1. Aim: How do hailstones form and cause damage? Do Now: PRECIPITATION: any form of water that falls to the earth’s surface. What kinds of precipitation do you know?

2. PRECIPITATION RAIN: condensed water SNOW: frozen precipitation that falls in hexagonal ice crystals SLEET: frozen or partially frozen raindrops/mixture of rain and snow /rain and hail HAIL: precipitation that falls in spherical or irregular pellets

3. VOCABULARY HAILSTONE: chunks of ice that fall during some thunderstorms CHUNK: fat piece RANGE: to vary within limits PELLET: little balls (of ice, rabbit food, metal) PARTICLE: very small piece

4. VOCABULARY FREEZE: be at 32 degrees Fahrenheit or below TOSS: throw ALOFT: up, into the air PLUNGE: fall quickly and with force DAMAGE: destruction (destroy), ruin IMPACT: force of hitting (things coming together) LAYER: level, one thinkness on top of another

5. HOMEWORK Choose A or B A)Write a sentence with any 6 vocabulary words B)Complete the cloze sentences using the vocabulary.

6. HOMEWORK Range chunk Plunge damaged Impact Tossed Aloft Particle 1.The text grades _____ from 43 to 91. 2.She ____ a fork into the turkey. 3.The ____ of the cars crashing was loud. 4.There’s a dirt ____ in my eye. 5.I ___ the ball to my little brother, but he couldn’t catch it. 6.She let go of her helium balloon and the wind blew it ______. 7.He put a _____ of cheese in the mousetrap. 8.The floodwater ______ our basement.