Showing posts with label Spelling and Vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spelling and Vocabulary. Show all posts

Friday, April 30, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for April 30th to May 6th

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home today, Friday, April 30th and the test will be on Thursday, May 6th. Study hard and good luck!


SPELLING WORDS:
preset, would've, biker, painless, could've, endless, yearly, kicker, unload, retell, keeper, harmful, mightn't, unemployed, weekly, should've, adventurer, glassful, preflight, blissful

VOCABULARY WORDS
No Vocabulary this week!

Study Hard and Good Luck!

Friday, April 23, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for April 23rd to April 29th

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home today,  Friday, April 23rd and the test will be on Thursday, April 29th. Study hard and good luck!

SPELLING WORDS:
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, calendar, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

VOCABULARY WORDS (Fractions):
Denominator - the number that states how many equal parts in a group or whole
Numberator - the number that states how many parts are shaded or used
Equivalent Fractions - two or more fractions taht name the same number
Fraction - a number that names part of a whole or part of a group

Study Hard and Good Luck!

Monday, April 19, 2010

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will came home on Friday, April 16th and the test will be on Thursday, April 22nd. Study hard and good luck!
SPELLING WORDS:
joyful, helpless, restful, careless, useful, thankless, peaceful, hopeless, thankful, cloudless, powerful, helpful, powerless, careful, restless, wasteful, cheerful, useless, playful, thoughtful
VOCABULARY WORDS (Soil Review):
bedrock - solid rock that lies underneath the subsoil that has not yet been broken down
subsoil - the layer below the topsoil
topsoil - the top layer of soil that contains living organisms and nonliving things
soil profile - a side view "slice" of the different layers of Earth
organisms - living plant or animal life

Study Hard and Good Luck!

Friday, April 9, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for April 9th to April 15th!

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home on today, Friday, April 9th and the test will be on Thursday, April 15th. Study hard and good luck!

SPELLING WORDS:
farmer, skater, painter, camper, listener, banker, owner, learner, hiker, catcher, speaker, climber, player, reader, baker, dreamer, reporter, builder, singer, leader

VOCABULARY WORDS (from our Utah Environment unit):
amphibian - an animal that lives near water and as an adult has lungs
wetland - a low area where the land is soaked with water
migration - seasonal movement of animals from one place to another
invertebrate - an animal without a backbone
mammal - an animal with fur or hair that gives birth to live young
vertebrate - an animal with a back bone

Study Hard and Good Luck!

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for April 6th to April 9th

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home on today, April 6th.   Study hard and good luck!

SPELLING WORDS:
unlucky, review, preschool, unfair, reheat, prepay, untie, recover, preview, unhappy, rewrite, pretest, rebuild, uncover, recheck, unlock, preheat, unsafe, reread, unpack

VOCABULARY WORDS (from our measurement unit):
length - the measurement of distance between two points
capacity - the amount a container can hold
weight - a measure of how heavy something is
mass - the measurement that indicates how much of something there is

Study Hard and Good Luck!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home on Friday, Monday, March 8th and we will take the test on Thursday March 11th. Study hard and good luck!

SPELLIPING WORDS:

he'll, she'll, we'll, you'll, they'll, aren't, hadn't, hasn't, wasn't, haven't, let's, I'd, he'd, she'd, you'd, they'd, I've, you've, we've, you're

VOCABULARY WORDS (is from Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes):

etiquette - the rules governing the proper way to behave or to do something
kimono - a loose robe with wide sleeves and a sash warn by the Japanese
Plumped - having a pleasantly rounded form
x-rayed - a photograph taken by the use of x-rays


Study Hard and Good Luck!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for March 8th to March 11th

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home on Friday, Monday, March 8th and we will take the test on Thursday March 11th. Study hard and good luck!

SPELLING WORDS - Unit 23

break, brake steak, stake,steel, steal, lone, loan, waist, waste, passed, past, sore, soar, cellar, seller, roll, role, died, dyed

VOCABULARY - Rocks and Minerals Science Unit

igneous rock - formed as magma rises and cools
sedimentary rock - formed from layered material
metamorphic rock - rocks that have been changed due to heat and pressure
minerals - non-living materials that are formed in nature by earth's processes
weathering - when rocks are broken down into sediments
erosion - rock fragments that are moved from one place to another

GOOD LUCK!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for February 5th to February 11th

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home on Friday, January 29th and we will take the test on Thursday February 4th. Study hard and good luck!

