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LITTLE ENGLISH
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DICTIONARY

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Adjectives
An adjective is a word that describes something.

afraid
When you're afraid,
you are scared.

ajar
Something that is ajar
is partly open. The
door is ajar.

alike

angry

asleep

When things are alike When you are angry, When you are
they look the same.
you are very mad. asleep you are
not awake.

bad
When something is
biggest
bigger
big
bad, it is has
The boy on the
When someone or The boy in the middle right is the
When you are awake, unpleasant qualities.
is bigger than the boy
you are not asleep. The opposite of bad is something is big, it is
biggest of the
on
the
left.
above
average
size.
good.
three.

awake

broken
black

blue

Black is the color of a The sky is blue during

very dark night.
the day.

brave
Someone who is
brave has courage.

When
brittle
something is
Something that is
brittle will break or broken, it does
not work or
snap in two easily.
has been
Potato chips are
damaged.
brittle.

courage
brown
Brown is the color of
wood.

clean
When something is
clean, it is not dirty.

colorful
A quality in
Something that is which a person
closed
colorful is brightly
can face
When something is
colored or has many danger or pain
closed, it is not open.
colors.
without
The door is closed.
showing
excessive fear.

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dark

different

When it is dark, there

isn't much light.

When things are

different they are not
the same.

fast

fat

This girl can run very

fast.

early

excellent

When somethings
When
dirty
happens
early,
it
something
is
When something is
occurs in the
excellent, it is
dirty, it is not clean.
beginning part of the
very, very
day or it occurs
good.
before it was
expected to happen.

fiery

full

frightened

When we are
The opposite of fat is Fiery means very hot. This glass is full. frightened, we
Fiery embers flew Empty is the opposite are afraid.
thin.
out of the campfire.
of full.

green
Grass, broccoli, and
gray
Elephants
are
large,
many
other plants are
good
healthy
happy
gray mammals. Gray green. You can make
When something is
When you are
People usually smile
paint can be made by
green paint by
good, it is has nice
healthy, you
when they're happy.
mixing black and
mixing blue and
qualities. The opposite
are not sick.
white paint.
yellow paint.
of good is bad.

large
hot
Fire is very hot.

last

The last item or

When someone or
something is large, it is person is the one at
the end.
above average size.

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little

littler

When someone or The boy in the

something is little, it middle is littler
is below average in than the boy
size.
on the right.

littlest

long

loud

The boy on the left is

the littlest of the three.

When something is
long, it is not short.

The opposite of loud

is quiet.

multicolored

narrow

Multicolored means
having many colors.

When something is
narrow, it doesn't take
up a lot space from
side to side.

mad

many
When you are mad at
The are many
someone, you are
apples above.
angry with them.

new
When something is
new, it hasn't been
used before.

old

open

When someone or Something that

something is old, it is open is not
has been around for a shut. The door
is open.
long, long time.

orange
pink
purple
Orange is a color. You
red
quiet
Pink is the color you The color purple is
can mix red and
Red is the first
get when you mix red made by mixing red When it is quiet there color in the
yellow paint to get
is no noise.
and white paint.
and blue paint.
orange.
rainbow.

sad

scared

Sometimes people cry

when they're sad.

When you're scared,

you are afraid.

shut
When something is
shut, it is not open The
door is shut.

sick
When you are sick,
you are not healthy.

short

shorter

shortest

The boy on the

When someone or
something is short, it The boy in the middle left is the
is shorter than the shortest of the
is below average
boy on the right.
three.
height.

slow

smaller

The boy in the

small
When something is
middle is
When someone or
slow it does not
smaller
than
something is small, it
move quickly.
is below average size. the boy on the
right.
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straight

smallest

tall

When
splendid
Something straight is someone or
The boy on the left is
smart
not curvy or bent.
the smallest of the Someone who is smart When something is
something is
splendid,
it
is
very,
three.
tall,
it is above
can think well.
very good.
average height.

tiny

taller

tinier

tiniest

The boy on the

tallest
When someone or The boy in the middle
The boy in the middle
left is the
The boy on the right is something is tiny, it
is taller than the boy
is tinier than the boy tiniest of the
the tallest of the three.
is very small.
on the left.
on the right.
three.

upside down
When something is
upside
down, its top
Sometimes people cry
Something that is ugly
when they're unhappy. is where its bottom
is not nice to look at.
used to be.

ugly

unhappy

young
When someone or
yellow
something is young,
wide
Yellow is a color. The
it has only been
When something is
sun is yellow. Lemons around for a short
wide, it takes up a lot
are yellow.
time. A baby is
space from side to
young.
side.

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violet
Violet is a bluish
purple color.

white
Snow is white.

Adverbs
An adverb is a word that describes an action, telling "how," "when" or "where" the action took place.

angrily
When you act
angrily, your
actions
indicate that
you are very
mad.

bravely
When you act bravely,
you face danger and act
without fear or despite
your fear. Firefighters
bravely face danger.

daily

early

fast

When something or
When something
When
something
is
done
someone moves
is done daily, it is
early,
it
happens
in
the
fast,
they change
done each day.
beginning
of
the
day
or
position very
Some people
before
the
expected
time.
rapidly.
The sprinter
exercise daily.
The sun rises early in the
ran fast.
day

gracefully

happily

When you do
harmoniously
When you do
friendly
something
gracefully,
When something
When people, countries,
something with
you do it with
acts in an intense When people
or
other groups behave in
pleasure or joy, you
act
nicely
to
elegance
and
beauty.
or hot way, it is
a friendly manner, they
do it happily. She
fiery. The fire each other, they A ballerina dances
are
acting harmoniously.
happily helped her
are
being
gracefully.
burned hotly.
brother.
friendly.

fiery

horizontally

joyfully

When you do
When something
something
with
moves horizontally, it
great pleasure or
moves left and right.
happiness,
you do it
Trains travel
joyfully.
She
horizontally along their
joyfully went on
tracks.
vacation.

late
When something
happens late, it is
done after the
expected time or is
done towards the
end of the day.

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magically

monthly

When something is When something

done with magic and is done monthly,
mystery, it is done
it is done each
magically. The rabbit month. People
appeared magically out pay their bills
of the magician's hat.
monthly.

quickly
When something
or someone moves
quickly, they
change position
very rapidly. An
athlete runs
quickly.

sadly
People behave
strenuously
sadly
when they
vertically
rapidly
When you do
are
sad
or
When
something
When something or
something
depressed.
She
someone moves rapidly,
strenuously, you moves vertically, it
they change position very cried sadly when put a lot of force moves up and down.
Elevators move
quickly. A cheetah runs she found out the and energy into it.
bad news.
vertically in a
rapidly.
building.

violently

weekly

wiggly

yearly
When something is
When something
When something acts violently, done weekly, it is
When something is done
or someone is
it uses great force. The wind in done each week. Sue
yearly, it is done each year.
wiggly, it twists People celebrate their birthday
a tornado spins violently.
shops weekly for
and moves all over.
yearly.
groceries.

Astronomy-Related Words

asteroid

astronomer

asteroid belt
astronomy
Asteroids are tiny
Astronomers are
astronaut
The
asteroid
belt
is
a
Astronomy is the
planets that mostly orbit
An astronaut people who study
doughnut-shaped
science
that studies the
between Mars and
astronomy
and
goes up into
concentration
of
universe.
Jupiter.
learn about
space to explore.
asteroids that orbit
objects in the
the Sun between the
universe, like
orbits of Mars and
stars and planets.
Jupiter.

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1,000,000,000
Big Dipper
The Big Dipper is
billion
a group of 7 stars A billion is a thousand
Auroras are
atom
contained in the million. The Earth is
Everything is made beautiful lights
Northern
billions of years old.
up of tiny atoms. in the near-polar
Hemisphere
sky.
constellation Ursa
major (the Great
Bear).

aurora

atmosphere
The atmosphere is the
gas that surrounds a
planet.

constellation
comet
A comet is the a small,
icy object that orbit the
Sun. It's tail always
points away from the
sun.

falling star
A falling star is not a
star; it is a meteor
(made of rock and/or
iron) which is burning
up in the Earth's
atmosphere.

A constellation
is a group of
stars that we
see in the sky.
They are not
necessarily
located
together in
space, but
looks as though
they are from
Earth.

crescent
moon

Earth

eclipse

An eclipse happens
The Earth is the
when
the moon blocks
A crescent
third planet from
moon is smaller the sun. It's where out light from the sun
or the Earth's shadow
than a half
we live!
goes across the moon.
moon.

galaxy

gibbous moon

A gibbous moon
half moon
full moon
A full moon appears A galaxy is an is between a half A half moon looks like
half a circle.
as an entire circle in enormous group moon and a full
of stars.
moon.
the sky.

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Little Dipper
Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest
planet in our solar
system and the fifth
planet from the sun.

The Little Dipper is a

group of stars in the
constellation Ursa
minor (the Little
Bear). This group of
stars ends at Polaris,
the pole star of the
Northern
Hemisphere.

Mars
meteor
Mars is a
Mercury
A meteor is a
reddish planet
Mercury is a
meteoroid that has
and the fourth
entered the Earth's
planet from the moonless planet;
it is the planet
atmosphere, usually
sun. It is the
closest to the Sun. making a fiery trail as
planet that
it falls. It is sometimes
comes closest to
called a shooting star.
the Earth.
Most burn up before
hitting the Earth.

meteoroid
Meteoroids are tiny
A meteorite is a meteor stones or pieces of
metal that travel
that has fallen to Earth.
through space.
Meteorites are made of
stone, iron, or stonyiron.

meteorite

meteor
shower
A meteor
shower is when
a lot of meteor
fall through the
atmosphere in a
short time.

Milky Way Galaxy

Milky Way

Our solar system is in

The Milky Way is the Milky Way galaxy.
a bright line of We can see the Milky
stars stretching Way as a band of stars
across the night
in the night sky.
sky.

North Star
The north star is a
star that is located
Neptune
Neptune is the almost due north
moon
observatory
and is useful for
nebula
eighth planet
The Earth has one
An observatory is place
navigation.
A nebula is a cloud of from the Sun.
moon. The moon has no gas and dust in space. This frozen
where people observe
Polaris is
atmosphere. The same
the skies, using a
planet has 8 currently the pole
side of the moon always
device like a telescope.
star of the
moons.
faces the Earth.
Northern
Hemisphere.
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phases of the
Moon

Pluto

As the moon circles

orbit
the Earth, the shape
planet
The Moon orbits the
of
the
Moon
appears
Nine planets
Earth. The Earth orbits
to change. The phases orbit our Sun.
the Sun.
of the Moon are: the
new moon, waxing
crescent, first quarter,
waxing gibbous, full
moon, waning
gibbous, last quarter,
and waning crescent.

Pluto is the ninth and

usually the farthest
planetarium
Planetariums put planet from the Sun.
on star shows that Pluto is the smallest
planet in our Solar
teach astronomy.
System.

Saturn
quasar
A quasar is a distant
energy source in space
which gives off large
amounts of radiation.

satellite
Satellites orbit the
Earth.

Saturn is the
shooting star
sixth planet
A shooting star is
Solar System
from the Sun. It not a star; it is a
has beautiful meteor (made of In our Solar System,
nine planets, many
rings.
rock and/or iron)
asteroids,
comets, and
which is burning
other objects orbit
up in the Earth's
around our sun.
atmosphere.

stars

Sun

Uranus

The Sun is a
space shuttle
Uranus is the seventh
Each of the stars medium-sized
The space shuttle flies
we see in the yellow star in our planet from the Sun.
spacesuit
into space and back
night sky is Solar System. We Uranus looks bluish
Astronauts wear
down again, carrying spacesuits when they another sun, but
and is covered with
get our light and
people and equipment.
clouds. It has an
much farther
walk in space.
most of our
away than our energy from the unusual, tipped axis,
which gives it extreme
sun.
Sun.
seasons.

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Venus
Venus is the second
planet from the Sun and
the hottest planet in our
Solar System. From the
Earth, Venus is the
brightest object in the
sky except for the Sun
and the Moon.

zodiac
The zodiac is a band
of 12 constellations
(groups of stars) in
the sky, including
Capricorn, Aquarius,
Sagittarius, Scorpio,
Libra, Virgo, Leo,
Cancer, Gemini,
Taurus, Aries, and
Pisces.

At the Firehouse: Words

ambulance
An ambulance
takes sick
people to the
hospital.

ax

boots

An ax is useful for
chopping wood.

Boots are a type of shoe.

Boots cover the feet and
part of the lower legs.

Dalmatian

danger

The Dalmatian is a You can get hurt

white dog that has in a dangerous
situation.
dark spots.

flashlight
firefighter
A firefighter is a person
fire
Fire is very hot. who puts out fires and
saves people's lives.

hatchet

fire truck
Fire fighters on a fire
truck help put out fires.

hero

A hero is someone who is

helmet
A hatchet is an
ax with a short A helmet protects your admired for great courage,
noble character, and
head. Firefighters wear
handle.
performing good deeds,
helmets.
like a firefighter.

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flame
A flame is a fire.

A flashlight
helps you find
your way in the
dark.

hose

hydrant

Water flows
through a hose.

Fire fighters
hook a hose up
to a fire hydrant
to get water.

wrench
ladder

A wrench is a tool
rope
that turns nuts or
You can climb
A rope is useful for tying Water is a liquid that can bolts, like those on
up a ladder to
put out some types of
things together.
a fire hydrant.
reach tall
fires.
things.

water

Bathroom-Related Words

bathtub

bubbles

You take a bath in a

bathtub.

It is fun to
blow soap
bubbles!

hairbrush

mirror

A hairbrush is used You can see

to brush and
your reflection
untangle hair.
in a mirror.

soap

toilet

eyedropper

faucet
An eyedropper is used to
You
can
turn water
A comb is a used to
drop liquids one drop at
flow
on
or
off at a
smooth or untangle hair.
a time.
faucet.
comb

sink
shampoo

shower

A shampoo is a liquid
soap used to wash hair. When you shower, you
When you shampoo your wash your body in a
stream of falling water.
hair, you wash it.

We can wash our

hands at a sink.

toothbrush

You can keep your teeth

Soap and water help Toilets are in
healthy by using a
clean things.
bathrooms. toothbrush to clean them.

tub
A tub is a large
container. Tub is
also another word
for bathtub.

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toothpaste
You use toothpaste to
towel
clean your teeth.
You can dry things
with a towel.

At the Beach:
Beach-Related Words

ball
A ball is round
and fun to
bounce, throw,
kick, or catch.

crab
A crab has a
hard shell and
eyes on stalks
on its head.

ice cream
cone
An ice cream
cone is nice to
eat on a hot
summer day.

popsicle

beach
bathing suit
A bathing suit is a
garment you wear
while swimming.

A beach is where the

water meets the land.
You can build sand
castles on the beach.

clam

coral reef

Clams are animals Coral reefs are warm,

with two shells.
clear, shallow ocean
They burrow under habitats that are rich in
the sand.
life.

fiddler crab
The fiddler crab is
fish
small crab that lives Fish live in the water
on beaches. The
and breathe with gills.
male fiddler crab
has one enlarged
claw.

fishing rod

hammock

A hammock is a large
People use fishing net or cloth that is used
rods to catch fish.
for sleeping or
relaxing; it is hung up
by both ends.

intertidal zone

kelp
The intertidal zone
is where the sea Kelp is brown seaweed
that grows in cold
meets the land, the
water.
area between high
tide and low tide.

reef

sand

kite

net

You can fly a kite

on windy days.

A net is used to catch

things.

sandcastle
A popsicles is a Reefs are warm, Sand is a loose material
sandals
A sandcastle is a small
sweet, frozen clear, shallow ocean
composed of fine
S andals are open
castle made of damp
treat on a stick. habitats that are rich
debris of rock and
shoes worn in warm
sand.
mineral particles.
in life.
weather.

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sea
sand dollar
Sand Dollars are
coin-shaped
spiny-skinned
sea bed animals
that have 5-part
radial symmetry.

A sea is a large
seaweed
body of salt water
shell
sea gull
Seaweed
is
a
plant
that is connected to Sea gull is the common
Some animals grow a
an ocean. A sea may name for some birds that lives in the sea. shell for protection.
be partly or
that live near oceans
completely
and lakes.
surrounded by land.

Sun
The Sun is a
starfish
medium-sized
Starfish (also
yellow
star in our
known as sea
Solar System. We
stars) are
animals that live get our light and
most of our energy
on the ocean
from the Sun.
floor.

trash can
A trash can
holds garbage.

swim
When you swim, you
move around in the
water.

wave
There are waves of
water in the ocean.

whelk
Whelks are ocean
animals with a hard,
spiral shell.

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swim fins
People wear swim
fins on their feet to
help them swim.

towel
You can dry things
with a towel.

Bird-Related Words

Arctic tern

beak

The Arctic tern is a

albatross
A beak is the hard,
bald eagle
small bird that flies
biped
The albatross is
outer part of a some
The
bald
eagle
is
a
from the Arctic to the
A biped is an animal
web-footed bird
animal's mouth. Birds,
Antarctic and back large bird of prey. It
that walks on two legs.
that can fly for
octopi, squid, and
is
the
symbol
of
the
again each year.
People and birds are
a long period of
other animals have
USA.
bipeds. Tyrannosaurus
time.
beaks. Some dinosaurs
rex was a biped.
had them too.

bird
Birds have
feathers and
wings. Most
birds can fly.

blackbird

Some people
keep birds in
cages.

blue jay

bones

The blue jay is a

Blackbirds are black! The bluebird is a
Bones are hard,
beautiful song bird beautiful, noisy blue
structural parts of the
bird.
that is the symbol of
body of many animals,
many of the states in
including birds.
the USA.

Canada goose
cage

bluebird

The Canada goose is

a large North
American bird that
honks.

canary

cardinal

carnivore

Carnivores are
Canaries sing very The Northern Cardinal
organisms
that eat
is a bird with a short,
well.
wide bill. The male is meat. Many birds, like
bright red; the female eagles, are carnivores.
is brownish-red.

claw
cassowary

chick
A huge,
A
chick
is a baby
flightless bird
chicken
from Australia chicken. Some other
with a helmet- baby birds are also A chicken is a farm
animal.
called chicks.
like crest on its
head.
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A claw is a hard,
sharp, curved nail on
the feet of some
animals. Bears, cats,
birds, dinosaurs, and
many other animals
have claws.

cockatoo
Cockatoos are birds
that have a large,
feathery crest and a
hooked bill. They are
from Australia and
Indonesia.

crane

crow

The crane is a
A crow is a very
wading bird with smart black bird.
a long neck, a
long bill, and long
legs.

dodo

cuckoo
Cuckoos are birds whose call
sounds like coo-coo.

dove
The dodo is an
The
dove
is a bird
extinct, flightless
bird that lived on that is a symbol
of peace.
an island in the
Indian Ocean
near Africa.

duck
Ducks are birds
that have webbed
feet and a
flattened bill.
They swim well
and live near the
water.

emu

duckling
A duckling is a
young duck.

endangered
species

The emu is a large Endangered species

are types of
Australian bird
animals
or plants
that cannot fly.
that may become
extinct soon. Many
birds species are
endangered.

eagle
The eagle is a large bird of prey.
It has a hooked bill and sharp
talons.

egret
The egret is a
large wading
bird.

emperor
penguin
The emperor
penguin is the
largest penguin; it
lives on ice packs
in Antarctica.

extinct

feather

flamingo

When a group of animals or

plants goes extinct, they are
gone forever. Some extinct
animals include dinosaurs,
saber-toothed cats, and dodo
birds.

