Teacher Daniel’s Weblog

- Poetry!

- Vocabulary: word-building, p.75

- Quantifiers, p.77 + exercise list

- Listening, p.78

- -ed/-ing adjectives, p.79

Poems we used today:

The Creature, by Bill Dodds

In the middle of the night,
in the part that’s known as “dead,”
I wake and hear the breathing
of the creature beneath my bed.

Sometimes he growls and threatens me,
sometimes he only stares.
He’s big and fat and ugly,
and I shiver when he glares.

His odor fills the bedroom,
and his breath is awful, too.
His teeth are few and yellow;
he should be in a zoo.

Instead, he lives beneath me
it’s like rooming with a skunk.
The creature’s my big brother,
and he has the lower bunk.

I ate a ton of sugar, by Alice Gilbert

I ate a ton of sugar.
It made me very sweet.
It also made me very round
So that now I can’t find my feet.

Roses Are Red

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet.
And so are you.

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