Fables
Folktales
The Human Body
Mesopotamia
Vocabulary
100
This animal dressed up like a sheep to fool the shepherd, but in the end he was taken to the market.
What is a wolf?
100
In these folktales, Rhodopis, Cinderella, and Billy Beg all lose the same thing. What do they lose?
What are shoes?
100
This is the helmet shaped bone that protects your brain.
What is the skull?
100
The name of the continent on which Mesopotamia is located.
What is Asia?
100
To think deeply about something
What is "ponder?"
200
In this fable, it is the animal that lays golden eggs.
What is a goose?
200
Thumbelina, Tom Thumb, and Isan Boshi had this in common.
What is they were short (also very brave)
200
The name of your backbone, and also the name for a part of a book.
What is the spine?
200
People in Babylon dug canals to do this.
What is move water from the river out to fields.
200
When an animal or object in a story acts like a person.
What is personification?
300
The name of the rabbit that sneaks into a farmer's garden to eat goodies.
What is Peter Rabbit?
300
In Tselane, the leopard does this to make his voice sound high and sweet like Tselane's mother.
What is drink a special potion (magical drink).
300
One of the things you can do to be healthy.
What is brush your teeth, wash your hands, eat good food, get plenty of sleep, get exercise.
300
One of the ways that people used writing for in Mesopotamia.
What is to write stories, write down laws, make records of something.
300
The kind of doctor that treats children.
What is a pediatrician?
400
Anansi is this type of animal.
What is a spider?
400
Hu Gu Po was this kind of animal.
What is a tiger?
400
The name of the system that includes your stomach, mouth, and small intestine.
What is the digestive system?
400
The name of one of the two rivers in our story about Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris or Euphrates.
400
To be very smart in a sneaky kind of way.
What is "cunning?"
500
Little Half Chick refuses to help these three things, and ends up being sorry.
What is the wind, water (stream) and fire.
500
In this story, an animal dresses up like a little girl's grandmother.
What is "Little Red Riding Hood?"
500
The name of the system that includes your bicep, triceps, and quadriceps.
What is the muscular system?
500
Hammurabi was the name of this kind of person in Mesopotamia.
What is a king (or a leader)?
500
A type of land that is dry, gets very little rain, and has very few trees and plants.
What is a desert?