Panda #5

Please always write the title of your assignment at the beginning.

Irregular Verbs (Grammar)

This assignment helps you practice past tense of verbs.  These are special verbs called irregular verbs.  Irregular verbs are not regular.  You do not add -ed to the end of the root word to make it past tense.

Examples:

The present tense is bring.  When you change it to past, it becomes brought.
The present tense is fight.  When you change it to past, it becomes fought.

Please find the past tense of the word, or the present tense of the word.  I  need to see both words.  Example:  bring/brought -- write the present tense first, then the past tense next.

1)  choose

2)  found

3)  write

4)  flew

5)  catch

6)  make

7)  rang

8)  sleep

9)  teach

10)  brought

11)  drew

12)  buy

Next, please write twelve sentences using one of the words from each pair.

Conjunctions (Grammar)


Conjunctions are short words that connect different ideas.  Examples of conjunctions:  and, or, and so.  Please write each sentence with the correct conjunction.  Be sure to edit your work and check for mistakes.

Mr. Kleen ________  Mrs. Kleen invited us to their house for dinner.

Sophie loves to jump up on my mom's lap, ___________ my mom doesn't like it.

You have two choices.  You may put the toy in your backpack, _____ you may leave it on my desk.

The play was filled with children in costumes __________  wonderful music that made your foot tap.

Australia is very hot in December, _____________ cold in July.

Turtles can swim _____________ walk.

I'm tired ________  I will go to sleep.

Tie your shoe laces ________ you won't trip.

We want to go to the movie, ____________  we don't have any money.

Adverbs (Grammar)

Please click on the picture of the reading owl.  Then, read the directions.  Write the whole sentence, and underline the adverb.

 

Lion #15

The two poems below use rhyming words.  Notice that some rhyming words have the same endings.  Some of them don't have the same endings.  Write the words that rhyme.  Remember, they just have to SOUND the same.





My vegetables are my enemies
My mom tries very hard to please.

A carrot in a sword fight can’t be beat.
A carrot on my plate I cannot eat.

Peas, a game of marbles I can do.
Peas with melted butter taste like goo.

Don’t even put a radish next to me.
My mother makes them roses, pointlessly.

Turnips, I can’t say I understand.
Don’t even bother opening the can.

Brussel sprouts are agony.
Broccoli is mean to me.

She’s tried them alphabetically.
And none of them appealed to me.

I can’t imagine Mom could ever bring
A single green or growing thing –

– But wait – of all the things I’ve had,
Zucchini isn’t all that bad.

  

Chameleon,
Come Talk To Me

Chameleon,
come talk to me.
Why do you change
So frequently?
Why can’t you stick
To brown or green?
Why would you wish
To be unseen?

With all those colors
Glorious
You’re really quite
Notorious
So scrumptious in
Those leafy trees
Foiling predators
Like me.

© Elizabeth Bushey

Illustration by Elizabeth Bushey

Panda #4

Here are 4 short poems from Kahlil Gibran:

            It is wiser for the lame not to break his crutches upon the head of his enemy.

           We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows.

            Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

            Give me an ear and I will give you a voice.

Directions:  1)  Read the short poem  2)  Write 3 sentences or more about what you think it means.  3) you may get help.

 

Example: Give me an ear and I will give you a voice.

 

This poem is about how two people can show each other care. It means that being a good listener is important. If someone gives me their ear, that means that they are listening to me. If they listen, then I will talk. Without their ear, I would not want to say anything to them. In the end, it's a great thing to be kind and listen. It shows that you respect the person who is talking.

 

Lion #14

Homophones

 
Directions: 
 
1)  Write the word and its homophone next to it. 
 
2)   Use them in 15 sentences.  You may use them in any combinations.
 
Remember, homophones are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently.
 

• buy
• prey
• peace
• die
• due
• blue
• one
• too
• your
• their

Panda #3

Grammar

Read these sentences once.  Then write the corrected sentences on a piece of binder paper.  Check capitalization, spelling, punctuation, verbs.  You may use a dictionary.

1)  she checked ever box for the best fud

2)  what time is the movie over asked the lady.

3)  that familys dog is very cute

4)  how does you make popcorn with out making amess

5)  are you gonna be angry with me

6)  my father once read a book by a author who tot writing

7)  books our maded from trees 

8)  triangles circles and squares are examples of geometric shapes

9)  those woman told me that the restaurant serves excellent food

10)  teaching a dog to sat can be fan


Fact or opinion

Directions: Write on a piece of binder paper, the answer fact or opinion. Write the sentence and the word fact, or opinion.

1) The multipurpose room is the best place to eat lunch.

2) There are exactly 184 tissues in this Kleenex box.

3)  Art is the best subject.

4) Flying in an airplane can be a lot of fun.

5) Eating a good breakfast in the morning is the best for good health.

6) Drinking water directly from the faucet can harm your health.

7) The students kicked the soccer ball so hard, it landed on another field.

8) Your computer is old. It's time for an upgrade.

9) My computer is old, but it still gets the work done.

10) My mom's cooking is absolutely, delicious!

Prefix or Suffix

A prefix is added to the beginning of a root word.
A suffix is added to the end of the word.

Examples:  Redo.  Re is the prefix.  The root word is do.  Walking.  ing is the suffix.  The root word is walk.

Directions: 

1) Write the word once from the list below.
2) Underline the root word. 
3) In blue, circle the prefix. 
4) In red, circle the suffix.
5) Write the part of speech of each root word (noun, adjective, verb, adverb).  Use each root word in a sentence.
6) Write the part of speech of the whole word.  Use the complete word in a sentence.

mouthful, writing, badly, recall, unnatural, revisit, dangerous, wonderful, government, bicycle.

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