Vocabulary
Define: Icebox
What is a freezer?
Define Noun
What is a person, place, or thing?
Define adjective
What are describing words?
Name the main character of the story
Who is Mr. Popper?
Because Mr Popper only worked part of the year painting houses,
What is Mrs. Popper is worried about having
enough money for the family.
Define: inquisitive
What is curious
Identify the noun:
"Penguins are very intelligent"
What are penguins?
Identify the adjective:
"It decided to jump up the slippery curve"
What is slippery?
Mr. Popper wrote to this person about penguins
Who is Admiral Drake?
Because the penguin is from an area of a great explorer
What is Mr. Popper decides to name his penguin
Captain Cook.
If you tell someone they look haggard, you are telling them look what
What is tired?
Identify the noun:
"It was very quiet in the barbershop."
What is barbershop?
Identify the adjective:
"He had put on a white shirt, a white tie, and white flannel trousers"
What is white?
Admiral Drake was on an expedition in this location.
Where is the South Pole/Antarctica?
Because Captain Cooks likes to sleep in cold places,
What is Mr. Popper has holes put in the
refrigerator and a handle put inside the
door.
What is a fancy walk?
Identify the noun:
"But he did not forget his duty to Captain Cook."
Who is Captain Cook?
Identify the adjectives:
"For such a big bird he takes awfully small steps"
What is big and small?
Admiral Drake sent this many penguins
What is one penguin?
Because Captain Cook walks quietly over to the refrigerator service man and pecks at him.
What is the service man runs out of the house
What is a concert, fair, super bowl halftime show, carnival
Identify the nouns:
"Mr. Popper showed them how the refrigerator was now all remodeled for the penguin."
What are Mr. Popper, refrigerator, and penguin?
Identify the adjective:
"But Captain Cook and Greta are both fat and sleek"
What are fat and sleek?
Mr. Popper put holes in this for Captain Cook to live in
What is an icebox?
Because during a radio broadcast, Admiral Drake tells Mr. Popper to watch for a surprise.
What is he receives a penguin in the mail