Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Tuesday, Week 12

This week's theme is: Driving a Train

Word List 12

1. signal: A sound, picture or message sent to communicate.
2. distant: Coming from or going a long way.
3. journey: A trip; going from one place to another.
4. locate: To find by searching.
5. approach: A way to get close to a person or object.

Tuesday Activities

1. Use this site to create your own flashcards and quizzes. Create a free account to keep your cards.
2. Click on create flashcards. Put a title to your cards. Click Continue. Then add the information to each card. Click on Add a Card. On Side one, type in your vocabulary word. On Side two, type in the definition. Then click on Done. Click on Add a Card and do the next one. When you are through, click on Finish Deck.
3. To play, click on Take me to my Deck. The flashcard game will start. See how many definitions you can remember!

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:

When you are ready to go, just give the signal and we will start.
The weather was bad and the signal for a tornado was heard in the neighborhood.

We coud barely see the distant moutain.
He heard the distant blast of the train whistle.

The train took a seven hour journey to the next station.
We saw farm houses, cattle and wheat fields on our journey to Texas.

The engineer is able to locate the towns he goes through on a map.

When he approaches a crossing, he gives a signal.
We can approach experts when we are researching.

 
 

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