Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Monday, 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.

Monday Activities

1. Make a Summer Vocabulary Notebook. Each week you will write the words and definitions you learn in it.
2. Write each word and definition in your vocabulary book. Use this dictionary link to check the pronounciation of each word. Type each word in the box on the left, then click the sound icon to listen.
3. Make your words glow using this tool. Click on the link to start. Type in your words on th right. You can change the settings on the left side. Be creative and have fun!

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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