did on your homework log.
50. Math Spelling- Write the alphabet and give a value to each letter. Then
write your words. Figure out how much each word is worth based on the
letters in the word.
51. Comic Strip Writing- Illustrate a comic strip. Use your words to guide the
comic.
52. Other handed- Write your words with the opposite hand you use.
53. Pipe cleaners – Cut and glue pieces of pipe cleaners together on paper to
write your spelling words.
54. Popcorn Spelling- Spell the words to your parent and at the end of each
word, eat a piece of popcorn.
55. Scratch and Sniff – Write your spelling words in glue. Then sprinkle over the
words with any kind powdered Jell-O. Your words will smell yummy!
56. TP Spelling – Pull of a sheet of toilet paper for each word. Write your words
on each piece of TP with marker or pen.
57. Salt or Sugar Spelling – Spread some out on a plate. Write the words in it.
58. Spelling Pyramids –Begin with the first letter of the word and add a letter
each time until you have spelled the entire word.
59. Choo-Choo Words -Write the entire spelling list end to end as one long word.
Use different colors of crayon or ink for different words.
60. Record yourself- Use a recorder and tape yourself spelling the words, then
listen to it.