You should NOT be working more than 30 minutes on English, no more than 15 minutes on extra math and about 15 minutes on spelling. But you HAVE to work everyday (except Sunday).
Really ONE hour of independent work every day isn't too hard!
Day 24
Reading
- Read The City Zoo. You can click to listen to it.
Vocabulary
- Word list: tirelessly, disrepair, contented, slumber, intently, exasperated, gleam, wallow , bulge, demolish, emulate
- Fill in a vocabulary worksheet page for demolish and emulate.
- The words are in the order they are found in the story. Fill in your worksheet “where” you found the word. That means copy the part of the sentence with the word in it. Example: worked tirelessly NOTE: the word may look a little different in the story, maybe wallowing instead of wallow, but it is the same word.
- Write a definition for each word. You can click on each word above to see the definitions. You don’t have to write out everything in the definition, just write what helps you understand what the word means. Example for gleam: shine That’s enough if it helps you know what gleam means.
- Draw a picture for each word.
Day 25*
- Do you know what all of the words mean now? Can you match the words to their definitions?
- *Can you do the crossword puzzle? You can print it out and look at this page to see how the words are spelled.
Day 26
Reading
Writing
- Copy this sentence: Now it is a very unusual thing for Mr. Toad to hurry, very unusual indeed.
- You are going to write a sentence in the same format. Here’s an example: It is a very exciting thing when we have our first warm day, very exciting indeed.
- What did I leave the same? What did I change? (Answers)
- Keep the beginning the same, but add in your own word. It is a very _________ thing…
- Then you have to add in your word (surprising, mysterious, sad, funny…).
- Then you write “thing” and tell about it. “unusual thing for Mr. Toad to hurry” ”exciting thing when we have our first warm day”
- Then you write a comma.
- Then you write “very” and then your word and then “indeed.”
- Read your sentence. Do you like it? Read it to someone else.
Day 27
Reading
- Can you match the words to their definitions?
Writing
- Copy this sentence: You know Peter is always ready to go anywhere or do anything that will satisfy his curiosity.
Day 28*
Reading
- Read chapter 3. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- When they got to Smiling Pool, where was Mr. Toad? (Answers)
Grammar*
- Read and fill in this plurals worksheet.
- When you are done, have a parent or older sibling check your answers.
Writing
- Write four plural nouns that were in you reading today.
Day 29
Reading
- Copy this sentence: He envies the birds because they can pour out in beautiful song the joy that is in them.
- Write a similar sentence. Example: Sometimes I envy birds because they can fly and soar in the sky.
- Write: “Sometimes I envy”
- Then write a kind of animal.
- Then write “because”
- Then write what they can do that you wish you could do.
Day 30*
Reading
Grammar*
- *Read this plurals worksheet and fill in the blanks. Use the examples to get the answers right!
- When you are done, you can have a parent or older sibling check your answers.
Day 31
Reading
- Read chapter 6. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Tell someone what happened in this chapter.
Writing
- Copy this sentence: “What was the use of wasting my breath?” demanded Old Mr. Toad. Make sure you copy the “quotation marks” and the ? question mark.
Vocabulary
- Can you match the words to their definitions?
Day 32
Reading
Day 33
Reading
- Read chapter 8. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Peter thought Mr. Toad’s babies looked like whose? (Answers)
Writing
- Copy these sentences: “I’m just watching my babies. Aren’t they lovely?” said he. Make sure you copy all of the “” and the ‘ and the ? and the .
- Write your own question sentence that ends in a question mark.
Day 34
Reading
- Read chapter 9. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- What did the pollywog do that surprised Peter? (Answers)
- Copy this sentence: “Why, I couldn’t do that!” he exclaimed right out loud.
- Write a sentence like the one above. Here’s an example. “I can’t believe it!” I shouted for everyone to hear.
- Write yourself exclaiming something! Use “” and an ! and then write who said it. Use the examples. See if you can do it!
Day 35*
Reading
- Read chapter 10. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Tell someone what happened in this chapter.
