Daily Idea #333: Dictionary

I had a friend in college who would challenge me to learn a new word every week. We would pick a word from the dictionary and all week, we would try to use it in a sentence. My vocabulary expanded and I actually looked forward to figuring out how to use said word in random conversations.

For today’s daily idea, I am going to do just that with my kids. I will have them open the dictionary to a random page and put their finger anywhere on the page. Where it lands will be the word we will learn. All day we will try to then use that word in different sentences. If it’s a longer word, we will also see what other words may be hidden in the letters. For example, if the word was “excitable”, we’d have to try and spell other words from those letters— exit, table, cite, etc…