Birds have
feathers.

The flamingo is a
pink bird that eats
shrimp.

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fly

food web

goldfish

The fly is a small,

The food web (or A goldfish is a type of carp that
flying insect.
makes a nice pet.
food chain) is all of
the interactions
between predators
and prey in which
plants and animals
obtain food.

goose
Geese are
migrating birds
that honk!

gosling
A gosling is a
baby goose

habitat
guppy

groundhog

great horned The groundhog is a

owl
rodent that is also

The great horned

owl is a large bird
of prey from
North and South
America.

called the
woodchuck.

gull
Gulls are birds that live near
oceans and lakes.

Guppies are a
type of small
tropical fish.

A habitat is the
natural place
where a plant or
an animal lives.
For example, a
toucan's habitat is
the rainforest.

hummingbird
harpy eagle
The harpy eagle is
one of the largest
eagles in the
world. It lives in
rainforests of
Central America
and South
America.

Hummingbirds
are tiny birds that
heron
drink flower
A large wading nectar. They can
hawk
hen
bird with
hover in the air
The hawk is a bird A hen is a female chicken. Hens
distinctive
and even fly
of prey, a raptor.
lay eggs.
plumage and a
backwards.
long, sharp bill.

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kiwi
junco
jay
Jays are beautiful,
noisy birds.

This junco is a
small songbird
from North
America.

The kiwi is a
chicken-sized
kakapo
flightless bird
The kakapo is a large, flightless,
from New
nocturnal, solitary parrot from
Zealand.
It is
New Zealand.
generally
nocturnal (most
active at night).

kookaburra
The kookaburra
is an Australian
bird whose call
sounds like
laughing.

macaroni
penguin
mallard
The macaroni
meadowlark
The Mallard is a common wild The meadowlark
penguin is a
duck.
penguin from the
macaw
is a brightlyAntarctic that has Macaws are parrots
colored songbird
a yellow, feathery from rainforests in
that lives in
crest on its head.
the Americas.
meadows and
grasslands.

nest

moa
The moa were
huge, extinct,
flightless birds
from New
Zealand.

nocturnal

Some animals, like birds, make

Nocturnal
mockingbird
nene
nests
to
hold
their
young
even
animals are more
The mockingbird
The nene is
nightingale
some
dinosaurs
built
nests
for
active at night.
is a North
Hawaii's state bird.
The
nightingale
is
their
eggs.
Owls are
American bird It is an endangered
a
bird
that
sings
nocturnal
birds.
that can mimic the goose that lives on
beautiful
songs.
songs of many
volcanic slopes.
other birds.

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owl
oriole
nuthatch

The oriole is a
oropendola
The nuthatch is a black and orange
The crested oropendola is a
small perching bird that eats fruit
tropical black bird that makes
bird that can and nectar. It builds
long, pendulous nests.
climb down trees a hanging nest.
and opens nuts
using its bill like a
hatchet.

parrot

peacock

The peacock is a
The parrot is a beautiful bird from
beautiful bird that india. The male has
pelican
can imitate
a large train of
The pelican is fish-eating bird
sounds very well.
feathers.
with a huge, pouched bill.

pets
Pets are animals
that live with us,
like parrots and
canaries.

Owls are birds of

ostrich
prey that have
The ostrich is the
large eyes and
largest bird. It
very good
can't fly, but it
eyesight. Most
runs very fast.
owls hunt at
night.

pigeon

peregrine
falcon
The peregrine
falcon is the
Penguins are
fastest-flying
birds that cannot
bird. It prey upon
fly but swim very
other birds.
well.

penguin

quail

There are a lot of

prairie chicken
puffin
A quail is a
pigeons in cities. The prairie chicken is a bird that The puffin is an bird; it spends a
lives in grasslands of North
Arctic sea bird. lot of time on
America.
the ground.

robin
quetzal
The quetzal is a
beautiful rain
forest bird with
very long tail
feathers.

rainbow lorikeet
A small, colorful,
brush-tongued
parrot from
Australia.

rhea
The rhea is a large, flightless
bird from South America.

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The robin is a
roadrunner
common bird
The roadrunner is with red-colored
a bird is a fast
feathers on its
running bird that
breast.
rarely flies.

snowy owl

sea gull

sparrow
The snowy owl is
rockhopper
The sea gull is the
a white owl that The sparrow is a
penguin
snow goose
common name for
lives in the North small, common
The rockhopper some birds that live The snow goose is a migratory
songbird.
American tundra
penguin is a
bird from North America.
near oceans and
(a cold, snowy
small, aggressive,
lakes.
environment).
crested bird that
cannot fly.

tern
spotted owl

swan

The spotted owl is Swans are longan owl from the necked water birds.
Pacific coast of
North America.

umbrellabird

Terns are birds that are

sometimes called "sea
swallows."

toucan
The toucan is a
rainforest bird
that has a big,
colorful beak.

xenops

vulture

The vulture is a
The Umbrellabird
big, bald-headed
is a rain forest
bird that eats dead
bird with a large
animals.
tuft of feathers on
its head.

turkey

woodpecker
The woodpecker is a bird that
can peck holes in trees.

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Xenops is a
rainforest bird
from the
Americas.

Turkeys are
large birds that
nest on the
ground.

Birthday-Related Words

balloons

birthday cake
Balloons are rubber birthday
You
have
a
Birthday
cakes are
sacks that are filled
birthday
every
sweet
and
delicious!
with air or other
year.
gases.

chocolate
candy
Candy is very sweet.

children
Children are
young people.

Chocolate is a tasty
treat made from
cocoa beans and
sugar.

cake
Cake is a sweet
dessert.

candle
A candle is a stick of wax
with a wick that can burn.

clown
Clowns are people
who dress up in
funny clothes and
try to make you
laugh.

cupcake
A cupcake is a tiny cake.

ice cream
gift
Ice cream is
lollipop
juice
It's nice to give
cold, creamy,
A
lollipop
is candy
Juice is pressed from
gifts. It's nice to get
and sweet
on a stick.
fruit or vegetables.
them too.
treat.

pizza

popsicle
present
Pizza is made of
A
popsicles
is
A
present
is a gift,
dough that is
a
sweet,
frozen
something you give
covered with tomato
treat
on
a
to someone.
sauce and cheese; it
stick.
is baked in an oven.

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paper plate
A paper plate is a
disposable plate that is
made out of paper. People
use paper plates at picnics
and some parties.

ribbon
You can tie a bow
in a ribbon to
decorate
something.

toys
We play with toys.

Body-Related Words

ankle

bandage

biped
The ankle is the A bandage is a clean pad
anatomy
that
is
used
to
cover
and
A biped is an animal
joint between your
body
Anatomy is a
protect
cuts
and
other
that
walks on two legs. Everyone has a
foot and leg.
science that
injuries.
People are bipeds.
body.
studies the body.
Tyrannosaurus rex was
a biped.

bones

ear
cheek
chin
brain
Bones are hard,
We
hear
things
structural parts of We think with our The cheeks are the sides The chin is the part of
with our ears.
the face below the
the body of many brain. The brain is of the face between the
Our
ears give us
mouth area and the ear.
mouth.
animals. We have protected by the
a sense of
skull.
206 bones in our
hearing.
skeleton.

eye

eyebrow
We see with our
The
eyebrows
are dense
eyes. Our eyes give
The elbow is the
us a sense of sight. patches of hair above the
joint in the middle
eyes.
of your arm.
elbow

face
This is a funny
face!

feet
We have ten toes
on our feet.

femur
The femur is the upper
leg (thigh) bone. It is the
longest bone in the
human body.

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eyelash

eyelid

Eyelids are flaps

Eyelashes are long
hairs on the edges of of skin that cover
and protect our
the eyelids.
eyes.

finger
We have five fingers
on each hand.

fingernail
Fingernails grow
at the ends of
your fingers.

fingerprint

foot

The pattern marks We have five toes

on our fingertips
on each foot.
are fingerprints.

head
We all have a
head on our
shoulders.

forehead
The forehead is the part
of the face that is above
the eyebrows and below
the hair.

heel

healthy
When you are
healthy, you are not
sick.

hair
Hair grows on all
mammals.

The heel is the back

part of the foot.

heart
Your heart pumps blood
throughout your body.

hand
We can do
amazing things
with our hands.

hips
Your hips are
below your waist
and above your
legs.

knee
intestines

iris
Intestines are a
The colored part of
part of the
digestive system. the eye around the
pupil is the iris.
The intestines
help digest food,
absorb it into the
body, and excrete
waste.

jaws
Jaws let you open and
close your mouth and
take bites.

The knee is
where
the leg
kidney
bends. It it
The kidney are beanbetween
the
shaped organs that take
waste from the blood lower leg and the
upper leg (the
and produce urine.
thigh).

legs
Many animals
have legs. People
have two legs,
cows have four
legs, insects have
six legs, and
spiders have eight
legs. Tables and
chairs also have
legs.

lips
Chickens don't
have lips, but
people do.

lungs
Some animals use lungs
to breathe. People have
lungs.

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mouth

nail

We use our mouths to

eat and talk.

Nails are hard

scales that grow
at the ends of
your fingers.

pupil
A pupil is the
opening
in the
neck
naked
nose
center of the
Your neck is
nurse
When you are
We
use
the
nose
to
eye's
iris - the
naked, you aren't between your head breathe; it also gives us a A nurse takes care of pupil looks like a
and your shoulders.
you when you're sick or
wearing any
sense of smell.
black circle in the
hurt.
clothes.
middle of the
eye.

shoulder
Your shoulders
are under your
neck.

spine

skeleton
A skeleton is the
set of bones in a
body. People have
skeletons, and so
do many other
animals.

skull

skin
The skin is the outer
covering of our body.

tongue

The skull is the bony Our tongue helps

structure of head that us eat, taste, and
talk.
encloses the brain and
supports the jaws. This
is a T. rex skull.

stomach

The stomach is a
The spine (also
pouch-like organ
called the
that is part of the
backbone) is a
digestive system.
series of
The stomach helps
connected bones
digest food by
in the back that
churning it in an
surround and
acid bath.
protect the spinal
cord.

tooth

thumb
The thumb is the widest
finger on a person's hand.
The thumb is next to the
pointing finger. All apes
(like gorillas and chimps)
have thumbs.

waist

toe
We have five toes on
each foot.

vertebra
x-ray
We use our teeth
A vertebra is one of the series The waist is the middle
An
x-ray
is a picture of
to chew food. of small, connected bones in
of
the
body,
between
the
your bones or teeth.
Teeth are held in the spine that surround and
protect the spinal cord. The
chest and the hips.
the gums by roots.
plural of vertebra is
vertebrae.

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toenail
Toenails grow at
the ends of your
toes.

Building-Related Words

arch
An arch is a curved
opening.

bank
You can put your
money in a bank
for safe keeping.

castle

church

A castle is a huge,
fancy building where a
king or queen lives.

Some people
worship in
churches.

entrance

exit

You can go into an

area through an
entrance.

building

cabin

This fireplace is
made out of bricks.

A building is a
structure built by
people.

A cabin is a small,
simple house.

doghouse

door

brick

Some dogs live in

doghouses.

You can go in and out

through a door.

gargoyle

You can leave an

area through an
factory
exit.
Many items, like
cars, are made in
factories.

home

house

hut

Home is where you

live.

Some people live

in houses.

A hut is a small,
simple shelter.

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elevator
An elevator carries
people and things up
and down a tall
building.

greenhouse

A greenhouse is a
Gargoyles are stone
building, usually
sculptures of grotesque made out of glass, in
creatures that sit
which people grow
perched atop some
plants.
buildings; they act as
waterspouts.

igloo

library
An igloo is a house
Libraries
have books,
made out of blocks of
tapes, and computer
ice. Brr!
programs.

lighthouse
A lighthouse shines a
very bright light so
log cabin
market
ships won't sail ashore A log cabin is a
We can buy things
or into rocks by
house made of
at a market.
mistake.
logs.

pyramid

museum

palace

Museums exhibit art,

historic objects, and
scientific finds - like
dinosaur fossils.

A palace is a huge
house where a king
or queen lives.

roof

stadium

school
The pyramids in Egypt The roof is the
A stadium is a large
A
school
is a place
are huge buildings that top covering of a
building in which
skyscraper
where you learn
building.
have a square base and
sports events are
A
skyscraper
is
a
very
things.
triangular sides.
held.
tall building.

tent
A tent is a
tepee
temporary
shelter
A store is where we
A
tepee
is a house
made of fabric.
can buy things.
made by some

store

Native Americans.

White House
The White House is
where the President of
the United States lives
and works. The
windmill
address of the White
A windmill uses
House is 1600
the wind to
Pennsylvania Avenue
generate power.
NW, Washington,
D.C.

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urban

wall

A wall is a side of a
Urban means relating building or a room or
to or located in a city.
a fence.

Camping-Related Words

camera
backpack

cabin

A backpack is a sack that A cabin is a small,

is worn on the back and is
simple house.
used to carry things.

camping

candle

When people go camping, A candle is a stick

they go into an outdoor of wax with a wick
area and sleep in a tent,
that can burn.
cabin or camper.

You can take

pictures with a
camera.

camper

camp fire

A camp fire is a fire

You can travel
made during a
and sleep in a
campout; it is used to
camper.
cook food and to
warm up people in
cold weather.

canoe

compass

A canoe is a small
boat.

A compass
always points
north.

east
East is a compass
direction. East is
opposite west.

lake
A lake is a large
body of water
flashlight
forest
kayak
A flashlight helps you
A forest is a large A kayak is a small surrounded by
land on all
find your way in the dark. group of trees and
boat with an
lantern
sides.
Really A lantern is a device
underbrush where
opening in the
many animals live. center for a person. huge lakes are that gives off light.
often called
seas.

mountain
A mountain is a
map
very tall high,
log
A map shows the natural place on
north
A log is a short piece of a
features
of
an
area.
Earth - higher North is a compass
log cabin
tree trunk.
You can find your than a hill. The direction. North is
A log cabin is a
way around by tallest mountain
opposite south.
house made of logs.
using a map.
on Earth is Mt.
Everest.

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tent

sleeping bag
A sleeping bag is a fabric
south
sack you can sleep in.
South is a compass
direction. South is
opposite from north.

A tent is a
temporary shelter
made of fabric.

water bottle

west

A water bottle
holds water.

West is a compass
direction. West is
opposite east.

City-Related Words

alley

ambulance

art gallery

automobile

An alley is a narrow An ambulance takes sick You can see works An automobile is a
car.
road between
people to the hospital.
of art at an art
buildings.
gallery.

avenue
An avenue is a
wide street.

bus
bank
You can put your
money in a bank for
safe keeping.

car

bridge
A bridge is a structure
over water, or over
another thing that is
difficult to cross.

church
You can travel in a
Some people worship in
car.
churches.

building
A building is a
structure built by
people.

city
A city is a place
where a lot of
people live.

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A bus is a large
vehicle that can
take many
passengers to
places.

cab
Cab is another
word for taxi.

crosswalk
elevator
A crosswalk is a
An
elevator
carries
marked area on a
street where it is people and things
up and down a tall
safer to cross.
building.

fire hydrant

factory
Many items, like
cars, are made in
factories.

hydrant

fire truck

Fire fighters on a
Fire fighters hook a hose fire truck help put
up to a fire hydrant to
out fires.
get water.

garbage truck
A garbage truck
picks up garbage
and hauls it to the
dump.

house
Some people live
in houses.

library
intersection

Fire fighters hook a

An intersection is a
hose up to a fire
where two or more
hydrant to get water. things, like roads, meet.

motorcycle

lane
A lane is a small
road.

museum

Libraries have
books, tapes, and
computer
programs.

mail carrier
A mail carrier
delivers the mail.

neighborhood

obelisk
A motorcycle has two Museums exhibit A neighborhood is
market
art,
historic
objects,
An
obelisk
is a tall,
wheels and can go
the place where
We can buy things at
and scientific finds
fassssttttttt!
you and the people four-sided tower
a market.
- like dinosaur
topped with a
around you live.
fossils.
pyramid.

palace
A palace is a huge
house where a king
or queen lives.

road
A road is a wide path
made for travelling.

stop sign
stadium
A stop sign is a traffic sign that tells
A stadium is a large building in
cars to stop moving before they
which sports events are held.
continue; it has eight sides.

school
A school is a place
where you learn
things.

store
A store is where we can buy
things.

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sidewalk

skyscraper
A sidewalk is a
A skyscraper is a
paved path for
very
tall building.
people to walk on.

street
A street is a public road.

taxi
People pay a taxi driver to
drive them places.

traffic light

town
A town is a very
small city.

train

truck

A truck is a vehicle
A train has an
urban
A traffic light directs
that can carry big
engine
that
pulls
Urban means
traffic safely. Green
loads.
railroad
cars
along
relating to or
means go, yellow means
a
track.
located in a city.
prepare to stop, and red
means stop.

van
A van is a truck used
wall
village
to haul people and
A wall is a side of a
A village is a very small
things from one
building or a room
town.
place to another.
or a fence.

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Clothing and Grooming-Related Words

blouse

apron

A blouse is a
backpack
beads
An apron protects
shirt, a type of
A backpack is a
Beads are small objects
clothing from
garment worn
bathing
suit
sack that is worn
with a hole through them
getting dirty.
on the upper
A bathing suit is a
on the back and is
so that they can be strung
part
of the body.
garment
you
wear
while
used to carry
together to make jewelry
swimming.
things.
or other things.

boots

button
Boots are a type of
bow
bracelet
A
button
is used
shoe. Boots cover A bow is loops of
braid
A
bracelet
is
jewelry
to fasten
the feet and part of ribbon or sting that
A
braid
is
three
or
more
you
wear
on
your
wrist.
clothes.
the lower legs.
are tied together.
strands that are woven
together into a rope-like
shape.

cape
cane

cap

A cane is a
walking stick.

A cap is a type of
hat.

clothes hanger

clothespin

A cape is a flowing
piece of clothing that
hangs loose on your
shoulders.

change purse
Coins are carried in a
change purse.

clothes
People wear
clothes.

crown

A crown is a
coat
costume
Clothespins are
fancy
hat worn
We hang up
A coat helps you keep People wear costumes to
used
to
hang
wet
clothes on clothes
warm when it is cold. pretend they are someone by kings and
laundry on a
queens.
hangers.
or something else.
clothes line to dry.

