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| THEME 1 ADVENTURE |
THEME 2 FAMILY TRADITIONS |
THEME 3 INCREDIBLE STORIES |
| THEME 4 AMAZING ANIMALS |
THEME 5 VOYAGERS |
THEME 6 SMART SOLUTIONS |
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THEME ONE
OFF TO ADVENTURE
| LOST AND FOUND Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
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Week 1
Trout
a
type
of
fish Equal
to
134=134
Expanded
form 500+30+4
Fantasy
not
real
Greater
than
5>3
Less
than
7<9
Mystery
unknown
Standard
form 13,456700
Word
form
one-hundred
Strategy
special
way
Adventure
new,
exciting
Astonished
very
surprised
Claim
land
owned
Traces
evidences
triumphant winner
unusual
strange fez: cone shaped hat, flat top plunged: fell quickly and suddenly directions: how to go someplace examined: looked at or studied carefully armor: metal body covering for war unusual: not common or ordinary Week 4
Tassel
fancy
cord
lectured scolded dismayed worried suggested: offered a possible solution burgundy: purplish-red in color furious: really angry lectured: scolded or warned situations: sets of conditions dismay: very sad rumpled: wrinkled or creased |
| BALLAD OF MULAN Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 5 sorrowful: very sad sighs: long deep breaths invaders: enemy attackers troops: soldiers draft: selection of people to serve in the army scrolls: rolls of paper with writing frail: weak bridle: straps, bit & reins of horse armor: metal body covering farewell: good bye dusk: the time of evening just before dark harsh: extremely unpleasant endured: put up with resist, continue ravaged: violently destroyed victorious: having won by defeating another |
| THE WATERFALL Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 6 furious: really angry boulders: large, rounded rocks canyon: a deep valley with steep walls and running water cauldron: a large pot used for boiling ledges: flat spaces like shelves on the sides of cliffs rapids: a group of small waterfalls in a river scouted: observed or explored carefully for information sheer: very steep creek: a small stream banks: the river's edges poison oak: a plant causing a rash tumbling: falling and rolling Week 7 diamond: a crystal-like gemstone slippery: causing one to slide clung: held tightly to snuggled: curled up in rustle: a soft, fluttering sound bonfire: a large outdoor fire rhubarb: a reddish-green plant stalks that are cooked and eaten. scrawny: thin and bony; skinny anxious: feeling nervous or afraid triumph: a great success or victory souvenir: an item kept as a reminder lugged: carried with great difficulty sculpture: a figure made from stone babushka: shawl, covering sewn: fasten by stitching scraps: left over pieces linen: bed sheets, tablecloths |
THEME TWO
FAMILY TRADITIONS
| KEEPING QUILT Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 8 strut: walk in an proud way glimpse: a very quick look unfortunate: unlucky custom: a typical practice tradition hauling: pulling or dragging artificial: not real, fake needles: thin tool used for sewing threaded: passed string through a needle challah: Russian bread handkerchief: a cloth to clean the nose poverty: not having much. Poor bouquet: a bunch like flowers gathering: a meeting, reunion lacquer: shiny paint for furniture unique: not a copy, one of a kind metallic: looking metal finish border: the outside edge huppa: a Jewish canopy region: a piece of land, area |
| ANTONY REYNOSO Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 9 tapering: getting narrower pillar: tall narrow column memorial: building to remember granite: hard stone to build federal: national wreath: circle of leaves or flowers dappled: spotted, mottled rodeo: cowboys sports event charro: Mexican cowboy celebrity: famous person petroglyphs: old rock carvings ceremonies: acts to honor an event pitch in: join to work exhibition: display or show expert: trained knowledgeable perform: present a talent or skill impaired: damaged or reduced meet: athletic competition |
| TALKING CLOTH Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 10 meet: athletic competition International: involves several countries impaired: damaged or reduced grand finale: spectacular ending pulsing: throbbing dedication: commitment to hard work sacrifice: give up chiseled: used a sharp tool to cut dabbed: with short light strokes collector: person who gathers things collection: objects with similarities flourish: waving motion, showy way royalty: the king and his family embroided: decorated by sewing symbols: stands for an idea or thing wealth: richness, plenty of money stunt: get in the way, disrupt mocha: coffee with cocoa and milk offend: make someone feel bad grubby: dirty pinstripe: cloth with narrow stripes mortar & pestle: cup & stick to grind ingredients: things needed for a recipe recipe: directions for cooking shelled: taken out of the shell |
