Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Vocabulary Homework

Hi everybody --

We've been having some trouble with people losing their vocabulary worksheets, so we're going to try a new system!! You all have lovely new notebooks, so I think you can do your homework in there. Every week I will post 2 lists of words, one for group "A" (Let's call that Richie's group) and one for group "B" (Let's call that Kyle's group). If you don't know what group you're in, talk to me.
Look at the list of words and, in your notebook, put them in alphabetical order and write each of them 3 times, like this:
bear bear bear
duck duck duck
juice juice juice

etc.

Then, choose 4 words to look up in the dictionary. Write the meanings of those 4 words like this:
bear: a big, furry mammal that sleeps all winter
duck: a funny looking bird with a big beak

etc.

Finally, choose 2 of your dictionary words and use each in a sentence like this:
I wish I were a bear so I could eat lots of honey and sleep all winter.

I'm not sure, but maybe in the past Group B didn't have to do the dictionary step, but I think you guys are ready to do that, too. Give it a shot!

Here are this week's words:

Group A (Richie's group)

chapter
length
wrist
costume
hundred
piece
certain


Group B (Kyle's group)

never
wrong
flag
thumb
know
coin
write

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