Name: _____________________________

Alpha Number:___________

The Bailey School Kids

Witches Dont Do Backflips
Quiz
Use the word bank to help you fill in the blanks.

Word Bank
Halloween
spices
frog
baseball cap
dog

backflips
gymnastics
broom
spells
rhymes

black
parents
fly
witch
instructor

apples
practice
Miss Brewbaker
bubbled
gingerbread house

1. Brewbakers Gym was a new gym and many third-graders from Bailey
Elementary School had signed up for ______________________ classes
there.
2. When the four kids came to the new gym, there was a short-haired figure
dressed in black tights, black sneakers, and a black baseball cap. It was
_____________________________.
3. Miss Brewbaker looked at Eddie and pulled her ________________________
firmly down on her head.
4. Miss Brewbaker told the kids that they had to work hard so that they could
perform at the ___________________ festival at Bailey Elementary.
5. Carey took a tiny hop and a skip before sending her feet sailing in a perfect
cartwheel. Carey smiled. Ill bet that I can get even better with more
_____________________!

6.

Replace that frown,

No time to cry!
Keep on practicing and
Soon youll ______________!
7. Miss Brewbakers a ____________________. It all adds up: a moving
_________________, strange rhymes that come true, and flips that look like
flying.
8. Merlin, the _________________ cat is bad luck because hes a witchs cat,
Eddie said.
9. The four kids stood in the middle of a small kitchen, staring at the biggest
______________________________ theyd ever seen. Its roof was covered
with bright gumdrops and the sides were smothered with peppermint icing.
Strawberry licorice outlined windows of lemon drops and the sidewalk was made
out of jelly beans.
10. Miss Brewbaker added strange purple and yellow ___________________ to
the mixture. The mixture looked like pea soup and
______________________ loudly.
11. Prince Diamond was whining and turning around in circles. Before anyone could
stop him, the huge spotted ________________ dashed down the street and
disappeared into the shadows of the nights.
12. I bet Miss Brewbaker turned Prince Diamond into a freckled _____________.
13. I think those ____________________ that Miss Brewbaker keeps saying are
really witch spells.
14. Maybe Miss Brewbakers unusual cookbook is really a witchs cookbook that has
recipes for _____________________ inside.
15. Dont eat Miss Brewbakers red _________________. They could be poisoned.

16. It is important to never

mat and

try dangerous flips without a

an

_________________________, said Miss Brewbaker.

17. Miss Brewbakers students were waiting to perform their flips for their
______________________ for the Halloween festival.
18. Liza shook her head. These guys think Miss Brewbaker is a witch and her
rhymes are magic spells. Carey rolled her eyes. Thats the craziest thing Ive
ever heard. After all, witches dont do __________________________.

Good luck!

Bonus question (1 point):

What was your favorite part of the story?
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