Grammar*
- *Print out the first page and find the nouns.
- You can check your answers with a parent or older sibling.
Day 36*
Reading
- Read chapter 11. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Tell someone what happened in this chapter.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. Notice every word has the AR sound, as in car and far.
Vocabulary
- Can you match the words to their definitions?
- Do you remember what envy means? (answer: to be jealous of)
Day 37*
Reading
- Read chapter 12. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- What makes Mr. Toad’s tongue so wonderful? (Answers)
- Why does Peter think Mr. Toad’s tongue is attached in the wrong place? (Answers)
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. Notice every word has the er sound. It is spelled er, ir or ur.
- What words can you think of that have the er sound? Here are some: purr, burn, burp.
Day 38
Reading
- Read chapter 13. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Tell someone what happened in this chapter.
Grammar
- Capitalize the proper nouns, the names of people, places and things.
Day 39*
Reading
- Read chapter 14. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Look for the word indignant in the beginning today’s reading.
- Look for the word hastily at the end of today’s reading.
- indignant means feeling angered or annoyed
- hastily means doing something in a hurry
- It’s time to act. Say this line indignantly, “I can’t believe you did that!” Say it like you are really annoyed!
- Now say it with envy, like you are really jealous that they got to do that great thing. “I can’t believe you did that!”
- Now say it hastily, really fast! If that’s too
hard, you can do something hastily. Picking up to things from the floor
would be a great thing to do hastily.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. This worksheet is about the OR sound.
Day 40*
Reading
- Read chapter 15. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Where does Peter look for Mr. Toad? (Answers)
- Where does Mr. Toad hide? (Answers)
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
- There are lots of ways to write the long I sound. Copy these words which each make the “I” sound in a different way: fire, pie, dial, pile, light, bicycle, by, bye, guide
Grammar
- Play noun basketball.
Day 41*
Reading
- Read chapter 16. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Why do you think Old Mr. Toad turn pale and leave at the end of the chapter? (hint: It has to do with who Jimmy saw that day.) (Answers)
Vocabulary
- To amble means to walk slowly.
- If you are smug, it means you have too much pride in yourself.
- Anxious means worried.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
Day 42*
Reading
- Read chapter 17. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Who did Mr. Toad see on the path? (Answers)
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
Day 43*
Reading
- Read chapter 18. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Who saved Mr. Toad? (Answers)
Grammar*
- Follow the directions on this noun worksheet.
Day 44*
Reading
- Read chapter 19. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
Vocabulary
- Scorn means thinking that someone or something is worthless or despicable.
- Feeble means not having physical strength.
- Who was feeble in this chapter? (hint: He was feeble because he was so scared.) (Answers)
Writing
- Write your name, address and phone number.
Day 45*
Reading
- Read chapter 20. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Tell someone what happens in this chapter.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
Grammar
- Catch the proper nouns.
Day 46**
Reading
- Read chapter 21. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- Tell someone what happens in this chapter.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
Vocabulary (*You can print it out front and back and hold onto it for a few days.)
- *Play charades. Go through the list below and act out your vocabulary words. Give this list (Old Mr. Toad vocabulary) to the person watching and they can guess which word you are acting out.
- Amble (walk like you are relaxed and taking your time)
- Feeble (act like you have no strength left in your body at all)
- Scorn (act like you want nothing to do with something)
- Smug (turn up your nose like you think you are more important than everyone else)
- Hastily (act like you are in a big hurry)
- Indignant (stomp your foot like you are really angry and annoyed with someone)
- Envy (touch something that someone else has and then pout like you want it)
- Anxious (act like you are really worried, bite your nails, walk back and forth, shake your head, make your face look worried)
- Play this vocabulary matching game with the words you have learned from your book.
Day 47*
Reading
- Read chapter 22. You can click to open the “smart reader.”
- What lesson does Old Mr. Toad learn? (Answers)
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
- Write five words that rhyme with words in the word box on your worksheet.
