Thursday Sept. 24: Outsiders Vocab Quiz
Friday Oct. 2: Swimming with Leopard Sharks at La Jolla Shores. Looking for masks and snorkels. Bring sack lunch, swimsuit, sunscreen. Water shoes are a good idea.
We had another great week! All of our extra programs... Spanish, Art and PE are in full swing. I have a feeling some of the kids are feeling the heat of doing hard work after a long summer break, but I have full confidence every student will get the hang of it quickly!
We started our Polygons math unit this week. We created 3D shapes to display our math vocabulary.
Student established note taking routines and broke in our math spirals with a lesson on Angles and Rotation.
Our science lesson corresponded with the introduction of our Human Body Human Being project. Students learned about the major organ systems of the body. They created a flipbook of 4 of those systems.
Our "Outsiders" novel reading led to discussions on the main themes of the book as well a generating a list of vocabulary. Students researched the meanings of the words as well as acted them out. We will have a quiz on those words on Thursday. Each Thursday we will have a quiz on new words.
Vocabulary quiz #1 is Thursday, September 24. For the first quiz, you will be asked to spell the word and match the definition.
Vocabulary #1 from The Outsiders
Conjure: (verb) to make something appear unexpectedly or unassumingly from nowhere as if by magic.
Dumbledore took out his wand and with a flick, a fire was conjured out of thin air.
Hastily: (adverb) done with excessive speed or urgency.
He hastily changed the subject.
Incredulous: (adjective) unable or unwilling to believe something or completely unconvinced by it.
Logan says his sister is incredulous because she doesn’t believe his stories.
Lope, loping: (verb): to move or run with bounding steps, or with a long easy stride.
The cat was loping around the house.
Nonchalant: (adjective) cooly concerned, indifferent or unexcited.
His nonchalant attitude infuriated me.
Savvy: (noun) practical knowledge.
If you are really good with computers, you are “tech savvy”.
Shanghai: (verb) to trick or force somebody to do something or go somewhere.
The class tried to shanghai Lisa into going across the street for lunch.
Stricken: (adjective) hit or wounded by a weapon, or deeply affected by something such as grief or misfortune.
He was stricken by a passing blade and toppled to the ground.
Synchronicity: (noun) the coincidental occurrence of events that seem related but are not obviously caused by one another.
After the girl watched three doves fall from the sky, she thought it was a synchronicity from heaven.
Unfathomable: (adjective) incapable of being fully explored or understood.
It seems unfathomable to learn another language in just a few days.
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