Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 2

This week's theme is: Weather

Word List 2

1. climate: The long-term common weather conditions of an area.
2. haze: mist or fog
3. atmosphere: The whole mass of air surrounding the earth.
4. cumulus: A dense puffy cloud form having a flat base and rounded outlines often piled up like a mountain.
5. condensation: A liquid or solid formed from a vapor or gas.

Friday Activities

1. Play Word Whacker with all of your flashcards from all the weeks. Place the cards on a table with the word side up.
2. Stand over the cards with a flyswatter or a rolled up newspaper. As the definitions are read by an adult the student ‘whacks’ the correct word.Play this with your friends and family members and see who can whack the word first.
3. Word Scrambler - Click on the link and create your own word scrambler with your vocabulary words. Type in the number of words you wish to scramble and press the "next" button. You will see a sheet that has the answers for you. Press next again and print out the page. Complete it and put it in your notebook.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

The climate of my new city is very different than where I lived before.
The climate of the South in summer is very hot and humid.

The mountains were dim through the haze.
The road was very hard to see through the haze.

The atmosphere was thick with smoke.
The rocket ship could not be seen anymore in the atmosphere.

Cumulus clouds predict nice weather.
Cumulus clouds look like cotton balls.

Look at the condensatioin forming on the window.
A cloud is formed by condensation.

 
 

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