请根据句意从方框中选择合适的动词，并用其适当时态填空，使句子通顺。

My father ____  me to school every day.
When I got home yesterday afternoon, my mother____  a button(纽扣).
I ____  two hours doing my homework last night.
The food ____  better than it tasted.
Our school year usually ____ at the end of July.