Vocab Masters

Today we really attacked these vocabulary words.  Students utilized context clues to help them figure out what the words meant.  At no point have they been allowed to look the words up in the dictionary or thesaurus and yet they should know at least three other words that mean the same thing as the vocab word.  These kids are also learning that they are smarter than they thought.  Camille had an amazing moment today when she connected the prefix inter-  with the word integrated to figure out that it meant within or together.  This was so very cool!  I think she stood a little taller the rest of the day after that one.  Other students in all the classes put their Science vocab to good use when we were talking about the word insinuate.  They said it means to hypothesize.  I was so proud of them for applying their knowledge from another class.  We will be predicting and questioning tomorrow and Friday we will read The Noble Experiment, the story of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey.  There is also a vocab test on Friday over our six words.

Homework:  Read 30 minutes and complete the Shabooya Raps