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Even the biggest trees begin life as tiny seeds.
Read about how the little acorn grew big.
“Little by little,” an acorn said,
As it slowly sank in its mossy bed;
“I am improving every day,
Hidden deep in the earth away.”
Downward it sent out a thread-like root
Up in the air sprang a tiny shoot;
Day by day, and year by year,
Little by little the leaves appear,
And the slender branches spread far and wide
Till the mighty oak is the forest’s pride.
hidden, slowly, downward, slender, mighty, branches,
pride, improving, sipped, shoot
Little by little each day it grew,
Little by little it sipped the dew.
New words
Little by Little
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UNIT III
2019-20
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Even the biggest trees begin life as tiny seeds.
Read about how the little acorn grew big.
“Little by little,” an acorn said,
As it slowly sank in its mossy bed;
“I am improving every day,
Hidden deep in the earth away.”
Downward it sent out a thread-like root
Up in the air sprang a tiny shoot;
Day by day, and year by year,
Little by little the leaves appear,
And the slender branches spread far and wide
Till the mighty oak is the forest’s pride.
hidden, slowly, downward, slender, mighty, branches,
pride, improving, sipped, shoot
Little by little each day it grew,
Little by little it sipped the dew.
New words
Little by Little
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UNIT III
2019-20
1. Name the tree that the acorn grows into.
2. What things does a seed need to grow?
3. How many describing words can you find in this poem?
Look at the two pictures. Find four things that are different
about these trees and talk about them.
Look at Picture 1. Write three sentences on what the trees
give us.
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Let’s write
Talk time
Reading is fun
Picture 2
What do you give me?
24 Picture 1
I give you all this
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Even the biggest trees begin life as tiny seeds.
Read about how the little acorn grew big.
“Little by little,” an acorn said,
As it slowly sank in its mossy bed;
“I am improving every day,
Hidden deep in the earth away.”
Downward it sent out a thread-like root
Up in the air sprang a tiny shoot;
Day by day, and year by year,
Little by little the leaves appear,
And the slender branches spread far and wide
Till the mighty oak is the forest’s pride.
hidden, slowly, downward, slender, mighty, branches,
pride, improving, sipped, shoot
Little by little each day it grew,
Little by little it sipped the dew.
New words
Little by Little
23
UNIT III
2019-20
1. Name the tree that the acorn grows into.
2. What things does a seed need to grow?
3. How many describing words can you find in this poem?
Look at the two pictures. Find four things that are different
about these trees and talk about them.
Look at Picture 1. Write three sentences on what the trees
give us.
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Let’s write
Talk time
Reading is fun
Picture 2
What do you give me?
24 Picture 1
I give you all this
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Match the opposites. One has been done for you.
Now look at Picture 2. Write three sentences on how we harm
the trees.
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These words describe parts of a tree. Write them in the given space.
stem _________________________________________________________
bark _________________________________________________________
leaves ________________________________________________________
branch _______________________________________________________
twigs _________________________________________________________
root ___________________________________________________________
shoot _________________________________________________________
downward weak
slowly night
little upward
slender fast
mighty fat
day big
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