Friday, May 10, 2013

GOLDEN TAMARIN SPELLING-Week of May 13-17th

Spelling Words

  1. dangerous
  2. history
  3. vacation
  4. popular
  5. favorite
  6. memory
  7. personal
  8. educate
  9. regular
  10. continue
  11. potato
  12. natural
  13. sensitive
  14. energy
  15. emotion
  16. period
  17. property
  18. condition
  19. imagine
  20. attention

Challenge Words

  1. juvenile
  2. astonish
  3. ovation
  4. amateur
  5. obvious

Friday, April 12, 2013

Final Crispin Vocabulary

  1. agitated
  2. infatuated
  3. unfettered
  4. omen
  5. succumb
  6. voracious
  7. parched
  8. vexed
  9. impaled
  10. brandished

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Crispin Ch.36-47

Crispin Vocabulary Ch.36-47
  1. buffeting
  2. sumptuous
  3. celestial
  4. beguiled
  5. fervor
  6. laggards
  7. wend
  8. caterwauling
  9. disconsolate
  10. guild

Monday, March 25, 2013

WEEK OF MARCH 25-29

Crispin Spelling Vocabulary Ch. 25-35
  1. reverence
  2. leagues
  3. meandered
  4. enraptured
  5. mollify
  6. rueful
  7. heirs
  8. illegitimate
  9. portentous
  10. gauntlet

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

CRISPIN CH.13-24

1.grotesquely
2. pillaged
3. sustenance
4. trepidation
5. raucously
6. evasively
7. tyranny
8. surname
9. solemnly
10. malevolence
11. bravado
12. corrupt
13. surname
14. lamenting
15. cur

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Crispin-Section 1 (Chapters 1-12)

1. fringe- the outer, marginal, or extreme part of an area, group, or sphere of activity(p.1 in book)
2. shunned-persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (p.1)
3. transgression-a sin, or offense (p.2)
4. minions-underlings, ones who work for a person of power (ch.2 page)
5. shroud-burial cloth
6. pinnacle-highest point(p.22)
7. scrutinized-examine carefully
8. poaching-hunting illegally
9. curfew-a set time to remain indoors (p.17)
10. transfixed-spellbound, cause (someone) to become motionless with horror, wonder, or astonishment
11. tumult-a loud confused noise (p.40)
12. treason-the crime of betraying one's country, esp. by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government
13. foreboding-a sense of dread, fearful apprehension
14. impenetrable-impossible to pass through (p.23)
15. lunacy-the state of being insane/crazy (p.29)
16. steward-The steward was the head of all the castle's staff/medieval Lord (p.30)
17. genuflected (p.33)lower one's body briefly by bending one knee to the ground, typically in worship or as a sign of respect : she genuflected and crossed herself.
18. carcasses (p.41)-dead bodies
19. bailiff (p.41)-an official in a court of law who keeps order, looks after prisoners, etc.
• chiefly British
20. forage- search widely for food or provisions (p.48)

Monday, March 4, 2013

Week of

Elena

Spelling Words

  1. liberties
  2. victories
  3. countries
  4. spied
  5. enemies
  6. armies
  7. scariest
  8. dirtier
  9. happiness
  10. abilities
  11. pitied
  12. ladies
  13. busier
  14. duties
  15. lilies
  16. worthiness
  17. tiniest
  18. emptiness
  19. replies
  20. dizziness
Wordly Wise Words
21. ancestor
22. carnivore
23. comprehend
24. ferocious
25. gigantic
26. obscure
27. premature
28. prey
29. puny
30. duration

Monday, February 25, 2013

Week of February 25th

Black Cowboy, Wild Horses

Spelling Words

  1. mountain
  2. treasure
  3. culture
  4. fountain
  5. creature
  6. captain
  7. future
  8. adventure
  9. moisture
  10. surgeon
  11. lecture
  12. curtain
  13. pasture
  14. measure
  15. vulture
  16. feature
  17. furniture
  18. pleasure
  19. mixture
  20. luncheon
CHALLENGE WORDS-Ch. 9 History
21.Loyalist
22. inflation
23. neutral
24. profiteering
25. economic hardships
26. analyze
27. parallel time lines
28. enlist
29. negotiate
30. campaign

