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2012-01-30T15:44:00.003Z

Term 2 Vocabulary
English
Comma – a punctuation mark to show a small pause in a sentence.
Question mark – a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence to show a question has been asked.
Speech marks – double commas placed above and at the start of a character´s speaking in a story, and placed immediately after the character has stopped speaking.
Noun – a word used to name a person, place, animal or thing.
Verb – an action or doing word such as run, skip, hop, jump.
Adjective – this describes a noun, for example, the happy child.
List – names, words, or other items written one after the other, like a shopping list.
Synonym – a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word.
Antonym – a word having the opposite meaning of a given word.
Connective – a word used to join two ideas together, such as and, but, because.
Plural – meaning more than one of something

Maths
Odd number – any number that ends in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
Even number – any number that ends in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8
Ordinal number – a number showing position in a series .. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc.
Greater than › used to show one number in relation to another … 36 › 20
Less than ‹ used to show one number in relation to another … 20 ‹ 36
Clockwise - to show the direction of movement, like the hands on a clock
Anti-clockwise to show movement in the opposite direction to a clock
Right angle - an angle made when a straight horizontal line and a straight vertical line meet
Compare - to say how much bigger or smaller one thing is to another
Estimate – to make a smart guess, using information you already know
Multiply – to calculate how many groups of something you have
Multiplication – the calculation you do when you multiply
Divide – to calculate how many you have when you share something equally
Division – the calculation you do when you divide
Share – to separate something into equal parts

Materials
Wood – what trees are made from
Plastic – a light, man-made material that can be moulded and is strong.
Leather – the skin of an animal, such as a cow, with the hair taken away.
Metal – a material that has a bright shine, often hard, smooth and cold to touch. Heat and electricity can pass along it
Clay – very small pieces of dirt which float in a stream or river, then sink to the bottom where they press on each other and stick together
Natural material – a material made by nature
Man-made material – a material made by people or machines from natural materials
Properties – a material can be chosen for a particular job because of its properties. For example, an umbrella will be made from nylon or plastic because because these materials are waterproof
Ice – water frozen solid
Steam – tiny drops of water (called vapour) that rise into the air when water boils.
Prediction – when you make a smart guess about what will happen
Boil – when water is heated to 100oC and bubbles show on the top of the water, this is boiling.
Melt – when something changes from a solid to a liquid often after is has been heated
Freeze – when a liquid gets very cold to a temperature of 0oC it changes from the liquid to ice.

Electricity
Electricity – a strong kind of power that can make many things work, like a T.V
Dangerous – something that is unsafe, where you could hurt yourself.
Battery – a small, hard solid object full of electricity.
Plug – An object on the end of a lead which you put into the wall socket
to connect electricity to something, like a computer.
Socket – the small square object on the wall, with holes in it, where you push in a plug to connect to the electricity.
Connect – to join 2 things together
Mains – the electricity supply that comes from the socket in the wall
Wire / cable – the lead connected to an electrical object
Circuit – a circular route beginning and ending at the same place.
Bulb – a small glass abject with an electrical fine metal element inside. When this has electricity it will make light
Switch – a device for turning something on or off
Break – a break in a circuit means an interruption in the circuit
Kenya
Map – a picture showing the shape of and places within a country, continent or the world
Atlas – a book with lots of maps in it
Globe – A picture of the world shown on a sphere
Physical features – natural parts of the land, like mountains, deserts, beaches
Human features – things built in a place by people like hotels, houses
Map Key – objects on a map shown as small, simple pictures, like mountains or a river
Investigate – to find out information
Climate – the weather
Landscape – how the land looks in any particular place
Safari – a journey over land to see wild animals, like elephants, giraffes, hippos
Secondary sources – information about a place that is in books, written by people who may not have actually been to the places they write about.
Capital city – the most important city in a country where the leaders of the country work.

