Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 14

This week's theme is: The North Pole

Word List 14

1. harsh: uncomfortable; hard.
2. glide: Moving along a surface smoothly while remaining in contact with it.
3. barren: Not having seeds, grass, trees, or things growing.
4. continent: A large area of land.
5. climate: Long term weather conditions.

Thursday Activities

1. Go to the Spelling City website. Type in your list of vocabulary words. Click on the button that says Play A Game. Choose an activity to play.
2. Create a mind map with words that mean the opposite or antonyms. Use the thesaurus built into your word program to find more words that are antonyms. Or you can go to this on-line thesaurus.
3. Use this site, Bubbl.us,to create mind maps online. The directions for using this tool are on the right side of the page. 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:

The harsh weather made him stay inside.
Life in the harsh environment was not easy.

It is fun to watch the seals glide through the water.
The snowmobile can glide across the ice.

The terrain is barren.
When we look out the window, all we see is barren land and snow.

There are research stations in the continent of Antarctica
Antarctica is the driest and windiest continent.

The climate here is very cold.
This climate is full of blizzards and harsh cold.

 
 

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