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dress
A dress is a piece
of clothing with a
top and a skirt.

earmuffs
Earmuffs keep
your ears warm.

eyeglasses

glasses

Glasses help
Eyeglasses help some
earring
some people see
Earrings are jewelry for people see more clearly. more clearly.
the ears.

hat
hairbrush

glove

A hairbrush is used to
gown
We wear gloves to
brush and untangle hair.
protect our hands. A gown is a fancy
dress.

hanger
We hang up clothes on
hangers

Some hats
protect you
from the sun.
Some hats are
just for fun!

ice skate

iron
When you wear
helmet
Irons press the wrinkles
A helmet protects ice skates, you can
out of clothes.
glide across ice.
your head.

jewel

jewelry

Jewels sparkle and

shine.

Rings, pins,
earrings and
necklaces are
jewelry.

kimono
A kimono is a beautiful
gown worn by Japanese
women.

means washing Laundry is put in

and drying clothes. laundry baskets.

A jacket is a short coat.

knitting
Sweaters and socks are
made by knitting.

lorgnettes

laundry

Doing the laundry laundry basket

jacket

loafers
Loafers are a type of
slip-on shoe.

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Lorgnettes are glasses (or

opera glasses, which are
small binoculars) that are
mounted on a handle.
This type of glasses was
used a long time ago.

jeans
Jeans are pants
made from
denim fabric.

lace
Lace is a very
delicate fabric.

mitten
Mittens keep
your hands
warm.

overalls
mortar board
A mortar board is
necklace
a square hat that is
A necklace is
worn by people
jewelry for your
when they
neck.
graduate from
school.

overcoat

pajamas

necktie
A necktie is a narrow
band of fabric tied
around the neck.

nightgown
A nightgown is a long,
loose garment worn to
bed.

pin
pants

An overcoat will Some people wear Pants are clothes that

keep you warm pajamas to bed at cover the legs and up to
night.
when it is cold.
the waist.

A pin is a small, sharp

piece of metal used in
sewing.

Overalls are
baggy pants
with shoulder
straps and a
piece of fabric
covering the
chest.

purse
A purse is a
small bag in
which some
girls and
women carry
their money and
other things.

sew
raincoat
A raincoat keeps
you dry when it
rains.

You can sew

safety pin
using a needle
A safety pin is a
scarf
and thread.
type of pin that is
sandals
A scarf is a piece of cloth
Clothes are
used to fasten
Sandals are open shoes that people wear around
made by
clothes and
worn in warm weather.
their neck or on their
sewing.
diapers.
head.

silk
shirt
sewing machine Some shirts have
A sewing machine
short sleeves,
sews stitches very some have long
quickly and easily. sleeves, and some
The sewing
have no sleeves at
machine was
all.
invented in 1846
by Elias Howe.

Silk is a delicate
thread that is
shoe
shorts
used to make
People wear shoes on Shorts are pants that reach fine fabric. Silk
their feet.
above or around the
is obtained from
knees.
the cocoon of
the silkworm
moth.

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spectacles
slipper
A slipper is a
skirt
A skirt is a piece casual shoe worn
of clothing that is around the house.
worn on the lower
part of the body.

suitcase
When you travel,
suit
you carry your
A suit is a set of
clothing in a
matching clothes.
suitcase.

t-shirt
A t-shirt is a
simple shirt
without buttons or
a collar.

sneaker
A sneaker is a type of
shoe used for many
sports.

sock
We wear socks under our
shoes.

sunglasses
Sunglasses help to
protect your eyes from
too much sunlight.

tie
A tie is a
narrow
band of
swimsuit
fabric tied
A swimsuit is a garment
around
the neck.
you wear while
swimming.

tutu
Ballerinas
sometimes wear
tutus when they
dance.

underwear

umbrella

undershirt

An umbrella protects
you from the rain.

An undershirt is a shirt
that is sometimes worn
under clothes.

vest

watch
A vest is a
A watch is a small clock
sleeveless piece of
A uniform is a
you
can take with you to
wallet
clothing that is
special outfit worn
tell time.
usually worn over People carry money in a
by members of a
wallet.
a shirt.
group.
uniform

yarn
Sweaters are made
zipper
out of yarn.
You can open and
close a zipper.

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Spectacles is
another word
for glasses.

People wear
underwear
under their
clothes.

wig
A wig is fake
hair.

Containers

backpack
A backpack is a sack
that is worn on the
back and is used to
carry things.

box
A box can hold
things.

bag
You can put
things in a bag.

container

barrel
A barrel is a large,
wooden container.

basket

can

bucket

Some food and

A container can A bucket is a container
drinks come in
cage
hold things.
with a handle.
cans.
Some people keep birds
in cages.

cork
A cork is used as
a bottle stopper. It
is made from tree
bark.

egg carton

envelope

An egg carton holds

eggs and keep them
from breaking.

An envelope holds a
letter.

lid

oilcan

package

A lid is a top for a

pan or other
container.

An oilcan is a
container for oil.

pail

carton
Some liquids (like
milk and orange
juice) are packaged in
cartons.

bottle

A bottle is a
You can carry things in a container with a
basket.
narrow neck and
mouth.

jar
Jars are
containers with
a large opening
and a lid.

sack

A sack is a
A package is a
A pail is a container with container. You
wrapped box that
a handle.
can put things in
contains something.
a sack.

tube

suitcase

urn
Some pastes and gels
When you travel,
trunk
you carry your A trunk is a very large (like toothpaste) come in An urn is a large
A fine mist of liquid
vase.
tubes.
clothing in a
traveling case.
comes out of a spray
suitcase.
can.
spray can

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vase
Vases are holders for
flowers.

vat

watering can

A vat is a large
tub that holds
liquids.

You can water plants

with a watering can.

water bottle
A water bottle holds
water.

Devices

aileron
abacus

Ailerons are the

outer
flaps on the
An abacus is a
ancient device that rear surface of the
wings of an airpane.
is used for
Ailerons are used to
arithmetic
keep the airplane
calculations.
from rollling from
side to side.

airplane
Airplanes fly in
the sky.

camera
bulb
A light bulb turns
electricity into light.

You can take

pictures with a
camera.

device

can opener
A can opener is a
device that opens
cans.

engine
A device is a piece
The engine of a
fan
of equipment that
engine
train pulls the
A
fan
is
a machine
does a job. For
The engines of an airplane
railroad
cars
along
that
makes
a
example, a can
propel it through the air.
the
track.
breeze.
opener is a device
that opens cans.

funnel

flashlight
A flashlight helps
you find your way
in the dark.

freezer
A freezer keeps
things icy.

A funnel is a
device that lets
you pour things
from one
container to
another.

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gyroscope

incandescent
light bulb

A gyroscope is a spinning An incandescent

wheel set in a movable
light bulb turns
frame. When the wheel electricity into light
spins, it is very hard to
as an electric
move the gyroscope - it
current causes a
essentially stays in its filament to glow in
original orientation.
an air-free
enclosure.

iron
inventor
An inventor designs and
creates new, useful things.

Irons press the

wrinkles out of
clothes.

magnifying
glass

joystick

lock
A magnifying glass
A joystick is used
You can lock and unlock a is a lens that makes
to play some
lock with a key.
things look larger
computer games.
than they really
are.

mirror

microscope
microwave oven
A microscope lets you see Microwave ovens heat up
very tiny things.
food quickly.

radar
radio
Radar is a device that uses
A radio lets you hear
reflected radio waves to broadcast music and talk
located objects at a
shows.
distance. Radar is short
for "radio detection and
ranging."

padlock
pliers
You can see your
You
can
lock
and
unlock
a
Pliers
are tools that
reflection in a
padlock with a key.
hold things.
mirror.

remote control

rocket

A rocket is a
refrigerator A remote control lets you
machine that
A refrigerator is a operate a machine from
propels
itself into
machine that
far away.
space.
keeps food cold.

sonar

safety pin
A safety pin is a type of
pin that is used to fasten
clothes and diapers.

scale
A scale is a machine for
weighing things.

In sonar (also called

echolocation), a highpitched sound (usually
sewing
clicks) is sent out. The
machine
telephone
A sewing machine sound bounces off the
You can talk with
sews stitches very object and some returns. people who are far
The returning echo is
quickly and
away by using a
interpreted to determine
easily. The
telephone.
the object's shape,
sewing machine
direction, distance, and
was invented in
texture. Dolphins (and
1846 by Elias
other toothed whales) and
Howe.
some bats use sonar to
navigate and find prey.

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telescope
A telescope is a optical
device that makes
faraway objects appear
closer and larger,
allowing us to see distant
objects in space.

television
A television is a machine
that receives pictures and
sounds. People watch and
listen to shows on
television.

thermometer

toaster
A thermometer is
A
toaster
is a machine that
used for telling
heats
up
slices of bread,
what the
making toast.
temperature is.

vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner is a device
used to clean rugs and floors.

yoke
A yoke is a device that
holds two working
animals (like oxen)
together.

Farm-Related Words
cat

barn
A barn is a farm
building where animals
bull
and animal feed are A bull is a male cow.
kept.

duck

calf
A calf is a
young cow.

cow

chick
A chick is a baby
chicken. Some other
baby birds are also
called chicks.

bunny
A bunny is a young
rabbit.

chicken
A chicken is a farm
animal.

duckling

Most of the milk we

drink comes from
cows.

farm

dog

Cats are mammals

and are great pets.
Cats were revered
by the ancient
Egyptians.

donkey

Dogs wag
Donkeys can be very
their tails
stubborn.
when they're
happy.

farmer
farm
animals

Farmers produce
Ducks are birds that
Farms
are
where
plants
A
duckling
is
a
young
food by growing
have webbed feet and a
are grown and animals Farm animals plants and tending
duck.
flattened bill. They
are raised.
animals.
are very
swim well and live near
useful to
the water.
people.

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fence
A fence is a type of
barrier.

hoe
A hoe is a garden tool.

goose

gosling

Geese are migrating

birds that honk!

A gosling is a baby
goose.

hog

honey bee

horse

Honey bees are insects

that live in a hive and
make honey.

Horses are
very fast
runners.

A hog is a hoofed
mammal that is
similar to a pig.

kid

hen
A hen is a female
chicken. Hens lay
eggs.

horseshoe
A horseshoe is a
metal protector for a
horse's hoof.

milk

kitten

A kid is a young goat.

haystack
A haystack is
a big pile of
hay.

Milk comes
ox
lamb
A kitten is a young
from cows
Oxen
are
large,
A
lamb
is
a
baby
sheep.
cat.
and other hairy mammals that
mammals. live in the far north.

rabbit

pig

piglet

puppy

A piglet is a young
pig.

A puppy is a young
dog.

scarecrow

sheep

A scarecrow is a figure
of a person that is made
of straw. It is used to
scare crows away from
crops.

Sheep are farm

animals that are
raised for wool and
meat.

sheepdog, old
English

Pigs are hoofed

mammals that oink!

The old English

sheepdog is an
affectionate, longhaired dog that was
originally bred in Great
Britain.

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rooster
A rabbit is a
A
rooster
is a male
small, cute
chicken.
mammal with
big ears.

shovel
Shovels are
used to dig.

silo
A silo is a building
in which bulk food,
like wheat, is stored.

tractor
A tractor is a powerful
well
vehicle that can pull a
A
well
is
a deep hole
plow or other farm
in
the
ground
from
tools.
which you get water.

Flower-Related Words: Little Explorers Picture

Dictionary

carnation
bluebell
Bluebells are bellshaped flowers.

bouquet

bulb

California poppy

A plant bulb wil sprout The California poppy is a

A bouquet is a into a new plant. Tulips small, cup-shaped flower
bunch of flowers.
grow from bulbs.
that lives in dry areas.

flower
daisy
daffodil
The daffodil is a
yellow flower that
blooms early in
the spring.

The daisy is a
pretty flower.

dandelion
Dandelions are weeds
with pretty yellow
flowers that turn into
seed puff-balls.

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A flower makes seeds.

Flowers are a plant's
reproductive organs.
Hummingbirds, bees,
butterflies, and other
animals drink the sweet
nectar that is made by
flowers.

A carnation is a
flower; it can
be white, pink,
or red.

forget-menots
Forget-me-nots
are plants that
have beautiful
blue flowers.

greenhouse
A greenhouse is a
iris
building, usually
nasturtium
garden
Irises
are
beautiful
made out of glass,
Nasturtiums are
Plants grow in a in which people flowers with long, thin,
lily
plants with
garden.
A
lily
is
a
funnel-shaped
flat
leaves.
grow plants. Some
bright, pretty
flower.
flowers are grown
flowers and
in greenhouses.
round leaves.

roots

orchid
Orchids are
colorful flowers
that live in warm
areas.

poppy
A poppy is a
delicate flower.

rose

The rose is a beautiful

seed
The roots are the parts
flower
with
a
sweet
scent.
Seeds
grow into
of a plant that gets
plants.
water and other
nutrients from the soil.
Roots also store energy
and provide support for
the plant. Most roots
grow underground.

yucca
tulip
stem
The stem is the
part of a plant that
provides support
for the plant.

Venus flytrap

The tulip is a cup- The Venus flytrap is a

plant that catches and
shaped flower.
digests bugs.

zinnia
Zinnias are pretty
flowers.
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violets
Violets are deep purple
flowers.

Yucca is a
flowering plant
with stiff
leaves; it lives
in dry areas.

Food-Related Words: Little Explorers Picture

Dictionary

Appleseed, Johnny
Johnny Appleseed was
a legendary man who
almond
artichoke
An apple is a
planted apple trees The artichoke is a spiny,
An almond is a
juicy fruit that
through the USA. His
type of nut.
green vegetable.
grows on an apple
real name was John
tree.
Chapman, but he was
called Johnny
Appleseed because of
his love for growing
apple trees.

apple

avocado
The avocado is an
oily, green fruit; it is
sometimes called the
alligator pear.
Avocados grow on
trees in warm areas.

batter
bagel

baker

blackberry

bowl

banana
A bagel is a
A baker bakes
Bananas
are a sweet,
chewy kind of food in the oven,
yellow fruit.
roll.
like breads, cakes,
and cookies.

A batter is an uncooked,
liquid mixture of flour,
eggs, butter and other
birthday cake
ingredients. When a
Birthday cakes are
batter is cooked, it
sweet and delicious!
becomes solid. Cookies,
cakes, and muffins are
made from batter.

bread
Blackberries are You can eat soup
Bread
is made from
breakfast
dark-colored,
or cereal in a flour and is baked in an
broccoli
Breakfast
is a meal that
edible berries
bowl.
oven.
is eaten in the morning. Broccoli is a green
that grow on
vegetable.
prickly vines.

bubble gum

butter
bun

You can chew

bubble gum and A bun is a sweet
roll.
blow bubbles.

cake
Butter is a rich spread
candy
Cake is a sweet dessert.
made from cream.
Candy is very sweet.

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carrot

cauliflower

celery
A carrot is an
Cauliflower is a Celery is a crisp, green
cheese
orange vegetable
white vegetable;
vegetable.
Cheese
is a food made
that grows
it is related to
from milk.
underground.
broccoli.

cherries

chocolate

chopsticks
Chocolate is a
Cherries are a
Chopsticks are eating
sweet, tangy, red tasty treat made
utensils
used by many
from cocoa beans
fruit.
people
in Asia.
and sugar.

coffee

chef
A chef cooks food.

cookie

Cookies are small,

Coffee is a drink made sweet, baked treats.
from roasted coffee
beans.

corn
Corn is a yellow
vegetable you can
eat on its cob.
cork
Corn
was grown
A cork is used as
by Native
a bottle stopper.
Americans for
It is made from
thousands of
tree bark.
years before the
Europeans settled
in North America.

cornucopia

cream

A cornucopia, also
Cream is the richest
called a horn of plenty,
cotton candy
part of milk. Butter
is a horn-shaped basket Cotton candy is a sweet and ice cream are
that is filled with fruit treat that is spun from made from cream.
and grains. It is a
sugar.
symbol of abundance
and prosperity.

cucumber
Cucumber is a
cuisine
cool, crisp
A cuisine is a
vegetable that is style of preparing
good in salad.
food.

dessert
Desserts are
sweet treats.

cupboard
Things are stored in
cupboards.

cup
You can drink from a
cup.

cupcake
A cupcake is a tiny
cake.

doughnut
diet

Doughnuts are sweet

dinner
dish
A balanced diet is Dinner is a meal that is We eat food on a dish. and have a hole in
their middle.
good for you.
eaten in the evening.

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egg

egg carton
drink
People need to
drink water
every day.

flour

An egg carton
holds eggs and
keep them from
breaking.

eat
We eat when we are
hungry.

food

Flour is ground We eat food to

food pyramid
up grain (like get energy and to
The food pyramid is a
wheat). Bread is
grow.
diagram that lets you
made from flour.
know the US
government's
recommended diet.

fruit

Many animals hatch

from eggs. Dinosaurs
hatched from eggs.
People eat a lot of
chicken eggs.

food web
The food web (or food
chain) is all of the
interactions between
predators and prey in
which plants and
animals obtain food.

eggplant
An eggplant is a
purple vegetable.

fork
Forks are used for
eating solid food.

gingerbread

Fruit is the part of

Gingerbread is a spicy
frying pan
some plants that You can cook food in a cookie. Gingerbread
freezer
contains the
men and gingerbread
frying pan.
A freezer keeps seeds. Apples,
women are cookies
things icy.
strawberries,
shaped like little people.
oranges, and
bananas are fruit.

glass
We drink out of
glasses.

grapefruit
Grapefruits are a
grapes
ham
type of citrus
Grapes are
Ham
is
a type of
green bean
fruit that
delicious fruit that
grater
meat that comes
A green bean is a long,
sometime squirt
grow on vines. A grater is a tool used thin, green vegetable. It from the top part of a
you when you
to cut food into tiny
pig's leg.
is pod that contains
eat them.
pieces.
bean seeds. It is also
called a string bean.

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hot dog

hamburger

A hot dog is a type of

A hamburger is a
honey
cooked meat in the
cooked patty of
Honey
is
a
sweet
shape of a sausage; it is
ground beef,
usually served in substance made usually served in a long
by bees.
bun.
a bun.

ice cream

hungry

ice

When you're hungry,

you want to eat some
food.

Ice is frozen water.

ice cream cone

An ice cream
Ice cream is
cone is nice to eat
cold, creamy,
iced tea
on a hot summer
and sweet treat.
Iced tea is a cold drink.
day.

jellybeans

jug

Jellybeans are
colorful and
sweet.

