Vocabulary Puzzles

This week we have been learning about the following vocabulary words: humiliated, delusional, lethal, reassure, bamboozle, and intercept. All of these vocabulary words come from our current 39 Clues book that we are reading aloud as a class.
On Wednesday we learned how to create vocabulary puzzles about each word and began creating our own vocabulary puzzles. We included clues about each vocabulary word to solve the puzzle.


Dawson:
1. They might do this in a sport.
2. This word has 9 letters.
3. The first letter of this word is an I.
What word am I?
intercept

Paige:
1. When you're in your underwear.
2. When someone laughs at you.
3. It has 10 letters.
What word am I?
humiliated

Connor:
1. VERY hurtful.
2. A gun shot can be _________.
3. It has 6 letters.
What word am I?
lethal

Magdalen:
1. You stop someone or something.
2. It ends with a t.
3. If you multiply 3x3 that is how many letters it has.
What word am I?
intercept

Josie:
1. Sometimes animals can be this way.
2. A frog can do this.
3. It has 2 vowels.
What word am I?
lethal


Isabella:
1. You are being nice to someone.
2. You might feel sorry for someone.
3. It has 8 letters.
What word am I?
reassure

Abby:
1. A poisonous snake is this.
2. A poisonous spider is this.
3. Poisonous bugs are this.
What word am I?
lethal

Lucas:
1. You want to destroy a team.
2. When you hit a wall.
3. You stop something.
What word am I?
intercept

Ellie:
1. You can't find a word in the word.
2. It means it can do something to you.
3. It has an l at the end.
What word am I?
lethal

Solon:
1. It can make you die.
2. You might not die.
3. It has 6 letters.
What word am I?
lethal

Jack:
1. If someone gets shot with a gun.
2. You could die.
3. It has 6 letters.
What word am I?
lethal

Vocabulary Examples

Times/situations when you would be in peril

• tornado/storm
• shipwreck
• flood
• fire
• a psycho chasing you

Things that aggravate you

• neighbors
• cat getting into my food
• parents
• chewing in your ear
• tapping pencils

Things that could be appalling

• nobody celebrating your birthday
• a pet dying
• a sad ending of a movie or book
• getting out of school at 5:00 instead of 3:00

Cesar Chavez

As we have been learning about becoming a leader and leaders who have made a difference, we read the book Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez. We learned how Chavez made a difference for workers in California through marches and other peaceful protests. The students identified his character traits and provided evidence from the text for each character trait.

helpful

• he helped people get job rights

brave

• he led the march even when his feet started bleeding
• he led the people to Sacramento

persistent

• he never gave up
• he walked until he got other peoples' rights
• he walked until he got what he wanted

hard-working

• he worked hard for very little pay

peaceful

• he didn't fight

caring

• he cared enough to lead the people and get them their rights

persuasive

• he convinced them to march with him for rights
• he convinced the owners to improve working conditions for workers
• he persuaded people to follow him

Vocabulary Words

As we have been reading the On the Run series of books by Gordon Korman, we have focused on learning many vocabulary words. The focus words this week are obnoxious, humiliated, accustom, impulsive, eliminate, and eluded. The students came up with multiple examples/situations of these vocabulary words.

Things that would be obnoxious

• burping or farting without saying "excuse me"
• someone blurting out
• someone chewing in your ear
• someone coughing on you

Things that should be eliminated

• murderers
• wars
• wrong answers
• garbage
• Math :)

Things/Situations when you would need to accustom yourself

• moving to a different state, city, or country
• going to a new school
• moving into a new house
• a new baby in the house

Things that would make you or someone else feel humiliated

• having your 2-year old brother beat you in a spelling bee
• a boy going into the girls' bathroom on accident
• having your secret told to others

Vocabulary Examples

What are some precarious situations?

• flying a plane in a storm
• climbing a tree
• swimming with a shark
• skydiving

Who are/were some prominent people?

• The President
• Abraham Lincoln
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Ruby Bridges
• Mohammed Ali

When would you be triumphant?

• winning a video game
• building a big Lego set
• winning a contest
• getting into college

When would you need to elaborate?

• at the doctor's office
• in an interview
• giving directions from a map
• creating a plan

Vocabulary Puzzles

Each student created a vocabulary puzzle with clues to help figure out the vocabulary word.

JaShon
1. This word means unfair treatment of people of a different race.
2. It's unfair.
3. It has 6 letters.
racism

Emma
1. You might be in a bad mood.
2. Thinking that someone's being mean.
3. 9 letters.
prejudice

Collin
1. Unfair
2. It has an i in it.
3. It has an m in it.
racism

Josie
1. You will get in trouble.
2. Your parents will be mad.
3. 9 letters.
prejudice

Abby
1. Something Martin Luther King Jr. wanted  it.
2. The same.
3. 8 letters.
equality

Madi
1. Mrs. Griswold does this.
2. 10 letters.
3. to bring people together.
integrate

Ian
1. This word sounds like another word.
2. This word has a word in it.
3. This word has a q in it.
equality

Rebecca
1. My word has 11 letters.
2. It means the opposite of equality.
3. 2 similar words are racism and prejudice.
discriminate

Sam
1. Not nice.
2. Negative attitude.
3. Being bad to someone.
prejudice

Ava
1. It has 6 letters.
2. This word starts with an r.
3. This word is unfair.
racism