| DANCING RAINBOWS Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 11 tuxedos: men’s formal suits groundhog: a woodchuck irritated: angry or annoyed chittering: chattering prophets: those who predict future ancestors: those our family comes from elders: older & wise people honor: show special respect imitating: copying what others do respect: admiration or consideration plaza: open area in downtown bustle: decoration of material worn illegal: against the law not allawed kivas: indian worshiping place yelp: short sharp yell tassels: loose threads hanging powwows: indian meetings dazling: impressive arch: curved like a rainbow |
THEME THREE
AMAZING STORIES
| DOGZILA Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 12 colossal: very big; enormous creature: a living being, an animal heroic: very brave or daring horrifying: causing much fear monstrous: extremely large; enormous terrifying: causing much fear tremendous: great, large, powerful irresistible: difficult to stay away from ancient: very old crater: hole in the top of a volcano dreadful: shocking, very unpleasant fiery: very hot, like a fire etched: clearly or firmly fixed confident: feeling sure of oneself |
| 3rd Week in December: No vocabulary test |
| THE MISTERIOUS GIANT Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 13 Dumbstruck: so shocked that one can't speak Square: an open area in a town's center Sister: female members of a religious group Strode: walked with long steps Bellowed: spoke loudly and powerfully Weakling: a person without strength or power Mysterious: hard to explain Pedestal: the base on which a statue stands Hailed: greeted by a signaling or calling out to Scurried: moved quickly Statue: image of a person or animal, usually made of stone, |
| THE GARDEN OF ABDUL GAZASI Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 14 awesome: causing a feeling of wonder, fear, and respect convinced: made to do, believe, or feel certain about something disappeared: passed out of sight; vanished discovered: found; learned incredible: too unlikely to be believed; astonishing or amazing impossible: not able to happen or exist parlor: a room where visitors are entertained exhausted: very tired tremendous: very large or powerful ignored: paid no attention to galloped: ran fast, like a horse blurted: said suddenly and without thinking |
| RAISING DRAGONS Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 15 chores: every day jobs at home perch: place to sit or rest appetite: a strong desire for food hitched: fasten an animal to a machine plow: to turn over dirt to plant seeds sown: planted seeds tended: took care of harvested: picked and brought in a crop shelling: removing outside covering atlas: a book of maps farewell: another word for good-bye departing: leaving, going away |
| FIRST
HALF
OF
THE
YEAR
REVIEW
PART
A |
| Week 16 creative with ideas for something new impatient can't wait mysterious unknown offered gave encourage help to keep going ignored not paid attention treat something good to eat entertain amuse, have fun selfish thinking of one self cooperative helpful cheerful happy generous one that gives things damage hurt or destruction upset kind of angry yelled shout glad happy breeze wind hurt pain ashamed embarrassed resist try to strop please make someone happy no longer put a stop jealous have some envy succeeded achieve frisbee a flat plate to fly solve solution faith belief colossal huge irresistible can't stop or take tiny small |
| FIRST
HALF
OF
THE
YEAR
REVIEW
PART
B |
| Week 17 monstrous more than big awesome wonderful heroic of a hero impossible can't be done authentic real, not fake cowardly done in a chicken way departing leaving strongest not weak inspiration feeling to create something ancient old discovered found hitched attached, linked harvested fruit collected dumbstruck very shocked tremendous huge amazing wonderful sown put together by thread terrifying scary tended took care strode big steps plowed ready the ground to plant vanished disappeared persuade convince exhaust very tired horrify to scare a lot disappeared vanished convince get someone to agree incredible not believable confident sure bellowed yelled |
THEME FOUR
ANIMAL HABITATS
| THE NIGHTS OF THE PUFLINS Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 18 overlooking: looking down on from above pant: breathe rapidly Quizzically: in a puzzled way release: let go roaming: wandering about with no plan scorpions: animals related to spiders, with a poisonous sting scruffy: untidy, scabby, shabby speckled: covered with small dots or spots spindly: thin and long and weak looking stranded: left in a helpless or difficult position stray: wandering and lost streaked: lined, marked, smeared stubby: short and broad; looking cut-off, like stubs tarantulas: large, tropical, stinging spiders Week 19 uninhabited: having no people living there venture: to set out to do something even dangerous instinctively: acting on an inner feeling, without thinking ashore: on or to the shore (from the water) Chaparral: hot, dry summers, cool winters, tangled, thorny shrubs chilly: cold, cool fledglings: young bird fledglings: baby birds just learning to fly flutter: flap wings rapidly fringe: decorative border or edging glide off: fly without moving wings launching: sending up in the air limp: no structure or firmness; weak lunges: moves forward suddenly and forcefully morsel: a small piece or tasty tidbit nestle: settle or press snugly and closely surf: where the wave breaks on shore |
