Spelling – 4th Grade – Unit 3

Week 9: Words with /ir/, /er/, /ur/ 

1. serpent 
2. sternly
3. swirl
4. blurred
5. purpose
6. curve
7. carpenter
8. turnip
9. twirl
10. curler

Content Area Words & Definitions:

1. Upper Peninsula – The northern part of Michigan between Lakes Superior and Michigan. It is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac.
2. Dearborn – a city in the State of Michigan. It is located in the Detroit metropolitan area and in Wayne County. Dearborn is the eighth largest city in the State of Michigan.
3. Michigan – a state in the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning “large water” or “large lake”. Michigan is the 9th most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area.
4. United States – the official name for the country in North America that consists of fifty states and the District of Columbia. It is bordered by Canada in the north and Mexico in the south. 
5. plains – A plain is a broad area of relatively flat land. Plains are one of the major landforms, or types of land on Earth. They cover more than one-third of the world’s land area. Plains exist on every continent.