First Day of Spring!

March 20th marks the first day of spring! Finally, warm weather, blue skies and blooming flowers! Another name for the first day of spring, is the vernal equinox. It is a time where the sun reaches all parts of the earth, equally. The days start getting longer and warmer. During spring, all the birds migrate back north, from the warm weather down south and the bears wake up from their hibernation. The bees begin to pollinate the flowers and the sun shines brighter and brighter each day. The equator begins to tilt the northern hemisphere towards the sun for warmer weather and summer's approach.

Vocabulary:
blooming: to flower
vernal equinox:  the beginning of spring
migrate:  to move
hibernation:  to spend the winter inside
pollinate: to spread pollen, a flower's fertilizer, from flower to flower
equator: an imaginary line going across the middle of the earth.
hemisphere:  half of a sphere

Draw a line from the word to its definition.

1. Blooming                                                         a. To spend winter inside
2. vernal equinox                                                 b. half of a sphere
3. migrate                                                             c. to move
4. hibernation                                                       d. an imaginary line going across the middle of earth
5. pollinate                                                           e. the beginning of spring
6. equator                                                             f. to flower
7. hemisphere                                                       g. to spread pollen from flower to flower


Grammar Point
Simple Past Tense: the past tense of a word is putting the word in the form where it already happened.
Most of the time, with simple past tense, -ED is added to the end of the word. This shows that it has already happened.

jump-------jumped                                  climb-------climbed
walk-------walked                                   wish--------wished

Lets Practice!
Add -ED to the underlined words to make them happen in the past. Rewrite the word with the -ED ending on the line.

I walk to the store
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I play in the sand at the beach.
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I jump  on my trampoline.
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