Grade 1-2: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, 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

Wednesday Activities

1. Click on this link to go to the site.
2. Listen to the sentence and then answer the question. How many of the words can you find?
3. Make your words move using this tool. Click on the link to start. Type in your words putting spaces between them on the right. You can change the settings on the left side when you click on the settings tab. Be creative and have fun!

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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