New Beginnings

3.1.1

Character, Setting, Plot

A "new beginning" is when you move to a new house, a new school, a new job, or even a new country. Sometimes moving to a new place can be exciting because you get to meet new people and make new friends. However, sometimes moving to a new place can be scary and uncomfortable.

Have you ever moved to a new place?  How did you feel? Why?

nerv - ous

I was really nervous on the first day of school. My heart beat fast and I had an upset stomach.

nervous = scared or fearful

Nervous is an adjective. An adjective is a  descriptive word. Words that end is -ous are

adjectives like:

curiousmysteriousdelirious serious

Can you think of some others?

fum - bled

When I walked into the classroom on the first day of school I fumbled and almost fell on the floor.

fumbled = do something clumsy

 

chuckled

Some of the kids in the class chuckled when I fumbled, it made me feel even more nervous.

chuckled = laughed quietly

 

trudged

Slowly, I trudged to my desk feeling really embarrassed.

trudged = walked slowly

 

non - sense

I was afraid to tell the teacher because I thought she would think it was nonsense and tell me to forget

about it. So I kept quiet.

nonsense = does not make sense

non is a prefix, it means not like: 

nonfatnoncontagiousnonrenewable

nonjudgementalnonbeliever

down - stairs

Later that day, when I was downstairs at my house, I told my mother all about my first day of school. She gave me a big hug and said "From

here on out it can only get better!"

downstairs = down the stairs or on the first floor

Downstairs is a compound word. A compound word is two words stuck together to make a new word.

rainbowsometimes

footballclassroom

cowboy

Can you think of some others?

Vocabulary Words:

nervousfumbled chuckledtrudged

nonsense downstairs

nervous a. scared or afraid b. excited c. bored

fumbled  

a. walk slowly

b. laugh quietly

c. do something clumsy

chuckled 

a. to skip 

b. to talk loudly 

c. to laugh quietly

 trudged 

a. to walk slowly

b. to run fast

c. to be busy

nonsense

a. something true

b. something that makes sense 

c. something that doesn't make sense