Julia
1. This word was in a title of a movie.
2. This word has 9 letters.
3. Pride and _______________.
prejudice

Ruby Bridges Vocabulary Examples

We watched a video about Ruby Bridges and looked for examples/evidence of our vocabulary words from last week and this week! The students identified and shared some accurate examples of the words used or displayed in the video.

integrate:
Ruby went to an all white school. 
The black people believed in it.

segregated: 
The mob didn't want to integrate.
The parents wanted segregation so the teachers were segregating too.

equality:
Mrs. Henry and the U.S. Marshal's treated Ruby with equality.
The Dr. is treating Ruby and her family with equality.
The church says they have the same rights as the white people.  

prejudice:
The crowd was prejudice to Ruby.
Bob is not prejudice.

racism:
Ruby's dad lost his job because he was colored.  
The white people of the school left because Ruby was colored.
Some people were calling Ruby a negro.
There was an angry mob just because Ruby was black.

discriminate:
People were treating Ruby really unfairly because there was a angry mob.
The angry mob was not going to let her in.

courageous:
Ruby was brave to go to a all white school. 
Ruby going to school without her mom for the first time.
Ruby walked through a big angry mob.

injustice:
Colored were treated unfairly at school. 
It's injustice that Ruby's family can't go to the store across the street from their house.
Black people weren't able to go to white schools.

tolerance:
Mrs. Henry respected Ruby even though she was black. 
Bob is tolerant to Ruby's family.
Mrs. Henry was giving Ruby special attention.

authority:
Marshals had control over Ruby, her mom, her dad, and over their house.
The U.S. Marshals have authority.

Vocabulary Examples

What are things that could make you anxious?

• Storms
• Elevators
• Strangers
• Barf
• Poisonous Animals
• Sharks
• Bats
• Cliffs

What things would amuse you?

• A giant pickle 
• Telling jokes
• Buffalo singing opera
• Monty Python
• Comedian 
• Funny TV shows
• Old McDonald doing the Chicken Dance

What would you need to be cautious about/of?

• Driving on slick roads in bad weather
• Walking home alone
• Traps
• Being in a war
• Strangers
• Wild animals when camping
• Swimming in the ocean/river

What are things that could infuriate you?

• Knocked lunch over
• Overflowing toilet
• Baby screaming constantly
• Dog eating homework
• Spilling soda on the computer
• Wrecked Legos

Vocabulary Words

What are some things that you are eager to do/have?

• Christmas
• Easter
• going on vacation
• getting a toy
• getting a pet
• playing with your friend
• going on a date

What are some things you would want to be accurate about?

• weather
• test
• reading

What are some things that intrigue you?

• a secret passage
• somebody gets ambushed
• a secret password
• a secret

Vocabulary Practice

The students collaborated to come up with examples for the following vocabulary words.

Things that may make you hesitant:

• going to the dentist
• taking a test
• telling a secret
• the principal
• first time driving
• walking across the street

Things that could make you look suspicious:

• hands behind your back
• whistling
• sweating
• looking down
• all covered up even though you're inside
• blushing
• serious look in your eyes
• not making eye contact

Things that are incredulous:

• toys coming to life
• dragons
• monsters
• giant hot dogs
• giant cockroach
• the sun going out someday

Things that could be profound:

• books
• parents
• friends
• school
• teachers
• college
• military
• activities

Vocabulary

This week's vocabulary words were incredulous, hesitant, suspicious, profound, discrepancy, and surreptitiously. The students each chose one of the words and crafted a sentence using the word.

JaShon: I think he's acting suspicious.

Rebecca: I was hesitant about opening my mom and dad's door.

Josie: I was suspicious of my cat because he was licking in the wrong cup.

Abby: Your mom and dad may have a profound effect on you.

Collin: He was going through the hall suspiciously.

Ava: Sometimes a dragon can be incredulous.

Ian: I was suspicious when my brother had his hands behind his back.

Madi: A teacher is very profound.

Sabine: It was incredulous that my parents gave me a car for my sweet sixteen.

Julia: Mom! He's acting suspicious!

Emma: The criminal was very surreptitious because the police was right under him.

Sam: He is hesitant because he thinks it is not good to steal a dollar bill.

Vocabulary Examples

We collaborated in groups to come up with real-life examples for some of our vocabulary words. The students were very creative when coming up with ideas! They are able to relate the words to their lives, which is great!

What are some things you would need to suppress?

• blurting
• anger
• excitement
• laughter
• appetite
• desire to play video games all of the time

What are some things that would make you feel exasperated?

• a person screaming
• a person jumping on you
• a person burping
• younger siblings yelling
• when your mom bugs you

What would you need to be precise about?

• following directions
• a haircut
• GPS
• Tom-Tom
• using a calculator
• math test

What are things that are audible?

• music
• radio
• T.V.
• birds
• laughing
• elevator ding
• video game
• tree falling
• ring tones

Vocabulary Practice

This week we have been working on the vocabulary words from the book Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix. This week's words are exasperation, suppress, vacant, poise, precise, and audible. We created 4 flap foldables for this week's words.
Flap 1: Word
Flap 2: Definition
Flap 3: Illustration/Picture
Flap 4: Sentence

 

Vocabulary Words

Our vocabulary words this week came from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:

Murmur
Valiant
Burdened
Impressive
Surged
Summoned