Monday, April 27, 2020
Week 7: TLE 3rd/4th Grade Word of the Week
From Quia.com:
IMPEDIMENT: N. an obstacle to one's feet; a hindrance.
Root: pod or ped= foot
Some related words: pedal, podiatrist, pedestrian, tripod, pedicure
Monday, April 20, 2020
Week 6: 3/4th Grade Word of the Week
Word of the Week:
From Dictionary:
Physiology, N. the branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of living organisms and their parts (the way in which a living organism or bodily part functions). Example: the physiology of the brain
Roots: PHYS= NATURE, BODY, NATURAL SCIENCE AND OLOGY=THE STUDY OF
Related words: physics, metaphysics, physical
Monday, April 13, 2020
Week 5: 3rd/4th Grade Read Aloud, There Was an Old Man, A Limerick by Edward Lear from Poetry for Young People, Edited by Edward Mendelson
Word of the Week 3rd/4th Grade:
LIMERICK, definition from Dictionary.com:
noun
a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. (example below)
Quote of the Week:
"There was an old person of Ware, Who rode on the back of a bear: When they asked,'Does it trot?' He said,'Certainly not! He's a Moppsikon Floppsikon bear.'"
By Edward Lear, 1872
From: More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc. "100 Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes"
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020
April is National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month
Please check out this website for 30 ways to celebrate National Poetry Month at home. This month in Library we will be reading many different types of poetry. More to come.
https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/30-ways-celebrate-national-poetry-month-home-or-online
Please check out this website for 30 ways to celebrate National Poetry Month at home. This month in Library we will be reading many different types of poetry. More to come.
https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/30-ways-celebrate-national-poetry-month-home-or-online
Word of the Week 3rd/4th
WORD OF THE WEEK FOR 3RD/4TH: PHOTOGENIC: ADJECTIVE: 3 DEFINITIONS
1. HAVING A FACE THAT LOOKS ATTRACTIVE IN PHOTOGRAPHS
2. IN BIOLOGY: PRODUCING OR EMITTING LIGHT, AS CERTAIN BACTERIA, LUMINIFEROUS, PHOSPHORESCENT
3. MEDICINE, MEDICAL: PRODUCED OR CAUSED BY LIGHT AS A SKIN CONDITION
ROOT: PHOTO= LIGHT, RELATED WORDS: PHOTOGRAPH, PHOTOSYNTHESIS, PHOTON, TELEPHOTO
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