Helping Your Child Get Ready: Week 1
Here are some activities you and your child might enjoy.
Restaurant Review Next time you eat out, have your child write a review of the restaurant. Encourage him or her to use lots of descriptive words.
Secret Messages Suggest that your child come up with a code to write secret messages in. Have him or her trade messages with you or another family member.
Word Problem Reversals To help your child understand tricky word problems, have him or her work in reverse! Supply a number sentence such as 5 x 8 = 40 or 40 ÷ 5 = 8 and have your child come up with a word problem for it.
Set a Summer’s End Goal Suggest that your child set a goal for the end of the summer. Perhaps it’s becoming an expert on a favorite animal, or learning how to count in another language. Help your child come up with a plan for success.
Your child might enjoy reading the following books:Frindle by Andrew Clements
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
Special Note: The activity for Day 5 of this week is a mini-book. Have your child tear out the page along the perforation and cut along the dotted line. After positioning the two sections so the mini-book pages are in sequence, your child can staple and fold to form a book. Then he or she can answer all the puzzles in the mini-book.
These are the skills your child will be working on this week.
Math. adding without regrouping. adding with regrouping
Reading. sequencing
Writing. including details
Vocabulary. synonyms and antonyms. idioms
Grammar. sentence types
Handwriting. uppercase cursive letters
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Goals:1. Read 5 Books2. Go to library3. Learn to dive4. Build a treehouse5. Learn a magic trick
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Week 1 • Day 1
Synonyms/Antonyms
Lace up those synonym shoes! Each of the shoelaces has a word that is an antonym for a pair of shoes above. Antonyms are words that have the opposite meanings. Color each lace the same color as the pair of shoes that is its opposite.
Two Left Feet These shoes are all mixed up! You can pair them off. Each shoe contains a word that is a synonym for a word on another shoe. Synonyms are words that have the same or almost the same meaning. Put each pair of shoes together by coloring them the same color. Use a different color for each pair.
foolish
unwanted
ugly
needy
modern
little
sensibleenormouspopular
rich
early favoritereasonableattractive
good-looking massiveprimitivewealthy
Bonus: Create antonym socks. Challenge a friend to match them to the shoes.
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Week 1 • Day 1
Addition
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592,604 + 102,335
264,870 + 303,120
Climbing HighTo add multiple-digit numbers without regrouping, follow these steps. 1. Add the ones column. 2. Add the tens column. 3. Add the hundreds column. 4. Continue working through each column in order.
Add.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. To find the height of Mount Everest, begin climbing in Row D. Write the underlined numbers in order. Continue writing the numbers in Row C, Row B, and Row A. How many feet did you climb?
1,136 + 2,433
9,025 + 851
36,034 + 41,753
8,730 + 1,252
2,928 + 5,021
3,650 + 4,210
80,662 + 11,136
55,100 + 31,892
60,439 + 30,310
81,763 + 8,231
321,957 + 260,041
623,421 + 151,441
127,094 + 832,502
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Week 1 • Day 2
Including Details
Spout Some Specifics
Look at yourself in the mirror. Then write on a sheet of paper as many words and phrases as you can to describe yourself so that someone who does not know you would get a clear, vivid picture of what you look like.
To be a good writer, it is important to know what you are writing about, to be specific, and to include details. All this helps to create a picture for your readers and will make your writing more interesting and informative. Compare the two phrases below. Which one is more specific, interesting, and informative? Which one creates a more vivid picture?
a vehicle or an old, rusty, dilapidated pick-up truck with flat tires and a shattered windshield
For each general word or phrase, write a more specific word. Then add details to describe each specific word.
Specific Word Details
1. a body of water _______ _________ ___________________________________
2. a piece of furniture _______ _________ ___________________________________
3. an article of clothing _______ _________ ___________________________________
4. a child’s toy _______ _________ ___________________________________
5. a noise or sound _______ _________ ___________________________________
6. a tool _______ _________ ___________________________________
7. a group of people _______ _________ ___________________________________
8. a reptile _______ _________ ___________________________________
9. garden plants _______ _________ ___________________________________
10. a kind of fruit _______ _________ ___________________________________
11. a kind of vegetable _______ _________ ___________________________________
12. a drink _______ _________ ___________________________________
13. footwear _______ _________ ___________________________________
14. musical instrument _______ _________ ___________________________________
15. a holiday _______ _________ ___________________________________
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Week 1 • Day 2
Types of Sentences
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Types of SentencesA declarative sentence makes a statement. An interrogative sentence asks a question. An exclamatory sentence shows strong feeling. An imperative sentence states a command.
