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Satisfyingly sweet and savory
Write a description of two people having a meal. Make as many words as you can begin with “s.” Can you hit 100?
One person started by writing, Susan and Samantha slurped soup as they sat at Sid’s Steakhouse one Saturday night.
Another started with, Susan and Sam stopped at SushiRama on Sunday, settled into soft satin pillows on the shiny floor, started studying the menu to select some starters, and finally settled on salmon.
Scoring: Give yourself one point for every “s” word you use. Then have someone else score your paper. You will lose one point for every misspelled word, so be careful!
“Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!”
—Author Unknown
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food chain
Normally, a food chain shows how living things get their food. Some animals eat plants and some animals eat other animals. However, no animal is going to devour another one in the kind of food chain you are going to create.
Choose a food, any food, to start your food chain. The last letter of that food should become the first letter of the next food. The last letter of that food will become the first letter of the
next food, and so forth.
For example, if you start with the word “spinach,” the next word could be “hamburger” because spinach ends in an “h” and hamburger begins with an “h.” The next word could be “ravioli” because “hamburger ends in an “r” and “ravioli” starts with one. The word chain would look like this:
spinach hamburger ravioli
See if you can create a food chain at least 100 words long. Of course, it is important to make no spelling errors, as that can throw off your whole chain. Also, you can’t name the same food twice.
“Mosquitoes remind us we are not as high up
on the food chain as we think.”
—Tom Wilson
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food scramble
Below are fifty unrecognizable words. Your job? Unscramble the letters in each item to spell a common food.
1. |
rgemrhbua |
26. |
oesslerca |
2. |
unctooc |
27. |
mooatt |
3. |
ganaasl |
28. |
eolnmtrawe |
4. |
noolevopr |
29. |
lopteboorl |
5. |
hacnpsi |
30. |
urossetlsuspbsr (2 words) |
6. |
azpzi |
31. |
omosurhm |
7. |
logceamau |
32. |
laeqdlaius |
8. |
nacnoinm |
33. |
aoanmcir |
9. |
kcnaeaps |
34. |
guessaa |
10. |
hasqsu |
35. |
aneneresgb (2 words) |
11. |
tgdhoo (two words) |
36. |
pkoohcpr (2 words) |
12. |
linkcemuppre |
37. |
ofaltema (2 words) |
13. |
saagpursa |
38. |
soetpaot |
14. |
lfawesf |
39. |
ablemltas |
15. |
cioblorc |
40. |
eaorcdbnr (2 words) |
16. |
naaban |
41. |
littlenoir |
17. |
bripeimr (2 words) |
42. |
kayierit |
18. |
oancb |
43. |
aplegtng |
19. |
rekhcoiat |
44. |
turbroi |
20. |
thapeisgt |
45. |
aappay |
21. |
eerppnoip |
46. |
gamon |
22. |
noeltpacau |
47. |
dilchaaen |
23. |
amlwlmhrsoa |
48. |
oledeanm |
24. |
iuhss |
49. |
aegbl |
25. |
dooacva |
50. |
iehnckc |
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Where do ants go for a vacation?
Frants.
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Something fishy’s going on
Puns. People love them. People hate them. People laugh when they hear them. People groan when they hear them.
Love them or hate them, human beings can’t seem to help themselves. They create puns all the time, accidentally and on purpose.
What exactly is a pun? It is a humorous play on words, often involving double meanings. People making fish puns might mention an opporTUNAty. Or they might describe something as FINtastic.
Write a punny story full of fish puns. You can make up your own puns or borrow some of the puns below. See if you can include at least 10 fish-related puns in your story.
•What’s all this I keep herring about…
•Don’t flounder around.
•getting crabby
•Exsalmon (examine) it.
•That’s a moray! (That’s amore!)
•Put some mussel behind it…
•perched on a chair
•stop carping
•clam up
•super-fish-al (superficial)
•got reeled in
•Don’t shell out too much
•a-fish-ionado (aficionado)
•having a whale of a time
•fishing for compliments
•something fishy going on
•my hands are clammy
•heart and sole (soul)
•You’re so shellfish! (selfish)
What do you call a fish with no eyes?
FSH.
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