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

This week's theme is: Monsters

Word List 4

1. figment: not real, fantasy
2. fierce: powerful and dangerous
3. triumph: a victory or to win
4. grasp: to hold on to something tight
5. defend: to protect and keep one safe

Tuesday Activities

1. Make Flashcards - Write the word on one side of an index card and put the definition and a sentence on the opposite side You can find ideas for making flashcards on the Internet by clicking on the link
2. Word Whacker : Play this with all of your flashcards from all the weeks. Place the cards on a table with the word side up. Stand over the cards with a flyswatter or a rolled up newspaper. As the definitions are read by an adult, "whack" the correct word. Play this with your friends and family members and see who can whack the word first.
3. Write your vocabulary words in alphabetical order in your vocabulary notebook. Write your own definition beside each 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:

Monsters are a figment of our imagination.
The huge bug was not a figment of my imagination.

Some monsters try to look fierce so they can scare people.
The monster acting fierce is not real; it is pretend.

The boy triumphed over the fear of the monster.
The boy pretended to race with a monster and the boy was triuphant.

The little girl grasped the monster's hand.
The happy monster grasped the candy in his hand.

The monster said he would defend his friends from the buzzing bees.
The soldier defended his country.

 
 

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