Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Tuesday, 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

Tuesday Activities

1. Make Flashcards - Write the word on one side of an index card and put the definition and a sentence on the opposite side. Here is a page on how to make flashcards online and then print them out. Some games that you can play with flashcards are: Hold up the definition and have your child say the vocabulary word that matches that definition. Hold up the word side and have your child make up a sentence using that word and saying the definition.
2. Play Word Whacker with all of your flashcards from all the weeks. Place the cards on a table with the word side up. Stand over the cards with a flyswatter or a rolled up newspaper. As the definitions are read by an adult the student ‘whacks’ the correct word.Play this with your friends and family members and see who can whack the word first.
3. Create a matching game using this site. Type in the vocabulary word and its definition on each line. Click on Create file when finished. In the new window, click on the link on the right to play the game online.

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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