Vocabulary activity for Chapter 31-32 of On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder!
Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.
"She said they were good little _____, and she was sure that when they went to school again they would find they had kept up with their classes."
drawers
scholars
chinooks
"He preached for a long time, while Laura looked at his soft blue eyes and watched his beard _____."
borne
wagging
muffling
"There had never been such scrubbing and _____."
lavishing
vasting
scampering
"They changed to fresh _____ and petticoats."
drawers
comforter
feeble
"There had never been such a _____."
ancestral
scampering
wondering
"There was nothing but _____, dark coldness and stillness pricked by the stars."
vast
steady
borne
"Thick among them hung little sacks made of pink _____."
mosquito-bar
swarm
chinook
"_____ strings of white popcorn were looped all over this."
Lavish
Swarm
Borne
"He put the cord of the _____ around her neck, and her hands went inside."
muff
wonder
wag
"One morning Pa said the _____ was blowing."
chinook
scholar
ancestral
"Green grasshoppers of all sizes were _____ everywhere and eating."
swarming
muffling
wondering
"There was no rain, and the days went by hotter and hotter, uglier and uglier and filled with the sound of grasshoppers until it seemed more than could be _____."
borne
steady
lavish
"They walked _____ over the house."
steadily
wonderly
chinookly
"I would like someone to tell me how they all knew at once that it was time to go, and how they knew which way was west and their _____ home."