n.c. children’s book awards vocabulary words. day 1 why do i have to make my bed? the cow loves...
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N.C. Children’s Book Awards
Vocabulary Words
Day 1
• Why Do I Have to Make My Bed?
• The Cow Loves Cookies
• The Princess and the Pig
Angry
Synonyms
• Mad
• Grumpy
• Cantankerous
• Bothersome
• Ruffled
• Wicked
• Thunderous
• Ill-tempered
• Cranky
• Sour
Day 2
• 11 Experiments That Failed
• Otto the Book Bear
• LMNO Peas
Experiment
• A test used to discover something.
• To explore by trying different things.
Failed
• When something you tried did not work.
Question
• Something you ask to find out information.
Hypothesis
• When you think about something you are going to try, and guess what will happen when you do it.
Repeat
• Doing or saying something that you have already done--again!
Fungus
• A group of living things, such as mushrooms or mold, that grow on and get their food from other living things.
Rot
• To go bad or decay or fall apart. Spoil (such as food going bad when it’s been in the refrigerator too long).
Motion
• When something moves around.
Seedlings
• Very small plants, just when they have started to grow from their seeds.
Object
• Anything that has a shape and can be seen or touched.
Day 3
• unBEElievables
• Perfect Square
• Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku
Honeycomb
• A group of many small cells made of wax where bees store their honey.
Hexagon
• A closed shape that has six straight sides.
Antennae
• Long thin body parts on the heads of insects and some other animals, which they use to help them feel and smell.
Pollen / Pollinate
• Yellow powder made by a flowering plant. Bees land on flowers and the pollen gets on their bodies. Then they take it to another flower and it comes off to fertilize the seeds.
Blossom
• The flower part of a plant.
Swarm
• A large number of insects moving in a group.
Square
• A four-sided closed shape with straight sides of the same length, and four equal corners.
Matching
• When one thing is just like another thing. Same size and shape.
Equal
• The same amount.
2 + 2 = 4
Day 4
• Ellen’s Broom
• Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
• Blackout
Pew
• A long bench to sit on, usually found in a church.
Master
• A person with power or control over another person.
Slavery
• The owning of people by other people.
Registered
• Officially listed in a record book, or signed up.
Legal
• Allowed to do something by law.
Couple
• Two people or things that go together in some way. (Married to, or dating each other.)
Blooms
• The flowers on a plant. This word could also be used as a action word to describe flowers opening up.
Certificate
• A piece of paper that may be an award, or may show that something is legal.
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