Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Monday, Week 11

This week's theme is: Science

Word List 11

1. observe: To watch very closely and notice things.
2. examine: To inspect an object and look very closely at it.
3. explore: To travel or search looking to discover things.
4. predict: To guess in advance as to what will happen.
5. theory: An idea that guesses as to why something happened or how something can be explained.

Monday Activities

1. Write the words and definitions in your vocabulary notebook.
2. Create your own sentence using each word and write this in your vocabulary notebook. We have provided samples below to get you started.
3. Use this site, How do you say to help you pronounce words you do not know. Just type the word into the white space and click on Submit. Soon you will hear the word.

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:

Observe what happens to this when I add water.
Be sure to observe the road as you are driving.

Get close and examine this insect.
Examine the fossil, then describe what you see.

There is still a lot more to explore in space.
We plan to explore the ground for things people left behind.

She formed her own theory about how that happened.
That theory was probably correct since it can be proven to be true.

 
 

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