Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Tuesday, 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.

Tuesday Activities

1. Go to the Spelling City website. Type in your list of vocabulary words. Click on the button that says Play A Game. Select Which Word. Play the game and write down the fill-in-the-blank sentences in your notebook.
2. Click on this link to see the magnetic board.
3. Drag the letters to create your vocabulary words on the board.

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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