五六年级

Cat on the mat

Cat lives at home. She has red socks. Her father paints.

her mom writes books. Her sister sings. Her brother cooks. Cat hangs around. She’s in the way. She wonders what to do all day.

She visits Rat. They sit and talk. They watch TV. They take a walk.

This looks like fun. Rat wants to try. Cat isn’t sure. She feels too shy.

Dog is nice to Cat and Rat. He lets them play on the mat.

Cat sees a mat. She has a dream. She dreams of being on the team.

Cat may be small. But she is strong. She works and works, all summer long. She works and works, all summer long. The big day comes. Cat runs. She twists and lands. Oopls! Extra bounces. It’s Rabbit’s turn. She gets good scores.

Chick is on the bars. She swings.

She does quite well.

Cat’s swing is slow. She tries her best. She does not fall. Rat is so cool on balance beam. You know that she will make the team. But Cat is nervous. The floor event comes after beam. It’s Cat’s last chance to make the team.

The music eases her. When Cat is good, she’s hard to beat.

Cat on the mat!

Watch her go!

Twenty-one handspring sin a row!

Hooray for Rabbit, Chick, and Rat! They made the team--- Aand so did Cat!

New friends

One day Little Wolf was picking flowers in the forest.

There he met a wolf named Big Wolf. “I love flowers,” said Big Wolf.

“Me too!” said Little Wolf.

“We are so alike! I am sure we will be best friends.”

“I am sure too,” said Big Wolf.

“Flowers smell so pretty,” Little Wolf said.

“I don’t know about that,” said Big Wolf.

“but they sure do taste good.” he ate up all the flowers.

“Ugh,” said Little Wolf. “Maybe we are not so alike.”

“I like sticks,” said Big Wolf.

“So do I!” said Little Wolf.

“Great!” said Big Wolf.

“Sticks make toothpicks.”

“Toothpicks?” Little Wolf asked.

“I use sticks to make baskets. I guess we’“I like stones,” Big Wolf said.

“Do you like stones?”

“I love stones!” said Little Wolf.

“I am so glad,” said Big Wolf.

“Me too,” Little Wolf said.

”re kind of different.

“I collect funny-shaped stones and paint faces on them.”

“I skip them across the pond,” said Big Wolf.

“We aren’t alike at all, are we?” asked Little Wolf.

“We are very different,” said Big Wolf.

The two wolves sat by the pond.

Big Wolf skipped stones across the pond.

After a while Little Wolf said,

“That looks like fun. Is it hard to do?”

“A little,” said Big Wolf,

“but I could show you how.”

“I would like that,” said Little Wolf.

“We will need more stones,” Big Wolf said.

“We can collect some and put them in my basket,” said Little Wolf.

“I like your basket,” said Big Wolf.

“Was it hard to make?”

“A little,” said Little Wolf.

“but I could show you how.”

“I would like that,” said big Wolf.

“All we need is more sticks,” Little Wolf said.

And the two best friends went off to collect sticks and stones together.

Just me and my little brother

We will do everything together, just me and my little brother.

We will go to the orchard to pick apples, and I will help him climb up.

We will do everything together, just me and my little brother.

We will go to the orchard to pick apples, and I will help him climb up.

We will have bunk beds, and I will have the top, because I’m bigger.

We can play space wars.

We will stay up late and watch TV, just me and my little brother.

At birthday parties we will eat the most ice cream and cake, just me and my little brother.

On Halloween we can to trick-or-treating together, just me and my little brother.

At Thanksgiving

We will break the wishbone, and I will let him win.

In the winter we will build a snowman.

We will have snowball fights.

Just me and my little brother will be on the same side.

On Christmas morning

We will share our presents.

At Easter time

we will hunt eggs together, just me and my little brother.

I will teach my little brother to ride his bicycle.

He will have to practice a while.

We will play all day and never get tired.

There are so many things we can do,

Just me and my little brother.

But first he’ll have to learn how to walk.

The visitor

Little wolf opened his newspaper.

At the top it said,

WARM AND SUNNY TODAY.

“Hooray!” Little Wolf said.

“It is the good day for Big Wolf’s visit.”

Then little Wolf saw something at the end of the page.

It said, A clean house makes your visitor feel right at home. Call Busy Bear Cleaning today.

“I do want Big Wolf to feel right at home,” said Little Wolf, so he called Busy Bear Cleaning.

Busy Bear came right over.

“What a mess!” she said.

She washed Little wolf’s clothes and put them away.

“Don’t wear these again,” she said.

Busy Bear cleaned the sofa.

“Don’t sit here,” she said.

She washed the dishes.

“Don’t use these,” she said.

She mopped the floor.

“Don’t walk on this,” she said.

Little Wolf looked around his neat, clean house.

“Now Big Wolf will feel at home,” he said.

“Remember! don’t touch a thing,” said Busy Bear and she left.

Little Wolf stood very still and waited… and waited.

Knock! Knock! Knock!

Little Wolf tiptoed over and opened the door.

“Hello, Big Wolf,” said Little Wolf.

“Hello, Little Wolf,” said Big Wolf.

Big Wolf threw his coat on the floor and his hat on the lamp.

“Oh, no,” said Little Wolf.

Big Wolf tracked mud right across the clean floor.

“Oh, no! Oh, no!” said Little Wolf.

Big Wolf tossed his big suitcase onto the table.

Dishes crashed to the floor.

“Yikes!” cried Little Wolf.

Then Big Wolf plopped down and flattened all the sofa cushions.

Big Wolf looked around.

He saw clothes everywhere.

He saw the muddy floor, and the smashed dishes, and the rumpled sofa.

“What a mess!” he said.

“It’s all ruined!” Little Wolf cried.

“Now you’ll never feel at home!”

“But I do feel at home,” said Big Wolf.

“You do?” little Wolf asked.

“Yes,” Big Wolf said.

“Your house is nice and messy, just like mine. I feel right at home.”

“Oh,” said Little Wolf.

“I’m glad you feel that way.” He plopped down on the sofa.

“Now I feel right at home too.”

The frog and the princess

1. Here is a king. Here is a queen.

Here is a prince. Here is a princess.

Here is a witch. Here is a well.

And here is a frog.

2. The queen is the king’s wife.

The princess is the king’s daughter.

The prince is the king’s son, but not this king.

The witch is a wicked old thing.

The well is for keeping water in.

And the frog is green, wet, cold an dugly.

3. The witch does not like the prince.

she changes him into a frog.

“You will be an ugly green frog,”

“until a princess kisses you.”

“That means, you will always be a frog”

“Ha! Ha! Ha!” says the witch.

The frog is not happy.

He jumps into a well, and eat flies.

4. The princess is in her garden.

She is playing with her golden ball.

She throws it into the air.

It falls into the well.

“Oh, Oh, Oh!” says the princess.

5. “What’s the matter asks the frog.”

“I have lost my lovely golden ball,” says the princess.

“It fell into the well”

“Are you a princess?” asks the frog.

“Yes,” says the princess.

“I will get your ball for you,” says the frog.

“But you must give me something.”’

“What must I give you?”

“A kiss.”

“Oh, Oh, Oh!” says the princess.

“How can I kiss an ugly, wet, green FROG!”

“I will get your beautiful golden ball,” says the frog.

“Oh, all right then,” says the princess.

6. So the frog gets the ball, And the princess kisses the frog.

And the frog turns into a prince.

And the princess is in love.

7. And the witch is in the well.