Challenge words for Spelling Test on Nov 12th

This week's challenge words come directly from the Scripps Spelling Bee.  This is what the Scripps web site has to say about them.  "Japanese is a relative latecomer among the languages that have influenced English, making it a welcome language of origin for spellers: Recently borrowed words are spelled more consistently than are those from languages that English has been borrowing from for centuries. Japanese is written in English according to the sound of Japanese words and is not influenced by the Japanese writing system, which uses symbols for words rather than letters." 

In fact, we had a visiting teacher from Japan in my classroom last week to teach the students about life in Japan.  She showed the students the Japanese alphabets (all 3 of them) and even made origami with many of the students.

Sorry I posted these words so late.  I'm at home today with a bad cold. 

Here are your challenge words:

ninja               karate                haiku                tycoon                sushi           samarai          

futon        tofu         teriyaki               honcho               tsunami           origami           

sayonara         sumo             shogun            hibachi

Call me if you have any questions.

Jim Shea

371-8068