New Year's Resolutions

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break and are ready for a fresh start at school? I sure did enjoy my time off but I am also looking forward to seeing you all again.

In two weeks Test Week #2 starts and before that we will be doing a project about the National Poetry Week in  2M and in 2H. To get you started on the project I found a nice poem about New Year's Resolutions (do you have any?). Enjoy!

New Year's Resolutions

Last year I did some rotten things.

This year I will be better.

Here are some resolutions

I will follow to the letter:

I won't make dumb excuses

when my homework isn't done;

when the truth is that I did no work

'cause I was having fun.

I won't fly paper airplanes

when the teacher isn't looking.

I won't sneak in the kitchen

just to taste what they are cooking.

I will not twist the silverware

to see how far it bends.

I will not take the candy bars

from lunch bags of my friends.

I will not skateboard down the hall

or skateboard down the stairs.

I won't run over teachers,

and I won't crash into chairs.

I will not do these rotten things;

my heart is full of sorrow.

But I have got some brand-new tricks

to try in school tomorrow.

-Bruce Lansky