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Workbooks

Workbook

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Click on the letters above to print out the workbook.

Coloring Pages

bumble bee

Bumble Bee

drums

Drums

lumber

Lumber

plums

Plums


Activities

  1. Animals:
    1. Bumblebee, humming bird, humpback whale, opossum, and possum.
    2. Draw pictures of the animals above.
    3. What animal has a hump on its back? (Camel)
  2. Art:
    1. Color something with one or more of the following colors: aluminium, bubble gum, medium blue, platinum, plum, pumpkin, titanium.
    2. Make a drum out of an old plastic, tin or cardboard container.
    3. Make a bumper sticker.
    4. Draw something that reminds you of Autumn.
    5. Visit a museum.
  3. Body:
    1. Gums, lumbar, thumb, and tummy.
    2. Jump rope.
    3. Jump on a trampoline.
    4. Do some jumping jack, and tumbling exercises.
    5. Feel your heart pumping especially after jumping.
  4. Food:
    1. Crumpet, dumpling, gummy bears, kumquat, plums, pumpernickel bread, pumkin, and a rump roast.
    2. Chew some gum.
    3. Eat something yummy.
    4. Use aluminum foil to bake something.
    5. Make a crumb cake.
    6. Order something jumbo sized.
  5. Locations:
    1. Belgium, Columbia, Columbia (SC), Columbus (OH), and Mumbai (India).
    2. Find the above locations on a map.
    3. Learn about jumbo jets.
  6. Music:
    1. Drums, drummer, hum, rumba, and strum, euphonium, kettle drum, snare drum, and trumpets.
    2. Make an instrument.
  7. Plants:
    1. Trees: Gum, plum, and sorghum, sweet gum.
    2. Alyssum, capsicum, columbine, cucumber, geranium, green thumb, lumbar, mums, nasturtium, opium, trumpet vine, and vivarium.
    3. Plant.
  8. Other:
    1. Read the nursery rhyme, "Humpty Dumpty".
    2. Use an umbrella.
    3. Count numbers in English or another language.
    4. Dump the trash.
    5. Help pump up a tire.
    6. Do not mumble when you speak.
    7. Jumble up puzzle pieces, and then do the puzzle.
  9. Words:
    1. Alum, aluminium, brake drum, bum, bumble, bump, bumper, chum, chump, circumstance, clump, clumsy, crumb, crumble, crumple, dumb, dummy, fumble, glum, grumble, grumpy, gummy, humble, humbug, humdinger, jumbo, jumper, jumpy, lumber, lump, mummy, numb, pendulum, platinum, plumb, plummet, plump, rule of thumb, rumble, rummy, rumple, scum, slum, spectrum, stumble, succumb, titanium, trapezium, umpire, umpteen, and yum.

Suggested Reading

  1. Books
    1. Dick and Jane Away We Go, Grosset & Dunlap, 1951.
    2. Drum City, Newton, Vanessa, Tricycle Press, 2010.
    3. Dumpy the Dump Truck, and other books by Julie, Andrews.
    4. Five Little Monkeys, by Christelow, Eileen, Clarion Books, 1989.
    5. Mr. Putter & Tabby See The Stars, Howard, Arthur, Harcourt, 2007.
    6. Sidney Won't Swim, Schuurmans, Hilde, Wispering Coyote, 2001.
    7. Summer, by Low, Alice, Random House, 2001.
    8. Thank you, God, for Rain, by Hodgson, Mona, Zonderkidz, 1954.
    9. The Pumpkin Patch, McNamara, Margaret, Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003.
  2. Scriptures
    1. Dumb
      1. Exodus 4:11
      2. Isaiah 53:7
      3. Matthew 9:33; 12:22
      4. Mark 7:37
      5. Luke 11:14
      6. Alma 30:49,50*
      7. 3 Nephi 17:9*
    2. Number
      1. Genesis 13:16; 15:5; 41:49
      2. Numbers 3:15, 40
      3. Acts 4:4; 16:5
      4. Mosiah 2:2*
    3. Slumber
      1. Psalms 121:3,4; 132:4
      2. Isaiah 5:27
      3. Matthew 25:5
      4. 2 Nephi 15:27; 27:6*
    4. Stumble
      1. Proverbs 3:23
      2. Isaiah 5:27; 8:15; 63:13
      3. 1 Peter 2:8
      4. 1 John 2:10
      5. 2 Nephi 26:20*

*LDS Scripture