5th grade: Vocabulary exam guide 2nd Bimester 2011

For this exam we need to study all words from the stories: 

Storytown: The night of San Juan, When the circus came to town, When Washington crossed the Delaware, Leonardo’s horse and The secret ingredient.
Here is a link to the online version of our book: Storytown, Ride the edge

Also study the words we researched in the Unit of inquiry “Sharing the planet”

Such as adaptation, green house gas, natural region, camouflage, tundra, dessert, jungle, longitude, latitude, equator, environment, endemic, pollution, flora, fauna, etc.

And finally the words from Challanges:

Alien, fairy, ghost, hobbit, mermaid, sea monster, vampire, witch, yeti and zombie. For these make an illustration of each and write which adjectives you’d use to describe each one.

 Adjectives:

Dangerous, dark, dirty, enormous, giant, hairy, horrible, huge, large, long, scary and tall.

In the Papillon story we used words such as: crime, arrest, criminal, murder, escape, guilty, prison, rob and thief.

And don’t forget the senses: hear, see, smell, taste and touch.