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Enjoy a week of engaging warm-up exercises, including identifying fears, solving puzzles, creating compound words, and answering trivia questions. Sharpen your mind and have fun!
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Week 8 Warm-ups May 9th-13th
Tuesday, May 10th Warm-up Here are some types of fears. Write the letter of the fear that best fits the quotation. • Gynephobia • Arachnephobia • Toxicophobia • Xenophobia • Hydrophobia • Claustrophobia • Cardiophobia • Neophobia A. “I’ll need at least three life preservers.” B. “Don’t lock me in that small room!” C. “Women intimidate me!” D. “Nothing new for me!” E. “I don’t want to meet any strangers.” F. “My heart will not last much longer.” G. “Poisonous foods will be the death of me.” H. “Keep that daddy longlegs away from me!”
Wednesday, May 11th Warm-up • What letter is next in this sequence?O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, __ • What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and has a bed but never sleeps?? • yyyy u r, yyyyy u b, i c u r y+y 4 ? • How could all of your cousins have an aunt who is not your aunt? • What letter is next in this sequence?M, A, M, J, J, A, S, O,__
Thursday, May 12th Warm-up Start with a compound word (you choose!) made up of any two words. Using the second word of the compound word, add a new word to make that combination a new compound word. For example: greenhousehouseboat boatman manhandle handlebarbartendertenderloinloincloth…. See if you can continue the pattern through at least five words! (Suggestion: start with basketballor bedtime, and see how far you can take it.)
Friday, May 13th Warm-up • Does the Arctic Ocean cover the North Pole or the South Pole? • Were togas worn by early Greeks, Romans or Egyptians? • An adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, or….what? • What early Greek told the fable about the ant and the grasshopper? • Which of these is a palindrome: 56,546, 56,456 or 45,654? • What two animals are the parents of a mule? • What’s the official language of every South American country except Brazil? • Who was king of the Franks: Charlemagne or Constantine? • What do we call the two words at the top of each dictionary page? • Is Canada’s government headed by a president or a prime minister?