Florence Nightingale
Famous – Well known by lots of people
Present – what is happening now
Past – what has already happened
Timeline – a line showing important events in the order they happened
Sequence – one thing following another, in order
Century – 100 years
Nurse – a man or woman who looks after sick people in hospital or in their home
Event – something that happens, usually important
Fashion – the style of clothes people wear
Journey – going from one place to another
Wounded – being hurt somewhere on your body by a cut or a bullet
War – a fight between two or more countries

Art
Pastels – chalk-like crayons which are soft colours
Shade – to make parts / all of a picture darker by shading
Silhouette – the black outline of a shape completely filled in with black
Horizon – the line where the sky meets the land or sea
Landscape – what you can see when you look at a large piece of land
Texture – how a surface looks and feels
Pattern – a decorative design
Images – pictures
Composition – different objects in a picture that make up the whole picture
Mask – a covering for all or part of the face to hide who you are
Jewellery – things worn on the body to make you look nice, like earrings, necklaces, bracelets
Artefact – a man-made object with a particular use

Useful Vocabulary Information for Grade 1

2011-10-20T10:42:00.000+01:00

Grade 1 Term 1 : Vocabulary
English

Character – a person or animal in a story book that speaks or thinks.
Setting – where a story takes place.
Beginning – the start of a story.
Ending – the end of a story.
Author - a person who writes a book.
Illustrator – a person who draws the pictures in a book.
Blurb – the information on the back of a book to tell you what the book
is about.
Sentence – a group of words that go together to tell you something.
Capital letter – upper case alphabet letter.
Full stop – a small black dot to mark the end of a sentence.

Maths

+ add, plus, make, altogether, addition, total, sum, more
- subtract, less, leaves, take away, minus, difference between

before between after

Plants

Flower – the part of a plant that makes seeds.
Leaf – one of the flat parts that grow on plants. Many leaves are green.
Stem – the main part of a plant above the ground.
Petal – one of the brightly coloured parts of a flower at the top of the stem.
Roots – the underground part of a plant which gets the food and water from
the soil it is in.
Seed – a tiny part of the fruit of a plant. Other plants of the same kind will
grow from the seed when it is put in the ground and cared for.
Bean – the seed of various climbing plants, eaten as a vegetable
Germinate – causes a seed to start to grow

Forces

Force – energy, power or strength needed to make something move or change
shape
Push – when you push something you use your hands to move it away from you.
Pull – when you pull something you use your hands to pull it towards you.
Stretch – when you stretch something you pull it to make it longer, wider or
tighter.
Roll – to move forward along a surface by repeatedly turning over.
Spin – to turn round and round quickly
Squash – to squeeze, press or push something together to make it smaller
or flatter.
Slide – to move over a surface while keeping smooth, continuous contact.
Bounce – when something bounces, it springs back.
Turn – when you turn you move round to a different direction.

Seaside

Shoreline – the edge of a body of water.
Coast – the land next to the sea.
Lighthouse – a tall building with a very bright light at the top to help ships
see any rocks and other boats near the coast, when it is dark.
Seagull – a large sea bird with white and grey feathers.
Wave – an up and down movement of the sea which moves towards the shore.
Beach – land by the edge of the sea, usually covered with sand or small stones.
Bucket – a container with a handle to carry sand or water.
Spade – a tool with a long handle and a short wide blade, used for digging.
Rockpool – a pool of water among rocks, usually found along the shoreline.

Dinosaurs

Herbivore – an animal that only eats plant.
Carnivore – an animal that only eats meat.
Omnivore – an animal that eats both meat and plants.
Predator – an animal that kills and eats other animals.
Prey – an animal that is killed and eaten by other animals.
Extinct – when there are no more of that animal or plant living.
Fossil – what is left from a dead animal or plant pressed deep
into the ground millions of years ago.

Skeleton – all the bones that hold up the body of an animal or person.
Timeline – a line showing important dates from the past, in the order they
happened.
Archaeologist – someone who studies places, people, animals from a very long
time ago.

Art
Mosaic – a picture or decorative design made up of little pieces of paper,
stone or glass.
Portrait – a painting, drawing or picture of a person that looks very much
like them, often of just the head and shoulders.
Sculpture – the art of shaping figures or designs in 3D from materials such
As clay, sand, marble, metal or wood.

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2011-09-13T15:41:00.001+01:00

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