Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Multiplication look and learn
Monday, November 2, 2015
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.
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Spelling Words
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Red Group
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Blue Group
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1. tax
2. vote
3. mayor
4. citizen
5. capitol
6. Greece
7. president
8. election
9. lawmakers
10. veto
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1. government
2. legislative
3. executive
4. judicial
5. democracy
6. campaign
7. citizenship
8. Parthenon
9. Supreme Court
10. Congress
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Vocabulary Words
Please complete 2 activities from the
green choice board.
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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.
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Saturday, October 17, 2015
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.
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Blue Group
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adapt
2.
trait
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climate
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balance
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hibernate
6.
growth
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features
8.
drought
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migrate
10.
change
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1.
migrate
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reproduce
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organism
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balance
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survival
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growth
7.
evidence
8.
trait
9.
hibernate
10.
adaptation
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Friday, October 2, 2015
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!
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1. noun
2. verb
3. pronoun
4. adjective
5. adverb
6. plural noun
7. proper noun
8. singular noun
9. subject
10. predicate
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1. contraction
2. abstract nouns
3. verb tense
4. conjunction
5. adjective
6. predicate
7. irregular verb
8. comparative
9. regular
10. superlative
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Noun
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A person,
place, or thing.
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Verb
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Shows
action or links the subject to the predicate.
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Subject
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Part of a
sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about (Noun).
My brown cat scratched me.
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Predicate
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Part of a
sentence that tells what the subject does or describes the subject (Verb) My
brown cat scratched me!
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Singular Noun
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One
person, place or thing. (Cat)
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Plural Noun
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More than
one person, place, thing. (Cats)
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Proper Noun
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Name of a
specific person place or thing. (My cat, Sam)
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Pronoun
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Takes the
place of a noun. (Cat-her, she, he,
him, it)
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Adjective
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Describes
a noun (color, size, shape, texture) brown
cat
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Adverb
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Describes
a verb (when, where or how something is done) He ran quickly yesterday.
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