Lesson 3.1 - The man who named the clouds
Question of the Week
What is the value of looking at patterns in nature? |
The Man Who Named the Clouds by Julie Hannah and Joan Holub is a biography. A biography is an account of a person's life written by another person.A biography incudes facts, details, and the ideas the author thinks are important about the person.
Click on the picture on the left to read the biography The Man Who Named the Clouds. As you read, think about the following questions. |
selection vocabulary
apprentice - a person who works with an expert to
learn a job atmosphere - gas that surrounds Earth; the air in a certain place chemical - a substance formed by other substances acting on each other club - a group of people with a common interest essay - a short piece of writing that gives the writer's ideas about a certain subject manufacturing - making goods by hand or with machines pressure - the force of one thing pushing against another scales - the hard peices that cover animals such as fish |
amazing words
wilt
damp barren bloom foliage autumn observe snowfall equinox tilt |
Skill of the Week - cause and Effect
Lesson 3.1 Spelling - Adding - ed and -ing
1. watched
2. watching 3. danced 4. dancing 5. studied 6. studying 7. stopped 8. stopping 9. dried 10. drying |
11. happened
12. happening 13. noticed 14. noticing 15. robbed 16. robbing 17. slipped 18. slipping 19. hurried 20. hurrying |
Challenge Words:
21. answered 22. answering 23. magnified 24. magnifying 25. interfered 26. interfering |