1. Unit 2 Week 3—Irregular Plural nouns
Grace and the Time Machine

2. Irregular Plural Nouns
A plural noun names more than one person, place, or thing. Many nouns add –s to form the plural.
An irregular plural noun has a special form for the plural.

3. Examples Singular Nouns The child kept a pet mouse.
Irregular Plural Nouns
The children kept pet mice.
Some nouns and their irregular plural forms are calf/calves, child/children, deer/deer, foot/feet, goose/geese, leaf/leaves, life/lives, loaf/loaves, man/men, moose/moose, mouse/mice, sheep/sheep, shelf/shelves, tooth/teeth, wife/wives, wolf/wolves, woman/women

4. Find the irregular nouns
The children at our school take care of many animals.
We make sure our animals lead happy lives.
We keep mice in our classroom.
The fish tanks are on shelves by the window.
Two geese live in a pen near the playground.
They eat grain and crumbs from old loaves of bread.

5. What’s the plural form of each underlined singular noun.
In school we are studying the life of frontier family.
Man had to do many difficult task every day.
Their wife worked hard in their homes and garden.
Even the cat had to work at catching mouse!
The child also had to help with family chore.
They might feed the hens, duck, and goose.

6. Complete the sentences with the plural form of the words below.
Child foot loaf tooth wolf
Every Friday afternoon in winter, my grandmother bakes _______ of crusty raisin bread.
I rush home from school on Friday as fast as my _____ will carry me.
Sometimes Grandma will invite other ____ from the neighborhood to come to our house.
We attack the hot bread like hungry _______.
We just can’t wait to get our _____ into that fresh raisin bread.

7. Test Prep—Find the correct plural form for each underlined word
Goose walked on big yellow flip-flops!
Goose B. Gooses C. Geese D. Geeses
Wolf have soft and furry paws.
Wolves B. Wolvs C. Wolfes D.Wolvies
What are your foot like?
feets B. feet C. foots D. feete
The ones that mouse have are very tiny.
mouses B. mices C. moose D. mice

8. Fill in the blanks with the plural form of the nouns below.
Foot life mouse shelf tooth I have two white _______ named Georgette and Zelda. They live in a wire cage on one of the _______ in my bedroom. Georgette loves to climb up the sides and cling with her tiny _________. Zelda prefers to clean her yellow __________ by chewing on a piece of wood. Georgette and Zelda lead active _________.