Grade 1-2: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, Week 9

This week's theme is: Jobs

Word List 9

1. farmer: the business of raising crops and animals
2. factory: a building where goods are made
3. karate: Asian way of defending yourself
4. lumberjack: a person that cuts down trees and transports them

Wednesday Activities

1. Use this site, Bubbl.us,to create mind maps online.
2. The directions for using this tool are on the right side of the page. Have an adult help you with the directions.
3. Print out your creation and insert it in your vocabulary notebook.

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:

A farmer works very hard to take care of his animals.
A farmer grew the vegetables we eat.

She worked at a pencil factory.
Our factory has many people doing different jobs.

The karate teacher said I did very good in class.
I want to be a Karate teacher when I grow up.

The lumberjack was very strong.
A lumberjack uses a saw when he works.

 
 

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