Homework Sheet Week #21



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Homework Sheet Week #21

“Mister Bones: Dinosaur Hunter”

Spelling Amazing Words: To Build Oral Vocabulary

1. boat 1. excavate- Excavate means “to remove, uncover

2. road or make by digging.”

3. snow 2. fossil- A fossil is the remains of a plant or

4. row animal that lived long ago.

5. yellow 3. soil- Soil is the top part of the ground in

6. loaf which plants grow.

7. coat 4. abandon- If you abandon something, you leave

8. soap it behind. If something was abandoned, it was

9. blow left behind.

10. pillow 5. splinter- A splinter is a sharp, thin piece

broken off from a larger piece of something.

bonus: once 6. sunken- If something is sunken, it is beneath

wild the surface of the water.

7. decompose- Decompose means “to rot.”

8. nourish- Nourish means “to provide food and other things needed for life.”

Rewrite & Correct the following sentences.

1. the sno covered the rode?

2. the rode had lotes of sno on et

3. mom mad a lofe of bred?

4. nicks pilloo was biger

Complete the following math problems:

99-23= 25+44= 63-42= 66+33= 75-24=

Mister Bones: Dinosaur Hunter

By: Jane Kurtz

Illustrated by: Mary Haverfield

Genre: Biography

Vocabulary: once, wild, found, took, mouth

Read the words- (Once the wild T. Rex roamed the West. Buy not any more. T. Rex bones have been found in many places. Workers took the bones and put them together. Look at that mouth! Those teeth are sharp.)

What can animals bones tell us?

Smooth Barnum Brown was a charming, dapper guy. He went climbing over rocks in a topcoat and a tie.

He loved ballroom dancing, but he was not dancing now. He was digging in the dirt. What was he looking for? It was not shining silver. His wife once called it rainbows, but it was not in the sky.

Others wore bandannas and cowboy boots and chaps. Mister Brown came to Montana in a fancy coat and hat.

He poked and he sifted and he picked in the dirt. Was he hunting gold? No, nothing quite that old.

But what he hunted, people wanted just about as much as gold. Bones. Big old bones.

People said, “Barnum Brown can somehow smell bones.” His nickname became Mister Bones.

Mister Bones found bones in the middle of Montana-a backbone and a hip bone and other bones and chips.

Bones were packed in boxes, shipped off to New York. Putting them together took lots and lots of work.

Step back! Imagine that! Now what about a name? A name? Yes, a name for this amazing thing.

That job went to the museum president. Henry Osborn called it tyrant lizard king.

It was as tall as three men but had short, short arms. It had a wide, wild mouth and six-inch teeth.

Huge tyrannosaurus. Gigantic T. Rex. Mister Bones had found the tyrant lizard king.

Comprehension Questions:

1. What does “dapper” and “charming” mean?

2. Why did people want old bones as much as gold?

3. Why is the author telling the story of Barnum Brown?

4. Why is Mr. Bones sending the bones away to New York?

5. Who is Henry Osborn? What does he do?

6. What does the word tyrant mean? Where can you look for the meaning of this word?

Adjectives for Sizes

Some adjectives describe size. Words such as big, small, long, and short describe size.

Circle each adjective that describes size.

1. short neck

2. big legs

3. small brain

4. long tail

5. huge head

6. tiny arms

READ THE STORY: This is a one-minute fluency self-check test” Get someone to time you for one-minute and see how many words you can read within that minute. You can practice for several days so that you can get used to being timed, circle the number of words you read in one minute. (Please remember that it isn’t always important-about how many words you can read in one minute if you can’t retell what you have read.) Don’t forget to circle your one minute time when you turn your homework in on Friday.

Frogs, Toads, and Fish

I like the spring. My mom and I take walks. We 11

look at the big oak trees. We see the leaves blow 22

in the wind. We look at the yellow roses. 31

We like to go to a little stream. It is down the street 44

from my house. The stream has lots of frogs and 54

toads in it. I like to watch the toads splash in the 66

water. The frogs croak a lot too. 73

One day I saw some fish in the stream. I wanted 84

to show them to my mom. We slowed down to 94

see them. One wild fish splashed water on my 103

new coat. 105

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