Do you like to play Games? We will be playing games using a new list of vocabulary words each week. 

This class is done in a similar manner as my spelling classes, students will read and learn new vocabulary words and their definitions  each week. Then we will play interactive online games on a couple of these sites: nearpod, kahoot, blooket, gimit. These games do not require a login or email, a code/link will be given in class to join the games. Students will be asked during the games questions about the definitions and use of the vocabulary the class went over at the beginning of class.  This class is at a  (Grade 5) level. , focusing on teaching students to read, write, and define vocabulary words with each lesson. In class students will write and read the words given and their definition.

Another device is recommended but not required to play these games during class time. The other option is students can join in the game on the same device they are in class on.


The lessons will be as follows: 
Weeks 1 Week Jan 9: Lesson 1: accustom, alert, assign, budge, burly, companion, compatible, concept, distract, jostle, obedient, obstacle, patient, pedestrian, retire
Week 2:  Week of Jan 16: Lesson 2: aroma, beverage, bland, brittle, cluster, combine, consume, crave, cultivate, equivalent, export, extract, introduce, purchase, tropical
Week 3: Week Jan 23: Lesson 3: ancestor, carnivore, comprehend, duration, evident, extinct, ferocious, gigantic, obscure, option, premature, preserve, prey, puny, survive
Week 4:  Week of Jan 30: Lesson 4: accurate, approximate, course, depart, despair, destination, deteriorate, gale, horizon, jubilation, navigate, nostalgia, revive, sever, voyage
Week 5: Week of Feb 6: Lesson 5: avalanche, blizzard, challenge, conquer, crevice, foolhardy, lure, makeshift, optimist, previous, route, summit, terse, thwart, vertical 
Week 6: Week of Feb 13: Lesson 6: abolish, agony, catapult, character, denounce, escalate, grim, harbor, inflict, loathe, meddle, monstrous, rouse, steadfast, translate,  
Week 7: Week of Feb 20: Lesson 7: colony, compensate, deposit, fascinate, feeble, formal, frigid, harsh, huddle, remote, resemble, rigid, solitary, substantial, waddle,
Week 8: Week of Feb 27: Lesson 8: assemble, banquet, cargo, cask, celebrate, decrease, desperate, edible, frivolous, harvest, hew, hostile, pledge, prosper, task. 
Week 9: Week of March 6: Lesson 9: absurd, accomplish, ascend, dense, experiment, flimsy, heroic, lumber, mimic, significant, soar, spectator, suspend, terminate, unwieldy. 
Week 10: Week of March 13: Lesson 10: available, bondage, donate, establish, evade, liberate, numerous, occasion, oppose, prohibit, pursue, reassure, reluctant, superior, yearn
Week 11: Week of March 20: Lesson 11: accelerate, altitude, anxious, brace, confident, contact, exult, hangar, maximum, methodical, nonchalant, proceed, saunter, solo, stall.  
Week 12: Week of March 27: Lesson 12: convalesce, dedicate, dictate, exasperate, notable, overdue, overthrow, penetrate, portrait, rebel, restrict, seldom, stimulate, tempest, upbringing
Week 13: Week of April 3: Lesson 13: accommodate, aggressive, bask, carcass, conceal, flail, gorge, morsel, protrude, ripple, slither, sluggish, snout, taper, visible. **
Week 14: Week of April 10: Lesson 14: access, associate, boisterous, brilliant, decade, delicate, employ, idle, illuminate, provide, require, taunt, tolerant, transform, wilderness
Week 15: Week of April 17: Lesson 15: disaster, flee, fracture, immense, intense, investigate, lurch, major, minor, petrify, predict, prone, sparse, topple, urban
Week 16: Week of April 24: Lesson 16: abdicate, assume, bungle, dominate, former, guardian, hoist, intercept, jubilee, kin, pardon, proclaim, provoke, reign, riot
Week 17: Week of May 1: Lesson 17: afflict, barren, consist, drought, erode, expand, famine, fertile, oasis, pasture, primitive, refuge, revert, teem, wither
Week 18: Week of May 8: Lesson 18: animated, betray, convince, decline, hilarious, likeness, meager, mischief, negotiate, obsolete, retain, sensation, somber, subsequent, vow
Week 19: Week of May 15: Lesson 19: dormant, elegant, erupt, excavate, expel, fume, molten, painstaking, perish, population, prelude, scald, stupendous, suffocate, tremor
Week 20: Week of May 22: Lesson 20: ample, burden, compassion, comply, cumbersome, distress, encounter, exert, indignant, jest, mirth, moral, outskirts, resume, ridicule


Parents need to be sure their students have paper and something to write with at the beginning of each class.

After class a worksheet will be provided with some activities students can complete for further practice, which will include a story for students to practice reading and answering comprehension questions about the story on their own. Students can take a picture of their answers to the questions and share it in the classroom if they wish. Game links will be provided for further practice in the above mentioned online games.