12/24/2024

 Dear Parents,

Today in class we did the following:

Tuesday

□ 1. Vocabulary words 1 - 30_

□ 2. Homework: Vocabulary words 1 – 30 x 4, defs, x 1, 5 sentences using 2 vocabulary words.

Wednesday

□ 1. Experience Class Outing

□ 2. No Homework

. Mexican: a person of Mexican descent

2. additional: more than is usual or expected

3. role model: a person whose behavior in a particular role is imitated by others

4. influential: exerting or possessing influence

5. focus: a center of activity, attraction, or attention

6. options: the power or right to choose: freedom of choice

7. NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

8. training: the state of being trained

9. zero gravity: the state or condition of lacking apparent gravitational pull

10. sensations: a mental process (such as seeing, hearing, or smelling) resulting from the immediate external stimulation of a sense organ often as distinguished from a conscious awareness of the sensory process

11. IMAX: widescreen cinematography that’s up to 10 times as big as a normal movie theater

12. conference: a meeting of two or more persons for discussing matters of common concern

13. riskiest: attended with risk or danger

14. couple:  two persons paired together

15. essential: of the utmost importance

16. differentiate: to mark or show a difference in

17. missions: a specific task with which a person or a group is charged

18. weightlessness: having little weight: lacking apparent gravitational pul

19. considered: matured by extended deliberative thought

20. specific: restricted to a particular individual, situation, relation, or effect

21. graduate: to receive an academic degree or diploma

22. primary: first in order of time or development

23. focus: a center of activity, attraction, or attention

24. enjoyment: the action or state of enjoying

25. pursue: to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, or defeat

26. potential: existing in possibility: capable of development into actuality

27. purpose: something set up as an object or end to be attained

28. monitors: to watch, keep track of, or check usually for a special purpose

29. prevented: to keep from happening or existing

30. coffins: a box or chest for burying a corpse