Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Tuesday, Week 1

This week's theme is: Vacation

Word List 1

1. beverage: A liquid for drinking, usually not water
2. companion: A person that goes along with or accompanies another person
3. navigate: To chart the way to a particular place while in a vehicle
4. bazaar: A group of outdoor shops where many different things are sold.
5. currency: The type of money used in a country for purchasing items.
6. apprehensive: Afraid of the future or what may be coming
7. omniscient: knowing and understanding everything

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. Here is a page on how to make flashcards online and then print them out. Some games that you can play with flashcards are: Hold up the definition and have your child say the vocabulary word that matches that definition. Hold up the word side and have your child make up a sentence using that word and saying the definition.
2. Create your own vocabulary book for review. Use this site to make your own book. Type in your words and definitions. You can make up to 10 pages. Print it out and carry it around with you to practice in your spare time.
3. Go to the Spelling City website. Type in your list of vocabulary words. Click on the button that says Play A Game. Select Which Word. Play the game and write down the fill-in-the-blank sentences in your 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:

I have a beverage with my meal.
The restaurant had a large selection of beverages.

My companion and I traveled to Australia.
My mom said I was too young to go shopping by myself so she hired a companion to go with me.

While in Australia, I navigated our trip to the museum.
The plane was navigated by the caption.

I found the glass bowl at a bazaar.
At the bazaar, I stopped in the booth that had fruit for sale.

The currency of this country is the rupee.
I had to exchange my money for this country's currency.

I was apprehensive of leaving the United States.
My parents were apprehensive about vacationing in a foreign country.

She got so many answers right, she must be omniscient.
The guide thought he was omniscient, but he wasn't.

 
 

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