Fifth Grade STUDY GUIDE:  November 9^th-13th

SPELLING WORDS

basketball

seventy-five

rock band

everybody

fireplace

anything

takeoff

skateboard

homework

two-thirds

high school

railroad

motorcycle

vice president

strawberry

freeway

car pool

comic strip

fine arts

forty-two

breathtaking

thunderstruck

runner-up

half  hour

paper clip

Reading Vocabulary

geyser- a natural spring that shoots up a fountain of hot water or steam

veered- shifted or changed direction

canopy- any covering overhead, such as a tree

tinder- anything dry that will easily catch fire on contact

dwindled- became steadily smaller or less; shrank

embers- something no longer in flames but still glowing

policy- a plan or method of action or conduct