Day 48*
Reading
- Read chapter 23. You can click to open the “smart reader.” This is the last chapter.
- Tell someone what happens at the end of the story.
Grammar*
- Complete this noun worksheet.
Day 49*
Reading*
- *Fill in this book report form.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. Circle the three words that have the long A sound.
Day 50*
Reading/vocabulary
- Either read this story to someone and ask someone else to act it out as you read or ask someone to read the story and you act it out. Or, both take turns acting it out. I used boys but you could read it Jacqueline and Johanna and use feminine pronouns if you like. (Read off the screen or use the printed version on the Old Mr. Toad vocabulary sheet from day 46.)
- Jack ambled down the street, humming a song, smiling in the sun. He was on his way to his friend’s house for a birthday party. Suddenly he stopped. He had forgotten a present! Now he started feeling very anxious. What was he going to do? He decided he better go get a present. He hastily returned home and searched for a present. He didn’t know what else to do, so he grabbed his stack of baseball cards and put them in a paper bag. He ran out of the house and down the street. He was huffing and puffing and had to sit because he was so feeble from running so fast so far. Joe was already at the party.
- (The actor has to be Joe now.) Joe took one look at Jack’s bag and felt very smug. “That’s your present?” he said scornfully. “What? Did you bring him your lunch?”
- (Now the actor can be Jack again.) Jack was indignant. He knew it wasn’t the best looking present, but he still thought it was a good present.
- (The actor can be the birthday boy or not, but the actor will have to play Joe at the end.) Soon their friend started opening presents. He opened Joe’s first. It turned out that their friend already had one. Joe was upset that he wasn’t more excited about it. He opened Jack’s bag last. His eyes grew wide. He jumped up and started saying how great it was. He couldn’t believe Jack had given him so many. Jack was really happy he had brought them, but Joe was envious that Jack had brought the best present.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. You can use other paper to write the sentences.
Day 51*
Reading
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit Click to listen.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
- Make a sentence.
Spelling
- Play this homonym game (words that sound alike but are spelled differently.)
- Take this homonym quiz. Read the words that are the answer choices. Which word means what? Do you know?
Day 52*
Reading
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
Writing
- Write a sentence using smug or envious. Examples:
- She thought she was the best swimmer ever and was so smug about it.
- She was envious of how well the other girls could swim.
Day 53*
Reading
Grammar*
- Complete this worksheet.
Writing
- Write a sentence using amble or hastily. Examples:
- He ambled down the street whistling a tune.
- He hastily ate breakfast and spilled his juice.
Day 54*
Reading
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
Writing
- Write a sentence using indignant or scornfully. Examples:
- She was indignant that someone would step on her foot.
- She looked at the bread scornfully and said, “I would never eat that!”
Day 55*
Reading
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
Writing
- Write a sentence using anxious or feeble. Examples:
- The big storm made him anxious.
- He has been sick for so long he has become feeble.
Day 56**
Reading*
- *The Clever Owl – Print page 2. Read page 1. Check your answers on page 3.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. You can use other paper to write the rest of the story.
Day 57**
Reading*
- *Peanut – Print page 2. Read page 1. Check your answers on page 3.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. Notice all of the words end in “dge.” What sound do those letters make together?
Writing
- Write a sentence about the story. You can type it if you like.
Day 58*
Reading*
- *Old Socks – Print page 2. Read page 1. Check your answers on page 3.
Writing
- Write a sentence about the story. You can type it if you like.
Day 59**
Reading*
- *Baby Sister – Print page 2. Read page 1. Check your answers on page 3.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. Notice every word ends with a Y that sounds like an E.
Writing
- Write a sentence about the story. You can type it if you like.
Day 60*
Reading
- Scroll down. Read the two stories and answer the questions. Print your answers when you are done or have a parent check your answers while they are on the screen. Don’t lose your answers! (Answers)
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. Notice these words all end in LE.
Writing
- Write another question for each story. You can type them if you like.