A. What kind of sentence is each of the following? Write declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative on the line.
1. Merlincarriedthebabytosafety.
2. Whydidtraitorspoisonthetown’swells?
3. Gobackandfetchthemissingsword.
4. Sliptheswordintothegroove,andpullitout.
5. ThekingwasEngland’sbravestruler!
6. WhowillfollowSelene?
B. Identify which groups of words are incomplete sentences and which are complete sentences. Write incomplete or complete on the line.
1. Sarahattheedgeofthesquare.
2. Theknightsfoughtsobravely!
3. HowdidKaytreatherdog?
4. Theswordoutofthestone.
5. Nataliewastrainedtobeapilot.
C. Correct the incomplete sentences in part B. Add an action word to each one. Then rewrite the complete sentence on the line.
1.
2.
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Week 1 • Day 3
Sequencing
A Real Cool CowboyThe events in a story take place in a certain order. This is the sequence of events.
Pecos Bill is a well-known character in
American folklore. His legend developed from
a magazine article written by Edward O’Reilly
in 1923. This cowboy hero is often credited for
being the creator of branding, roping, and
other cowboy activities. It is also said that
Pecos Bill taught broncos how to buck and
cowboys how to ride.
Legend has it that Pecos Bill was born in
the 1830s in Texas. He teethed on a bowie
knife and had bears and other wild animals
as friends. On a family trip to the West, little Bill
fell out of the wagon near the Pecos River. He was found by coyotes that raised him.
Two famous natural landmarks are also amusingly traced back to Pecos Bill—the
Grand Canyon and Death Valley. Supposedly, Pecos Bill once made a bet that he
could ride an Oklahoma cyclone without a saddle. The cyclone was not able to throw
him off, and it finally “rained out” under him in Arizona. This rain was so heavy that it
created the Grand Canyon. When he reached California, Pecos Bill crashed. It was
the force of his fall that is said to have created Death Valley. In actuality, some rocks
in the deepest part of the Grand Canyon date back to about two billion years ago.
The Colorado River began forming the Grand Canyon about six million years ago. Over
centuries, the water eroded the layers of rock,
and the walls of the canyon were created.
More erosion occurred later as a result of wind,
rain, and melting snow. Death Valley is a desert
in California and Nevada. It contains the lowest
point in the Western Hemisphere at 282 feet
below sea level.
No one is quite sure how Pecos Bill died.
One version says he laughed himself to death
after listening to silly questions a man from
Boston asked him about the West.
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Week 1 • Day 3
Sequencing
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1. Look at each picture. Number the events in the order in which they happened in the story. Write a sentence for each.
2. Four words from the story are hidden in the
puzzle. The definition of each word is given below. Shade in the letters for each word, reading left to right and top to bottom. The remaining letters will spell the name of a real cool cowboy two times.
a piece of writing
laughingly
attributed with
a particular form of something
Read a story about an imaginary character. On another sheet of paper, write five events from the character’s life in the order in which they happened.
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Week 1 • Day 4
Addition
Wild Birds
What do all of these birds have in common?They are ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______
______ ______ ______ ______ .
953 + 418
295 + 337
565 + 957
862 + 339
478 + 283
418 + 793
2,428 + 6,679
1,566 + 2,487
3,737 + 6,418
9,289 + 4,735
8,754 + 368
57,854 + 45,614
29,484 + 46,592
36,238 + 46,135
67,139 + 25,089
240,669 + 298,727
476,381 + 175,570
882,948 + 176,524
Z. B. R. Q. S. X.
I. A. Y.
F. E. P.
Y. C.
L.
D. O. R.
Some addition problems will require regrouping several times. The steps look like this.
1. Add the ones column. Regroup if needed.
2. Add the tens column. Regroup if needed.
3. Add the hundreds column. Regroup if needed.
4. Continue working through each column in order.
37,462 + 22,798
0
1 37,462 + 22,798
60
11 37,462 + 22,798
260
111 37,462 + 22,798
60,260
111
Add. Then use the code to finish the fun fact below.
