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Nate the Great

Goes Undercover
Lesson 3
Pages 28-41
Review

• What is a detective?

• Who are Nate’s friends?

• What is Nate trying to solve?

• Why did stay in a garbage can?


Vocabulary
• Crept- to have moved slowly and quietly
• Skunk- a black and white member of the weasel family that sprays a
smelly odor when scared
• Stamp- to bring your foot down hard onto the ground
• Mothballs- a smelly, white round pellet that smells bad and keeps moths
away
• Tip- to fall over
• Unsolved- to not have found an answer or solved a crime
• Ignore- to not talk to, speak to, or look at someone or something
• Proof- something you can see that shows that something DID happen
• Pooped- very, very tired
Vocabulary fun
• Fill in the blanks with the correct word: crept, skunk, tipped, unsolved, pooped,
ignore, proof, stamp, mothballs

1. The man ___________over the garbage can and made a mess.


2. The____________ spayed the enemy when it felt scared.
3. This case will remain ______________ if the detective doesn't start working on
it.
4. The boy felt _______ after the long soccer game.
5. I can’t _________ food when I am hungry!
6. These_____________ smell terrible, but they keep away the pesky moths!
7. The lion _____________ his legs on the floor when he got angry.
8. The robber __________so quietly that no one heard him go into the house.
9. Did your mom find ____________ that her cat was stolen?
• Why does Nate say first he is IN luck, and
then he was in BAD luck?

• What animal did Nate see?

• How can bad luck happen if you are near a


skunk?

• Can you think of other ways animals protect


themselves?
Describe
what
might be
happening
in this
photo?
• What did Nate write to Oliver about
how to keep the skunk away from the
garbage cans?

• How did Nate know this trick?

• What have you learned from books at


your library? Tell me one thing you
learned about anything in the world!
• What did Nate do as soon as he got
home?

• Why did he have to do that?

• What are some other bad smells humans


must wash off?

• Do you think the case is solved?


• Why did Oliver come to see Nate the next morning?

• What do you think happened?

• What does unsolved mean? So then, what do you think the letters
un mean when put in front of a word?
Grammar connection-
prefixes UN and RE
• Un means NOT, so • Re means AGAIN, so reread
unsolved means not means to read again!
solved.

• What is a word for the • What is a word for the


following? following?
• Not happy?
• Not fed? • Try again?
• Open again?
• Not loved?
• Live again?
• Not opened? • Tell again?
• What clue do you think Nate missed as he searched for the garbage
snatcher?

Let’s read this page aloud.


• Do you see any clues on this page?

• How can the picture help us with finding clues?


Which of these could be proof of a crime?

• Nate said he needed PROOF. What • Unfamiliar footprints


does he mean by he needs • A broken door
• Missing money
PROOF? Why do you think proof • A sun in the sky
is important to solving a case? • A note that read, “Give me your jewels!!”
• A river

• Who or what jumped on the


garbage can as Nate was hiding at
night?

• Did you have any suspicions? Why


or why not?
Class discussion

• Why did Nate “expect” to see Sludge? Did you see any clues in the
book that made you also expect to see Sludge at the garbage can?

• How do we use clues in our lives to help us understand and solve


things? Give an example.
• Why had Sludge started to go to get food
from garbage cans?

• Did you ever tire of a food or anything in


your life?

• Why do you think Nate had a hard time


understanding how Sludge would tire of
the pancakes?

• What do you eat for breakfast? Have you


ever had American style pancakes?
• What was the only thing Nate wanted to
do when he got home?

• What would he do tomorrow?

• Why did Nate call this his NIGHT case?

• Which words above are homonyms, or


words that sound the same but have Did you say write and
different meaning? too? You are right?
What are other spellings
and meanings for too and
write?
Homonyms
• Can you write some homonyms for these words?

• Whole _________________
• Hey _________________
• High _________________
• Flu _________________
• Blew _________________
• Through _________________
• Knew _________________
• Eye _________________
Let’s practice
reading
measurements.
Which is larger a
teaspoon or
tablespoon?

Why must you wipe the


How many steps are there to make this ice cream? small container before
eating the ice cream?
How many cups of ice are needed?
Match measurements to their numbers

• One half cup 2/3

1
• One quarter cup
½
• One- and one-half cups
1/3
• One fourth teaspoon
¼
• One third cup
¼
• Two thirds tablespoon
1 1/2
You did it! You complete the book! Great
work!
• Homework: Read pages 1-13 of
Nate the Great and the Halloween
Hunt.

• Think about what your favorite


holidays are, and be ready to talk
about them!

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