Grade 1-2: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 1

This week's theme is: Picnic

Word List 1

1. estimate: to guess the amount of something
2. predict: making a guess at what will happen before knowing the answer
3. dissolve: to break up or melt
4. pleasant:: nice, lovely, enjoyable

Friday Activities

1. Log into the Read the Words website using this link.
2. Type in your story or type in a sentence using each word. Click on the green button that says "Read" to listen to your story.
3. How many words can you read. Drag over the words you know to the magnetic board. Click on the link to start.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

If four people are very hungry, I estimate needing 12 pieces of fried chicken
Can you estimate how many jelly beans are in this jar?

Can you predict the weather for this weekend?
I can predict the end of this story.

It is so hot out here that my ice dissolved.
The sugar in my tea dissolved so that I could not see it in the glass.

The State Park was a pleasant place for our picnic.
My teacher is very pleasant.

 
 

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