A jug holds a
liquid, like water.

knife
You can cut things with a
kiwi
knife.
The kiwi is a tangy fruit
that grows in warm areas.

lettuce

juice
Juice is pressed from
fruit or vegetables.

jam
Jam is a spread made
from fruit.

kettle
A kettle is a pot in
which you boil water.

lemon
A lemon is a sour, yellow fruit.
ladle
A ladle is a large spoon used to
serve soup and gravy.

jelly
Jelly is a spread
made from fruit
juice.

kitchen
People prepare and
store food in a
kitchen.

lemonade
Lemonade is a drink made
from water, lemon juice, and
sugar.

lime

lunch
lollipop
Lettuce is a leafy
licorice
A lime is a sour, green A lollipop is candy on a Lunch is a meal
vegetable that is Licorice is a type
citrus fruit.
eaten in the middle
stick.
good in salads.
of candy.
of the day.

lunch box
Some people
carry their lunch
in a lunch box.

macaroni
Macaroni is a
tube-shaped
noodle.

measuring cup
meal
Breakfast, lunch, and
dinner are meals.

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A measuring cup is
useful in baking and
cooking.

meat
Meat is a type of
food that comes
from animals. Some
types of meat are
beef and ham.

melon

microwave
oven

muffin
milk

Muffins are small,

Melons are fruits
Milk comes from cows baked goods made from
that have a rind. Microwave ovens and other mammals.
a batter.
heat up food
quickly.

mushroom

napkin

noodles
nectarine
Mushrooms are After you eat, you
Noodles
are flat strips
A nectarine is a sweet,
fast-growing
can clean your
juicy fruit with smooth of pasta. Noodles were
fungi. They grow
face with a
invented in China.
skin; it is related to the
in dark, damp
napkin.
peach.
places.

olive
oatmeal
Oatmeal is a
cereal.

onion

oil
Oil is a greasy
liquid.

orange

Oranges are
Onions are sharp sweet, juicy fruit.
tasting
vegetables.

oyster
The oyster is a
soft-bodied
marine animal
that is protected
by two hard
shells.

pan
You can cook
food in a pan.

omelet

mug
A mug is a large
cup.

nut
A nut is a dry seed
or fruit with a hard
shell.

omnivore

An olive is an oily fruit

that grows on an
evergreen tree.

An omelet is a dish
made from eggs.

An omnivore is an
animal that eats
plants and meat.
People are
omnivores

orange juice

oven

oven mitt

pasta

peach

Orange juice is made Ovens get very hot. You

An oven mitt
from oranges.
protects
your hand
can bake food in an
when you put things
oven.
in or out of an oven.

paper plate

Pasta is a type of food Peaches are sweet,

A paper plate is a
juicy fruit with fuzzy
made from flour.
disposable plate that is
skin.
Spaghetti and macaroni
made out of paper.
are
types
of
pasta.
People use paper plates
at picnics.
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peanut

pear

The pear is a
Peanuts grow
sweet fruit with a
undergound; they are
thin skin.
a type of legume.

pepper

pickle

pea pod
Peas grow in pea
pods.

peas

pepper

Peas are small, round Pepper is a spice that

vegetables.
many people use to
season their food.

pizza

pie

A pepper is a sharppitcher
Pizza is made of
A pie is a dessert
A pickle is a
tasting, hollow
A
pitcher
is
a
dough that is covered
that is made with
cucumber that is
vegetable. Peppers can preserved in brine. fruit and has a crust. container for pouring with tomato sauce
be red, green, yellow,
liquids.
and cheese; it is
and orange.
baked in an oven.

plate

plum

A plum is a sweet,
A plate is a flat dish
juicy, purple fruit.
on which we put food.

potato

pretzel

Potatoes are starchy Pretzels are salty,

vegetables that grow knotted snacks.
undergound.

raisin
radish
A radish is a sharptasting vegetable that
grows underground.

Raisins are dried

grapes.

pod
Peas grow in pea
pods.

prune
A prune is a dried
plum.

popsicle

pot

People cook food in

A popsicles is a
pots.
sweet, frozen treat on
a stick.

pumpkin
The pumpkin is a
large, orange
vegetable that grows
on a vine.

pumpkin pie
Pumpkin pie is a
dessert made from
pumpkins.

recipe
raspberry
Raspberries are a
type of edible berry
that grows on a
prickly vine.

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A recipe is a set of
instructions for
making a type of
food.

refrigerator
A refrigerator is a
machine that keeps
food cold.

salad

rice

roll
rolling pin
A salad is a type of
Rice is a food. It is a
A roll is a small A rolling pin is used food that is usually
grain that grows in
piece of baked
to roll out dough.
made with lettuce
warm, wet soil. Rice is
dough.
and other vegetables.
an important food in
much of Asia.

salt
Salt is an important
crystalline mineral
that we use to season
our food.

sandwich
A sandwich is
cheese,
peanutbutter,
meat, or another
filling between
two slices of
bread.

salami
Salami is a type of
salty, spicy meat
product, usually
made from beef
and/or pork.

soup

sausage

Soup is a type of
Sausage is a type of
slice
When something is food. Vegetable soup
meat.
sliced, thin pieces are and chicken soup are
two kinds of soup.
cut from it.

spoon
spatula

A spoon is used
A spatula is a tool that for eating food
has a wide, flat end.
like soup and
cereal.

strawberry

string bean

The strawberry is a
sweet, red fruit.

A string bean is a
long, thin, green
vegetable. It is
pod that contains
bean seeds. It is
also called a green
bean.

squash
Squash grows in warm
weather.

steak
Steak is a slice of meat.

sugar

A sunflower is a
plant that turns to
face the sun.

Sugar is a sweet
food.

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sunflower

stove
You can cook food on a
stove.

tea
Tea is a drink that is
brewed from tea
leaves.

toaster

tomato
A toaster is a
teapot
Tomatoes
are soft
machine
that
heats
You can brew tea in a
and
tangy;
they
up slices of bread,
teapot.
grow on vines.
making toast.

tuna
The tuna is a very
large, bony fish that
turkey
lives in the ocean.
Turkeys are large
People eat a lot of birds that nest on the
tuna.
ground.

water
Water is a liquid that
we drink and use to
utensils
walnut
wash.
Water covers
Utensils are tools used
vinegar
A walnut is an edible
vegetable
over
two
thirds of the
in the kitchen, like
Vinegar is a sour nut from the walnut
Vegetables
are
surface of the Earth,
knives, forks, and
liquid that is used to
tree.
very
good
for
you.
and much of our
spoons.
flavor or preserve
body is made of
foods.
water.

watermelon
water bottle
A water bottle holds
water.

yam
Yams are sweet
vegetables that grow
underground.

Watermelon is a
large, delicious,
red fruit with a
thick green rind.

wheat

whisk

Wheat is a grain.
Flour is made from
ground-up wheat.

A whisk is used to
beat eggs or batter.

wok
A wok is a cooking
pot used in Asia.

yolk
The yolk of an egg
zucchini
is yellow and
Zucchini is a type of
squash.
Yogurt is a dairy contains stored food
food made from for a bird or reptile
before it hatches.
milk.

yogurt

Furniture Words
chair
armchair
An armchair is a
chair with arms.

bed
People sleep in beds.

bench

bookcase

A few people can sit

on a bench.

Books are stored in

bookcases.

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A chair is a
piece of
furniture that
people sit on.

couch
A couch is a big, soft
cradle
piece of furniture A cradle is a small bed
that many people can
for a baby.
sit on.

footstool
cupboard
Things are stored in
cupboards.

A footstool is a
dresser
A dresser is a piece small piece of
furniture.
of furniture in which
you can store things.

sofa

furniture

stool
A sofa is a large, soft
Tables, chairs, sofas,
shelf
A
stool
is a seat
piece of furniture
grandfather clock
and beds are
A shelf is a small that many people can with neither
A grandfather clock is platform on which
furniture.
arms nor a back.
sit on.
a large, free-standing things can be placed.
pendulum clock.

table
A table is a piece of
furniture with a flat
top and legs.

Geology-Related Words
crystal
atom
Everything is
made up of tiny
atoms.

Crystals are solids

whose atoms form
a very regular
pattern.

diamond
A diamond is a very
hard, shiny jewel.

geyser

emerald
An emerald is a hard,
shiny, deep green
jewel.

geology
gold
A geyser is a
glacier
Geology
is
the
Gold
is
a precious
natural hot spring
A glacier is a large,
study
of
the
Earth's
metal. Coins and
that occasionally
slowly-moving river jewelry are made from
structure,
including
sprays water and
of ice.
gold. The Sacajawea US
steam above the rocks and minerals.
dollar coin above looks
ground.
like gold.

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gem
Gems sparkle and
shine.

granite
Granite is a common
type of igneous rock.
Granite is formed in a
slow cooling process.

impact crater
limestone
igneous rock Impact craters are
iron
Limestone is a type of
When molten rock the remains of
lava
Iron is a common
sedimentary rock that
collisions
between
cools, igneous
metal that is used for Lava is molten rock. It
is made of the
an asteroid or
rock is formed.
comes out of erupting
skeletons of tiny
meteorite and the many things, like train
volcanoes.
tracks, pots, and
microorganisms.
Earth.
pipes.

mineral

metal
A metal is an element metamorphic rock
marble
magnet
that has a crystalline
Metamorphic rocks
Marble is a
A magnet attracts
structure when it is solid
are compacted by
beautiful
things made of
form. Many metals are pressure and heat from
metamorphic rock. shiny and many conduct
iron.
deep inside the earth.
electricity. Some metals
include iron, copper,
silver, and gold.

pebble
A pebble is a
small, smooth
stone.

sand

quartz

rock

A rock is a stone. The

Quartz is a
Earth's crust is made
common crystalline
of rock.
mineral.

sedimentary
rock

A mineral is a naturallyoccurring solid whose

molecules form a regular
pattern (usually forming
crystals). Some common
minerals include quartz,
salt, diamond, and
feldspar.

ruby

salt

A ruby is a hard,
shiny, red jewel.

Salt is an important
crystalline mineral
that we use to season
our food.

solid
silver

Sand is a loose Sedimentary rock Silver is a valuable

is rock that has
material
metal; it is also the
formed from
composed of fine
shiniest metal. Some
debris of rock and sediment and is coins and jewelry are
mineral particles. where most fossils
made from silver.
are found.

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A solid is a matter in
which the molecules
are very close together
soil
and cannot move
Plants grow in soil.
around. Ice, quartz,
and diamonds are
solids.

tsunami
stone

streak

A stone is a rock.

A streak is a long
mark or stripe of
color.

volcano

A tsunami is a rare,
A volcano is a
giant series of waves
mountainous vent in
caused by an
the Earth's crust.
underwater
When a volcano
earthquake or other
erupts, it spews out
large-scale,
lava, ashes, and hot
underwater
gases from deep inside
disturbance.
the Earth.

water
Water is a liquid that
we drink and use to
wash. Water covers
over two thirds of the
surface of the Earth,
and much of our body
is made of water.

well
A well is a deep
hole in the ground
from which you
get water.

House-Related Words
armchair

bathtub

bench
bookcase
An armchair is a You take a bath in a
bed
bathtub.
chair with arms.
People sleep in beds. A few people can sit on Books are stored
a bench.
in bookcases.

carpet
brick
This fireplace is
made out of bricks.

broom

can opener

You can sweep the

floor with a broom.

A can opener is a
device that opens
cans.

china

clothespin

A carpet is a floor
covering made of
woven yarn or thick
fabric.

couch

chair
A chair is a piece
of furniture that
people sit on.

cradle
China is well-made Clothespins are used A couch is a big, soft A cradle is a small
A chimney is a
pottery that was first to hang wet laundry piece of furniture that
bed for a baby.
structure in which
on a clothes line to many people can sit on.
made in China.
you can build a
dry.
fire.
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cuckoo clock

curtains

drapes

A cuckoo clock
Curtains are cloth
Drapes are cloth
cupboard
door
has a mechanical Things are stored in hung on and around a You can go in and out
hung on and
bird that sings
window.
around a window.
cupboards.
through a door.
every hour.

dresser

faucet

A dresser is a piece
fan
You can turn water
of furniture in
A fan is a machine
flow on or off at a
which you can that makes a breeze.
faucet.
store things.

footstool

frame

A footstool is a
small piece of
furniture.

People put pictures

and photos in
frames to protect
them and make
them look nice.

garden

gate

Plants grow in a
garden.

hut
A hut is a small,
simple shelter.

fence
A fence is a type of
barrier.

furniture
freezer
A freezer keeps
things icy.

You can make a

fire in a fireplace
to keep you warm.

garbage can

Tables, chairs, sofas, Garbage cans hold

and beds are furniture.
garbage.

home

house

grandfather clock Home is where you live. Some people live

A gate is a door in a A grandfather clock is

fence.
a large, free-standing
pendulum clock.

igloo
An igloo is a house
made out of blocks
of ice. Brr!

fireplace

in houses.

key
kettle
A kettle is a pot in
which you boil water.

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We use keys to lock and

unlock doors.

kitchen
People prepare
and store food in a
kitchen.

lamp

lawn

lawn mower

living room

log cabin

A lamp gives out A lawn is a place You can cut the grass A living room is a large A log cabin is a
light.
outside where grass with a lawn mower. room in an apartment or house made of
logs.
house.
grows.

mat

microwave oven

You can wipe your Microwave ovens

shoes on a floor
heat up food
mat.
quickly.

oven mitt

pillow

mirror

oven

You can see your

reflection in a mirror.
mobile
A mobile is a hanging sculpture.

quilt

roof

Ovens get very

hot. You can bake
food in an oven.

room

The roof is the top

A room is a part
An oven mitt
A pillow is a soft Quilts keep you warm
covering of a building. of a building that
protects your hand cushion that you can
at night.
is separated off by
when you put
rest upon.
walls.
things in or out of
an oven.

rug
A rug is a floor
covering made of
woven yarn or
thick fabric.

sink

shelf
A shelf is a small
platform on which
things can be
placed.

shower
When you shower,
you wash your body
in a stream of falling
water.

sofa

soap

We can wash our hands Soap and water

help clean things.
at a sink.

table

stool
A sofa is a large,
sponge
A table is a piece
A
stool
is a seat with
soft piece of
Sponges are
stove
of
furniture with a
neither arms nor a
furniture that many absorbent objects
You
can
cook
food
on
a
flat top and legs.
back.
people can sit on. used to clean things.
stove.

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toaster
A toaster is a
machine that heats
up slices of bread,
making toast.

wastebasket
People throw trash in a
wastebasket.

toilet

trash can

Toilets are in
bathrooms.

A trash can holds

garbage.

welcome mat
You can wipe your shoes
on a welcome mat.

window
A window is a glass-covered
opening in a wall or vehicle.
You can see out a window.

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wall
vacuum cleaner A wall is a side of
a building or a
A vacuum cleaner is a
room or a fence.
device used to clean
rugs and floors.

yard
A yard is a small outside area.

In the Sea:
Ocean-Related Words

blue whale
African penguin
The African
penguin is a small,
flightless bird that
lives on islands off
the coast of
southern Africa.

anchor
An anchor is a
heavy metal
device that holds
a ship in place.

cookiecutter
shark
conch
The conch is a
large, shelled
animal from warm
seas.

The cookiecutter
shark is a small
shark that takes
circular bites out
of its prey. Also
known as the
luminous or cigar
shark.

blue shark
boat
Boats float in
the water.

The blue shark is a

sleek, fast-swimming
shark with blue skin.

The blue whale is

the biggest animal
that ever lived. It
eats tiny food that
it sieves through
baleen.

coral
Coral is a tiny
ocean animal
that lives in
colonies. Some
corals leave a
hard, stony
skeleton when
they die.

crab
coral reef
Coral reefs are warm,
clear, shallow ocean
habitats that are rich
in life.

In the Sea:
Ocean-Related Words

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A crab has a hard

shell and eyes on
stalks on its head.

cuttlefish
The cuttlefish is a
close relative of the
octopus and the
squid.

coral reef
Coral reefs are
warm, clear,
shallow ocean
habitats that are rich
in life.

eel
The eel is a long,
snake-like fish.

fin
Fish use their fins to
swim.

beluga whale
basking shark
The beluga is a small, white, toothed
angelshark
The basking shark is huge whale that lives mostly in cold,
angelfish
Angelfish are brightly-colored Angelsharks are sharks and eats very tiny animals arctic waters.
that have flat bodies that float in the ocean.
fish that live in warm water.
and live on the ocean
floor.

dogfish shark
The dogfish shark is a small,
very common shark that is
found all over the world. It is
not dangerous to people.

echolocation
In echolocation (also called sonar), a
dolphin
high-pitched sound (usually clicks) is
A dolphin is a marine
dugong
sent out. The sound bounces off the
mammal with a long Dugongs are gentle, slow- object and some returns. The returning
nose and teeth.
swimming, aquatic
echo is interpreted to determine the
Dolphins are whales.
mammals.
object's shape, direction, distance,
and texture. Dolphins (and other
toothed whales) and some bats use
sonar to navigate and find prey.

emperor angelfish
The
emperor angelfish
elephant seal
The elephant seal is a huge seal is a brightly-colored,
that lives in the Pacific Ocean. flattened fish that lives
in shallow warm
waters.

fin whale
The fin whale is a very large
baleen whale. It is the second
largest animal in the world.

fiddler crab
The fiddler crab is small crab that
lives on beaches. The male fiddler crab
emperor penguin
The emperor penguin is has one enlarged claw.
the largest penguin; it lives
on ice packs in Antarctica.

flipper
Flippers are wide, flat
fish
limbs that many marine
Fish live in the water
and breathe with gills. animals use for swimming.
Seals and whales have
flippers.

flukes
The tail of whales and dolphins is called
the flukes (each half of the tail is called
a fluke). Flukes have no bones in them.
Whales swim by moving their flukes
up and down in the water
(fish move their tail left to right).

gray whale
giant squid
Giant Squid swim
deep in the oceans.
They have ten arms
and their eyes are
the size of
basketballs.

The gray whale is a

baleen whale that
goblin shark eats tiny organisms great white shark
Gills are organs that
fish and amphibians use The Goblin shark from the mud on The Great White shark is a
to breathe underwater. has a very long the bottom on the large, meat-eating fish.
snout.
ocean.

gills

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gull

harp seal
hammerhead shark The harp seal is a

The hammerhead shark marine mammal

Gulls are birds
has a head shaped like a that lives in the
that live near
hammer.
North Atlantic
oceans and
and in the Arctic
lakes.
Ocean.

horseshoe
crab
The horseshoe
crab is a hardshelled animal
that lives in
warm coastal
waters on the
sea floor.

humpback
whale

hatchetfish
Hatchetfish are
oddly-shaped fish
hermit crab
from South and
Hermit crabs are crabs that
Central America.
lack a hard shell; they use a
discarded shell for protection.

intertidal zone

Humpbacks are The intertidal zone jellyfish

very acrobatic
hull
is where the sea Jellyfish are animals that
whales that sing meets the land, the have stinging tentacles.
The hull is the main
beautiful,
body or frame of a ship.
area between high
complex songs. tide and low tide.

killer whale
Killer whales are
also known as
krill
kelp
orcas. These
Krill are small
Kelp is brown seaweed
whales eats
marine animals that
keel
that grows in cold
hundreds of
are eaten by many
The keel is the
water.
pounds of fish
big animals,
bottom of a
and marine
including some
ship.
mammals every
whales.
day.

lemon shark
The lemon
shark is a
yellowish
shark.

limpet

lobster

The limpet is a marine A lobster lives on

animal with a soft body the ocean floor
and a flattened, cone- and has five pairs
of legs. Lobsters
shaped shell.
have blue blood.

