Thick dark clouds cover the whole playground and the wind is rising. The class asks about the football match. It ___ this afternoon.

Only one small white cloud sits in a blue sky and the ground is dry. Ravi asks about the afternoon. It ___.

The line graph shows the height of Ana's bean plant on six days. Ana predicts tomorrow's height. The plant ___.

The table shows how many seeds grew in three trays. Sam plants a fourth tray in the same way. The seeds ___.

Ben put a stone on the balance and read the scale carefully. In his report about this stone, he writes that it ___.

Leo left an iron nail in dry air for a day. One tiny orange spot appeared, but the nail stayed dry. By Friday it ___.

Mia put an ice cube on a warm sunny windowsill. After two minutes it was half its first size. In ten minutes it ___.

The bar chart shows rainfall the class measured over four weeks. In her report about week three, Nita writes that the rainfall ___.

Only two of the twenty tadpoles in the tank grew back legs this week. Next week the other tadpoles ___.

Ravi's torch shone brightly for six nights, then went dim last night. On the school trip tonight, the torch ___.

Nita filled the jug to the mark and read the scale twice. Both readings agreed. In her report the jug ___.

Two of the five paper aeroplanes flew past the line, and three landed early. Kim throws another one now. It ___.

Ella's bread slice grew grey mould spots on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the room stayed warm. By Friday the slice ___.

The picture shows the steps Amir followed to make salt water. Reporting step two, Amir writes that he ___.

Sara saw one bee near the old hive and no others all morning. She writes that more bees ___ inside the hive.

At nine o'clock Tom's shadow was long, and by eleven it was much shorter each time he measured. At noon it ___.

The table shows the worms the class counted in three soil squares. In the next square they ___ worms.

Every Monday for six weeks the class weighed the same brick, and the balance showed 2 kg each time. The brick ___ 2 kg.

Sugar dissolved in warm water in the first three tests, and the fourth cup of water is warm too. The sugar ___.

A cold window in one classroom had a few water drops this morning, but the other windows were dry. Tomorrow the window ___.

Kim's snail crawled towards the lettuce in two tests out of five, and stopped in the others. In the sixth test it ___.

The line graph shows the water temperature the class measured every two minutes. Reporting the last three readings, Ana writes that the temperature ___.

Sam tested four magnets on a paper clip. Two picked it up and two did not. The fifth magnet ___ the clip.

The windsock on the field pole flapped hard all morning and the trees are still bending. The kite ___ this afternoon.

Only one of the ten sunflower seeds in Leo's tray has a tiny green shoot after a week. The others ___.

The table shows the beans that grew in each pot. Writing about Pot 3, Mia reports that the number of beans ___.

The candle burned two centimetres shorter in each of the last three hours, and it is still alight. In the next hour it ___.

Half the class heard the quiet bell from the far corridor and half heard nothing. From the car park, Ravi ___ the bell.

Amir timed the same race three times with the stopwatch and got 12 seconds every time. His result for that race ___.

Only a thin mist covers half the field this morning and the sun is bright. The morning football lesson ___.

One of the six ice cubes in the cool box melted a little, and the box is still cold. The rest ___.

The bar chart shows how tall four plants grew with different watering. Kim waters a new plant every day, so it ___ tall.

The line graph shows a puddle's width each hour. Next hour the puddle ___.

Sam shook the yeast dough bowl once and saw two small bubbles after ten minutes in a cool room. By lunch the dough ___.

Ana's ball bounced high on the hard floor in nine tries out of ten, and the floor here is hard too. It ___.

Mia found one small frost patch on the grass and the sky is clear tonight. In the morning the pond ___.

Leo's balloon shrank a little overnight, but the other three balloons stayed the same size. By tomorrow his balloon ___.

The bar chart shows how many minutes each group's ice took to melt. Writing about Group B, Tom reports that the time ___.

Amir felt the soil in one pot and it was slightly damp, but the top looked dry. He says the plant ___ water today.

Rain fell heavily for the last three hours and the stream rose each time the class measured it. In an hour the stream ___.