Grade 3-4: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, Week 6

This week's theme is: Family Trees

Word List 6

1. ancestor: a person from the past that is related to you
2. source: the start or beginning
3. century: a period of time that is 100 years long
4. eager: wanting to take action or do something right now
5. relatives: a person in your family

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. Make a word cloud at this link. Click on the word Load under the heading Words to get your blank page.
3. Type in your words and their definitions. Click on the submit button. Personalize it by selecting color, shape and more!

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 old letters from my ancestors.
The picture in the hall is of an ancestor of my mom's.

We traced our tree back to a source in Russia.
Once families leave a country and move to another, it may be difficult to find the source of your family tree.

I have a picture of my ancestor that is over a century old.
In the last century, a lot of my relatives moved to America.

I am eager to meet my cousins from Russia.
The girl was eager to get an email from her brother.

All of our relatives come to our house for Thanksgiving.
I like that my family has lots of relatives that live near me.

 
 

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