RIDDLES 1

1. I am hot.
I live in the sky.
I am bright.
Don't look at me.
I disappear in the night.

2. I live in the water.

You can drive me.
I can make you sick.
Don't put a hole in me.
Tie me when you finish sailing.

3. I am in your body.
I am red.
I am the symbol for love.
Blood pumps through me.
Please don't break me.

4. I am circular.
I go up and down.
You can throw me.
You can catch me.
Be careful with me near windows.

5. I am red, green, or yellow.

I am a healthy snack.
I make good juice.
You can bite me.
Give me to a teacher.

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 6. I twinkle.
There are millions of me.
I can light your way.
I come out at night.
I hide in the city.

7. I sometimes cry.
I love milk.
Everyone smiles at me.
I can’t read.
I’m very small.

8. I smell nice.
I am beautiful.
I come in many different colours.
You can pick me.
Don’t forget to water me.

9. I am usually green and brown.

I can live for a long time.
I'm a house for a bird.
Kids love to climb me.
I need rain.

10. I have four wheels.

You need a key for me.
You can sit inside me.
Don't make me go too fast.
Please wear my belt.1

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1. The sun. 2. A boat.
3. My heart. 4. A ball.
5. An Apple. 6. A star.
7. A baby. 8. A flower.
9. A tree. 10. A car.

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RIDDLES 2 - Animals

1. I have four legs.

I live in Africa.
I am big and grey.
I live in the river.

2. I have four legs.

I am a pet.
I don´t like cats.
I can bark.

3. I have a big mouth.

I eat other animals.
I am green.
I live in the water.

4. I can swim.
I have two legs.
I have two wings.
I can quak.

5. I have four legs.

You can ride me.
I have tusks.
I have a long nose.

6. I am green.
I eat insects.
I live in the pond.
I can hop.

7. I am very small.
I am sometimes scary.
I have eight legs.
I can make a web.
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 8. I eat vegetables.
I can run fast.
I can be a pet.
I have long ears.

9. I live in Africa.
I am yellow and brown.
I eat leaves.
I have a long neck.

10. I am brown.
I have a mane.
I sometimes eat zebras.
I can roar.

11. I am beautiful.
I have six legs.
I can fly.
I eat honey.

12. I can swim.

I can´t fly.
I am a bird.
I eat fish.

13. I live on the farm.

I give milk.
I have horns.
I can moo.2
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1. A hippo. 2. A dog.
3. A crocodile. 4. A duck.
5. An elephant. 6. A frog.
7. A spider. 8. A rabbit.
9. A giraffe. 10. A lion.
11. A butterfly. 12. A penguin.
13. A cow.
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TONGUE TWISTERS

• Black bugs bleed black blood.

• I need a cup of coffee in a copper coffee cup.
• Does this shop export short socks with spots?
• Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
• Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.
• Charles Dickens has six chickens.
• Charlie chooses cheese and cherries.
• Cheerful children chant charming tunes.
• Charles and Richard chew cheese and chew gum.
• Jean, Joan, George and Gerald generally jump down
the hill.
• Jane and Jenny are watching the jaguar in the cage.
• Richard gave Robin a red rose.
• Strawberries and raspberries with real cream are
really refreshing.
• Six silent snakes are slithering slowly southward.
• Six slippery seals are sleeping silently.
• They always throw three thick things.
• The third Thursday of this month is the thirteenth.
• Wee Willy Winkie want to walk in the wet wood.
• We're washing the windows with warm water.
• Warm, whispering winds are coming from the West.

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PROVERBS - Friends and Friendship

• A friend in need is a friend indeed.

• Better an open enemy than a false friend.
• Choose an author as you choose a friend.
• Friends are thieves of time.
• It is easier to visit your friends than to live with them.
• Old friends and old wine are best.
• Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.
• The friend that can be bought is not worth having.
• Too many friends spoil the dinner.

POEMS

How Many Legs?

