Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, 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.

Wednesday Activities

1. Literacy Dominoes - Create a game using your vocabulary words. Click on the link to begin.
2. Type your words in the box entering each word on a new line.
3. When you have finished, click on "print sheet" at the lower right side. Cut out your dominoes and play with a friend. When you place the words, tell the other player a sentence using that 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:

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.

It is easy to locate the train in our town. You can hear the signal.
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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