SPELLING WORDS - Unit 22
cuter, nearer, thinnest, kinder, easiest, funnier, nearest, happier, kindest, thinner, quetest, funniest, safer, quieter, safest, quicker, cutest, easier, quickest, happiest.

VOCABULARY - Geometry Vocabulary
parallel lines - lines that will never cross
intersecting lines - lines that meet or cross at a common point
line of symmetry - a line on which a figure can be folded so that its two halves match exactly
perpendicular lines - lines that intersect and create a right angle

GOOD LUCK!

Monday, February 1, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for January 29th to February 4th


Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home on Friday, January 29th and we will take the test on Thursday February 4th. Study hard and good luck!

SPELLING WORDS - Unit 21
gather, winter, master, tractor, shower, major, danger, enter, whether, water, thunder, eager, bitter, silver, minor, neither, wonder, either rather, together.

VOCABULARY -
ploygon - a closed 2 dimensioanl figure formed by line segments
line segment - a staight path that has two endpoints
endpoint - a point at either end of a line segment
congruent - figures that have the same size and same shape
similar - fugures that have the same shape but not the same size
GOOD LUCK!

Friday, January 22, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for January 22 to January 28



Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home on Friday, January 22nd and we will take the test on Thursday January 28th. Study hard and good luck!


SPELLING WORDS - Unit 20
stumble, trouble, eagle, harden, brighten, thicken, wrinkle, soften, lighten, table, dampen, moisten, double, weaken, tighten, example, darken, tremble, fasten, blacken

VOCABULARY - There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom:
gigantic - resembling a giant
astonishment - great surprise
exploded - to burst forth with anger
shrieked - to utter a sharp shrill cry
anticipation - a picturing beforehand of a future event or feeling
wailed - to utter a mournful cry
flailed - to wave

GOOD LUCK!

Friday, January 15, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for January 15 to January 21

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home on Friday, January 8th and we will take the test on Thursday January 14th. Study hard and good luck!


SPELLING WORDS - Unit 19
bottle, plebble, single, jumble, tickle, rattle, middle, bubble, sample, cattle, snuggles, kettle, jungle, ankle, giggle, simple, settle, temple, battle, mumble

VOCABULARY: from There's A Boy in the the Girl's Bathroom
drastic - extreme in effect
shrugged - to draw or hunch up the shoulders especially to express doubt, uncertainty or lack of interest
modestly - not boastful
frantically - wildly excited
grimaced - a twisting of the face in disgust
hag - an ugly old woman

Study hard and Good Luck!

Friday, January 8, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for Jan 8 to Jan 14


Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week. The words will come home on Friday, January 8th and we will take the test on Thursday January 14th. Study hard and good luck!

SPELLING WORDS - Unit 18:  starch, deaf, bomb, squab, flare, squad, wage, leather, fudge, writer, squawk, wreak, dread, carve, mare, steady, voyage, sword, queer, urge.

VOCABULARY - There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom:
anguished - extreme pain or distress of body or mind
reluctantly - showing hesitation or unwillingness
disgusting - a strong feeling of dislake or distaste
hysterically - a fit of uncontrollable laughter
massive - very large
cautiously - carefully
intently - directed with keen or eager attention
scoffed - to make fun of 

GOOD LUCK!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Spelling and Vocabulary for January 4 to January 7

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week.  The words will come home on Monday January 4th and we will take the test on Thursday January 7th.   Study hard and good luck!

SPELLING WORDS - Unit 17:
badge, gym, rigid, gem, baggage, range, dodge, package, engine, cottage, gigantic, edge, gentle, strange, ridge, cabbage, bridge, hedge, village, judge

CHALLENGE WORDS:
gadget, gelatin, engage, beverage, rummage

VOCABULARY (from "There's A Boy in the Girl's Bathroom"):
unrecognizable - not to know or remember upon seeing
distorted - to twist out of natural or regular shape
amazement - great surprise or astonishment
ceramic - the art of making things such as pottery, or tiles out of baked clay
flabbergasted - to be totally surprised or astonished
asserted - to state clearly and strongly

Friday, December 4, 2009

Spelling and Vocabulary for Dec. 7th to Dec.10th

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week of
Dec 7th through Dec. 10th. These will come home Monday, Dec. 7th and we will take the test Thursday, Nov. 10th!
 
