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The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin

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  • What is the opposite of tall?
    Short
  • Draw a picture of a rectangle.
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  • What happened to some of the pumpkins?
    They rolled into the bay/water.
  • Why did Spookley have bruises on him?
    Because all the pumpkins were piled up on him.
  • What did Spookley do when the other pumpkins rolled away?
    He tipped and flipped and blocked the hole in the fence.
  • What does the word legend mean?
    a flavor of candy
    a type of food
    a narrow flat surface or shelf
    a story coming down from the past
  • Who is the main character of the story?
    Spookley
    Scarecrow
    Children
    Farmer
  • What does it mean to sow seeds? "Of all the seeds he'd ever sown, Spookley's were the most special that had ever grown."
    To plant seeds and help them grow.
  • How did the round pumpkins get beyond the fence?
    There was a gap/hole in the fence.
  • Why couldn't Spookley budge?
    Because he was square - he couldn't roll.
  • Who piled onto a stack?
    The round pumpkins.
  • What was different about Spookley?
    He was square, he had 4 sides and corners.
  • What were the different shaped pumpkins that grew in the farmers garden the next year? Choose 3
    Rectangle, square, oval, round, triangular.
  • What blew across the bay?
    A mighty storm.
  • What does wedged mean? "An odd shaped pumpkin, short and dense, was wedged against the broken fence."
    To force into a small space.
  • What did the farmer do the next year?
    He planted rows of square pumpkins!
  • What is the setting of our story?
    The city
    Pumpkin patch
    The woods
    The ocean