Grade 1-2: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 1

This week's theme is: Picnic

Word List 1

1. estimate: to guess the amount of something
2. predict: making a guess at what will happen before knowing the answer
3. dissolve: to break up or melt
4. pleasant:: nice, lovely, enjoyable

Thursday Activities

1. Write a Story using your weekly words and type it into a Word document on your own computer. Print out your story from your computer, decorate the page and insert it into your vocabulary notebook.
2. Print out your story from your computer, decorate the page and insert it into your vocabulary notebook
3. If you need assistance with using Word, inserting pictures, changing fonts, please visit these tutorials

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:

If four people are very hungry, I estimate needing 12 pieces of fried chicken
Can you estimate how many jelly beans are in this jar?

Can you predict the weather for this weekend?
I can predict the end of this story.

It is so hot out here that my ice dissolved.
The sugar in my tea dissolved so that I could not see it in the glass.

The State Park was a pleasant place for our picnic.
My teacher is very pleasant.

 
 

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