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Week of February 19-22

Pioneer Girl

Spelling Words

  1. dozen
  2. voyage
  3. forbid
  4. native
  5. language
  6. destroy
  7. notice
  8. distance
  9. carrot
  10. knowledge
  11. captive
  12. spinach
  13. solid
  14. justice
  15. ashamed
  16. program
  17. message
  18. respond
  19. service
  20. relative
21. fermentation
22. vascular tissue
23. transpiration
24. cellular respiration
25. photosynthesis
26. phloem
27. xylem
28. ammonia
29. chloroplasts
30. diaphragm

Monday, February 11, 2013

Week of February 11-14th

A Boy Called Slow

Spelling Words

  1. correction
  2. promote
  3. promotion
  4. express
  5. expression
  6. accustom
  7. alert
  8. assign
  9. budge
  10. burly
  11. companion
  12. compatible
  13. concept
  14. distract
  15. jostle
  16. obedient
  17. obstacle
  18. patient
  19. pedestrian
  20. retire
Science Words-Unit 2-Body Systems/Cells
21. circulatory system
22. respiratory system
23. digestive system
24. organelle
25. excretory system
26. capillary
27. vein
28. esophagus
29. kidney
30. bladder

Sunday, February 3, 2013

FEBRUARY 4th-8th

FINAL FIGHTING GROUND VOCABULARY
1. ransom p.132
2. briskly p. 136
3. compacted p. 121
4. intently p.126
5. appealing p. 122
6. swiveled p. 128
7. retort p.133
8.throbbing p. 139
9. stupefaction p.142
10. disheveled p. 142
11. flayed p. 142
12. spasmodically p. 144
13. surging p. 147
14. flustered p. 149
15. mirage p. 151

Monday, January 28, 2013

Week of January 28-February 1st

FIGHTING GROUND SPELLING AND VOCABULARY
Part 3
  1. sidled p. 85
  2. callousness p. 92
  3. immobile p.91
  4. seething p. 93
  5. tremulous p. 86
  6. groped p. 95
  7. cadence p.99
  8. averted p.82
  9. rebuff p.93
  10. agape p. 102
  11. redeem p. 105
  12. elusively p. 110
  13. silhouettes p. 109
  14. rapt p.115
  15. stammered p. 133
  16. civilian
  17. compacted
  18. garrison
  19. staggered
  20. gauge

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Week of January 24-27th


Social Studies+ Fighting Ground Vocab.+MLK VOCAB
1. alliance
2. delegate
3. Parliament
4. proclamation
5. budget
6. representation
7. massacre
8. boycott
9. repeal
10.monopoly
11. transfixed p. 52-cause (someone) to become motionless with horror, wonder, or astonishment :
12. cantered p. 43-a three-beat gait of a horse or other quadruped between a trot and a gallop
13. bayonets p. 48-a swordlike stabbing blade that may be fixed to the muzzle of a rifle for use in hand-to-hand fighting.
14. unison p. 45-simultaneous performance of action or utterance of speech
15. scrutinized p. 59-look, examine carefully
16. muster p. 64-assemble troops
17. obliterate p. 66-destroy, annihilate
18. perplexed p. 71-confused
19. plume p.52- long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament
20.torrential-p.66-(of rain) falling rapidly and in copious quantities : a torrential downpour.
21. segregation- the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country
22. discrimination-the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex :
23. civil rights-the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
24. eloquent-fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing
25. Martin Luther King Jr.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Week of January 14th-18th


FIGHTING GROUND SPELLING VOCABULARY
Week 1 (Learn the meanings of the first 10 words)

1.* fife
2. * grenadiers
3. * hefted
4. *linchpin
5.* buckled
6.*riveted
7.*corporal
8.* Hessian
9.* regiment
10.* impulsively
11. percussion
12. suffocating
13. priming pan
14. lurched
15. transfixed
16. salvation
17. monotonously
18. grotesque
19. affixed
20. quizzically