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lanternfish
Lanternfish are fish that have
light-producing organs and
very large eyes.

lobtailing
Lobtailing is when a whale
sticks its tail out of the
water into the air, swings
the tail around, and then
slaps the tail on the water's
surface. Lobtailing makes
a very loud noise.

macaroni penguin
The macaroni penguin is a
penguin from the Antarctic
that has a yellow, feathery
crest on its head.

man-of-war

mako shark
The mako
shark is a very
fast shark with
bluish skin.

manatee
Manatees are gentle,
slow-swimming,
aquatic mammals.

manta ray
The Portuguese
Manta
rays are
man-of-war is a
floating colony of harmless fish and
are related to
animals that has
very long, stinging sharks. Mantas are
tentacles. It lives in the biggest rays.
warm ocean
waters.

marine mammals
Marine mammals live in
the sea and breathe air.
Seals, sea lions, whales,
and others are marine
mammals.

nautilus

nurse shark
The nautilus is a
narwhal
moray eel
The
nurse shark is a octopus
sea animal
The
narwhal
is
an
The moray eel
large predator that Octopi have eight arms
related to the
Arctic whale; the male
is a long,
lives
in warm water and live on the sea floor.
squid and
has a huge tooth.
snake-like fish
in coral reefs.
octopus!
that has
circular gills.

orca
Orcas are also
known as killer
whales. An
orca eats
hundreds of
pounds of fish
and marine
mammals
every day.

plankton
Plankton are tiny
organisms that float
in the seas and other
bodies of water.
Plankton is the base
of the oceanic food
web.

otter
An otter is a playful
aquatic mammal.

oyster
The oyster is a
soft-bodied
pelican
marine animal The pelican is fishthat is protected eating bird with a penguin
by two hard
huge, pouched bill. Penguins are birds that cannot
fly but swim very well.
shells.

polar bear
pod
A group of whales is
called a pod.

Polar bears are

large meat-eaters
live in the far
north. They have
clear-colored hair
and black skin.

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porpoise
A porpoise is a marine
mammal with a long
nose and teeth. They are
also known as dolphins;
they are a type of
toothed whales.

porthole
A porthole is a window
in a ship.

propeller
A propeller is a
device with
blades that is
prow
turned by an
The
prow
is front part
engine; it
of
a
ship.
makes boats
(and some
airplanes)
move.

pufferfish
Also called
queen conch
blowfish, this The queen conch is
poisonous fish
a large, shelled
can swallow
animal from warm
water to double seas. It is in danger
its size.
of extinction.

ray
A ray is a flat fish that is
related to the sharks.
Many have a long tail
that stings.

sail

right whale

A sail is a large
Right whales are baleen
piece of strong
rockhopper fabric that catches
whales with a huge
reef
head and an arched
penguin
Reefs are
the wind and
mouth. They were
The rockhopper propels a boat or
warm, clear,
almost hunted to
penguin is a
shallow ocean
sailboard through
extinction.
small, aggressive,
habitats that
the water.
crested bird that
are rich in life.
cannot fly.

sailfish

sailboat
A sailboat is a boat that
has sails and is powered
by the wind.

scales

The sailfish is
Scales are thin, hard,
sand
salmon
sand
dollar
a deep-sea fish.
overlapping plates on
Sand is a loose
Sand Dollars are some animals. Fish are
It is the fastest Salmon are fish that
material
fish in the sea live in the sea and composed of fine coin-shaped spiny- covered with scales.
skinned sea bed Butterfly wings are
and can swim spawn in fresh water. debris of rock
animals that have 5- made of scales.
up to 68 miles
and mineral
part radial
per hour (110
particles.
symmetry.
kph).

scallop
Scallops are animals
that have two shells
and live on the ocean
floor.

sea
A sea is a large body of
sea anemone
salt water that is
Scuba divers swim
A sea snemone is a predatory
connected to an ocean. A
sea animal that looks like a
under the water and
sea may be partly or
flower and lives on the ocean
carry their own air in a tank on completely surrounded by
floor.
land.
their back.

scuba diver

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sea cow
Sea cows (also called manatees)
are gentle, slow-swimming,
aquatic mammals.

sea
cucumber
Sea cucumbers
are cylindershaped animals
that live on the
sea floor.

sea horse
The sea horse is a
very strange type
The sea gull is the
common name for some of fish - it has a
long snout and a
birds that live near
curled tail.
oceans and lakes.

sea gull

sea otter

seal
Seals are animals
that live in the sea lion
ocean but breathe Sea lions are eared seals that
air. They are marine live off the coast of western
mammals.
North America.

seaweed

Sea otters are

sea urchin
sea star
Seaweed is a plant
marine
The
sea urchin is that lives in the sea.
Sea stars, another name
mammals with for starfish, are animals a spiny, globular
very dense,
that live on the ocean animal that lives
waterproof fur.
on the ocean
floor.
floor.

shell
Some animals
grow a shell
for protection.

ship
A ship is a very large
boat.

shrimp

shark
Sharks are meat-eaters that
have no bones, only cartilage
(which is softer than bone)
in their skeleton.

snail

Shrimp are small A snail is a small,

animals that live slow animal with its sponge
in the water.
own shell.
A sponge is a primitive
animal that lives in the water.

spyhopping
Spyhopping is
squid
when a whale
Squids swim in the
starfish
pokes its head oceans. They have ten
Starfish (also
up out of the
arms and an ink sac.
known as sea
water and turns
stars) are animals
around,
that live on the
perhaps to look
ocean floor.
around.

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stingray

submarine

A stingray is a flat
A submarine is a vessel that
fish with cartilage
can travel underwater and
instead of bones. Its
carry people.
sting is in its tail.

tern
Terns are birds that
are sometimes thresher shark
When you swim, you
called "sea
The swordfish is
The thresher shark has a a
move around in the
swallows."
a
large
fish
with
a
greatly-elongated top part of
water.
long, sharp bill.
the tail.

swim

sunfish
The sunfish is
a large fish
with an almost
circular,
flattened body.

tiger shark
Tiger sharks
are large,
fierce sharks
that have faint
stripes.

swordfish

water

tuna
The tuna is a very
walrus
large,
bony
fish
A walrus is a
tugboat
that
lives
in
the
northern
marine
A tugboat is a sturdy
ocean.
People
eat
mammal with ivory
boat that guides large
a lot of tuna.
tusks.
boats in and out of
harbors.

Water is a liquid that we

drink and use to wash.
Water covers over two thirds
of the surface of the Earth,
and much of our body is
made of water.

whale shark
Weddell seal

whale

Whales are large

The Weddell seal is a marine mammals.
There are
large, nocturnal marine Whales breathe
waves of water
mammal from
air using lungs.
in the ocean.
Antarctica (near the
South Pole).

wave

Xiphias
Xiphias is the group
(genus) of swordfish,
fast-swimming fish
that have a long, sharp
bill.

yacht
A yacht is a very nice
small ship.

zooplankton
Zooplankton are
tiny animals that
float in the seas
and other bodies
of water.

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The whale shark is

the biggest shark
and the biggest fish,
but it eats tiny food
whelk
that it sieves
through its gills. It Whelks are ocean animals
is not a whale; it is with a hard, spiral shell.
a shark.

At the Post Office:

Mail-Related Words

address
An address tells the
Post Office where to
bring a letter or
package.

card

box
A box can hold things.

paper
mailbox

package

A mailbox is where
you leave letters to be
mailed.

A package is a wrapped
box that contains
something.

envelope

You can send An envelope holds a

letter.
a card to a
friend.

letter
You can write a
letter to
communicate
with a person.

postcard

We write and
scale
A postcard is a card
paint on
A
scale
is a
you can mail without
paper. It is
machine for
an envelope. People
made from
weighing
things.
who collect post cards
plant fibers,
are called deltiologists.
usually trees.

stamp
You must put a stamp
tape
on a letter for it to be
Tape is a long, sticky
delivered.
ribbon that is used to stick
things together.

Math-Related Words
1+1=2
2+3=5

1+1=2
angle

7-4=3

An angle is the
acute angle
abacus
addition amount of rotation
An acute angle is
arithmetic
An abacus is an
Addition is the it would take to
less than 90
Arithmetic is the study of
ancient device that is
put one
adding of
degrees.
addition, subtraction,
used for arithmetic
numbers to get intersecting line
calculations.
on top of another. multiplication, and division.
their sum.

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1,000,000,000

cone

A cone is a shape
circle
billion
chart
that
has a point at
All of the points
A billion is a thousand
A chart is a
one end and a
on a circle are
million. The Earth is diagram, like a
circular
opening
the same
billions of years old. graph or a table,
distance from at the other end.
that shows the
In mathematics,
the center.
relationships
this shape is a half
between things.
cone.

crescent

cube

A cube is a solid
A crescent is the shape
geometric figure
of the moon a little
with six square
before of after the time
faces.
of the new moon.

diamond
A diamond is a
diameter
four-sided figure
The diameter is the
whose sides are
longest distance from
all the same
one side of a circle (or length. People
a sphere) to the other. play baseball on a
diamond-shaped
field.

cylinder
curve
A curve is a
wavy line.

couple
A couple refers to two
people or two objects.

denominator

A cylinder is a
The denominator is the
figure with a long
bottom number in a fraction.
round body .

dividend
The dividend is
divisor
the number that
division
The divisor is the number
is divided (in
Division is an
that the dividend is divided
long division).
operation that
by (in long division). The
The dividend divides a number
dividend divided by the
divided by the
into portions.
divisor is the quotient (plus
divisor is the
a remainder).
quotient (plus a
remainder).

18
2x
double
dodecahedron
A dodecahedron is a
twelve-sided geometric
solid whose faces are
pentagons.

Double means
twice or two
times.

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12

eight

Spiders have eight

legs. Stop signs
dozen
have
eight sides.
Dozen is another
word for twelve.

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******
eighteen
Eighteen is the number
between seventeen and
nineteen.

11
80

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equal

equilateral triangle
When two things
ellipse
The
sides of an equilateral
Eighty is the number
An ellipse is a are equal they are triangle are all the same
between seventy-nine
flattened circle. exactly the same
length.
and eighty-one.
in number,
eleven
quality, or
Eleven is ten plus
amount.
one.
eighty

0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,
...
even number
An even number is
divisible by two.

five
People have five
fingers on each hand.

15
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*****

Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit is a
measure of
first
temperature that The first person
fifteen
is abbreviated F. or thing comes
Fifteen
is the
Water freezes at
before the
number after
32F and boils at
others.
fourteen (14) and
212F.
before sixteen
(16).
40
14
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**********
fourteen
**********
Fourteen is the
forty
four
Forty is the number Squares have four number after thirteen
(13) and before
after thirty nine (39) sides. Cats and dogs
fifteen (15).
and before forty one
have four legs.
(41).

50
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**********
fifty
Fifty is the number after
forty nine (49) and before
fifty one (51).

fractal
Fractals are patterns within
patterns within patterns.

>

1/2

greater than
fraction
A fraction is a part of a
whole. Half of an apple
is a fraction of an
apple. The top number
in a fraction is called
the numerator; the
bottom number in a
fraction is called the
denominator.

The mathematical
symbol > means
geometry
half
"greater than."
Geometry is the
When
something
is divided
When one number
mathematical
graph
is greater than a into two equal parts, each of
study of points,
A graph is a
second number, these two parts is half of the
lines, angles, and diagram that
original object.
the first one is
solids.
shows
bigger
than
the
relationships
second. For
between things.
example, 4 is
greater than 2, or
4 > 2.

1/2

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100
heart
The heart is a shape that often
symbolizes love.

hexagon
hexaflexagon A hexagon is a

hundred

A hexaflexagon is
One hundred is
six-sided
a
folded
the number
A heptagon is a
figure.
geometric figure
seven-sided
Beehives have after 99 and
that
can
be
before 101.
figure.
hexagonal
"flexed" to
cells.
expose its many
sides.

heptagon

<
less than

icosahedron
An icosahedron is a twenty-sided
geometric solid.

The
mathematical
isosceles
symbol <
triangle
means "less
An isosceles
than." When line segment
kite
triangle has two A kite is a four- one number is A line segment
is a portion of a
sides that are the sided figure in
less than a
line.
same length and which the two second number,
two angles that pairs of adjacent the first one is
are the same.
smaller than
sides have the
the
second. For
same length.
example, 1 is
less than 2, or 1
< 2.
5

1,000,000

magic square
long division
In a magic square, the
In long division, the dividend is divided by the divisor,
rows, columns, and
resulting in a quotient plus a remainder.
diagonals all add up to the
same number.

million
A million is a thousand
thousands. The
mathematics
Mathematics is the study
dinosaurs lived
of numbers, shapes,
millions of years ago.
patterns, and logical
reasoning.

minus
The mathematical
symbol - means
"minus." Four minus
three is written, 4 - 3.

1x2=2

Mbius strip
A Mbius strip is a piece of paper
with only one side!

2x3=6

multiplication

multiply

nine

Multiplication is The mathematical There are nine

a mathematical symbol x means planets in our
operation used to "multiply." Four solar system
and nine
compute areas
times three is
players on a
and do other
written, 4 x 3.
baseball team.
calculations.

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number line
Numbers
correspond to
points on a
number line.

obtuse angle
number

numerator

The numerator is the

Numbers tell you "how many" or
top number in a
"how much."
fraction.

An obtuse angle
is greater than
ninety degrees.

octagon
An octagon is
an eight-sided
octahedron
figure. Stop
An octahedron
signs are
is an eight-sided
octagons.
geometric solid.

1/2
one half

1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, ...
odd number
An odd number is not divisible
by two.

parallel

When something
is divided into
oval
two equal parts,
An
oval
is an
orb
each of these two
egg-shaped
parts is one half A ball-shaped
figure.
of the original object is an orb.
object.

one
One is a small
number.

parallelogram

pattern
pentagon
Parallel lines extend in the same A parallelogram is a
A pattern is
four-sided
figure
A
pentagon is a
direction, are always the same
something that is
whose
opposite
sides
five-sided
distance apart, and never meet.
repeated.
are parallel.
figure.

perimeter
Perimeter is the
distance around the
edges of a figure. For
example, the
perimeter of a square
with side length of a
is a+a+a+a=4 times a.

.
point
A point is an
perpendicular
polygon
exact location, a
When two lines are
A polygon is a
pie chart
spot with no
perpendicular, they are at right
many-sided
A pie chart (also
width or
angles (90 degrees).
figure with
called a circle graph)
thickness.
straight
edges.
is a diagram that is
useful for displaying
information about the
percentages or parts
of a whole.

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polyhedron
Polyhedra are
solids whose
faces are
polygons.

2,3,5,7,11,13,17
...
pyramid

prime number

quadrilateral
A quadrilateral

A pyramid is a
A prime number is a positive
shape
that has a is a four-sided
quotient
number that has exactly two factors,
figure. The
flat polygonal
1 and itself. Alternatively, you can
The quotient is
square,
think of a prime number as a
base and
the answer in
rectangle,
protractor
number greater than one that is not
triangular sides
long division.
rhombus,
A protractor is a
the product of smaller numbers. For
that meet at a
The dividend
example, 13 is a prime number
device that measures point on the top. trapezoid, kite, divided by the
because it can only be divided
and
angles.
The pyramids in
divisor is the
evenly by 1 and 13. For another
Egypt are huge parallelogram quotient (plus a
example, 14 is not a prime number
are
buildings build
remainder).
because it can be divided evenly by
quadrilaterals.
by
ancient
1, 2, 7, and 14. The number one is
Egyptians.
not a prime number because it has
only one factor, 1 itself.

1/2
radius
The radius is the distance from
the center of a circle (or a
sphere) to the edge.

ratio
A ratio is the
relationship between
two numbers, as
defined by the result
you get when you
divide one by the other.

rectangle

remainder

rhombus

A rectangle is a The remainder is A rhombus is a

four-sided figure the fractional part of parallelogram
whose sides are the answer in long
with equalat right angles to
division. The
length sides.
each other.
dividend divided by
the divisor is the
quotient plus the
remainder.

Roman
numerals
right triangle
right angle

A right triangle has

A right angle looks like the one angle that is a
corner of a square; it extends
right angle
ninety degrees.
(extending 90
degrees).

Thousands of
years ago, in
second
ancient Rome, the scalene triangle
The
second
The sides of a
Romans used a
system of numbers scalene triangle are person or item
that we call Roman all different lengths. comes after the
first and before
numerals. In this
the third.
system, I=1. V=5,
X=10, L=50,
C=100, D=500,
and M=1,000.

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semicircle
A semicircle is half a circle.

seven

shapes

six

There are seven

days in the week.

Everything has a
shape.

Insects have six

legs.

sphere
A sphere is a
ball-shaped
object.

1-1=0
5-3=2
square
A square has four, equally long
sides which are at right angles
to each other.

tetrahedron
A tetrahedron is a pyramid formed by four
triangles.

subtraction
star
A star is a shape
that has many
points.

third
The third person or item
comes after the first and
second.

Subtraction is the
operation of
taking one
number away
from another.

tally marks

ten
Tally marks are a
quick way of keeping People have ten
track of numbers in fingers and ten
groups of five. One
toes.
vertical line is made
for each of the first
four numbers; the
fifth number is
represented by a
diagonal line across
the previous four.

13

30

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thirteen
Thirteen is the
number after twelve
(12) and before
fourteen (14).

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thirty
Thiry is the number after
twenty nine (29) and
before thirty one (31).

1,000
thousand
One thousand is
a whole number
that is equal to
100 times 10.

