Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, 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.

Thursday Activities

1. Make Flashcards - Write the word on one side of an index card and put the definition and a sentence on the opposite side.
2. Click on this link to make a word search or word scramble.
3. Type in 10 of your vocabulary words. Look in your vocabulary notebook. Print out the sheet. Complete it, and put it in your vocabulary 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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