We have been trying to have a word of the week for quite some time and don’t do such a great job. It drops off as soon as things get busy. So when I decided to participate in Blogging Through The Alphabet with some of my blogging friends I decided this is what we would do – we would blog through the alphabet with a “Word of the Week” beginning with the Letter of the Week for the blog post.
Now my children are elementary age so these words are aimed at developing my elementary school aged kids vocabulary but are generally words that I think are interesting, unique or something kids should know.
So, I hope you enjoy our vocabulary development with Blogging Through the Alphabet – Word of the Week as we begin with A.
A is for ambivalent
Definition: mixture of opposite feelings
Used in a sentence:
Emma felt ambivalent about going to camp because she knew it would be fun but she she would miss her family.
(replace the words “mixed feeling” with the word “ambivalent” in the sentence above to understand the meaning in the sentence)
How we worked with the word:
- Write the word and its definition in our vocabulary notebook.
- Read the definition out loud.
- Write two sentences using the word properly.
Do you use vocabulary words in your school? What do you like to do with developing vocabulary for your children?
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Katie says
April 30, 2014 at 5:00 amWhat a great idea to find a new word to use each week, I may have to steal your idea since vocabulary is not a favorite subject in our homeschool.
Barbara Klein says
April 30, 2014 at 11:18 pmI like your word of the week. I used to do something similar. Every child had a spiral notebook that was their own dictionary. While they were writing a story, they could ask how to spell a word, but first they had to try to spell it themselves. Then I would help them. They can increase their vocabulary by using a thesaurus to replace tired redundant words. Keep up the good work.
Barb Klein
Stacie says
May 2, 2014 at 8:11 pmI haven’t thought about using vocabulary words like this. I really like this idea of keeping a vocabulary notebook. Writing and reading the definition and writing two sentences. Looking forward to seeing more word of the weeks in the future.
Marcy ( says
May 8, 2014 at 1:12 amI love this idea! What a great tool to use to build vocabulary! Thanks for linking up with me, too 🙂