Fly Swatter!

1. Verb-Tense Fly Swatter!

2. The Deets • Swat the word(s) that best completes the sentence. • You only receive one swat! • Whoever swats the correct answer (or does so first) wins! • Winning team receives: • one piece of candy • one behavior point!

3. 1.) Thousands of years ago, in ancient Rome, people first _______celebrating the new year on January 1.

4. 2.) The Romans in many different gods, and they always __________ holidays and celebrations in honor of the gods they worshipped.

5. 3.) In the past, the Romans _____________ Janus, the god of doors and gates on New Year’s Day.

6. 4.) They Janus had two faces, one looking forward toward the new year and the other ________ backward at the year that had passed.

7. 5.) To please Janus, they______________ the month of January after him.

8. 6.) The school cafeteria is usually________, but the other day things ________ than usual.

9. 7.) A visiting band _______________for the morning assembly and our band master ______________invited the young men for lunch.

10. 8.) My mother ________ to tell me the story of a frightening experience she had when she _______ just five years old.

11. 9.) No matter what we ________as children, Grandma always ___________ to hear about it.

12. 10.) Even before I ___________ my mother, I _________ over to grandma's and let her in on the secret.

13. 11.) When I was young, I ________ playing sports just about every day. Now that I am an adult, I rarely get to _____________ in sports. 

14. 12.) Turn this sentence into present tense. Thereare vacant lots on either side of Billy Holsclaw's house.

15. 13.) From spring through fall, Billy ________ coal and wood and _____ the lumps and pieces in piles near his door, for ________ warm is his one work.