12
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three

torus

Three is the number between 2

A torus is a
and 4. A tricycle has three
doughnut-shaped
wheels. A triangle has three
object.
sides. A Triceratops has three
horns. Tri means three!

trapezoid

twelve

triangle
A trapezoid is a
Twelve (12) is
A triangle is a
four-sided figure
the number
with exactly two geometric figure between eleven
parallel sides. that has three sides.
(11) and
thirteen (13).
Dozen is
another word
for twelve.
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1+1
3

0
Venn diagram

two

zero

unequal
Zero is a
A Venn diagram is
We have two eyes, Two things are
number
that
a diagram that uses
There are twenty (20) apples two ears, two arms, unequal if they
overlapping circles stands for the
and two legs.
above.
are not the same.
absence of size
to show
relationships among or quantity.
sets of things.
twenty

Measurement-Related Words
centigrade
Centigrade is a
centimeter
measure of
temperature that A centimeter is a unit of
is abbreviated C. measurement that is
Water freezes at equal to one-hundreth of
a meter.
0C and boils at
100C.

cup
A cup is a unit of
measure of volume
equal to eight
ounces of water.
Two cups are a pint
and four cups are a
quart.

fahrenheit
Fahrenheit is a
measure of
foot
A foot is a unit of
temperature that
is abbreviated F. measurement that is equal
to twelve inches.
Water freezes at
32F and boils
at 212F.

measuring
cup
inch

gallon
Four quarts
make one
gallon.

ounce

meter

A measuring
A meter is a unit of
An inch is a unit of
cup lets you
kilogram
length;
100 centimeters
measurement that is
measure
are in a meter. A meter is
equal to one-twelfth of a A kilogram is a
substances by
unit
of
weight
or
a
little more than 3 feet (it
foot. An inch is 2.54 cm.
volume (cups or
mass that is equal
is about 39.4 inches).
liters); it is
to 1,000 grams or
useful in baking
about 2.2 pounds.
and cooking.

ruler

pint

An ounce is a
protractor
A pint is a unit of
unit of weight.
A
protractor is a
measure of volume equal
One cup of
device that
to two cups. Two pints
water weighs
measures angles.
make a quart.
eight ounces.

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quart
Four quarts
make one
gallon.

A ruler is a straight piece

of material that is used for
measuring distances or
drawing straight lines.

weather
balloon

thermometer
A weather
A
thermometer is
scale
balloon is a
windsock
A scale is a A tape measure is used to used for telling
giant balloon
A
windsock
is a device
what the
measure length.
machine for
that is sent high
that shows which way the
temperature is.
weighing things.
in the sky to
wind is blowing and the
measure weather
wind's speed.
information, like
temperature,
wind speed, and
air pressure.
tape measure

yard

yardstick

A yard is equal A yardstick is three-foot

to three feet or -long stick; it is used for
36 inches.
measuring things.

Money-Related Words

bill
A bill is paper
money.

change

change purse

check

Your change is the Coins are carried A check is a piece of

money you get back
paper that is an
cent
in a change
order for a bank to
Cent is another word for after paying for
purse.
something.
pay money from a
penny.
bank account.

credit card
checkbook
Checks are kept in a
checkbook.

coin
A coin is a piece of
metal money.

A credit card is a
card that lets you
buy things on credit
-- you pay for the
items later.

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dime
A dime is a US
coin worth ten
cents.

dollar
A dollar is worth
100 cents.

nickel
earn

money

You can earn money

by working.

Money is used to buy

things.

purse

quarter

A purse is a small
bag in which some
girls and women
carry their money
and other things.

A nickel is a U.S.
coin worth five
cents.

piggy bank
penny

Children put money

in piggy banks.

A penny is a coin
worth one cent.

whistle
A whistle makes a
loud, shrill sound.

A quarter is a coin that

wallet
is worth 25 cents. Four
People carry money
quarters make one
in a wallet.
dollar.

People and Occupations

actor
An actor is someone who
performs a role in a play or
a movie.

baby
A baby is a very young
person.

artist

archer

athlete

Someone who is good

An artist
army
An archer shoots an
An army is a creates works at a sport is an athlete.
arrow with a bow.
of art.
unified group of
people who are
trained to fight
on land.

baker

ballerina

A ballerina is a
A baker bakes food in woman who
the oven, like breads,
does ballet
cakes, and cookies.
dancing.

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boy
A boy is a
young man.

brother
Brothers are boys or
men who have the
same parents.

bully
A bully is person who is
mean to others.

champion
A champion is the
winner of a game or
other competition.

dad

child
A child is a
young person.

children
Children are
young people.

Dad is another word

for father.

explorer
daughter
A daughter is a female
offspring.

An explorer explores
unknown places and
Divers swim under the A doctor can
discovers new things.
emperor For example, Magellan
water.
help you when
you're sick or An emperor is was an explorer who
an unelected led the first expedition
hurt.
ruler of a
that sailed around the
country.
Earth.

diver

father

family
A family is a group of
related people.

doctor

firefighter

friends
A firefighter is a
A father is a man who
Friends
are
person who puts
has a child.
people who
out fires and
like and
saves people's
respect each
lives.
other.

grandparents
grandfather

grandmother

The father of your father or

mother is your grandfather.

The mother of your

father or mother is
your grandmother.

Grandparents
are
grandmothers
and
grandfathers.

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girl
A girl is a young
woman.

heir
An heir is a
heiress
person who An heiress is a girl or
has inherited
woman who has
or will inherit inherited or will inherit
something of
a lot of money.
value.

hero
A hero is someone who is
admired for great courage,
noble character, and
performing good deeds,
like a firefighter.

infant
An infant is a baby.

human being
A human being is a
person.

husband
A husband is a
married man.

I is a word
that refers to
the person
who is
speaking or
writing.

imp
An imp is a
mischievous child.

janitor
inventor
An inventor designs
and creates new,
useful things.

A janitor is
kid
someone who
A kid is a
kin
looks after and young person. Kin are your relatives.
cleans a
building.

librarian
king

lady

A king is a hereditary ruler

of a country.

A lady is a woman.

me

mom

magician

Librarians take
A magician
care of libraries
performs
and help people
magic tricks.
find books.

mother

man
Boys grow up to be
men.

mummy

nurse
Me is a word that refers to Mom is another word A mother is a A mummy is a A nurse takes care of
woman who has preserved
the person who is speaking
for mother.
you when you are sick
a child.
or writing.
dead body.
or hurt.

pioneer
paleontologist
A paleontologist is a
scientist who studies
ancient life (like dinosaurs),
mostly by looking at
fossils.

people

person

People are human

beings.

A person is a
human being.

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A pioneer is a
pitcher
person who is
the first to do A pitcher is someone
something, like who throws a ball or
settle in a new
other item.
area or do
research.

prince

police

president

The police enforce laws

and keep order.

A president is the
elected leader of a
country or
organization.

quadruplets
Quadruplets are four
siblings (brothers and/or
sisters) who are born at the
same time from the same
mother.

sister

quintuplets

Quintuplets are
samurai
Scuba divers swim
five siblings Samurai were under the water and
A queen is a
hereditary ruler of a (brothers and/or
Japanese
carry their own air in a
sisters) who are
country.
warriors.
tank on their back.
born at the same
time from the
same mother.

soldier

son

toddler
Toddlers are young
children.

student

teacher
A son is a male A student is a
A
teacher
is someone
person
who
is
offspring.
who helps you learn.
learning.

triplets

A team is a group of people

that work together towards
a goal.

scuba diver

queen

Sisters are girls or women A soldier is a person

who have the same parents.
who fights for a
country.

team

princess

pupil
A prince is the A princess is
the
daughter
A
pupil
is a student, a
son of a king or
of
a
king
or
person who is learning.
queen.
queen.

twins

Twins are two

Triplets are
siblings
three siblings
(brothers
(brothers and/or
and/or sisters)
sisters) who are
who are born
born at the same
at the same
time.
time.

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us
Us is a word that
means yourself and
others.

veteran
A veteran is a person who
has had experience in an
occupation. For example,
ex-soldiers are often called
veterans - especially those
who have served in a war.

we
We is a word that
means yourself and
others.

wife

woman

A wife is a
Girls grow up
married woman. to be women.

you
You is a word that
refers to another
person or persons.

youngster
A youngster is a young
person.

Pets

angelfish
Alaskan
Abyssinian Cat Airedale terrier
aquarium
Angelfish are
malamute
An ancient, short- The Airedale terrier
brightly-colored fish You can look at fish
The Alaskan
haired
is a dog that was
in an aquarium.
that live in warm
malamute
is
a
domesticated
originally bred in
water.
powerful sled dog
England.
breed of cat.
from Alaska.

basset hound

black bear

The Basset Hound is

beagle
hamster
bloodhound
a lively and devoted
The beagle is a
The black bear
The
bloodhound is
Boston terrier
dog that has short friendly, playful dog.
hamster is a docile, the heaviest hound
The
Boston Terrier is
legs and long,
It was originally
black, short-haired
dog
and
is
an
an
intelligent,
lively,
droopy ears. It was
bred as a rabbit
hamster.
incredible scent
short-haired dog.
originally bred to
hunter.
tracker.
hunt rabbits and
hares.

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Burmese Cat
A short-haired
The bulldog is a
A bunny is a young
cage
domesticated
muscular, wrinkled,
rabbit.
powerful dog that
breed of cat with Some people keep
birds in cages.
was originally bred
golden eyes.
bulldog

bunny

canary
Canaries sing very
well.

in Britain.

cat
clown fish
Cats are mammals
The clown fish is a
and are great pets.
colorful fish that
Cats were revered by
Chihuahua
lives with sea
the ancient
The Chihuahua is a
anemones.
Egyptians.
small, alert dog from
Mexico.

collie

cockatoo

cocker spaniel

Cockatoos are birds

The cocker spaniel is
that have a large,
a friendly, obedient
feathery crest and a
dog that was
hooked bill. They are
originally bred to
from Australia and
hunt birds.
Indonesia.

dachshund

dog
The Dachshund is an
The collie is a
Dalmatian
Dogs
wag
their tails
friendly, intelligent, active dog with a The Dalmatian is a
Doberman
when
they're
happy.
and obedient dog long body and short white dog that has The Doberman is a
legs.
dark spots.
loyal, intelligent dog.

frog
emperor
angelfish
The emperor
angelfish is a
brightly-colored,
flattened fish that
lives in shallow
warm waters.

fish

fish bowl

Fish live in the water Fish swim around

and breathe with
and around a fish
gills.
bowl.

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foal
A foal is a young
horse.

Frogs are
amphibians. They
begin as eggs, hatch
into tadpoles (who
breathe with gills),
and grow up to be
frogs (who breathe
with lungs and lose
their tail).

gerbil

goldfish
golden retriever A goldfish is a type

Gerbils are small

Great Dane
A friendly,
rodents that some intelligent, energetic, of carp that makes The Great Dane is a great horned owl
The great horned owl
a nice pet.
people keep as pets. and very popular
large, short-haired is a large bird of prey
dog that was
dog.
from North and
originally bred to
South America.
hunt large game.

great white shark

The Great White
shark is a large,
meat-eating fish.

hamster

guinea pig

grizzly bear

groundhog
The guinea pig is a
The grizzly bear is The groundhog is a small, tailless rodent
The greyhound is the a large bear with a rodent that is also
that is sometimes
fastest breed of dog muscular hump on
called the
kept as a pet.
its shoulders.
for short distance
woodchuck.
runs.
greyhound

horse

hound

husky

kitten

Labrador
retriever

A hamster is a small Horses are very fast

Hounds are dogs The husky is a hardrodent that some
runners.
working, fastthat were originally
people keep as pets.
running
sled dog that
bred to hunt
was originally from
animals.
Siberia.

Irish setter

Jack Russell
terrier

iguana
Iguanas are planteating lizards that
often live in trees.

The Irish setter is a

Lhasa apso
The Labrador
The Jack Russell A kitten is a young
friendly, energetic,
The
Lhasa apso is a
retriever is an
terrier is a feisty dog
cat.
and high-spirited
intelligent and even- small, long-haired
that was originally
dog that was
dog that was
tempered dog. It is
bred to drive small
originally bred in
the most popular dog originally bred in
animals from their
Ireland.
Tibet.
breed in the USA.
burrows.

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lizard
Lizards are a type of
reptile.

mastiff

old English
sheepdog

Pekingese

The Pekingese is a
The mastiff is a
small, long-haired
The old English
huge, intelligent,
dog with a flattened
sheepdog is an
macaw
and powerful dog affectionate, long- face. It was originally
Macaws are parrots that is often used as
haired dog that was bred in China as a
from rainforests in
a guard dog.
originally bred in royal companion dog.
the Americas.
Great Britain.

Persian Cat
The Persian is a
piglet
pets
Pomeranian
pig
long-haired
A
piglet
is a young
Pets are animals that
The
Pomeranian is a
Pigs
are
hoofed
pig.
domesticated cat
live with us.
small,
friendly,
mammals that oink!
with a flattened
intelligent companion
face and rounded
dog.
eyes.

poodle
The poodle is a lively,
intelligent dog that was
originally bred to retrieve
game from the water.

pug
The Pug is a loyal,
affectionate dog that has a
squarely-built body and a
flat, wrinkled face. It was
originally bred in China.

puppy
A puppy is a young dog.

snake
A
snake
is
a reptile with a
Scottish terrier
sheepdog, old English
long, narrow body and no
The Scottish terrier (also
The old English sheepdog is an legs. It has skin with scales.
known as the Scotty) is a small affectionate, long-haired dog
dog that was originally bred to
that was originally bred in
hunt foxes and badgers.
Great Britain.

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rabbit
A rabbit is a small, cute
mammal with big ears.

St. Bernard
A large, muscular, heroic dog
originally from Switzerland.

Rottweiler
The Rottweiler is a
powerful, muscular,
determined dog that was
originally bred in Germany
to guard and herd cattle.

tarantula
A tarantula is a large, hairy
spider.

terrier
Terriers are dogs
that were originally
bred to drive small
animals from their
burrows.

turtle
Turtles are slow
animals that have a
very hard shell.

zebrafish

veterinarian

A veterinarian is a Yorkshire terrier Zebrafish are striped

tropical fish.
doctor who helps The Yorkshire terrier
is a small, intelligent,
animals.
long-haired dog.

Plant-Related Words

Appleseed,
Johnny
Johnny Appleseed
was a legendary
almond
man
who planted
acorn
apple
An
almond
is
a
type
of
apple trees
The acorn is the nut
An apple is a juicy fruit that
apple tree
nut.
through the USA.
of an oak tree.
grows on an apple tree.
His real name was An apple tree is
John Chapman,
a fruit tree.
but he was called
Johnny Appleseed
because of his
love for growing
apple trees.

Arbor Day
Arbor Day is a holiday
that encourages tree
planting and tree care.
In the USA, Arbor Day
is usually celebrated on
the last Friday in April.

avocado

banana
The avocado is an oily,
artichoke
bamboo
Bananas
are a
green fruit; it is sometimes
The artichoke is a
Bamboo
is
a
sweet, yellow
spiny, green vegetable. called the alligator pear.
very
useful
plant
fruit.
Avocados grow on trees in
from
Asia.
warm areas.
Pandas eat
bamboo.

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bark

blackberry

Blackberries are darkBark is the hard, colored, edible berries

outer covering of
that grow on prickly
the trunk, branches,
vines.
and roots of trees.

branch
bluebell
Bluebells are bell-shaped
flowers.

A branch is a
tree or other
bouquet
plant that grows
A bouquet is a from the trunk
bunch of
or stem.
flowers.

carnation
cactus
broccoli
bulb
Broccoli is a green
A plant bulb wil sprout
vegetable.
into a new plant.
Onions are bulbs.

carrot
A carrot is an
orange vegetable
that grows
underground.

cauliflower
Cauliflower is a white
vegetable; it is related
to broccoli.

A cactus is a prickly plant

that lives in dry places.

California
poppy
The California
poppy is a small,
cup-shaped
flower that lives
in dry areas.

celery
Celery is a crisp, green
vegetable.

cherries

A carnation is a
flower; it can be
white, pink, or
red.

compost

Cherries are a
Compost is
sweet, tangy, red decayed organic
fruit.
matter that
enriches soil.

corn
Corn is a yellow
vegetable you can eat
on its cob. Corn was
grown by Native
Americans for
thousands of years
before the Europeans
settled in North
America.

dandelion

cucumber
Cucumber is a cool,
crisp vegetable that is
good in salad.

daisy
daffodil
The daffodil is a yellow
flower that blooms early in
the spring.

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The daisy is a
pretty flower.

Dandelions are
weeds with
pretty yellow
flowers that turn
into seed puffballs.

deciduous

A deciduous plant
An eggplant is a purple
loses its leaves in
vegetable.
the winter. Apple
trees are deciduous.

fir tree
A fir is an
evergreen tree; it
doesn't lose its
leaves in the winter.

evergreen

eggplant

elm
The elm is a large, fastgrowing deciduous tree.

flower
A flower makes seeds.
forest
Flowers are a plant's A forest is a large group of
reproductive organs. trees and underbrush where
Hummingbirds, bees,
many animals live.
butterflies, and other
animals drink the sweet
nectar that is made by
flowers.

garden

greenhouse
A greenhouse is a
building, usually made
out of glass, in which
people grow plants.

forget-menots

fruit

Fruit is the part

of some plants
Forget-me-nots that contains the
are plants that seeds. Apples,
have beautiful
strawberries,
blue flowers.
oranges, and
bananas are
fruit.

grass

grapefruit
Plants grow in a
garden.

fern
An evergreen
A
fern
is a lacy,
plant doesn't lose
its leaves in the primitive plant.
winter.

Grapefruits are a type

of citrus fruit that
sometime squirt you
when you eat them.

Grapes are delicious fruit

that grow on vines.

Grass is a
common
flowering plant
that is found all
over the world.

hoe
A hoe is a garden tool.

holly
Holly is a tree with pointy leaves
and red berries.

iris
Irises are beautiful
flowers with long,
thin, flat leaves.

grapes

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green bean
A green bean is a
long, thin, green
vegetable. It is pod
that contains bean
seeds. It is also called
a string bean.

ivy
Ivy is a vine.

jumping bean
A jumping bean is a
seed pod in which a
caterpillar lives.
When the caterpillar
moves, the seed pod
moves. The
caterpillar will turn
into a moth
eventually.

jungle
A jungle is a wild
tropical growth of
trees, plants, and
animals.

kapok tree
The kapok tree is a large,
deciduous tree that is native to
tropical America, Africa, and the
East Indies. This fast-growing tree
is generally from 45 to 60 feet (1418 m) tall; it is the tallest tree in
Africa. The light-weight silky
down from the seed pods is used
as pillow stuffing, sleeping bag
stuffing, and for other uses.

kelp
Kelp is brown
seaweed that
grows in cold
water.

lemon
lawn

lawn mower

A lawn is a place You can cut the grass

outside where grass with a lawn mower.
grows.

lily

leaf
Plants use leaves to collect
energy from sunlight.

lime

log

A lime is a sour, green

citrus fruit.

A log is a short piece of a

tree trunk.

A lily is a funnel-shaped
flower.

mushroom
melon
Melons are fruits
that have a rind.

Mushrooms are fastgrowing fungi. They

grow in dark, damp
places.

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lettuce

A lemon is a
sour, yellow
fruit.

Lettuce is a
leafy vegetable
that is good in
salads.

maple tree

meadow

Maple syrup
comes from
maple trees.

A meadow is a
low, flat
grassland.

nectarine

nut

A nectarine is a
sweet, juicy fruit
Nasturtiums are plants with
with smooth
bright, pretty flowers and skin; it is related
round leaves.
to the peach.

nasturtium

kiwi
The kiwi is a
tangy fruit that
grows in warm
areas.