| SEAL SURFER Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 20 mussels: a kind of shellfish that can be eaten scurry: to run with light steps: to scamper suspect: to believe without being sure predator: an animal that eats other animals leeches: worms, live in water and suck blood from other animals basked: rested in pleasant warmth buffeted: struck against powerfully horizon: the line where the sky seems to meet the earth quay: a dock where ships are loaded and unloaded surf: to ride on waves often on a surfboard swell: a long wave that moves along without breaking Week 21 swooped: moved with sudden sweeping motion molted: shed the outer hair or skin panic: to feel sudden fear flippers: wide, flat, paddle-like limbs used for swimming reflection: a picture made by a mirror or smooth water dissolved: broken up disappeared reformed: formed over again mountainous: huge as big as a mountain wrenched; ripped or torn away with great force elated: very happy concentrated: focused on directed his attention toward sensation: something that is felt deserted: empty and seemingly without life |
| TWO DAYS IN MAY Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 22 flutter: to flap the wings and fly weakly permit: written permission to do something a license appreciate: to enjoy and understand grazing: eating growing plants population: number of people living in a place starve: suffer of lack of food surroundings: on all sides of territory: an area of land wander: to move from place to place without reason gasped: caught your breath suddenly hooves: the feet of certain animals like deer rumbled: moved with a deep rolling sound recognized: identify as knowing before landlord: person who rents a building or property to someone Week 23 hushed: calmed quiet protest: gathering to fight for something thought wrong brow: forehead stranded: helpless anxiously: in a worried way rotate: to turn detect: to discover, to find out habitat: the natural place for a living thing draped: covered loosely broad: wide rusty: old-looking covered with rust crates: wooden boxes tranquilizer: a drug used to calm a person or animal wobbled: move unsteadily fawns: deer less 1 year old flickering: briefly flashing |
| 3rd Week in March: No Vocabulary Test, Spring Break |
THEME FIVE
VOYAGERS
| ACROSS THE WIDE DARK SEA Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 24 overboard: over the side of a boat affection: love; fondness agility: quickness; ease in moving anchor: heavy metal hook attached to a ship bonded: became attached to cannons: heavy guns set onto wheels cramped: crowded; not enough room to move about deepened: grew stronger and more intense defend: to protect from attack deformity: damaged part of something desperate: driven by a great need endowed: given a special talent or quality faith: trust or belief, even without proof furl: to roll up and fasten huddled: crowded close together jack: a mechanical tool used to raise or move heavy objects journey: a trip from one place to another Week 25 lurked: stayed hidden miraculously: amazingly; like a miraclever the side of the boat plucked: snatched; pulled out rigging: ropes, chains, and pulleys used to control the masts rough: built in a hurry, not completely finished seeping: slowly leaking, oozing settlement: a small community shelter: something that protects or covers shuddered: trembled or shivered suddenly sprouting: beginning to grow as new plants survive: to stay alive; to hold up or withstand swamps: areas of spongy, muddy land thatch-roofed: a roof covered with straw or reeds uncanny: mysterious; strange weary: tired; needing rest Withdrew: went off to be alone worship: to take part in a religious ceremony |
