Life Studies
This rare gemstone was the focus of our classroom investigation.
What is the Red Guardian ruby?
This is the product of six times four.
What is 24?
This brave nose-picking girl is swept into adventure after being kidnapped by pirates.
Who is Mabel Jones?
This is the amount of days in a leap year.
What is 366?
This ocean is the largest in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Known as “The Donut King,” this bakery owner was connected to the missing ruby.
Who is Randall Kolache?
If Tina buys 4 packs of stickers and each pack has 8 stickers, this is the total number of stickers.
What is 32 stickers?
In the word “cake,” the “a-e” pair creates this type of vowel sound.
What is the long 'a' sound?
Tina's birthday is on this date.
What is November 10th?
This U.S. state is home to the Grand Canyon.
What is Arizona?
This Indigenous nation lived on the land long before Los Angeles became a city.
Who are the Tongva?
When rounding 5,481 to the nearest thousand you get this number.
What is 5,000
Mabel ends up aboard this pirate ship, led by the fearsome Captain Split.
What is the Feroshus Maggot?
This winter sport involves players sliding stones across ice while teammates sweep the path with brooms.
What is curling?
This city is the capital of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
This glowing effect under UV light helped us test whether our ruby was real.
What is fluorescence?
A square garden has a perimeter of 20 feet. This is the length of each side.
What is five feet?
Words like "softly," "brightly," and "carefully" often belong to this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
This spring-shaped toy became famous for the way it flips end-over-end while traveling down stairs.
What is a Slinky?
This U.S. state is the largest by land area.
What is Alaska?
This artist, whose last name is similar to one of your teachers, inspired our abstract self-portraits using bold lines and geometric shapes.
Who is Paul Klee?
A 20 oz soda with 65 grams of sugar has roughly this many sugar packets (4 grams each).
What is 15 packets of sugar?
Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City, worked at this world-famous library.
What is the New York Public Library?
I arrive with the frost and depart with the light. A solid turned liquid, I vanish from sight.
What is ice?
The Bermuda Triangle stretches between Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico in this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?