Weekly update November 2nd and 9th, 2015

Below are the spelling and vocabulary

words for the next 2 weeks. Please

let me know if you need anything else.

Spelling Words
Red Group	Blue Group
1.     tax 2.    vote 3.    mayor 4.    citizen 5.    capitol 6.    Greece 7.    president 8.    election 9.    lawmakers 10. veto	1.     government 2.    legislative 3.    executive 4.    judicial 5.    democracy 6.    campaign 7.    citizenship 8.     Parthenon 9.    Supreme Court 10. Congress

        

Vocabulary Words Please complete 2 activities from the green choice board.
1.     Election- the process by which citizens vote for people to represent them. 2.     Tax- money citizens and others pay to the government. 3.     Capitol- the building where leaders meet to make the laws. 4.     Legislative branch- congress of the USA- they make the laws. 5.     Executive branch- carries out the laws. 6.     Judicial Branch- decides what the laws mean and whether they obey the constitution. 7.     Direct democracy- citizens vote directly for leaders and on issues. 8.     Representative democracy- citizens choose other citizens to represent or stand for them in the government. 9.     Government- an organization that keeps a state or country in order. 10. Vote- to make official choice.

Weekly Update 10/19

Below are the spelling and vocabulary for the next 2 weeks.

Adaptation Vocabulary


Drought- is a long period of time with very little rain.
Balance- when there are not too many and not too few of any kind of living thing.
Migrate- to travel from one place to another and back again.
Hibernate- spend the winter in a kind of deep sleep.
Reproduce- produce new living things.
Adaptation-a feature that helps a living thing survive.
Trait- a characteristic, or feature, of a plant or animal.
Survive- to stay alive.
Climate- the weather conditions prevailing in an area or over a long period of time.
Change- make or become different.

Spelling Words
Red Group	Blue Group
1.     adapt 2.     trait 3.     climate 4.     balance 5.     hibernate 6.     growth 7.     features 8.     drought 9.     migrate 10.                        change	1.     migrate 2.     reproduce 3.     organism 4.     balance 5.     survival 6.     growth 7.     evidence 8.     trait 9.     hibernate 10.                        adaptation

Weekly update 10/5

Please find next week's spelling homework and the vocabulary for the week after below. Homework will be on Thursday this week instead of Friday since we will be out. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Spelling Words
Red Group	Blue Group
1.     noun 2.    verb 3.    pronoun 4.    adjective 5.    adverb 6.    plural noun 7.    proper noun 8.    singular noun 9.    subject 10. predicate	1.     contraction 2.    abstract nouns 3.    verb tense 4.    conjunction 5.    adjective 6.    predicate 7.    irregular verb 8.    comparative 9.    regular 10. superlative

Noun	A person, place, or thing.
Verb	Shows action or links the subject to the predicate.
Subject	Part of a sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about (Noun). My brown cat scratched me.
Predicate	Part of a sentence that tells what the subject does or describes the subject (Verb) My brown cat scratched me!
Singular Noun	One person, place or thing. (Cat)
Plural Noun	More than one person, place, thing. (Cats)
Proper Noun	Name of a specific person place or thing. (My cat, Sam)
Pronoun	Takes the place of a noun. (Cat-her, she, he, him, it)
Adjective	Describes a noun (color, size, shape, texture) brown cat
Adverb	Describes a verb (when, where or how something is done) He ran quickly yesterday.

For those who want to get ahead....

For those of you who would like to get ahead here are the vocabulary definitions that will be for homework the next week....

Map Skills Vocabulary

latitude- lines that cross the globe from east to west

longitude- lines that cross the globe from north to south.

compass rose- a symbol that shows the four main direction on a map.

map key- the part of a map that explains any symbols or colors on the map.

physical map- a map that shows landforms, bodies of water, or resources.

political map- a map that shows cities, states, and countries.

Prime Meridian- a line of longitude that passes through Greenwich, England

map grid- a set of straight lines that cross to form squares of equal size.

globe- a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented.

location- a site or position.

 

 

Weekly Update Septemeber 21, 2015

Spelling Words 9/21
Red Group	Blue Group
1.     legend 2.     compass rose 3.     globe 4.     equator 5.     products 6.     scale 7.     west 8.     east 9.     south 10.                        north	1.     legend 2.     latitude 3.     longitude 4.     equator 5.     Prime Meridian 6.     political 7.     products 8.     physical 9.     hemisphere 10.                        symbol

Weekly update 9/14

Vocabulary Words Please complete 2 activities from the green choice board.
1.     Environment- everything that is around a living thing. 2.    Ecosystem- all the living and nonliving things that interact in a place. 3.    Habitat- the place where a plant or animal lives. 4.    Mountain-a high raised part of Earth’s surface. 5.    Piedmont- an area with many hills located between the mountains and coastal plain. 6.    Coastal Plain- an area of low, flat land near an ocean. 7.    Wetland- land that is covered with water most of the time. 8.    Coast- a place where the ocean meets the land. 9.    Marsh- a wetland in which mostly grasses and other soft stem plants grow. 10. Organism- any living thing.

Ms. Glick's Lesson on self control and bucket dipping

 

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