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falcon
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632 9,107 1,211 539,396 1,201
76,076 1,059,472 82,373 10,155
651,951 92,228
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Week 1 • Day 4
Handwriting
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Letter MatchMatch the cursive letters to their partners.
abcdefghijklm
nopqrstuvwxyz
rzvpnsqyxwuot
fjblahekdmigc
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Draw
a p
ictu
re t
hat
illu
stra
tes
the
mea
ning
of
one
of t
he
idio
ms
in t
his
min
i-bo
ok.
Wri
te t
he i
dio
m a
t th
e
bott
om o
f th
e p
age.
8Similes
Exp
ress
ions
tha
t co
mp
are
two
thin
gs u
sing
th
e w
ord
s “a
s” o
r “l
ike”
are
cal
led
sim
iles
. C
omp
lete
eac
h of
the
se p
opul
ar s
imil
es b
y p
utti
ng t
he n
ame
of a
n
anim
al o
n ea
ch b
lank
. If
you
don
’t kn
ow t
he s
imil
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put
in
your
bes
t gu
ess.
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Food
s
Com
ple
te e
ach
of t
hese
id
iom
s by
put
ting
the
na
me
of a
foo
d o
n ea
ch b
lank
. If
you
don
’t kn
ow t
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dio
m,
put
in
your
bes
t gu
ess.
be
a co
uch
___
____
____
____
____
(si
t ar
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d,
be
lazy
)
wal
k o
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____
____
____
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be
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cau
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____
____
____
____
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a b
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rob
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spill
th
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____
____
____
____
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ive
away
a s
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a p
iece
of
____
____
____
____
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(so
met
hin
g t
hat
’s v
ery
easy
)
like
two
___
____
____
____
____
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a p
od
(to
be
very
sim
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go
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____
____
____
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Lucy
sai
d w
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lose
the
gam
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but w
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on.
Now
she
’ll
have
to e
at
her
wor
ds.
To
“eat
you
r w
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s” i
s an
exp
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ion
call
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an i
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m.
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can’
t be
tak
en l
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o un
der
stan
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hem
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u ha
ve t
o kn
ow t
heir
sp
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as w
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as a
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____
____
_
as p
roud
as
a/an
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____
____
as s
ly a
s a/
an _
____
____
____
_
as b
usy
as a
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____
____
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as g
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as a
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as s
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tub
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an _
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as g
entl
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a/a
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Anim
als C
omp
lete each of these idiom
s by putting
the name of an anim
al on each blank. If you don’t know
the id
iom, p
ut in your best guess.
have a ___________________ in
your th
roat (b
e ho
arse)
rainin
g _______________ an
d _______________ (rain
hard
)
be a ___________________ (feel fearful o
r anxio
us)
have ___________________ in
your sto
mach
(feel nervo
us)
___________________ aroun
d (p
lay no
isily)
smell a _________________ (susp
ect som
ethin
g’s w
ron
g)
have ________ in
your p
ants (feel restless)
2 Parts of the Bod
y C
omp
lete each of the idi-
oms on these tw
o pages by p
utting the name of a p
art of the bod
y on each blank. If you don’t know
the idiom
, put
in your best guess.
be all ___________________ (b
e eager to
listen)
ho
ld yo
ur ___________________ (be silen
t)
have yo
ur _________________ in th
e cloud
s (to d
aydream
)
make yo
ur ___________________ water (lo
ok an
d sm
ell tasty)
get it o
ff your ___________________ (m
ake a con
fession
)
4
get a p
at on
your ___________________ (b
e praised
)
make yo
ur ___________________ stand
on
end
(be scary)
be all ___________________ (b
e awkw
ard o
r clumsy)
stick your ___________________ o
ut (take a risk)
butto
n yo
ur ___________________ (keep q
uiet)
pull so
meo
ne’s ___________________ (fo
ol so
meo
ne)
catch yo
ur ___________________ (be n
oticed
)
on
your ___________________ (b
e alert)
give so
meo
ne a ___________________ (h
elp so
meo
ne)
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Create your ow
n sim
iles by completing each of
the phrases below. Try to m
ake your similes as descriptive
as possible.
as funn
y as _______________________________________________
as no
isy as _______________________________________________
as scary as ________________________________________________
as fast as _________________________________________________
as playful as ______________________________________________
as ang
ry as _______________________________________________
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Parent or Caregiver’s Signature
# 1Place
sticker here.
