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Week 8

                                                                                                  A Word a Day


                    popular


                                                      Dogs and cats are popular pets in many places
                    adjective
                                                      around the world.
                    If a thing is popular,

                    many people like it.              Which are popular sports?
                                                         • football

                                                         •  racing goats
                                                         • baseball
                                                         •  basketball

                                                         • rolling cheese down a hill

                                                      Tell the name of a game you like to play. Do you think that
                                                      game is popular? Count how many other students in the
                                                      class like to play that game, too.












                    scrub

                                                      I will have to scrub that pot because there is
                    verb
                                                      burned food stuck inside it.
                    To scrub something,
                    you rub it very hard to           Which need to be scrubbed?
                    clean it.                            • a floor with sticky peanut butter on it

                                                         •  muddy hands and fingernails
                                                         •  a baby with food on her face

                                                         •  the dirt left behind in a bathtub
                                                         •  a dusty table

                                                      Show what you do when you scrub something.
                                                      What are some good scrubbing tools?













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