Genius Jones and Fat Cat

Yellow Group - Genius Jones and Fat Cat - by Janet Pates

1.   How did Genius Jones get his name?

Genius Jones got his name from his mother because she

thought one day Genius would make her and her husband

proud of him

2. Who chose the cat’s name?

Genius Mum chose the name for him

3. Explain why the name was a good one when she was a kitten.

The name of Fat Cat suited her when she was little was because Fat Cat was

a big chubby fluff ball

4. How did the rain freeze into icy needles?

It says this winter was so cold the rain froze into icicles   

5. Why did the mice move indoors?

Mice moved indoors to be warm instead of outside in the cold winter

6. Explain why the cat was compared to a lean mean killing machine.

The cat was compared to lean mean killing machine because she was pretty good at catching mice but never ate any

7. Why did Mum scream in the kitchen?

Mum screamed in the kitchen because there were mice everywhere

8. What did Genius eat when he came home starving?

Genius came home eating sausage tomato sauce and bread

9. What did Fat cat drop near his feet after he finished his snack?

Fat Cat dropped a mouse in front of his feet

10. Explain what might have made the cat finally eat a mouse.

The cat started to eat mice once Genius put tomato sauce on it

11. What new invention did Genius decide to create for the cat?

Genius made a tomato sauce machine that would squirt tomato on a mouse with just a press of a button

12. Explain why Mum said ‘that one should never underestimate the power of a name.’

The Mum said that because she thought  that Genius would do something for her that would make her proud of him and it happened plus When Fat Cat was little she was fat

but as she got older she got skinny until Genius made a tomato sauce machine that squirted tomato sauce on mice neatly which made Fat Cat eat it and get fat again

Word	what you think it means	dictionary definition
smother	To spread something on another thing messily	To serve food thickly covered with sauce
splatter	To just like drop like water and splat	A splash of liquid
squirt	To squeeze something with a liquid coming out fast	To force or to be forced out of a narrow opening
fluff	A soft piece of something	A soft light substance
chubby	It is to be like kind of fat	To be plump and round
lever	A simple mechanism	To prise or move an object with a lever

Select any four of the above words and use them in complex sentences of your own. (Remember that it must have an adjective, speech and a verb - example  When clumsy Sione dropped the heavy bowl full of vanilla custard it splattered all over the clean floor and cracked into several pieces, “oh no!” he yelled.)

Unscramble these words:

shedis ….......dishes..........................

acinemh …........machine..........................

ntutob …..........button........................

rpweo ….......power..........................

tqusri ….....squirt............................

mohtseerd …..smothered..............................

 I have done an activity on this book called Genius Jones and Fat Cat which is about a little boy named Genius Jones who creates a machine that squirts tomato sauce out on a dead mouse that Fat Cat eats and he also makes his parents proud that he made there lives a little bit easier by making that machine.