January 28th. 2013

Sing to the Stars Vocabulary

1. studio: artist workroom
2. amplifiers: devices that make sounds stronger or louder
3. yanked: pulled hard
4. blaring: making a loud, harsh noise
5. glorious: wonderful
6. classical: relating to a musical style from 18th centrury Europe
7. schedule: timeline or time table
8. debut: a first performance in public
9. feast: large meal
10. jazz: a style of music with a strong pattern of beats
11. concerned: worried
12. murmur: a low, constant sound
13. model: small copy
14. rhythm: movement or beats that repeat in a regular pattern
15. ruined: destroyed
16.strides: walks with long steps
17. streak: to move quickly
18. sprightly: lively
19.smeared: messy or blurred
20. stammers: speaks with pauses and repeats words

The Last Dragon

The Last Dragon Vocabulary

1. lapped: moved gently against
2. teeming: full, crowded
3. crisp: dry and cool
4. characters: symbols or letters used in printing
5. lure: attraction
6. snaked: moved in a winding and twisting way
7. miniature: very small, tiny
8. severed: cut off from the whole
9. especially: mainly, particularly
10. crest: something, such as feathers, that grows on an animal's head
11. haze: a mist in the air
12. alien: unfamiliar, foreign
13. jealous: want what someone else has
14: scales: small, thin, flat parts that cover a fish or reptile
15. gigantic: huge, enormous
16. fierce: wild and mean, dangerous
17. deliberately: done on purpose
18. scraggly: shabby or torn
19. vanished: disappeared
20. homage: special public honor

Week of January 14, 2013

Marven of the Great North Woods Vocabulary

1. symbol: an object that stands for something else
2. woodsman: a person who works with or lives in a forest
3. reward: to give a person something they have earned
4. bunkhouse: a building in a camp where a group of people sleep
5. ceremony: a special event celebrating something
6. timber: trees that an be used as building wood
7. disobey: not do what you are told
8. cords: measures for stacks of cut wood
9. patiently: waiting calmly, without getting annoyed
10. snowshoes: frames attached to shoes and used for walking across snow
11. foster: cared for by an adult for a period of time
12. immense: huge, very large
13. confesses: admits something is true
14. lumberjack: people who chop down trees and haul the wood to a sawmill
15. performs: acts
16. landscape: a stretch of land
17. graduate: to finish school or training
18. glowered: looked annoyed
19. confidence: feeling sure about abilities
20. fragrance: a sweet or pleasant odor

We will have our Chapter 16 math test on Tuesday, starting fractions on Wednesday. New paragraph homework will be coming home tonight.