Monday, October 29, 2007

Taking A Stand

We started a new Unit today and a new story for this week. We will read the story Pretty Pennies Picket tomorrow and we went through the vocabulary today. This weeks vocabulary and spelling words are:

1. crescent
2. nary
3. skeins
4. halflight
5. polecats
6. unlikeliest
7. revelations
8. picket
9. picket line
10. human nature
11. refund

Monday, October 22, 2007

The Wright Brothers

Here are the vocabulary words and spelling words for this weeks story, "The Wright Brothers".

1. calculations
2. soldering
3. stabilize
4. warping
5. elevator
6. descent
7. thrust
8. sprocket
9. transmission
10. carbide
11. erratic
12. elated

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Jesse Owens

We read a great story today about Jesse Owens and what he did for our country. What did you guys think about the story? What did you learn?

Monday, October 15, 2007

A Picture of Jesse Owens

Here are the vocabulary and spelling words for this week. We are reading about Jesse Owens this week so make sure to look some information on him and bring it to class for our Concept/Questions board.

1. pneumonia
2. inferior
3. relays
4. prejudice
5. exhibition
6. spectacle
7. sharecroppers

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Vocabulary and Spelling words this week

knight
armor
champion
foe
hermit
patron saint
bade
stench
couched
revenge
glanced
brandished
smote
anvil
severed
brimstone
furl
laurel
Godspeed
bellowed
devour
perils