Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, 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

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:

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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