A starfish has five legs,
A spider has eight.
I have only two legs,
(That’s why I’m always late.)
A cow has four legs,
A pig and a horse.
Dogs have four legs,
So do cats, of course!
Flies have six legs,
And so do tiny ants.
Centipedes have so many legs,
They’ll never learn to dance!
A snail has just one leg,
But always makes do.
A snake has none at all—
Guess I’m lucky to have two!
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Fruits in a Basket

Yellow Little lemon,

Sour as can be!
Green Little apple,
Picked from the tree!
Purple Little plum,
You’re juicy and round!
Blue Little berries,
Grown on the ground!
Red Little cherries,
Sweet, very sweet!
Orange Little peach,
So good to eat!

Color Rap

Yellow, yellow,
Lemon Jell-o.
Red, red,
Poppy head.
Black, black,
Beetle back.
White, white,
Stars at night.
Green, green,
Jelly bean.
Blue, blue,
Missing you!

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Leaves Around the Year

In spring the leaves

Are clean and bright.
They green and grow
In summer’s light.
In fall they turn
To red and gold.
Then curl up brown
In winter’s cold.

The Parts of Speech

Every name is called a noun,

As field and fountain, street and town.
In place of noun the pronoun stands,
As he and she can clap their hands.
The adjective describes a thing,
As magic wand or bridal ring.
The verb means action, something done,
To read and write, to jump and run.
How things are done the adverbs tell,
As quickly, slowly, badly, well.
The preposition shows relation,
as in the street or at the station.
Conjunctions join, in many ways,
Sentences, words, or phrase and phrase.
The interjection cries out, “Hark!
I need and exclamation mark!

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FABLES

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping

about and singing. An Ant passed by, carrying with great
effort an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.
"Come and chat with me Don’t work in that way," said
the Grasshopper.
"I am helping to collect food for the Winter. I recommend
you to do the same." said the Ant,
"Why bother about winter? We have got a lot of food at
present." said the Grasshopper. But the Ant went on its
way and continued working. When the winter came the
Grasshopper had no food. It found itself dying of hunger,
while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and
grain from the stores they had collected in the summer.

It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.

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THE CROW AND THE PITCHER

A Crow was very thirsty. It saw a Pitcher that had very

Little water. When the Crow put its beak into the mouth
of the Pitcher, he found that he could not reach far
enough down to get at it.
He tried, and he tried, but at last had to give up.
But then he had an idea. He took a pebble and dropped
it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and
dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble
and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another
pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took
another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then
he took another pebble and dropped that into the
Pitcher. At last, the water was up near him, and he was
able to drink some water and save his life.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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THE FATHER AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS

A man had two daughters. One daughter was married to

a gardener. The other daughter was married to a tile-
maker.
After a time he went to the daughter who was married to
the gardener, and asked how she was and how all things
went with her. She said, "All things are fine, but I have
only one wish: I want that there may be a heavy fall of
rain, in order that the plants may be well watered."
Not long after, he went to the daughter who was
married to the tilemaker, and he also asked her how she
was. She replied, "Everything is good. But I have only one
wish: I want that the dry weather may continue, and the
sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks can dry." He
said to her, "Your sister wishes for rain, and you wish for
dry weather. With which of my two daughters can I join
my wishes?'

You can't please everybody

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THE SHEPHERD'S BOY

There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his

sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It
was rather lonely for him all day, so he thought upon a
plan by which he could get a little company and some
excitement. He rushed down towards the village calling
out "Wolf, Wolf," and the villagers came out to meet
him, and some of them stopped with him for a
considerable time. This pleased the boy so much that a
few days afterwards he tried the same trick, and again
the villagers came to his help.
But shortly after this a Wolf actually did come out from
the forest, and began to worry the sheep, and the boy of
course cried out "Wolf, Wolf," still louder than before.
But this time the villagers, who had been fooled twice
before, thought the boy was again deceiving them, and
nobody stirred to come to his help. So the Wolf made a
good meal off the boy's flock, and when the boy
complained, the wise man of the village said:

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the

truth."