Day 61*
Reading
- You are starting a new book today, The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk, by Thornton Burgess. I think this will be the last book you will read by this author, but he wrote 170 books, so if you like to read them, your parents can help you search for more to read on the computer.
- Read chapter 1 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Who were all of the characters in this chapter? (Answers)
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. All of the words have EA in them, but they sound different! Read the words out loud to tell which is which.
Day 62*
Reading
- Read chapter 2 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Do you remember who is sleeping in the barrel?
- What is the “problem with thoughtlessness?” (hint: The answer is in the very last sentence of the first paragraph-or section-of the chapter.) (Answers)
- So, what is the opposite? What does thoughtfulness do? (hint: It’s the opposite of thoughtlessness.) (Answers)
- Talk with your parents about who you can be thoughtful of them.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. These words look similar. Read the words out loud to organize them.
Day 63*
Reading
- Read chapter 3 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Why did Peter Rabbit become afraid? (answer: He thinks he might have killed Jimmy Skunk.)
Grammar
- Let’s do one last noun worksheet.
Day 64*
Reading
- Read chapter 4 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Who did Jimmy blame for rolling the barrel? (answer: Reddy Fox)
- What did Jimmy Skunk do to him? (answer: sprayed him)
- Jimmy Skunk walked away “with a great deal of dignity.” Dignity means he had honor and respect. He was sure he had done the right thing.
- Try walking “with a great deal of dignity.”
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. Notice all the words have double OO in them.
Day 65*
Reading
- Read chapter 5 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Copy this sentence: He stopped and into his yellow eyes crept a look of suspicion.
- Suspicion means a feeling or belief that someone is guilty or that a certain thought is true
- Finish this sentence: I have a suspicion that… (You don’t have to write it. Just say it.) Here’s an example: I have a suspicion that Andrew’s gotten into the cookie jar.
English*
- *Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet. This is about how GH and PH can make the sound F. Weird, huh?
Day 66*
Reading
Spelling*
- Read the directions and fill out this phonics worksheet.
- Copy all of the words in the list at the top of the page that have silent letters.
Day 67
Reading
Spelling
- Copy these words that all have OI in them: oil, boil, coin, noise, noisy, avoid, choice, point
Day 68
Reading
- Read chapter 8 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
Vocabulary
- In this chapter it says that Jimmy Skunk is shrewd. It means that he’s clever and smart.
- Jimmy thinks maybe he did Reddy an injustice. That means he thinks maybe he wasn’t fair to Reddy when he sprayed him.
Writing
- Write a sentence using at least two words from the spelling list on day 67.
- Here are examples: I made the choice to avoid all noisy coins. OR When oil boils, its noise is noisy.
Day 69
Reading
- Read chapter 9 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
Writing
- Copy this part of a sentence: Jimmy Skunk was smiling as he ambled towards the old house of Johnny Chuck. It is from the very first sentence of the chapter you read today. Make sure you make their names start with capital letters.
Vocabulary
- How was Jimmy Skunk walking towards Johnny Chuck’s old house? Demonstrate.
Grammar
- Play this grammar lesson. We are going to start learning about verbs.
Day 70
Reading
- Read chapter 10 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- How did Peter try to get our of Johnny Chuck’s house? (Answers)
- What did Jimmy Skunk say to Peter to get him back? (Answers)
- Tell someone the story of the book so far.
Grammar
- Play this verb game.
Reading
- Read chapter 11 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- What does it mean that Jimmy Skunk “kept his word.” (Answers)
- Play this vocabulary matching game.
- Can you unscramble the letters to make words? Click on the letters in order. You can also click and drag the letters to move them around. If you are stuck, you can look at this list of words for ideas.
Reading
- Here is a sentence from the chapter:
- Unc’ Billy grinned. “Good mo’nin’, Brer Skunk,” he replied. “Ah can’t rightly say Ah have. Ah had it on mah mind to ask yo’ the same thing.”
