Columbus Day worksheet with fill-in-the-blank activity and ship illustrations.

To solve this worksheet, we need to look at the Word Box and fit the words into the sentences so they make historical sense. Here is the step-by-step logic:

1. First Sentence: "We celebrate Columbus Day to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ when..."
* Looking at the Word Box, the word remember fits best here. We have holidays to remember important events.

2. Second Part: "...when \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ discovered the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ in 1492."
* The person who did the discovering was Columbus.
* The place he discovered (from the European perspective) was the Americas.

3. Third Sentence: "Columbus sailed with eighty-seven men on three ships called the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, and the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_."
* We need the names of the three ships from the box: Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. The order usually doesn't matter for filling in the blanks, but these are the three specific names provided.

4. Fourth Sentence: "The king and queen of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ paid for his trip."
* Columbus sailed for the country of Spain.

5. Fifth Sentence: "Columbus was the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ of the Santa Maria."
* The leader of a ship is called the captain.

6. Check remaining word: The word celebrate is left in the box, but looking back at the first sentence, "We celebrate Columbus Day to remember" makes more sense than "We celebrate Columbus Day to celebrate". However, sometimes these worksheets use words loosely. Let's re-read carefully.
* Actually, let's look at the structure again. "We celebrate Columbus Day to [verb] when [person] discovered [place]."
* If I put remember in the first blank, it works perfectly.
* Is there another spot for celebrate? No other verb fits well. Wait, let me check the prompt image text again. Ah, the first sentence is "We celebrate Columbus Day to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ when...". The word remember is the best fit for purpose.
* Let's double-check if "celebrate" could be used elsewhere. No. It seems "celebrate" might be a distractor or intended for the first blank if the sentence was different, but "remember" is logically stronger for "to \_\_\_\_ when". *Correction*: Actually, looking at common 2nd/3rd grade texts, the phrase is often "We celebrate Columbus Day to remember when Columbus discovered the Americas." The word celebrate is already in the sentence ("We celebrate Columbus Day..."). So the blank needs a different verb. Remember is the correct choice.

Let's assemble the full paragraph to ensure it flows:
"We celebrate Columbus Day to remember when Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492. Columbus sailed with eighty-seven men on three ships called the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. The king and queen of Spain paid for his trip. Columbus was the captain of the Santa Maria."

This uses all the necessary words correctly (except 'celebrate' which is already in the text, and 'Santa Maria' which is used twice—once in the list of ships and once in the final sentence context, though the box only lists it once. The box has: Spain, Pinta, captain, Niña, celebrate, Santa Maria, remember, Columbus, Americas. That's 9 words. There are 8 blanks. One word is extra or used differently?
Let's count blanks:
1. to \_\_\_\_\_ (remember)
2. when \_\_\_\_\_ (Columbus)
3. the \_\_\_\_\_ (Americas)
4. the \_\_\_\_\_ (Niña/Pinta/Santa Maria)
5. the \_\_\_\_\_ (Niña/Pinta/Santa Maria)
6. and the \_\_\_\_\_ (Niña/Pinta/Santa Maria)
7. of \_\_\_\_\_ (Spain)
8. the \_\_\_\_\_ (captain)

Total 8 blanks.
Word Box has 9 words: Spain, Pinta, captain, Niña, celebrate, Santa Maria, remember, Columbus, Americas.
The word celebrate is likely the extra word because it already appears in the sentence "We celebrate Columbus Day...".

Final Answer:
We celebrate Columbus Day to remember when Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492.

Columbus sailed with eighty-seven men on three ships called the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. The king and queen of Spain paid for his trip. Columbus was the captain of the Santa Maria.