As we move forward with our Blogging Through The Alphabet with some of my blogging friends we come to our “Word of the Week” beginning with the letter E.
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.
This weeks Blogging Through the Alphabet – Word of the Week begins with E is for Egregious. The kids thoughts this was a funny word too. My 4 year old thought it was difficult to say and my 9 year old had fun with it.
E is for egregious
Definition: extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant; outstandingly bad
Used in a sentence:
The girl made an egregious error on her test.
My daughter considered the man wearing socks with his sandals as an egregious fashion faux-pas.
(replace the word “egregious” with the word “outstandingly bad” in the sentences above to give the sense a more formal sound)
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.
- Use the word each day in some manner to try and make the use of the word part of our vocabulary.
The kids like to see who can remember to use the word of the week at breakfast each morning. We are now giving points each day for using it in a sentence properly each day. Whoever gets the most points gets to choose the weekend movie.
Do you use vocabulary words in your school? What do you like to do with developing vocabulary for your children?
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