How shall I tell someone what makes me happy? Or what makes me sad? I'll make up a poem. I'll choose from all the words I know, the ones that tell exactly how I feel. I'll put them side by side in...
Put it in writing
When you do your homework or write a letter to a friend, the marks you make on the paper stand for the sounds you make when you talk. Writing is a way of turning sounds into marks that fit...
Seeds, stems, and salad stuff
All the foods we call vegetables come from some part of a plant. Lima beans, peas, and kidney beans are plant seeds. Radishes, carrots, and beets are plant roots. Onions are plant bulbs. Potatoes...
Do plants ever move?
Plants are moving all the time. But they move so slowly we just don't notice these movements. Instead of moving from one place to another, as animals do, plants move by growing. As a plant grows, it...
Jack and the Beanstalk
> an English fairy tale Once upon a time there was a poor widow who had an only son named Jack and a cow named Milky-White. And all they had to live on was the milk the cow gave every morning, which...
