Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Monday, Week 2

This week's theme is: Weather

Word List 2

1. runoff: precipitation that flows across land surface or falls into rivers and streams
2. biosphere: The part of the earth in which living things exist or that is capable of supporting life
3. dehydrated: to remove water from
4. analyze: studying something very carefully
5. dissipate: to break up and scatter
6. hydrosphere: all the water on the surface of the Earth
7. deluge: a heavy rainfall or flood, or an overwhelming, floodlike rush of anything

Monday Activities

1. Make a Summer Vocabulary Notebook. Each week you will write the words in your notebook. Beside each word write the definition given. Write your own synonyms and the definition in your own words beside the word.
2. Practice saying your words to make sure you are pronouncing them correctly. Use this site, How do you say to help you pronounce words you do not know. Just type the word into the white space and click on Submit. Soon you will hear the word.
3. As you read books over the summer, use your vocabulary notebook to write down words you would like to learn more about or words you do not know the meaning of. Make flashcards for these words and include them in your summer vocabulary learning flashcards

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:

Weathermen can forcast the runoff for each type of precipitation.
Polluted runoff can affect plants and animals.

Living things in the biosphere can be grouped by their food chains.
Scientists study how humans affect the biosphere.

Exercizing dehydrates your body.
Warm weather can dehydrate children quickly.

When you go sailing, it is smart to analyze the weather first.
Meteorologists analyze data constantly in order to predict upcoming weather.

The clouds dissipated and we were able to see the sun.
Be careful of harmful sprays that dissipate into the atmosphere.

The hydrosphere covers the majority of the Earth.
Most globes use the color blue to identify the hydrosphere.

The summer rain quickly turned into a deluge.
A deluge of applications came in for the job being offered.

 
 

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