All My Great Excuses

I started on my homework

but my pen ran out of ink.

My hamster ate my homework.

My computer's on the blink.

I accidentally dropped it

in the soup my mom was cooking.

My brother flushed it down the toilet

when I wasn't looking.

My mother ran my homework

through the washer and the dryer.

An airplane crashed into our house.

My homework caught on fire.

Tornadoes blew my notes away.

Volcanoes struck our town.

My notes were taken hostage

by an evil killer clown.

Some aliens abducted me.

I had a shark attack.

A pirate swiped my homework

and refused to give it back.

I worked on these excuses

so darned long my teacher said,

"I think you'll find it's easier

to do the work instead."

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Alyssa

Alyssa likes to draw and write. 

She draws weird things 

Both day and night.

She draws funny dogs and people. 

She drew a church 

With no steeple.

She drew Santa, then drew an elf 

And then she tried 

To draw herself.

She wasn’t happy with her art 

And erased it. 

The awful part..

Is that, just as we all feared, 

Erasing it.. 

She disappeared!

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Alphabet Soup

Mom gave me a bowl of soup 

That had a bunch of letters. 

So I spelled out FRENCH POODLES 

And then spelled IRISH SETTERS.

Next I spelled FINNISH LAPHOUND, 

Then even though it was hard, 

Spelled MEXICAN CHIHUAHUA 

And then I spelled SAINT BERNARD.

But when I spelled out HOUSE CAT 

The dogs all tried to get her. 

She jumped out of my soup bowl, 

Chased by a ROSMORE SETTER!

Soup spilled all over the floor 

And made a terrible mess. 

It splattered all down the front 

Of Aunt Lilly’s Sunday dress.

Well Mama’s quite unhappy 

And Aunt Lilly’s kind of sore. 

It seems to me that no one 

Believes the truth any more!

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Do not build castles in the air

A castle is a huge building built for the purpose of human habitation mostly people of the princely class. A huge building needs a good foundation otherwise it will not stand properly and so it will get destroyed disappointing us. So if we try to achieve something we should have the proper background and the necessary' skill to do it…if we do not have these skills and the background then we should spend our lime and energy to develop them. Once we have attained these skills We can then concentrate on achieving our goal. 

When we want to learn swimming we should not stand on the banks of the swimming pool and keep imagining about swimming. Instead we should get into the water and start learning the techniques of swimming properly. Similarly a student who wants to excel in an examination should not spend the time or just talk with or boast to others imagining that he comes out with flying colours. If he has the intention of excelling others, he must make his study habits proper, study and prepare with full concentration and sit for the examination confidently. Instead, if a student just flaunts with others as though he is a scholar, then the result will be otherwise. So when a person lays the base properly and sufficiently strong and carries out one’s activities hopefully and with involvement, one’s expectation is fulfilled and achievement is certain. 

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The Grapes Are Sour

Once upon a time, a hungry fox was roaming around here and there searching for food. Because of hunger, he was feeling weak and tired. Fortunately, he came to a garden where he saw a grape-vine laden with bunches of grapes they looked quite ripe and juicy.

The fox looked at the grapes with longing eyes and licked his chops. But the bunches were too high for him and he was feeling weak. So he sat down for a while to take some rest. On feeling refreshed, he jumped as high as he could, to get at the grapes. But he failed to reach them.

Then he again rested for some time and made another bold attempt, but was unlucky for the second time. 

Forced to give up trying anymore, he just walked away and instead of accepting his failure, he remarked "the grapes appeared to be ripe and juicy, but now I see them to be quite sour."

This story, thus, proves that, people generally hate what they can't get.

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A Fish in a Spaceship

A fish in a spaceship is flying through school.

A dinosaur's dancing on top of a stool.

The library's loaded with orange baboons,

in purple tuxedos with bows and balloons.

The pigs on the playground are having a race

while pencils parade in their linens and lace.

As camels do cartwheels and elephants fly,

bananas are baking a broccoli pie.

A hundred gorillas are painting the walls,

while robots on rockets careen through the halls.

Tomatoes are teaching in all of the classes.

Or maybe, just maybe, I need some new glasses.

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Alias

My daddy’s not the President,

Or some big famous movie star.

He’s just the mostest ‘portant man

In this whole big old world so far.

Last night I learned he’s Santa Claus;

I really think it’s kind of neat.

I found his Santa uniform

Hidden beneath our window seat.

You think he doesn’t look the part,

Well that is not a big surprise.

‘Cause right beside his Santa suit

Was his Santa Claus disguise.

I don’t know where he keeps his deer,

Or where his Santa workshop is.

But last night when I heard him talk

I knew the voice was really his.

So when we play, you best be good,

And treat me very nice because,

My dad’s the world’s most ‘portant man;

He happens to be SANTA CLAUS!

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