A nut is a dry
seed or fruit
with a hard
shell.

olive
An olive is an oily
fruit that grows on
an evergreen tree.

peach

orange
onion
Onions are sharp
tasting vegetables.

peanut

Oranges are sweet, juicy

fruit.

orchid

Palm trees are a

Orchids are primitive type of
colorful flowers
tree.
that live in warm
areas.

pear

The pear is a sweet

Peaches are
Peanuts grow
fruit with a thin
sweet, juicy fruit undergound; they are
skin.
with fuzzy skin.
a type of legume.

palm tree

pea pod
Peas grow in pea
pods.

peas
Peas are small, round
vegetables.

pepper
A pepper is a
plant
pine tree
sharp-tasting,
plant pot
Plants are living
A pine is an
A plant pot is a
hollow vegetable.
things that get their
pine cone
evergreen tree; it
container
in which a
Peppers can be A pine cone contains
food and energy from
doesn't lose its
plant is grown.
red, green,
many seeds from a needle-like leaves in sunlight, soil and air.
yellow, and
pine tree.
the winter.
orange.

plum
A plum is a
sweet, juicy,
purple fruit.

pumpkin

pod
Peas grow in pea
pods.

poppy
A poppy is a delicate
flower.

potato

prune

Potatoes are starchy

vegetables that grow
undergound.

A prune is a dried
plum.

rain forest

A rain forest is a
The pumpkin is a
raspberry
wet tropical
radish
large, orange
Raspberries are a
environment
redwood
A radish is a sharpvegetable that
type
of edible berry
teeming
with
plants
The
redwood is the
grows on a vine. tasting vegetable that
that grows on a
and
animals.
tallest tree, growing up
grows underground.
prickly vine.
to 360 feet tall.

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rice
Rice is a food. It is a
roots
grain that grows in The roots are the parts of a
warm, wet soil. Rice plant that gets water and
is an important food other nutrients from the
in much of Asia.
soil. Roots also store
energy and provide
support for the plant. Most
roots grow underground.

shovel
Shovels are used to
dig.

shrub
A shrub is a low-lying plant
or bush that has a woody
stem.

rose
The rose is a
beautiful flower
with a sweet scent.

seed
Seeds grow into
plants.

soil
Plants grow in soil.
stem
The stem is the part of a
plant that provides support
for the plant.

stick
A stick is a small piece
of wood.

tree

strawberry
The strawberry is a sweet,
red fruit.

string bean
stump
A string bean is a long,
thin, green vegetable. It is A stump is the part of a tree
that is left in the ground
pod that contains bean
after it has been cut or has
seeds. It is also called a
fallen down.
green bean.

tree rings

By counting the
A tree is a plant
number of tree rings
with a trunk,
trunk
in a tree's trunk, you
leaves, and roots.
A trunk is the major
can tell how old the
support of a tree.
tree was.

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shamrock
Shamrocks are small
green plants with
three-part leaves.

squash
Squash grows in warm
weather.

tomato
Tomatoes are soft and tangy;
they grow on vines.

twig
tulip
The tulip is a cupshaped flower.

A twig is a small tree

branch.

vine
vegetable
Vegetables are
very good for
you.

walnut

A vine is a plant that

doesn't have its own
Venus flytrap support. It grows on
vegetation
The plant life of an The Venus flytrap is
violets
other objects or
area is its vegetation. a plant that catches
Violets
are deep purple
creeps along the
and digests bugs.
flowers.
ground.

watering can

watermelon

Watermelon is a
A walnut is an
You can water plants large, delicious, red
edible nut from
with a watering can. fruit with a thick
the walnut tree.
green rind.

wheelbarrow
wheat
Wheat is a grain.
Flour is made from
ground-up wheat.

A wheelbarrow is a
small cart with one
wheel and two
handles.

wood
Wood is a useful
material obtained
yam
from tree trunks.
Yams are sweet
Wood is used to vegetables that grow
make furniture,
underground.
build houses, and
make paper.

yard
A yard is a small
outside area.

zucchini
Zucchini is a
type of squash.

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yucca
Yucca is a plant with
stiff leaves; it lives in
dry areas.

zinnia
Zinnias are pretty
flowers.

Prepositions
A preposition is a word that shows the spatial (space), temporal (time), or logical relationship of its object
to the rest of the sentence. The words above, near, at, by, after, with and from are propositions.

above

between

around

When something is
behind
Above means over When something
between, it is
is around
When you are behind
or higher. The cloud
located in a
something, it is something, you are to the
is above the
position
separating
near or close to it.
back of it.
mountain.
two other items.

in front of

out

inside
The bird is in the
cage.

outside

When you are

The girl on the right
He is going out the
inside
on
outside,
you are not
is in front of the The bird is inside
door.
The vase is on the table.
in
a
building
or other
bricks.
the cage.
structure.

with
over

under

The cloud is over

the mountain.

The cat is under

the table.

underground
Many animals live
underground.

With means.in the

company of or
having. The
children above are
with each other.

Shapes

cone
circle
A circle is round.

crescent

A cone is a shape that

A crescent is the
has a point at one end
shape of the moon
and a circular
around the time of
opening at the other
the new moon.
end.

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cube
A cube is a solid
geometric figure
with six square
faces.

curve
A curve is a wavy
line or surface.

diamond
A diamond is a foursided figure whose
cylinder
sides
are all the same dodecahedron
A cylinder is a figure
length. People play A dodecahedron is a
with a long round
twelve-sided regular
baseball on a
body .
geometric solid
diamond-shaped
composed of
field.
pentagons.

ellipse
An ellipse is a
flattened circle.

heart

equilateral
triangle
The sides of an
equilateral triangle
are all the same
length.

hexagon

hexaflexagon A hexagon is a sixThe heart is a shape

heptagon
A hexaflexagon is a
Fractals are patterns that often symbolizes
sided figure. Bee
A heptagon is a
folded geometric
within patterns within
love.
hives have
seven-sided figure. figure that can be
patterns.
hexagonal cells.
"flexed" to expose
its many sides.
fractal

isosceles triangle
An isosceles triangle
line segment
Mbius strip
kite
has two sides that are
A line segment is a A Mbius strip is a
the same length and A kite is a four-sided portion of a line.
piece of paper with
icosahedron
two angles that are figure in which the
only one side!
An icosahedron is a
two pairs of adjacent
the same.
twenty-sided regular
sides have the same
geometric solid.
length.

octagon
An octagon is an
eight-sided figure.
Stop signs are
octagons.

parallelogram
A parallelogram is
orb
An oval is an egg- a four-sided figure
octahedron
A ball-shaped object
whose opposite
shaped figure.
An octahedron is an
is an orb.
sides are parallel.
eight-sided regular
geometric solid.

oval

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.
pentagon
A pentagon is a fivesided figure.

point
A point is a very
small dot.

polka dots
Polka dots are
patterns of dots.

polygon
A polygon is a
polyhedron
many-sided figure
Polyhedra are
with straight edges. solids made from
polygons.

quadrilateral
A quadrilateral is a
right triangle
pyramid
rectangle
four-sided figure. The
rhombus
A right triangle has
The pyramids in
square, rectangle, A rectangle is a four- A rhombus is a
one angle that is a
Egypt are huge
rhombus, trapezoid, sided figure whose parallelogram with
right angle
buildings that have a
sides are at right
kite, and
equal-length sides.
(extending
90
square base and
parallelogram are angles to each other.
degrees).
triangular sides.
quadrilaterals.

round
Round things are
curved. A circle is
round.

spiral
A spiral is a curve
that winds in on
itself. Snail shells
have a spiral pattern.

trapezoid

scalene triangle

semicircle

The sides of a scalene A semicircle is half a

circle.
triangle are all
different lengths.

shapes

sphere

Everything has a
shape.

A sphere is a ballshaped object.

square

torus

A square has four,

tetrahedron
star
equally long sides
A tetrahedron is a
which are at right A star is a shape that pyramid formed by
angles to each other. has many points.
four triangles.

triangle
A trapezoid is a fourA
triangle
has three
sided figure with two
sides.
parallel sides.

zigzag
A zigzag is a line
that sharply turns
back and forth.

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A torus is a
doughnut-shaped
object.

Sports

archery

ball

baseball

basketball

baseball bat Basketball is a sport in

Baseball is team game
In archery, you A ball is round and
You
hit a baseball which you get points
that
is
played
with
a
ball
fun to bounce,
shoot an arrow
with
a
baseball bat. for throwing a ball into
and a bat.
throw, kick, or
(using a bow),
catch.
a basket.
aiming at a
target.

dart
A dart is a
football
small, pointed
Football is played
dartboard
game
exercise
object that is A dartboard is the
with an odd-shaped People enjoy playing
Exercise is very good for
thrown at a
ball in the USA.
target used when
games.
you.
target in a game.
playing darts.

go

golf ball

helmet

A golf ball is a small ball

A helmet protects your
golf
When you go,
used in golf - the ball sits
head.
Golf
is
a
sport
in
which
golf club
you are moving.
on a tee in the grass. Golf clubs are used
a ball is hit into a series
of holes using golf
to hit a golf ball.
clubs.

ice skate
When you wear ice
judo
skates, you can glide
Judo is one of the martial
across ice.
arts.

jump rope
jump
karate
When you jump, you go up and There are a lot of different Karate is one of the martial arts.
ways to jump rope.
down.

Olympics
martial arts
The Olympic Games began
medal
The martial arts
move
over 2700 years ago in ancient
mitt
include Aikido, Judo, A medal is an award that
When you move, you are
Greece.
A baseball mitt is a glove used to
you
can
wear.
Karate, Tae Kwon
not still.
catch balls.
Do, and other sports.

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play

roller skate

racket

When you play, A racket is used to

ride
hit a ball or
you are having
When
you
take a ride,
shuttlecock
in
fun.
you
travel
on
something
sports like tennis
else, like a bicycle, a
and badminton.
horse, or other means of
transportation.

soccer ball
ski
When you ski,
you glide over
snow or water.

A soccer ball is
made up of
pentagons and
hexagons.

Running is faster
than walking.

When you wear roller

skates, you can roll
along the ground.

stadium

swim

run

sports

A stadium is a
When you swim, you
Playing sports is fun and large building in
move around in the
which sports events
good exercise.
water.
are held.

team

tennis racket
A team is a
tee
A racket is used to
tennis
group of people A tee holds a ball
Tennis
is
a
sport
in
hit a ball or
that work
in postion so you
which a ball is hit over a
shuttlecock in
together
can hit it.
net
with
a
racket.
sports
like tennis
towards a goal.
and badminton.

throw
When you throw
something, you use
your arm to send it
through the air.

Storytime Words

act

actor

When you act, An actor is someone who

you do something performs a role in a play or
a movie.
or perform a role.

angel
An angel
embodies
goodness.

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costume

castle

People wear
A castle is a huge, fancy
costumes to
building where a king or
pretend they are
queen lives.
someone or
something else.

Once
upon a
time...
crown
dragon
A crown is a
fancy hat worn by A dragon is a big, scary,
fire-breathing, makekings and queens.
believe beast.

king
A king is a
leprechaun
hereditary ruler of
A leprechaun is a makea country.
believe tiny person from
Ireland who searches for
the pot of gold at the end
of the rainbow.

ogre

palace

Ogres are ugly,

scary and makebelieve.

A palace is a huge house

where a king or queen
lives.

folk tales

mermaid

monster

pirate

prince

Monsters are
mummy
A mermaid is a
scary
and
makeA
mummy
is a preserved
make-believe
believe.
dead body.
creature who is
half woman, half
fish.

Pirates robbed A prince is the

ships on the high son of a king or
seas.
queen.

Once upon a
time...
queen

story

ghost

Folk tales are Ghosts are make-believe.

stories that are
Boo!
emperor
passed
on
from
An emperor is an
unelected ruler of generation to
generation.
a country.

sword

Once
upon a
time...

princess
A princess is the
daughter of a king or
queen.

treasure chest
A story tells you about an A long time ago,
A queen is a
A
treasure chest is a
soldiers fought
hereditary ruler of event. It can be real or
tale
lidded, locked box filled
with swords.
make-believe.
a country.
A tale is a story.
with valuables.

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witch
unicorn
A unicorn is a
mythical, onehorned animal.

wand
A wand is a thin rod that
you can carry.

A witch is a
make-believe
woman who has
magical powers.

Time-Related Words
autumn
April
April is the fourth
month of the year.

Autumn is the
season
between
August
birthday
summer
and You have a birthday
August is the eighth
winter.
month of the year.
every year.
Another name
for autumn is
fall.

clock

century
A century is 100 years.

cuckoo
clock

A cuckoo
If you want to know clock has a
day
what time it is, look mechanical The sun is up during
at a clock.
bird that sings
the day.
every hour.

fall

calendar
A calendar lets you
know what day it is.

December
December is the
twelfth month of the
year.

February

Fall is the season

February is grandfather clock
hour
evening
between summer and the second
There
are
24 hours in a
Evening is the late part winter. Another name month of the A grandfather clock
day.
is a large, freeof the day and the early for fall is autumn.
year.
standing pendulum
part of the night.
clock.

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hourglass
An hourglass measures
time as sand falls
through a thin opening.

January
hour hand
An hour hand on a
clock tells you what
hour it is.

January is the
first month of
the year.

July

June

July is the seventh June is the sixth month

of the year.
month of the year.

Jurassic period

Mesozoic Era

Dinosaurs flourished
during the Jurassic
period, 208-146 million
years ago. Stegosaurus
and Apatosaurus were
two dinosaurs that lived
during the Jurassic.

The Mesozoic Era was

the time when
dinosaurs lived and
mammals evolved.
The Mesozoic lasted
from 250 million to 65
million years ago. It
began and ended with
mass extinctions.

March
March is the
late
third month of
The sun sets late in
the year.
the day.

May
May is the fifth
month of the year.

month

midnight
Midnight is 12:00 at
night.

noon

There are 12
months in a
year: January,
night
February,
At night, when the sun
March,
April,
minute hand
morning
goes down, you can
May, June,
A minute hand on a
July, August, The sun rises in the
see stars in the sky.
clock tells you how
morning.
September,
many minutes past
October,
the hour it is.
November, and
December.

November

October

October is the
November is the
Noon is midday, 12:00,
tenth
month of
when the sun is closest eleventh month of the
the year.
year.
to overhead.

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seasons
There are four seasons in
second
the year: winter, spring,
There
are
60 seconds in a
summer, and fall (also
minute.
called autumn).

spring
September
second hand
The second hand on a
clock tells you how
many seconds have
gone by.

September is the
ninth month of the
year.

Spring is the
season after
winter and
before
summer.

summer
Summer is the
season between
spring and fall
(autumn).

sunrise
Sunrise is the time
when the sun rises.

time zone
timeline
time

A timeline is a
graphic
Time is measured in
sunset
display
that
seconds,
minutes,
Sunset is the time when
the sun sets below the hours, days, weeks, shows a series
months, and years. of events that
horizon.
happen in a
time period.

The Earth is divided

into 24 time zones so
that everyone in the
today
world can be on
Today is the day it is
roughly similar
right now.
schedules (like
having noon when
the sun is highest in
the sky).

week
There are 7
winter
days in a
Winter
is the season
Triassic period
week: Sunday, between fall and
Dinosaurs and mammals
watch
Monday,
spring. In the
first appeared during the A watch is a small
Tuesday,
Northern
year
Triassic period, which
clock you can take Wednesday,
Hemisphere, winters A year consists of 12
lasted from 248 million with you to tell time.
Thursday,
are cold; in the
months, 52 weeks, or
to 208 million years
Friday, and
Southern
365 days.
ago.
Saturday. Hemisphere, they are
There are 52
warm.
weeks in a
year.

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Tools
chisel
awl

ax

An awl is a tool used

to make small holes
in things.

An ax is useful for
chopping wood.

funnel

hammer

A chisel is a tool
used to carve
wood, marble, or
other materials.

hatchet

drill

file

level

nail

A drill makes A file is used to smooth

things.
holes in things.

A funnel is a device A hammer is good for A hatchet is an ax A level is a tool

A nail is a long, thin
that checks if
pounding nails into
that lets you pour
piece
of metal that you
with a short
both
sides
of
wood.
things from one
can hammer into wood.
handle.
something are at
container to another.
the same height.

nut
A nut is a piece of
metal that fastens
onto a bolt or screw.

pliers
Pliers are tools that
hold things.

scissors

rake

saw
A rake is a garden
A
saw
is a tool
tool that helps
gather grass and that cuts things.
leaves.

Scissors are used for

cutting things, like
paper.

stapler
A stapler is a
tape measure
device that
A screwdriver is a tool
shovel
screw
attaches papers to A tape measure is used
A screw is a threaded that is used to put in Shovels are used each other using a to measure things.
and remove screws.
to dig.
metal fastener that
small piece of
has a slotted head.
metal.

screwdriver

tongs
Tongs are a type of simple
tool used to pick up things.

tools

tool box

Tools help us do work Tools are stored or

carried in a tool
and make things.
box.

wrench
A wrench is a tool that turns
nuts or bolts.

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washer
wedge
A washer is a round,
A wedge is a tapering block
flat object with a hole
(often made of wood) that is
in it, made of metal or
rubber. It is placed next used for holding things in place,
splitting things or tightening
to a nut to help fasten
things.
it.

Toys and Games

archery
In archery, you
shoot an arrow
(using a bow),
aiming at a target.

baseball bat

balloons

basketball

blocks

Basketball is a sport in
You hit a baseball which you get points You can build things
with toy blocks.
with a baseball bat. for throwing a ball
into a basket.

checkers
cards
Some people play
games with cards.

baseball

Baseball is team
backgammon
ball
Balloons
are
rubber
game that is
Backgammon is an A ball is round and fun
played with a
ancient board game to bounce, throw, kick, sacks that are filled
with air or other
ball and a bat.
played with tiles and
or catch.
gases.
dice.

chalkboard
You can write with
chalk on a chalkboard.

Checkers is a twoplayer game that is

played on an 8 by 8
square game board.

clown

brush
A brush is used to
paint, clean, or
groom.

bubbles
It is fun to blow
soap bubbles!

clay
Potters make
circus
beautiful things
A circus is a
out of clay, like
traveling show that
mugs, plates, and
has acrobats, clowns,
bowls.
and animals.

connect-the-

comic book
Clowns are people
computer
A
comic
book is a book
dots
who dress up in
coloring book
You
are
using
a
whose story is told in
When you do a
funny clothes and
You can color the
computer
right
now.
colorful
pictures
and
connect-the-dots
try to make you pictures in a coloring
some words.
puzzle, you make
laugh.
book.
a picture.

costume
People wear
costumes to pretend
they are someone or
something else.

crafts
Crafts are fun, artistic
activities.

dance
crayons
crossword puzzle
Crayons are colorful wax A crossword puzzle has When you move
your body
sticks that are used for interlocking words that
rhythmically, you
drawing.
you guess from clues.
are dancing.