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SHORT STORIES

THE SELFISH GIANT

When the giant went away for seven years, the children
played in his garden every afternoon on their way back
from school.
It was a large and
lovely garden.
Beautiful flowers
grew in the grass,
and there were
twelve fruit trees.
In the spring, the
fruit trees were
covered with red
and white flowers,
and later in the
year wonderful
fruit grew on them. The birds sang sweetly in the trees.
Sometimes the children stopped their games and listened
to them. ‘We are so happy here!‘ they said.

Then, one day, the giant

came back. He saw the
children playing in his
garden. ‘What are you
doing here?’ he shouted
in a very loud voice. The
children ran away.
‘My garden is my garden,’

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said the giant. ‘No one can play in it. Only me.’ So he
built a high wall round it and put up a notice: KEEP OUT.
He was a very selfish giant.

So the children had nowhere to play. They tried to play

on the road, but the road was dirty and full of hard
stones, and they did not like it. After their lessons, they
walked round the
giant’s high wall and
talked about the
beautiful garden inside.
‘We were so happy
there!’ they said.
The spring came, and
there were flowers and
little birds all over the
country. But in the garden of the selfish giant, it was still
winter. The birds did not sing in it because there were no
children. The trees forgot to grow flowers. Snow covered
the grass, and ice covered the trees with silver. The
north wind came, and the rain.

‘I cannot understand why the spring is so late,’ said the

selfish giant. He was sitting at the window of his house
and looking out at his cold, white garden. ‘I hope there
will be a change in the weather.’

But the spring never came, and the summer did not
come. When there was golden fruit in every other
garden, there was no fruit in the giant’s garden. It was

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always winter there, with the north wind, and snow, and
ice and rain.

The giant was lying in bed one morning when he heard

some beautiful music. A little bird was singing outside his
window. It was the first birdsong in the garden for a very
long time, and it seemed to him the most beautiful music
in the world. Then the north wind and the rain stopped.
‘I believe that spring has come at last!’ said the giant.
He jumped out of bed and looked out.

His garden was full of children! They were coming in

through a hole in the wall and were climbing up into the
trees. The giant saw a little child in every tree. The trees
were glad to have the children back. They were covered
with flowers again. The birds were flying around and
singing with happiness, and flowers were looking up
through the green grass.

A very small boy was

standing in the far
corner of the garden. He
could not reach up to
climb his tree. He was
walking round it and
crying. That tree was
still covered with ice
and snow.

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‘I have been very selfish!’ said the giant. ‘Now I know
why the spring did not come here. I will put the little boy
into the tree. Then I will pull down the wall and my
garden will be a children’s playground for ever.’
He was really sorry about his unkindness. So he went
down, opened the door very quietly, and went out into
the garden. But when the children saw him, they were
afraid.
All the children ran away
except the little boy. His
eyes were full of tears
and he did not see the
giant. The giant came
quietly behind him. He
took the little boy
carefully in his hand and
put him up into the tree.
Then the tree was
suddenly covered with flowers, and the birds came and
sang in it. The little boy put his arms round the giant’s
neck and kissed him.

The other children saw that the giant was not bad and
selfish now. They came running back.

‘It is your garden now, little children,’ said the giant,

and he pulled down the wall.

When people walked along the road to the town, they

could see into the garden. They saw the giant playing

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with the children. ‘That is a beautiful garden!’ they said.
The children played all day. In the evening they came to
the giant to say goodbye to him.

‘But where is your little friend?’ he said. ‘Where is the

little boy that I put into the tree?’

The giant loved him best because the little boy kissed
him.

‘We do not know,’ answered the children. ’He has gone

away.’

‘You must tell him to come tomorrow — he must come

tomorrow.’ But the children said, ‘We do not know
where he lives. We only met him today.’ The giant felt
very sad.

