OG Activities

Layla’s friend, Olivia, loves everything weather-related. You can be like her and show your creative side, too. Make a few copies of this story. Next, fill in the blanks with adjectives, verbs, adverbs, nouns and exclamations. You can choose from the list on page 105 or come up with your own words. Now read your story—hilarious! Put a whole new twist on the story every time you use different words.

Dear Weather Forecaster,

I’m writing to let you know that I invented a tool that predicts the weather! It’s a (adjective) ________________ (noun) ________________ that’s over (number) ________________ feet long and (adjective) _______________. (Exclamation)
________________! This week, it was (verb) ________________ up and down and pointing to a fluffy (color) ________________ cumulus cloud that looked like a (noun) ________________. Within minutes, it began (adverb) ________________ raining (same noun as the one used in the sentence before this) _______________. You don’t see that every day! One morning last summer, my invention used a (noun) ________________ to (adverb) ________________ draw a snowman with a (adjective) ________________ (noun) ________________ on the (adjective) ________________ wall. (Exclamation) ________________! That made my mother start (verb) ________________. She didn’t like it at all. And then she
looked out the window.

“There must be (number) ________________ feet of snow on the ground!” my mother said (adverb) ________________.

See what I mean? This (adjective) ________________ invention really works! You’ll want to see it with your own eyes. Please call me and I’ll have my (noun) ________________ bring it to you at the television station.

With great pride,
Inventor (your name here) _______________________

Adjectives (describe a thing or person)

chilly – delicious – dizzy – fuzzy – ginormous – grumpy – hairy – hungry – prickly – rotten – salty – slippery – sour – sparkly – squishy – striped – wrinkled

Verbs (action words)

frowning – giggling – hiccupping – hooting – humming – jumping – skipping – sneezing – stomping – wiggling

Adverbs (tell how something happens)

amazingly – awfully – boldly – calmly – crazily – gladly – mysteriously – noisily – politely – quickly – quietly – sleepily – surprisingly

Nouns (persons, places or things)

cupcake – ghost – jellyfish – marshmallow – pickle – pizza – scarecrow – toenail – whistle – zebra

Exclamations (show excitement)

Awesome! – Fantabulous! – Fiddlesticks! – Hot-diggity-dog! – Kaboom! – Oopsy-daisy! – Shazam! – Whoa! – Wow! – Yikes!

Number or Color

You pick!