This week, l plan to read minutes each day.
l read for... minutes minutes minutes minutes minutes
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
CHART YOUR PROGRESS HERE.
Put a stickerto show you
completed eachday’s work.
’s lncentive Chart: Week 1Name Here
Week 1
Congratulations!Wow! You did a great job this week!
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Lace up those synonym shoes! Each of the shoelaces has a word that is an antonym for a pair of shoes above Antonyms are words that have the oppos te meanings Color each lace the same color as the pair of shoes that is its oppos te
Two Left Feet These shoes are a l mixed up! You can pair them off Each shoe contains a word that is a synonym for a word on another shoe Synonyms are words that have the same or almost the same meaning Put each pair of shoes together by coloring them the same color Use a different color for each pair
Bonus: Create antonym socks Challenge a friend to match them to the shoes
sensibleenormouspopular
rich
early favoritereasonableattractive
good looking massiveprimitivewealthy
foolish
unwanted
ugly
needy
modern
little
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592,604 + 102,335
264,870 + 303,120
Climbing High
Add
1,136 + 2,433
9,025 + 851
36,034 + 41 753
8,730 + 1,252
2,928 + 5,021
3,650 + 4,210
80,662 + 11,136
55,100 + 31,892
60,439 + 30,310
81,763 + 8,231
321,957 + 260,041
623,421 + 151,441
127,094 + 832,502
A
B
C
D
3,569 9,876
9,982
86,992
581,998
7,949
90,749
774,862
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89,994
567,990
91,798
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694,939 959,596
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Types of SentencesA declarative sentence makes a statement An interrogative sentence asks a question An exclamatory sentence shows strong fee ing An imperative sentence states a command
A
1
2
3
4
5
6
B
1
2
3
4
5
C
1
2
declarative
interrogativeimperativeimperative
exclamatory
interrogative
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Sequencing
16
1 Look at each picture Number the events in the order in which they happened in the story Write a sentence for each
2 Four words from the story are hidden in the
puzzle The definition of each word is given below Shade in the letters for each word reading left to right and top to bottom The remaining letters will spe l the name of a real cool cowboy two times
a piece of writing
laughingly
attributed w th
a particular form of something
Use with page 15
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3
1
4
6
2
Sentences will vary.
Sentences will vary.
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Add tion
Wild Birds
953 + 418
295 + 337
565 + 957
862 + 339
478 + 283
418 + 793
2,428 + 6 679
1,566 + 2 487
3,737 + 6 418
9,289 + 4 735
8,754 + 368
57,854 + 45,614
29,484 + 46,592
36,238 + 46,135
67,139 + 25,089
240,669 + 298,727
476,381 + 175,570
882,948 + 176,524
Z B R Q S X
I A Y
F E P
Y C
L
D O R
Add Then use the code to finish the fun fact below
1,371
9,107
76,076103,468
539,396 651,951 1,059,472
82,373 92,228
632
4,053
1,211
10,155
1,522
14,024
1,201
9,122
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B I R D S O F
P R E Y Scho
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Handwrit ng
18
Letter MatchMatch the cursive letters to their partners
page 11 page 12 page 14
page 16 page 17 page 18
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Draw
a p
ictu
re t
hat
illu
stra
tes
the
mea
ning
of
one
of t
he
idio
ms
in t
his
min
i-bo
ok.
Wri
te t
he i
dio
m a
t th
e
bott
om o
f th
e p
age.
8Similes
Exp
ress
ions
tha
t co
mp
are
two
thin
gs u
sing
th
e w
ord
s as
or
like
are
cal
led
sim
iles
. C
omp
lete
eac
h of
the
se p
opul
ar s
imil
es b
y p
utti
ng t
he n
ame
of a
n
anim
al o
n ea
ch b
lank
. If
you
don
’t kn
ow t
he s
imil
e,
put
in
your
bes
t gu
ess.