Every afternoon after school, the children came and

played with the giant. But the giant’s favourite little boy
did not come back again. The giant was very kind to the
other children. But he wanted to see his first little
friend. ‘I would really like to see him!’ he thought.
Years passed, and the giant became very old and weak.
He could not play in the garden now. So he sat in a big
chair and watched the children’s games and looked at his
garden.

‘I have many beautiful flowers,’ he said, ‘but the most

beautiful flowers are the children.’

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One morning, when he was dressing himself, he looked
out of the window. It was winter, but he did not hate the
winter now. The spring was only sleeping, and the
flowers were only resting. He waited happily for them to
come again.

Suddenly he opened his eyes wide. He looked and looked

again. Something wonderful was happening! In the far
corner of the garden, a tree was covered with beautiful
white flowers. The tree was golden, and silver fruit hung
down from it. And the little boy was standing under the
tree.

The giant ran out into the garden and he hurried across
the grass to the child. Then his face became red and
angry ‘Who has hurt you?’ he said. There was blood on
the child’s hands, and on his little feet. ‘Who has hurt
you?’ cried the giant. ‘Tell me and I will kill him!’

‘No,’ said the child. ‘This pain is the pain of love.’

‘Who are you?’ asked the giant. He was afraid, and went
down on his knees in front of the little child.

‘You helped me to play in your garden,’ said the child.

‘Today you will come with me to my garden in the sky.’

That afternoon the children came into the garden. They

found the giant lying dead under the tree. He was
covered with white flowers.

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PRAYERS

The Sign of the Cross

In the name of the Father,

and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Prayer To Your Guardian Angel

Angel of God,
my guardian dear,
To whom God's love
commits me here,
Ever this day,
be at my side,
To light and guard,
Rule and guide.
Amen.

Our Father

Our Father, Who art in heaven,

Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done, on earth
as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive
those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

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Hail Mary

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.
Amen.

Glory Be

Glory be to the Father,

and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning,
is now,
and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.

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The Holy Rosary -THE MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY

THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES (Mondays and Saturdays)

1. The Annunciation
2. The Visitation
3. The Nativity
4. The Presentation
5. The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES (Tuesdays and Fridays)

1. The Agony in the Garden
2. The Scourging at the Pillar
3. The Crowning with Thorns
4. The Carrying of the Cross
5. The Crucifixion

THE GLORIOUS MYSTERIES (Wednesdays and Sundays)

1. The Resurrection
2. The Ascension
3. The Descent of the Holy Spirit
4. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
5. The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

THE LUMINOUS MYSTERIES (Thursdays)

1. The Baptism in the Jordan
2. The Wedding at Cana
3. Proclamation of the Kingdom
4. The Transfiguration
5. Institution of the Eucharist

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The Apostles Creed

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven

and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son Our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin
Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried. He descended into Hell; the third day He
rose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, and
sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father almighty;
from thence He shall come to judge the living and the
dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic
Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.
Amen.

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The Anima Christi

Soul of Christ, sanctify me

Body of Christ, save me
Blood of Christ, inebriate me
Water from Christ's side, wash me
Passion of Christ, strengthen me
O good Jesus, hear me
Within Thy wounds hide me
Suffer me not to be separated from Thee
From the malicious enemy defend me
In the hour of my death call me
And bid me come unto Thee
That I may praise Thee with Thy saints
and with Thy angels
Forever and ever
Amen

An Act of Spiritual Communion

My Jesus, I believe that You are

present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You
into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You
sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I
embrace You as if You were already here and unite
myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated
from You.
Amen.

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We fly to thy Protection

We fly to thy protection,

O holy Mother of God,
despise not our petitions
in our necessities,
but deliver us always
from all dangers,
Oh glorious and blessed Virgin.

Calasanz, Father of Mine

Calasanz, father of mine,

master, light and guide of my life,
look at me from Glory,
bless me on this day.
Bring to me from our Lord
intelligence and piety,
and an unconditional devotion
to His holy will.
Saint Joseph Calasanz,
pray for us.

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