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Oic
If I finally get it,
When I figure it out,
“Oh, I see,” I could cry,
Instead Oic I shout.

Steps London,2023

Mixing Paints

Yellow and blue gives you green.
For purple blend blue and red.
But I like mixing all paints,
So I can get black instead.

Adam Story’s List of Places He Wants To Visit

1. Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
2. Great Wall of China (walk along the top)
3. Nile River (longest river on earth)
4. Amazon River (second-longest river on earth)
5. Grand Canyon (I want to hike to the bottom)
6. Mount Rushmore
7. Mount Everest, Nepal (highest mountain on earth)
8. The Matterhorn (the real one in Switzerland, not Disneyland).
9. Mount Fuji, Japan (looks cool)
10. White House, Washington, DC
11. Empire State Building, NYC
12. Taipei 101 building (world’s tallest skyscraper)
13. Sears Tower, Chicago(tallest building in US)
14. Taj Mahal, India
15. South Pole
16. North Pole
17. Yellowstone National Park (see Old Faithful)
18. Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya
19. Machu Picchu, Peru
20. Eiffel Tower, Paris
21. Disney World, Disneyland Paris, Tokyo, and Hong Kong
22. Las Vegas (looks weird)
23. Venice, Italy
24. Jerusalem
25. Prime Meridian, England (I want to stand on it)
26. The equator (I want to stand on it)
27. Niagara Falls, NY (looks cool)
28. Victoria Falls, Africa (world’s tallest waterfall)
29. Major League Baseball stadiums (I want to see every one)
30. The International Space Station (who knows?)

"Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started." Ishmael in Moby-Dick
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2009 Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award
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Don’t Write in Books!

Never ever write in a book,
Teachers say again and again.
Then an author came and wrote her name,
In a book with a Sharpie pen.
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Playground Balls

Yellow balls are for kicking.
Red balls are for bouncing.
Don't kick the red balls.
I never play with the basketballs.
And that's all the balls on the playground.

Antonym of Antonym
 I know no synonym of synonym,
But I do know an antonym of antonym.
Synonym

The Arctic Ark - a global warming story
By the year 2050, scientists say the entire Arctic region including the North Pole will be free of ice. Only one person, fourth-grader Tom Tucker, has asked the important question. What will happen to Santa?

A-ho-ho-hoy!

Charge!
We watch the clock like crocodiles,
With recess as our feast.
We CHARGE! out the classroom door,
The second we're released.

We CHARGE! across the playground yard.
Favorite games resume,
But when we hear the whistle blow,
We CHARGE! back to our room.

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