Encantado

This coming week we are reading “Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon” by Sy Mongomery. We will focus on the following vocabulary words in this story.  It would be helpful if you will reinforce the meaning of these words at home with your child.!

Vocabulary Word	Meaning
aquarium	building used for showing collections of live fish, water animals, and water plants
dolphins	any of numerous sea mammals related to the whale, but smaller.  Dolphins have beaklike snouts and remarkable intelligence.
enchanted	delighted greatly; charmed
flexible	easily bent; not stiff; bending without breaking
glimpses	short, quick views or looks
pulses	regular, measured beats
surface	the top of the ground or soil, or of a body of water or other liquid

Here are our spelling words for the week.  Please practice these words at home as well.  The words in italics are our challenge spelling words. 

Spelling Words: chicken, eleven, given, jungle, national, several, natural, needle, single, citizen, threaten, diagonal, paddle, animal, spiral, marble, oval, mumble, tangle, frighten, strengthen, knuckle, individual, cubicle, three-dimensional