Vocabulary 1
Thought or care.
Regard
Hopelessly.
Desperately
When Mr. Carle throws a dodgeball, his aim is pretty ___________.
Accurate
How many children did McBroom have?
11
McBroom shot the onions, what was the effect of this? What happened?
Mosquitoes cried.
Kind or forgiving.
Merciful
A large area of level or rolling land with grass and few or no trees.
Prairie
It didn't rain in the story McBroom the Rainmaker for a long time. This type of weather is called a ___________.
Drought
What is one of the words the story called Mosquitoes?
Skeeters, Gallinippers
The topsoil dried out. What was the effect of this? What happened?
Crops wouldn't grow.
To tell beforehand.
Predict
Planting.
Sowing
Mr. Reimers can ____________ the weather using his phone.
Predict.
What did McBroom load into the wagons?
Topsoil
True or False?
The watermelons that the children planted floated like balloons because the topsoil was dry from the drought.
True
Correct or exact.
Accurate
To make a sound with a lot of effort or strain.
Heaved.
The 5th graders at TRE _____________ want to go to the water slides.
Desperately.
What animal helped McBroom find the rain clouds?
A rain crow. (Yellow-billed Cuckoo)
True or False?
McBroom the Rainmaker knew if it was going to rain because of a pain in his leg.
False.
A period of time when there is very little rain or no rain at all.
Drought
A natural way of acting, mood.
Disposition
McBroom the Rainmaker and Buffalo Hunt both took place on the __________________.
Prairie
What crop did McBroom plant to save the farm?
True or False?
McBroom used chicken wire as mosquito netting because the mosquitoes were so big.
True.