Word of the Week

Every Monday our teachers will use the Word of the Week at least three times throughout the day.  At the end of the day, students will guess what the word is and we will look it up together in the dictionary.  The students and teachers will challenge themselves to use the word, in any of its forms, as many times as they can during the week.

We would love to have our families join in on the fun by seeing how many times you can use the word throughout the week and discussing what it means together - and we'd love for you to post the great ways you have used the Word of the Week at home!

We will not be doing a Word of the Week during our Summer Session.

Previous Words of the Week:

5/2310 - 5/28/10: ambassador

5/17/10 - 5/21/10:  inspire

5/10/10 - 5/14/10: network

5/3/10 - 5/7/10: withstand

4/26/10 - 4/30/10: flabbergasted

6/9/2010 21:12:26 by Katharine Harris

I found myself flabbergasted the other day when my Eagle daughter asked, "Mama, are you flabbergasted?"

The question came in response to a comment I had made to her little sister about being "utterly surprised" by her less than ideal behavior.

4/19/10 - 4/23/10: strategy

3/29/10 - 4/1/10: functional

3/22/10 - 3/26/10: refine

3/15/10 - 3/19/10: palate

3/1/10 - 3/5/10: oxymoron

3/1/10 - 3/5/10: befuddled

2/22/10 - 2/26/10: engage

2/23/2010 10:18:32 by Kaylie Reed

Ms. Anna felt bad yesterday because she thought she had forgotten to use the word of the week during our morning group.  She did not even realize that she had used it when she announced her exciting news -- that over the weekend she got ENGAGED!  One of the students thought that her fiance had planned the proposal for last weekend because "engage" is our word of the week.

2/23/2010 9:11:51 by Rebecca Esposito

We all use the word of the week each morning on the way to school and we give bonus claps for using words from previous weeks.  The guys like all of the words because they "are big" and "mean something"..

2/8/10 - 2/12/10: predicament

2/10/2010 17:09:15 by Becca Cody

On the way home from school today, we were talking and Bodhi thought Chander said the word “pickle”. He then said, “you’re in a pickle!”. When Chander asked what that meant, I said it means “to be in a predicament”. Bodhi then explained that predicament means you are in a situation where you have to make a difficult choice. I also mentioned the similar phrase, “in a sticky situation!”.

2/1/10 - 2/5/10: foretell

2/5/2010 20:46:55 by Laura Sandefer

We go around the dinner table and each person has to make up a sentence with the word of the week in it. We also use it on the way to school as many times as we can.

1/25/10 - 1/29/10:  aspiration

2/5/2010 20:22:48 by Katharine Harris

At our family meeting everyone was asked to share an aspiration.

1/18/10 - 1/22/10: contemplation

1/19/2010 19:37:52 by Laura Sandefer

We asked each other at dinner the question, “when did you find time for contemplation today?"

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