"Green Magpies" and Other New Vocabulary

This week, I started a new (hopefully) weekly activity: I told my third grade class that if they bring in a new vocabulary and teach the class, they can eat lunch with me in the English teacher’s office.  Big time! So Thursday rolled around, and at least 25 of the 34 students brought in new words, and what a random collection! Here is a selection:

Freezing point

Saturn

barrel

green magpies (??)

rood (which I didn’t know was a word…)

fresh milk (?)

vulture

gyroscope

daisy

sunflower

mathematics

meteorite

planetarium

history

Hopefully next week, they can give the class a sentence with their new word—undoubtedly, they’ll find some obscure English words that I have never heard of.