Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Spelling Words for January 4 - 6

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Spelling Words – January 4-6



freeze

scarf

icicle


mittens


snowflake


New Year


blizzard

snowman


ski


storm

 sled

skate


January


snowball

boots

frosty

winter

white

hibernate


shoveling


Monday, December 12, 2011

Greek and Latin Roots December 12 - 16

Word List: Bio = life
antiobiotic               a medicine used to save lives because it destroys harmful bacteria and cures infections 

autobiography         a piece of writing written by a person about his or her own life

biography                a piece of writing about a person’s life written by someone else

biologist                   a person who studies living things

biology                    the study of living things

biopsy                      the removal of living tissue from the body for diagnostic examination

biosphere                 the zone of planet Earth where there is life (between the deep crust and the lower atmosphere)

macrobiotic diet      a diet thought to help people live longer because it focuses on natural foods

neurobiology           the study of the nervous system of living things and how it helps the living things learn and react

symbiosis                 how two different living organism live together and depend on each other

Spelling Words December 12 - 16

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Spelling Words – December 12-16



prerecorded

reappear


postscript


cooperate


prehistoric


posttest


coauthors

recharge


precaution

postwar

 rejoin

coexist


prefix


coworker

reform

prepaid

refresh

postdate

reenter


reclaim


Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Lesson 8 The War Ends

blockade
Treaty of Paris


in 1779, the British thought that they could take over the Southern colonies. It got off to a bad start with the plan.  The Americans got support from Spain. So now the Patriots have the French and Spain. Bernardo de Galvez, governor of Spainl, closed the port at New Orleans to Great Britian and opened it to American ships.Between 1778 and 1781, the British army won the battles at Savannah, Georgia and at Charles Towen and Camden in South Carolina.  The British and Americans finally met. They met in March 1781 at Guilford Court House, North Carolina. The British won but lost one-fourth of the army. A British leader once said ''Another such victory would would destroy the British army. General Cornwallis led 7,000 soldiers to Yorktown, Virginia. Stopping at Yorktown was a decision that would cause Great Britian to lose the war. General Cornwallis did not guess that the Patriots and the French would not learn of his plans. One of Cornwallis's servants, James Armistead, was a spy for Lafayette. Armistead passed on the information that the British were waiting for supplies from New York. Lafayette sent this information to the French Navy. At the same time Washington army and a large French  force joined Lafayette. Cornwallis discovered too

Monday, December 5, 2011

Mal Male Greek and Latin for December 5

Mal, male = bad; abnormal; worse

dismal         depressing; causing gloom or misery; causing bad feelings
malady        bad health; illness; sickness
malaria        bad air; a disease usually spread by infected mosquitoes
malefactor  an evildoer; a person who does bad things
malevolent a word that describes a person or character who wishes bad things would happen to others
malfeasance wrongdoing or bad conduct by a public official
malice         mischief; evil intent; bad will
malignant   harmful; something bad enough that it could result in death when related to cancer
malnourished    having bad health or having poor nutrition
malodorous bad smell; stinky

Spelling Words December 5

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Spelling Words – December 5 – 9


moisture

voyage


employ


ounce


mountain


coward


allow

oyster


poise

pronounce

 avoid

decoy


couch


tower

sour

destroy

bound

appoint

allowance

annoy



Friday, December 2, 2011

Lesson 7 American Victories pages 178 183

desert-to run away

Treaty of Alliance-agreement to work together


George Washington new BOLD plan was to march into New Jersey by going across the Delware River, to sneak upon the Hessians. Mr. Washington came up with the plan becausse the Americans needed a victory to give them hope.