Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, 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.

Wednesday Activities

1. Create your own vocabulary book for review. Use this site to make your own book. Type in your words and definitions. You can make up to 10 pages. Print it out and carry it around with you to practice in your spare time.
2. Flashcardstash- Flashcard Stash allows you to create and customize your own digital flashcards. You can create flashcards with anything. Such as dates for History class, vocabulary for French class, or words for the SAT.
3. Connectors - Click on the link and type in your vocabulary words and their definitions in the three columns. Your definitions will be typed in column 2 and continue in column 3. Print out the sheet and cut it into the individual blocks. Keep the pieces in a Ziploc bag and try to put the connectors together during your travel time or free time at home.

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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