- Here is what it says: Uncle Billy grinned. “Good morning, Brother Skunk,” he replied. “I can’t rightly say I have. I had it on my mind to ask you the same thing.”
- He speaks with a kind of accent. He’s what we call a country bumpkin; it’s like in the poem about the frost on the “pumkin.” Do a little acting. Read the sentence out loud like Unc’ Billy would.
- Anytime you aren’t sure what he is saying, read it out loud to help you figure it out.
- Read chapter 12 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Try and write the sentence below in proper English. Read it out loud to help you figure it out.
- Ah have mo’ important things to worry about.
Reading
- Read chapter 13 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Jimmy Skunk can spray a stinky perfume. Who else has a “weapon” to keep others from attacking him? (Answers)
- defence – when you stop an attacker (This is an old way to spell it. We write defenSe today.)
- offence – when you attack
- What does the sentence below mean?
- Prickly Porky and I are armed for defence, but we never use our weapons for offence. (Answers)
- Copy this sentence:
- Prickly Porky and I are armed for defence, but we never use our weapons for offence.
Reading
- Read chapter 14 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- What are two different views about eggs? (Answers)
- *Print out the first page of this verb worksheet and follow the directions.
Reading
- Read chapter 15 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- What are Jimmy Skunk and Uncle Billy both thinking about? (Answers)
- Write the next section of the book. What do you think is going to happen? Are they going to get the eggs? You can type your story.
Reading
- Read chapter 16 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Why does Uncle Billy want Jimmy to go first? (Answers)
- Why does Jimmy want Uncle Billy to go first? (Answers)
- Play this vocabulary review game. Choose one of the games. When you get a right answer, you get to play!
Reading
- Read chapter 17 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- What hit Jimmy on the head so that he “saw stars“? (Answers)
- Watch this video about action verbs. The noun video shows up. Scroll down. Click on the verb circle (2nd one). Then click on Lights, Camera, Action Verbs!
- Write a list of eight action verbs from your chapter today.
Reading
- Read chapter 18 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Why did they have bad tempers? (Why were they in a bad mood?) (hint: It tells you in the last paragraph, at the very end of the chapter.) (Answers)
- *Try this verb worksheet. Just circle the verbs. You don’t need to write each one unless you like to write.
Reading
- Read chapter 19 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Why do you think Jimmy Skunk is not afraid of Farmer Brown’s boy? (Answers)
- Watch the video.
- Then click on the Level 1 quiz. Choose level A.
Reading
- Read chapter 20 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- impudent – not showing respect to someone who deserves respect
- acquaintance -- someone you know, but not really well
- Write a story about what you would do if you saw a skunk. You can type your story. Maybe you could start your story by writing, “I was taking a walk when all of a sudden a skunk ambled out onto the path in front of me.” Then what happened?
Reading
- Read chapter 21 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- Farmer Brown’s boy says to Uncle Billy, “Never lose your temper over trifles.”
- The word trifle(say it try-full) appears at the end as well:
- It had seemed a trifle, kicking that egg out of that nest, but see what the results were. Truly, little things often are not so little as they seem.
- The last sentence is our clue as to what trifle means. It calls them “little things.”
- What do you think trifle means? Does it mean things that are small? No, that’s not it. What do you think those sentences are saying? (Answers)
- Play the vocabulary review game. Choose any game you would like to play.
Reading
- Read chapter 22 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- What trick did Uncle Billy do to try and get out of trouble? (Answers)
- Did he fool Farmer Brown’s boy? Did he think the possum was dead? (Answers)
- Do this action verb worksheet.
Reading
- Read chapter 23 of The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk.
- How did Farmer Brown’s boy get Uncle Billy to stop pretending? (Answers)
- Do this action verb worksheet.
Reading
- Listen to a story.
- *Print out this To Be worksheet. (Don’t print the answers.)
- Read the directions and complete the worksheet. These are a different kind of verb. They aren’t actions. They tell what something is.
Reading
- Listen to a story.
- *Complete a book review.
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