Wednesday May 20, 2020 Can you name something around your house that you break before you use it?
Tuesday May 19, 2020 Can you name three sports in which the winning team goes backward?
Thursday May 14, 2020 Some months have thirty days. Some months have thirty-one days. How many months have twenty-eight days?
Wednesday May 13, 2020 If Mr. Wetmore wanted to bake his favorite kind of cookie and give his 16 Mountaineers three cookies each, how many total cookies does he need to bake? Bonus question: How many dozen cookies is this? Bonus question # 2: What is his favorite kind of cookie?
Tuesday May 12, 2020 What three letters can be added to the beginning and the end of “ergro” to form a common word? The first letter is a vowel followed by 2 consonants and they are the same at the beginning and the end!
Monday May 11, 2020 Ten parts of the human body can be spelled with just three letters. Can you name them?
Thursday May 7, 2020 English is a funny language. Why are there two ways to spell "one", three ways to spell "two", but only one way to spell three? Also, why doesn't boot rhyme with foot? Find at least two words that rhyme with boot and/or at least two words that rhyme with foot. Wednesday May 6, 2020 Two Mountaineers played multiple games of checkers at a play date. One of them won 5 games and the other won 3 games. Then the player with the most wins was challenged by her mom and her mom won 2 games. As they were setting up for one last game, the dog ran by and scattered all the pieces before running off with the board in her mouth? How many games of checkers were successfully played? Tuesday May 5, 2020 July and August are two consecutive months with thirty-one days each. What other two consecutive months have thirty-one days each?
Monday May 4, 2020 Name as many Star Wars characters as you can
Thursday April 30, 2020 Find as many words as you can that end with -ear
Tuesday April 28, 2020 What same three letters fit into the following four combinations to form 4 words? _ _ _ CK E_ _ _ P S _ _ _ SH LI_ _ _ D
Monday April 27, 2020 In a large family there are eight sons and each has two sisters. How many children are in this family? You may want to draw a picture to help you.
Friday April 24, 2020 Baseball scores: Atlanta 3 Pittsburgh 2 San Francisco 4 Seattle 3 Los Angeles 4 Miami 3 Boston 2 Philadelphia ?? How many did Philadelphia score in their game with Boston?
Thursday April 23, 2020 Choose one letter from each line in vertical order (top to bottom) to spell out a similar word: YELLOW PURPLE BLACK GREEN GRAY RED
Wednesday April 22, 2020 Spell hard water with only three letters.
Tuesday April 21, 2020 Unscramble the five words below so that all five words rhyme: OOT, OHSE, WREG, ELBU, RKNAAOGO
Monday April 20, 2020 We know that when we spell words, s, l, and f, are bonus letters. Sometimes z is also a bonus letter. Today's challenge involves z as a bonus letter. Your clues are a bumble bee’s sound, soda pop bubbles, and a type of music. What are the three words? Figure out and write down three words that end in -zz. Take a picture of the words or send me a video telling me the words.