1 / 6

February Fun Week: Engaging Warm-ups and Trivia for Almost-Valentine's Day!

Dive into daily vocabulary challenges, proverbs unscrambling, letter puzzles, historical tidbits, and trivia questions to stimulate your mind this week before Valentine's Day! Strengthen your mental skills while having fun.

mooree
Download Presentation

February Fun Week: Engaging Warm-ups and Trivia for Almost-Valentine's Day!

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. February 9th-13th Warm-ups Happy Almost-Valentines Day!

  2. Monday, February 9th Warm-up See if you know these words that often appear on the SAT. banal belittle calamity commence disdain ingenious limber pivotal prompt subsequent torment spontaneous 1. following after 7. begin 2. on time 8. to put someone down 3. crucial 9. clever 4. common 10. scorn 5. to annoy or tease 11. disaster 6. flexible 12. unplanned

  3. Tuesday, February 10th Warm-up Unscramble these eleven proverbs. • Good die the only young • Be boys will boys • Over milk don’t spilled cry • Leap look you before • Is believing seeing • Still deep waters run • Horse look in mouth don’t a gift the • The wheel the oil squeaky gets • Survive only the strong • Is as strong weakest link a its chain as • Makes fonder the grow absence heart

  4. Wednesday, February 11th Warm-up Unscramble these words that have a double z combination. • (zzmleu) the front end of a firearm • (zzlepu) to confuse • (zzlaref) fray • (zzonel) the spout at the end of a hose • (zzifle) to make a hissing sound • (zzidlre) to rain lightly • (zzmleeeb) to make money fraudulently (illegally) • (zzslei) to be extremely hot • (zzebadle) to bewilder • (zzeulg) to drink greedily

  5. Thursday, February 12th Warm-up Today we celebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky on February 12th, 1809. Identify the following words each having the letters ABE in that order within the word. • _ABE_ : a tag • _ABE_ :a sword (hint: think Star Wars weapons…) • AB _ _ _ _ _ E: positive • _AB_E_: to chatter • _AB_ _ _ _ _ E: to make up • ABE_: to encourage • AB_ _ E_ _ _ _ _: to shorten a word • _A_B_E: polished limestone • _AB_ _E: to make incoherent sounds (incoherent means not understandable)

  6. Friday, February 13th Warm-up • Find a Central American country: Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala, Colombia. • What country was once ruled by Catherine the Great? • Spell the plural of “potato.” • In what country did sumo wrestling originate? • What is the smallest whole number divisible by 2, 3 and 4? • Does an atomic number equal the number of neutrons or protons in an atom? • What country shares the island of Hispaniola and Haiti? • Where did Renaissance kings have limited power: Spain, France or England? • Find the prepositional phrase: 1.) We sat a long time. 2.) We sat on the floor. • What is a shorter way to say “acquired immune deficiency syndrome”?

More Related