Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, 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

Thursday Activities

1. Write a story using your weekly words and type it into a Word document on your own computer. If you need assistance with using Word, inserting pictures, changing fonts, please visit this link.
2. Draw a picture that goes along with your story.
3. You may wish to use the program called "Paint" in Windows to draw your picture. Click on the link for directions to use this program.

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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