Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, Week 3

This week's theme is: Exercise

Word List 3

1. active: moving, in action, in motion
2. moisture: damp, a little bit wet
3. gradual: not suddenly, but little by little, step by stept
4. prevent: stop something from happening
5. prepare: to get ready for a particular purpose

Wednesday Activities

1. Make Mind Maps - Link your vocabulary words to words that you already know. Click on >the link for an example of a mind map. On a piece of paper, or on the computer in Word, draw a circle and write the vocabulary word inside the circle. Think of words that mean the same thing and put those in circles around the outside of the word drawing a line to connect the synonyms.
2. 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.
3. 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.

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:

Being active will keep your heart healthy.
The little boy was so active that his mom had a hard time keeping up with him.

Moisture beaded on her face when she ran in the race.
You could see the moisture on her shirt after she was exercising.

She gradually was able to run further and further.
The weight came off gradually as the weeks went by.

By exercising she hopes to prevent getting ill.
You can prevent obesity by keeping active.

He prepares himself for the race by imagining that he wins.
It is wise to prepare yourself for emergencies.

 
 

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