Grade 1-2: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 3

This week's theme is: Cooking

Word List 3

1. blend: to mix together
2. measure: use a tool to find out the size or weight
3. texture: the feel of the material
4. mixture: a combination of ingredients

Thursday Activities

1. Write a Story - Using your weekly words, create a story and type it into a Word document on your own computer.
2. Draw a picture that goes along with your story.
3. You may wish to use the program called "Paint" in Windows to draw your picture. Click on the link for directions to use this program.

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:

To make a cake, blend the ingredients together.
Blend the batter with an electric mixer.

Measure out the flour and sugar when baking.
The recipe said to measure one cup of milk to add to the batter.

Mix it until the texture is smooth.
The texture of the mix can be lumpy.

I bought the mixture for the cookies at the store.
I just have to add one egg to the mixture to make pancakes.

 
 

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