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dice

dart
A dart is a small,
pointed object that
is thrown at a
target in a game.

dollhouse
A dollhouse is a
tiny house for
dolls.

dartboard
A dartboard is the
target used when
playing darts.

dominoes

disc
Dice are cubes with
A
compact
disc
doll
numbers on each side
contains
a
lot
of
Dolls
are toys
that are used in games.
encoded
information,
that look like tiny
A single one is called a
like
computer
games
people.
die.
or music.

doodle

A doodle is a quick
drawing
easel
Dominoes is a game
drawing done with little
A drawing is a
Some artists
played with tiles that
thought.
picture of something. draw at an easel.
have numbers on
them.

football
exercise
Exercise is very
good for you.

fireworks

Football is played
fishing rod
Fireworks are beautiful
with an odd-shaped
explosions in the sky that People use fishing ball in the USA.
rods to catch fish.
people send up for a
celebration.

game
People enjoy
playing games.

ice skate
golf ball
A golf ball is a small ball
golf
Golf is a sport in used in golf - the ball sits
golf club
on a tee in the grass. Golf clubs are used
which a ball is hit
into a series of holes
to hit a golf ball.
using golf clubs.

Internet
The Internet is a group
jack-o'-lantern
jack-in-the-box
of connected computers.
A jack-o'-lantern looks
A
jack-in-the-box
is
a
toy
that
You are surfing the
scary when it's lit up!
can surprise you!
Internet right now!

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When you wear ice

skates, you can
glide across ice.

illusion
An illusion is
something that
tricks your eyes.

jigsaw puzzle
jacks

To put a jigsaw
Jacks is a traditional puzzle together,
children's game. you match shapes.

jog
Jogging is good
exercise.

jump rope
There are a lot of
different ways to
jump rope.

jokes

joystick

Do you know any good

jokes?

A joystick is used
to play some
computer games.

judo

juggle

Judo is one of the

martial arts.

It takes good
coordination to
juggle.

karate

kite

knitting

kaleidoscope
A kaleidoscope is a
device that makes
beautiful, colorful
patterns.

Sweaters and
Karate is one of the You can fly a kite
on windy days. socks are made by
martial arts.
knitting.

martial arts
magazine
A magazine is
published
periodically.

magnet
A magnet attracts things
made of iron.

maze

The martial arts

Getting through
mask
include Aikido,
the passages of a
Judo, Karate, Tae A mask covers your maze is tricky.
face.
Kwon Do, and
other sports.

Olympics

origami

Origami is the art

The Olympic
of folding paper
Games
began
over
An oil painting is a
Nursery rhymes are
A baseball mitt is a
into beautiful
picture made using 2700 years ago in
glove used to catch simple rhymes that most
shapes.
ancient
Greece.
oil paints.
children enjoy.
balls.

mitt

nursery rhyme

oil painting

MOM
2002
palindrome
paintbrush
A paintbrush is used
to paint things.

painting
A painting is a picture
made using paints.

A palindrome is a
word, phrase or
number
that reads the
palette
same
forwards
or
A palette holds an
backwards. Some
artist's paints.
palindromes are: the
name Bob, the
number 101, and the
phrase, "Madam, I'm
Adam."

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pen pal
A pen pal is a
faraway friend
you write to.

project

puppet

A project is a task
photo
play
A puppet is a doll
that accomplishes
A photo, or
When you play,
that you put your
something.
Crafts
photograph, is a
you are having fun.
hand in, making it
projects are fun to
picture taken with a
pinwheel
move.
make.
camera.
A pinwheel is a toy that
whirls around when you
blow on it.

radio
puzzle
Puzzles can be
confusing but fun.

racket
A racket is used to hit a
ball or shuttlecock in
sports like tennis and
badminton.

A radio lets you

hear broadcast
music and talk
shows.

rhyme

Words that rhyme

riddle
have endings that
A riddle is a
sound the same, like question that is a
cat and hat or kite puzzle or a joke.
and light.

roller skate
robot

rocket

rocking horse

slide

snowman

A robot is a
A rocket is a machine that Children can rock
mechanical worker. propels itself into space. on a rocking horse.

A slide is a playground
Snowmen are
toy
that
you
climb
up
on
figures
made from
ski
and
then
slide
down.
You
snow. They melt
When you ski, you
can
go
very
fast
on
a
when
the weather
glide over snow or
slide.
gets
warm.
water.

When you wear

roller skates, you
can roll along the
ground.

sword
A long time ago, soldiers fought
with swords.

tangram
A tangram is a traditional
Chinese puzzle that can
be made into many
shapes.

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seesaw
Seesaws go up
and down.

soccer ball
A soccer ball is
made up of
pentagons and
hexagons.

team
stadium
A stadium is a large
building in which sports
events are held.

sports
Playing sports is
fun and good
exercise.

teddy bear

A team is a group of Teddy bears are

people that work
fun to cuddle.
together towards a
goal.

telescope

television
A telescope is a optical
A
television
is a
device that makes
tennis racket
tee
tennis
machine that
faraway objects appear
A
racket is used to
A tee holds a ball in
receives pictures Tennis is a sport in
closer and larger,
hit a ball or
postion so you can
allowing us to see distant and sounds. People which a ball is hit
shuttlecock in
hit it.
watch and listen to over a net with a sports like tennis
objects in space.
racket.
shows on
and badminton.
television.

tic-tac-toe
tent
A tent is a
temporary shelter
made of fabric.

tepee
A tepee is a house made
by some Native
Americans.

Tic-tac-toe is a
game for two
tongue twister
toys
players. The
Tongue twisters are We play with toys.
winner has to get
hard to say!
three marks in a
row.

vacation

train

A vacation is a
wagon
treasure chest
A train has an
time
of
rest
or
a
yo-yo
You
can
pull things
A
treasure
chest
is
a
engine that pulls
change
of
everyday
A yo-yo is a round
in a wagon.
railroad cars along a lidded, locked box filled
activities.
toy that goes up
with
valuables.
track.
and down on a
string.

Vehicle and Transportation Words

airplane

ambulance

anchor

automobile

bicycle

A bicycle has
Airplanes fly in the An ambulance takes sick An anchor is a heavy An automobile is a two wheels, a
car.
sky.
people to the hospital. metal device that holds
handle bar, and
a ship in place.
pedals.

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blimp
A blimp is is a
balloon-like airship
boat
that floats in the Boats float in the water.
sky.

camper

canoe

bulldozer

bus

car

caravel

A bus is a large
cab
A bulldozer is a large
vehicle that can take Cab is another
tractor that moves
many passengers to word for taxi.
earth.
places.

cart

A cart is a
You can travel and
A canoe is a small boat. You can travel in a car. The caravel is a large wheeled vehicle
sleep in a camper.
sailing ship that was that is pulled or
first made in Portugal pushed by an
in the late 1400's.
animal or a
Many world
person.
explorers used
caravels.

Conestoga
wagon

covered wagon

dump truck

A dump truck is a truck

US pioneers used
US pioneers used covered that can carry and then
engine
Conestoga wagons wagons pulled by oxen or
dump
its
load
(like
The engine of a train
pulled by oxen or
horses to move their
gravel
or
soil).
A
dump
pulls
the railroad cars
horses to move
belongings westward. truck toy is a great in a
along the track.
their belongings
They are also called
sandbox.
westward. They
conestoga wagons or
are also called
prairie schooners.
covered wagons or
prairie schooners.

engine
The engines of
an airplane
propel it
through the air.
Englines also
power other
vehicles, like
cars.

helicopter
fire truck
Fire fighters on a
funnel
fire truck help put
The funnel is the
out fires.
smokestack of a ship or a
train.

fuselage
The fuselage is the
main body of an
airplane.

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garbage truck

A helicopter is
A garbage truck
a flying
picks up garbage and machine. It is
hauls it to the dump. kept in the air
by a sideways
propeller on
top.

hot-air balloon
Hot-air balloons
hull
float through the The hull is the main body
air.
or frame of a ship.

jet
A jet is a very fast,
powerful airplane.

jet engine

junk

A jet engine is a
A junk is a
powerful motor that
traditional
propels a jet plane. Chinese sailing
ship made of
wood.

lifeboat
A lifeboat is a
license plate
small boat that
Every
car
has
a
A kayak is a small
keel
The landing gear of an license plate that tells is kept on a
boat with an
The keel is the bottom of airplane is the set of you where it's from. larger ship; it is
opening in the
a ship.
wheels used during
used in
center for a person.
landing and takeoff.
emergencies.

kayak

limousine
A limousine is a
very long, fancy
car.

landing gear

Mayflower

minivan

The Mayflower was the

A minivan is a small
name of the ship in which
van.
the 102 Pilgrims sailed from
England to what is now
Massachusetts, on the
northeastern coast of the
USA. The Pilgrims landed
on December 11, 1620.

motorcycle
A motorcycle has
two wheels and can
go fassssttttttt!

oar
An oar is used
to row a boat.

propeller

plane

A propeller is a
paddle
Planes are machines that
device with blades
A paddle is an oar fly in the sky. People ride
that
is turned by an
porthole
for rowing a small
in them.
A porthole is a window engine; it makes
boat.
boats (and some
in a ship.
airplanes) move.

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prow
The prow is
front part of a
ship.

sail
railroad tracks
Trains run along
railroad tracks.

ride
When you take a ride,
you travel on something
else, like a bicycle, a
horse, or other means of
transportation.

school bus
A school bus
carries children to
and from school.

sailboat
A sail is a large piece
of strong fabric that A sailboat is a
A rocket is a machine catches the wind and boat that has
that propels itself into
sails and is
propels a boat or
space.
powered
by the
sailboard through the
wind.
water.
rocket

ship
A ship is a very large
boat.

steamshovel

submarine

A submarine is a
A steamshovel is a
tail
machine that digs large vessel that can travel The tail is the
holes and can move underwater and carry rear section of
people.
dirt.
an airpane.

tanker

tire
A tanker is a truck
taxi
that carries liquids, People pay a taxi driver to A tire is an air-filled
covering for a wheel.
like milk or
drive them places.
Cars, bicycles, and
gasoline.
many other vehicles
use tires.

tracks
Trains run
tow truck
along railroad
A tow truck is a
tracks.
strong truck that can
pull cars and other
trucks when they
cannot move.

trunk

tractor
A tractor is a
traffic light
train
powerful vehicle
A traffic light directs
A train has an engine
that can pull a
traffic safely. Green
that
pulls railroad cars
plow or other farm
means go, yellow means
along a track.
tools.
prepare to stop, and red
means stop.

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The trunk is the

truck
large
A truck is a vehicle
compartment
in
that can carry big
the back part of
loads.
a car.

van
tugboat
A tugboat is a
sturdy boat that
guides large boats
in and out of
harbors.

A van is a truck used to

unicycle
A unicycle is a vehicle haul people and things
from one place to
with one wheel that is
another.
moved by pedals.

vehicle
A vehicle moves
people and things
from one place to
another.

wagon
You can pull
things in a
wagon.

zeppelin
A zeppelin is a
wheel
metal-framed,
wheelbarrow
wheelchair
A wheel is a
yacht
motorized
A wheelbarrow is a small A wheelchair is a chair
circular object that
A yacht is a very nice balloon-like
cart with one wheel and
on wheels that
rotates around its
small ship.
airship that
two handles.
handicapped
people
center.
floats in the
can use to get around.
sky.

Verbs: Action Words

A verb is a type of word that describes an action or a state of being, like wiggle,
walk, run, jump, be, do, have, or think.

break
When you break
something, it is
act
You bake food in separated into two
chop
clap
When you act, you the oven, making
or more pieces or is When something is
When
you
clap your
do something or breads, cakes, and
cracked. Broken chopped, it is cut into hands together they make
perform a role.
cookies.
smaller pieces.
things are often
a noise.
unusable.

bake

crawl
Babies crawl to
move around.

cry

dance

When you move

Sometimes people
your body
cry when they're
rhythmically, you
sad or upset.
are dancing.

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earn
drink
People need to drink
water every day.

You can earn money by

working.

fly

eat
We eat when we
are hungry.

When something
flies, it goes
through the air
without falling.
Many animals, like
fall
flies, butterflies and
If you lose your
birds, can fly.
balance, you can
People can fly in
slip and fall.
airplanes and
helicopters.

give
When you let
someone have
something, you are
giving it to them.

go
When you go, you are
moving.

have
If you have
hear
something, you are We hear things
in possession of it with our ears. Our
or it is a
ears give us a
characteristic of sense of hearing.
yours.

knit

laugh

Sweaters and socks People laugh at

funny things, like
are made by
jokes.
knitting.

play

pull

juggle

jump

It takes good
coordination to
juggle.

When you jump, you

go up and down.

learn

move

When you learn,

you find out
something new.

push

When you push

When you pull
When you play,
something, you
you are having fun. something, you
make
it move by
make it move by
pressing against it.
tugging at it.

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kneel
When you kneel, your
knees are on the floor.

nod

When you move, you When you nod your head,

you move it up and down.
are not still.

read
People read
newspapers, books,
magazines, the
Internet, and other
things.

ride
When you take a ride,
you travel on something
else, like a bicycle, a
horse, or other means of
transportation.

see
run
Running is faster
than walking.

sew

scream

We see with our You can sew using a

When you
eyes. Our eyes give needle and thread.
scream, you talk us a sense of sight. Clothes are made by
in a very loud,
sewing.
emotional voice.

shower
When you shower, you
wash your body in a
stream of falling water.

shrug
When you shrug,
you raise your
shoulders in order
ski
sit
to show that you When you sit you When you ski, you
don't know, aren't
rest your legs. glide over snow or
interested in, or
water.
have doubts about
something.

smell
We smell odors with our
nose.

split
When something is split,
it is divided into two
pieces.

teach
When you teach someone,
they learn something.

smile
People usually smile
when they're happy.

stand
When you stand, you
are on your feet.

think
You can think of
amazing things.

speak
People speak in many
different languages.

sweep
You can sweep the floor
with a broom.

sleep
We need to sleep
every night.

splash
When a liquid splashes, parts
of it scatter around. Children
like to splash around in a
pool.

swim
When you swim, you move
around in the water.

slip
If you lose your balance,
you can slip.

splatter
When you splatter something,
parts of it are scattered around.
Paint can splatter when you are
doing art work.

talk
People talk in many different
languages.

tickle
touch
throw
Tickling someone can make When two things touch, they are in
When you throw
them laugh.
physical contact with each other.
something, you use your
arm to send it through the
air.

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twist
When you twist
you pivot your
body.

walk
To walk is to move
on foot. Walking is
slower than
running.

write

understand

use

When you
understand
something, you
know it very well
or you know how
it works.

When you unzip

something, you
open a zipper.

When you use

something you do
something with it.

wave

weep

wiggle

This girl is
waving to her
friends.

unzip

vote
When you vote, you are
expressing your choice
for something or
someone, along with
other people as part of a
group decision.

work
Sometimes people When you wiggle you
weep when they're twist and move all When you work, you do a
task.
sad.
over.

yell

zip

When you yell, you

When you write,
yawn
shout
in a very loud
you put words on Sometimes people
voice.
paper.
yawn when
they're tired.

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When you zip

something up, you
close a zipper.

Weather-Related Words

centigrade
acid rain
Acid rain is
polluted and is
harmful to the
environment.

cloud
Centigrade is a
Clouds are
measure of
cyclone
temperature that white or gray A cyclone is a storm
is abbreviated C. object that floats of rapidly spinning
Water freezes at in the air and
air that is very
contains
tiny
0C and boils at
dangerous.
water drops or
atmosphere
100C.
The atmosphere is the gas that
ice particles.
surrounds a planet.

fahrenheit
Fahrenheit is a
measure of
A dust storm is a
hurricane
hail
temperature that
evaporation
very strong wind
A hurricane is a
that carries dust Evaporation is the process in is abbreviated F. Balls of ice that strong storm with
which a liquid goes into its Water freezes at fall from clouds high winds and rain.
across the land.
Dust storms occur gaseous form, for example, 32F and boils at are called hail or The very center of
hailstones.
212F.
when liquid water becomes
in dry areas, like
the storm, called the
water vapor.
deserts
eye, is calm.

dust storm

Ice Age
An Ice Age is a time when the
Earth becomes very cold and
ice
much of it is covered with ice
Ice is frozen water.
and glaciers. There have been
many Ice Ages on Earth; the
last one lasted from about 2
million to 10,000 years ago.

iceberg
An iceberg is a
huge chunk of
icicle
lightning
ice that floats in
Icicles are
Lightning is a flash
the sea. Most of hanging ice that of light in the sky
an iceberg is are formed from
caused by an
hidden under the dripping water.
electrical storm.
water.

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radar
meteorologist
A meteorologist is
a scientist who
studies the weather.

precipitation
Precipitation is rain, snow,
hail, or sleet.

Radar is a device
that uses
reflected radio
waves to located
objects at a
distance. Radar
is short for
"radio detection
and ranging."

rainbow
A rainbow appears
when sunlight passes
Rain is water through bits of water
that falls from in the air. The white
clouds. Rain is light is broken up
measured using into many colors.
a rain gauge.

rain

snowflake
Snowflakes are
made of snow Snow is flakes
they are
storm
of frozen water
crystals. No two A storm is very bad
that fall from
snowflakes look
weather, like a
clouds when it is
alike, but they
hurricane or a
very cold.
all have six
typhoon.
sides.

snow

sky
The sky is blue.

thermometer
A thermometer is used
for telling what the
temperature is.

water
Water is a liquid that we
drink and use to wash.
Water covers over two
thirds of the surface of the
Earth, and much of our
body is made of water.

sleet
Sleet is freezing rain.

tornado
A tornado is rapidly
twister
spinning air that is
thunderstorm
Twister is another
very dangerous.
vortex
A thunderstorm is a an electrical
name for a tornado,
Tornados are
Rapidly spinning gas or
storm with lightning (flashes of
a rapidly spinning
liquid is called a vortex.
bright light), which creates thunder funnel-shaped. If a
air that is very
tornado travels over
(very loud sounds).
dangerous.
a body of water, it is
called a waterspout.

water cycle
The Water Cycle is the journey water
takes as it circulates from the Earth to
the sky and back again.

weather
weather balloon
waterspout
Weather is the state A weather balloon is a giant
A waterspout is a that the outdoors is in, balloon that is sent high in
tornado that travels like how windy it is, the sky to measure weather
over a body of water. how hot or cold it is,
information, like
temperature, wind speed,
or if it is raining or
snowing.
and air pressure.

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A windsock is a
whirlwind
wind
device that
A weather vane is a Rapidly spinning air is called The wind is air
shows
which
device that points
a whirlwind.
that blows
way
the
wind is
the way the wind is
outside.
blowing and the
blowing.
wind's speed.

weather vane

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