Proverbs

The early bird catches the worm.

• Birds are good at catching worms
•  If you wake up and get to work early, you willsucceed
• Getting up early gets you worms for breakfast
• It's better to stay in bed

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

• Flies are attracted to honey
• Vinegar doesn't taste good
•  It is easier to get what you want by flattering people and being polite to them than by making demands
• Honey is sweet

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.8

A penny saved is a penny earned.

• A penny is valuable.
• You can earn pennies.
  You can earn pennies.
• A penny isn't worth much.
• Money not spent is money that is in one's pocket.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

Look before you leap.

• Think before you act.
• Look and then jump.
• Jumping is good exercise
• Looking is important

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

• Counting the eggs is more important.
• You should not count on something before it happens
• Chickens are hard to count.
• Waiting for the chickens is hard to do.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.RL.4.4

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

• All the eggs don't fit in one basket.
• You need to get a bigger basket.
• Buy smaller eggs.
• Don't put all your prospects into one thing.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.RL.4.4

Where there's a will, there's a way.

• Boys named Will know the way
• There's always a way to find Will.
• It's hard to find Will.
• If you are determined enough, you can find a way to do anything.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.  It's a duck.

• Something is exactly what it seems to be.
• Ducks to a lot of walking.
• Somethings look like ducks.
• If you quack, you're a duck.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is suggested sounds easy but it is more difficult to actually do it.

• Easier said than done

• Great talkers little doers

Don't express regret for something that has happened and cannot be remedied.

• better late than never

• crying over spilt milk