I Thought I Saw a Turkey

I thought I saw a turkey, standing by a tree

It gobbled and it wobbled and it ran away from me.

Turkey, turkey, turkey please come out and play

I promise not to eat you, on Thanksgiving Day!

By

Miss DeeDee 

  Sung by her preschool class

A hundred million years ago, I lived on a farm. It was awesome being a kid spending every minute of every day outside with my dad doing crazy stuff most kids today have never done. Every year my dad would get 100 chickens and 25 turkeys and we would raise them to sell in the fall. Turkeys are not the smartest animals. I had proof of this every time a neighboring farmer would call us to say that the turkeys had wandered off and ended up in their yard. Our turkeys would fill their bellies, happily chasing bugs and lose all sense of where they were, get lost and then I would have to chase those crazy turkeys back home to our farm.

Dare I say to you, "DON'T be a TURKEY" for obvious reasons, especially at Thanksgiving!

Fred is DEAD 'cause he never READ.

Many of you already met Fred...

      Why is Fred dead, you ask? Well, Fred didn't like to read and thought it was ridiculous to spend time every day reading when there were so many other cool, fun things he could be doing, like playing Minecraft,  texting his 200 best friends, or anything else he could think of besides reading.

Don't be like Fred. 


Independent reading is what YOU CHOOSE to read on your own.
Independent reading is done for information or for pleasure.
It is not assigned reading.
No one is telling you WHAT to read or WHEN to read.
No one is checking your comprehension, assigning you a book report, a project, or some activity.
It is VOLUNTARY.
Done for RECREATION (FUN!)
It is done on your own time, in your own space, at your own pace, whenever you feel like it.

YOU NEED TO DO THIS ALOT! It is a choice that can CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

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