Week of March 18th-22nd

Hope everyone had a great Spring Break!  I soaked up as much sun as possible gardening, playing with my son, and reading in the swing.

This week in Math we will be introducing perimeter and area.  Perimeter is the fence around your yard or the walls of your bedroom.  Area is the grass in your yard or the floor of your room.

Perimeter Song         Perimeter and Area

Book orders will be due Friday, March 22nd

There will be a vocabulary and a spelling test on Friday.

Vocabulary Words:

1. central – of or forming the center; near the center; middle

Tornado Alley is in the central part of the United States.

2. form – to make, produce, or develop

Frightened, yet amazed, we watched the tornadoes form right before our eyes.

3. career –  occupation, profession, or employment
Synonym: job, work, livelihood

Teaching is an extremely rewarding career.

4. clasped- a firm grasp or grip

We were told to walk quietly in the hallway with our hands claspedbehind our backs.

5. community –  all the people living in a particular area or place; a locality
inhabited by a group
Synonyms: society, neighborhood, populace

Our community is one of the safest and friendliest in the United States.

6. kneel – to go down or rest on one or both knees

The Tornado Safety poster instructed us to kneel down as close to the floor as possible.

7. masses – a  large body of air with only small horizontal variations of temperature, pressure, and moisture

When cold and warm air masses meet, the conditions are right for tornadoes to develop.

8. meteorologist  – one who studies meteorology; one who reports and forecasts weather conditions

We were gloomy when the meteorologist forecasted rain on the day of our community parade.

9. tornadoes – a rotating column of air ranging in width from a few yards to more than a mile and whirling at destructively high speeds, usually accompanied by a funnel-shaped downward extension of a cumulonimbus cloud

On the Fujita Scale, the tornadoes that hit our town were all F2’s.

10. weather – The state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, cloudiness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.

Springtime is my favorite because of the incredibly beautiful weather.

11. drama- a play for theater, radio, or television

I definitely want to be involved in the drama club when I enter middle school.

12. scene – small division of a play within an act that marks a change of characters, place or action.

There were eight scenes in the play that my group was acting out.

13. dialogue-two or more people speaking to one another on stage

The dialogue between the two characters made us laugh hysterically.

14. stage directions – an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions or movements of performers

The narrator was told NOT to read the stage directions aloud when narrating the play.

15. scenery -part of the set that shows the location of the scene or play, usually on the backdrop

Because of their artistic talents, the scenery for our play was absolutely gorgeous!

 

Spelling Words

1.  learn ~ We will learn the rules to the game in P.E.

2.  little ~ The pencil was too little to use anymore.

3.  children ~ The bus holds three children to a seat.

4.  play ~ If it doesn’t rain, we will play outside.

5.  city ~ That family moved from the big city of New York.

6.  there ~ There is a dog over in the empty field.

7.  point~ Did you understand the point your teacher was trying to make?

8.  about ~ We heard what the fight was about during lunch.

9.  which ~ I can’t decide which dress I like the best.

10.  its ~ The dog had a sticker in its paw.

11.  young ~ The child was too young to ride the roller coaster.

12.  toward ~ The car was going toward the bike riders.

13.  school ~ We did not have any school last week because of Spring Break.

14.  four ~ The president chose four men to represent our state.

15.  were ~ The cars were stolen from the car lot.

16.  ever ~ Do you ever walk with your eyes closed?

17.  said ~ The man came over the loud speaker and said to leave the building immediately.

18.  called ~ Mom called me on her cell phone to see when I was coming home.

 

image from Mrs. Hall’s yard

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