| YUNMI & HALMONI’S TRIP Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 26 bustling: full of activity; busy custom: a tradition; a way of doing something that people follow foreigners: people who come from a different country or place passport: document that allows to travel in foreign countries sightseeing: visiting interesting places; touring skyscrapers: very tall buildings vendor: someone who sells something Seoul: the capital city if South Korea nationals: citizens from a particular nation or country embraced: hugged ushered: led by someone Week 27 ministers: people who are in charge of government departments Chomsongdae: Star Observatory, believed to be the oldest in Asia parasols: umbrellas that provide shade from the Sun marinated: soaked in Sauce or spices to add flavor dumplings: pieces of dough,that you cook by steaming or boiling mandoo: Korean term for'dumpling outskirts: areas away from the center of town cat's cradle: a traditional game played with sting tombstone: a stone that marks wh'ere a dead person is buried blurted: said without thinking ashamed: feeling sorry for doing something wrong selfish: being mainly interested in yourself rather than others |
| TRAPPED BY ICE Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 28
fever: great excitement about something route: a path for getting form one place to another toddlers: very small children who have just learned to walk oxen: adult male cattle penned: kept inside; closed in narrow: uncorfontably close: almost unsuccessful fever: very high body temperature horizon: the line where the earth and the sky meet delay: wait until later to do something rations: supplies, usually food, that are limited hulk: body of old wrecked ships; something large and clumsy standed: trapped or stuck in a difficult situation startled: surprised alarmed or shocked stern: the rear part of a ship or boat tremble: to shake or shiver skipper: captain executing: carring out or doing barren: having little plant or animal life sledge: a sled to carry loads across snow and ice harnessed: wearing straps attatched to a vehicle as a sled or plow current: the path or flow of moving water, such as a river or sea scarce: not enough lunged: moved forward suddenly stalking: moving secretly while tracking prey sapped: weakened floes: large sheets of floating ice grueling: very tiring crevasse: deep hole or crack savage: wild Week 29 furiously: violently dehydration: sickness caused by not having enough water quench: to satisfy exhausting: very tiring jagged: ragged, full of parts sticking up and out pitched: put up deserted: empty: not lived in, or having few or no people permanent: meant to last for a long time hut: small simple house or shelter cramped: crowded wick: the cord that burn on a candle or a lamp frigate birds: a type of sea bird rancid: having nasty smell or taste tiller: part used to steer a boat impact: crash bailed: got water out of a boat by filling containers and emptying hull: the body or frame of a ship or boat capsizing: turning bottom side up dimly: not seen easily or clearly miraculously: amazingly; seemimngly impossibly temporary: lasting for only a short time albatross: a large sea bird terrain: land ground or earth impassable: not able to be crossed or travelled trough summit: the highest point gamble: a risky action makeshift: something used temporaryly in place for something else perilious: very dangerous reckless: not careful or cautios torrents: violent, fast moving streams of liquid |
THEME SIX
SMART SOLUTIONS
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| Week 30 ashamed: feeling embarrased or guilty bustle: move arround quickly in an exciting way large-petaled: with big petals relief: feeling of comfort after being worried ducked: lower one's head and body to avoid being seen by others language: spoken or written human speech mumbled: said softly and unclearly darte: moved suddenlt and very quickly muzzled: rubbed gently tiptoed walked quietly |
| POPPA’S NEW PANTS Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 31 draped: hung loosely in folds fabric: cloth hem: to fold back and sew down the edges mended: repaired by sewing pattern: a repeated design or decoration plaid: a pattern of stripes that cross each other rustling: a quick, soft, fluttering sound uproar: noisy excitement and confusion bust a gusset: to be excited or upset enough to burst plum worn out: very tired brother-in-law: the man who is married to your sister arthritis: soreness and swelling in the body pallet: narrow, hard bed or mattress crouched: sat low to the ground wheezed: breathed hard with a whistling sound mustering: gathering together dozed off: fell into a light sleep armadillo: animal with hard shell, may roll up into a ball if attacked limbs: arms and legs haunting: visiting; appearing to someone scurried: moved around hurriedly sanctuary: the main room of a place of worship knickers: short, loose pants gathered below the knee |
| RAMONA QUIMBY AGE 8 Power Point Top of the page Go Back Home |
| Week 32 whirlwind: air that is spinning very fast dozing: napping stirred: moved tore: noved very fast:rushed ceaseless: not stopping companionabe: friendly discouraged: having no hope or happiness dismal: gloomy dreary: gloomy exhausted: very tired pelting: beating against sullenly: angrily; not happily; gloomily |
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Last updated 9/24/2010.