SPELLING WORDS:
often, know, wring, island, lamb, answer, knee, written, though, knock, echo, known, comb, wrong, limb, knife, listen, honest, doubt, calm. 

CHALLENGE:
gnaw, prompt, gnat, knuckle, cough

VOCABULARY WORDS- Soil:
bedrock - solid rock that lies underneath the subsoil that has not yet been broken down
subsoil - the layer below the topsoil
topsoil - the top layer of soil that contains living organisms and nonliving things
soil profile - a side view "slice" of the different layers
Earth organisms - living plant or animal life

Good Luck everyone!   

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Spelling and Vocabulary for Nov. 6th through Nov. 12th

Here are the spelling and vocabulary words for the week of
Nov. 6th through Nov. 12th. These will come home tomorrow
and we will take the test next Thursday, Nov. 12th! Good Luck!

SPELLING WORDS - Unit 14:

meant, build, flood, laugh, breakfast, enough, sweater, rough, bread, touch, spread, tough, already, built, ready, death, young, instead, heavy, ahead.

VOCABULARY WORDS - Utah Environments

amphibian - an animal that lives near water and as an adult has lungs
wetland - a low area whre the land is soaked with water
migration - seasonal movement of animals from one place to another
invertebrate - an animal without a backbone
mammal - an animal with fur or hair that gives birth to live young
vertebrate - an animal with a backbone

Yahoo! Last spelling and vocabulary test before going off track! Study hard and Good Luck!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Spelling and Vocabulary for Oct. 31st to Nov. 5th


These are the spelling and vocabulary words that we will be on the test which will be on Thursday, November 5th! Good Luck!

SPELLING WORDS - UNIT 13


share, cart, beware, march rare, army, charge, stare, market, compare, alarm, mark, parent, chart, spare, smart, charm, scare, apart, spark

VOCABULARY WORDS

adaptation - the structure, behavior, or other trait in an organism that helps it to survive in its environment.
coniferous - evergreen plants that stay green all year and never lose their leaves.
deciduous - plants whihc lose their leaves in the fall and grow new leaves in the spring.
forest - a large area of land that is covered with trees.
desert - an area of land that receives less than ten inches of rainfall a year.
hibernation - an inactive, sleep-like state during the winter.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Spelling and Vocabulary for October 23rd to October 29th

These are the spelling and vocabulary words we will test on next week. They are coming home today and we will take the test on Thursday, October 29th.

Spelling Words:

clothing, value, whom, pointed,conserve, thrown, vault, beard, oyster, gear, haunt, blouse, ruin, mown, moan, inform, tune, growl, scorn, fern.

Vocabulary Words:

array - objects arranged in rows and columns
factors - numbers mulitplied together to obtain a product
product - the number obtained after multiplying
multiply - the product of a given whole number and any other whole number

Good Luck everyone!

Friday, October 16, 2009

Spelling and Vocabulary for October 16th to October 22nd

These are the words we will test on next week. These words will come home today, Oct. 16th and we will test on them next Thursday, Oct. 22nd.

Spelling Words

near, steer, certain, return, tear, thirst, perfect, fear, term, cheer, turkey, firm, ear, burst, rear, serve, year, person, clear, herd.

Vocabulary Words - Math

decimal point - a symbol that separates dollar and cents amounts
addends - numbers that are added together to get a sum
estimate - to find a number close to an exact number
difference - the number obtained by subtracting one number from another
sum - the answer to an addition problem

Good Luck Everyone! Study hard... you'll do great!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Spelling and Vocabulary for October 9th to 15th


These are the words that we will test on next week. These words will come home on Friday, October 9th and we will have the test on Thursday, October 15th.

SPELLING WORDS

forgot, bought, nor, haul, ought, forest, sport, thought, daughter, port, sort, record, taught, brought, forth, because, fought, report, forty, caught

VOCABULARY WORDS - from our weather unit

air pressure - the weight of the air on earth's surface
forecast - predictions
barometer - an instrument to measure air pressure
phenomenon - an unusual event or fact that can be seen or sensed
severe - harsh or unusual
freezing - temperatures at or below 0C or 32