6
Food
s
Com
ple
te e
ach
of t
hese
id
iom
s by
put
ting
the
na
me
of a
foo
d o
n ea
ch b
lank
. If
you
don
’t kn
ow t
he i
dio
m,
put
in
your
bes
t gu
ess.
be
a co
uch
___
____
____
____
____
(si
t ar
oun
d,
be
azy)
wal
k o
n _
____
___
____
____
_ (b
e ve
ry c
auti
ous
)
in a
___
____
____
____
____
(h
ave
a b
ig p
rob
lem
)
spill
th
e __
____
____
____
____
_ (g
ive
away
a s
ecre
t)
a p
iece
of
____
____
____
____
___
(so
met
hin
g t
hat
’s v
ery
easy
)
ike
two
___
____
____
____
____
in
a p
od
(to
be
very
sim
ilar)
go
___
____
____
____
____
(g
o c
razy
)3
Nam
e
cho as c I c Summer Exp ess Be ween G ades 4 & 5
Lucy
sa
d w
ed
ose
he g
ame
bu
t we
won
N
ow s
he
have
to e
at
her
wo
ds
To
eat
your
wor
ds
is
an e
xpre
ssio
n ca
lled
an
id
iom
. Id
iom
s ca
n’t
be t
aken
lit
eral
ly.
To
und
erst
and
the
m,
you
have
to
know
the
ir
spec
ial
mea
ning
s.
as w
ise
as a
/an
___
____
____
_
as p
roud
as
a/an
___
____
____
as s
ly a
s a/
an _
____
____
____
_
as b
usy
as a
/an
___
____
____
_
as g
race
ful
as a
/an
___
____
__
as s
tro
ng
as
a/an
___
____
___
as q
uiet
as
a/an
___
____
____
as s
tub
bo
rn a
s a/
an _
____
__
as g
entl
e as
a/a
n _
____
____
_
o
wl
pe
acoc
k
f
ox b
ee o
r b
eave
r
sw
an
ox
mou
se
m
ule
lam
b
pota
to
eggs
hells
pick
le o
r ja
m
bean
sca
kepe
as
bana
nas
Anim
als C
omp
lete each of these idiom
s by putting
the name of an anim
al on each blank. If you don’t know
the id
iom, p
ut in your best guess.
have a ___________________ in
your th
roat (b
e ho
arse)
rainin
g _______________ an
d _______________ (rain
hard
)
be a ___________________ (feel fearful o
r anxio
us)
have ___________________ in
your sto
mach
(feel nervo
us)
___________________ aroun
d (p
lay no
isiy)
smell a _________________ (susp
ect som
ethin
g’s w
ron
g)
have ________ in
your p
ants (feel restless)
2 Parts of the Bod
y C
omp
lete each of the idi-
oms on these tw
o pages by p
utting the name of a p
art of the bod
y on each blank. If you don’t know
the idiom
, put
in your best guess.
be all ___________________ (b
e eager to
listen)
ho
ld yo
ur ___________________ (be silen
t)
have yo
ur _________________ in th
e cloud
s (to d
aydream
)
make yo
ur ___________________ water (lo
ok an
d sm
ell tasty)
get it o
ff your ___________________ (m
ake a con
fession
)
4
get a p
at on
your __________
________ (be p
raised)
make yo
ur ___________________ stand
on
end
(be scary)
be a
l ___________________ (be aw
kward
or clum
sy)
stick your ___________________ o
ut (take a risk)
butto
n yo
ur ___________________ (keep q
uiet)
pull so
meo
ne’s __________
________ (foo
l som
eon
e)
catch yo
ur ___________________ (be n
oticed
)
on
your ___________________ (b
e alert)
give so
meo
ne a ___________________ (h
elp so
meo
ne)
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S ho as ic nc Summer Ex re s B twe n G ades 4 & 5
Create your ow
n sim
iles by completing each of
the phrases below. Try to m
ake your similes as descriptive
as possible.
as funn
y as _______________________________________________
as no
isy as _______________________________________________
as scary as ________________________________________________
as fast as _________________________________________________
as playful as ______________________________________________
as ang
ry as _______________________________________________
frog
ears
backhair
thumbs
neckiplegeye
toeshand
tongueheadm
outh
chest
catsdogs
chicken
butterflieshorseratants
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