Objects: Weeds, some with thorns and thistles.

Good morning, boys and girls. Guess what I had to do this week that almost no one likes to do? (Let them guess.) I don't like to do many of those things either, but this week I did one of my most unfavorite things. I pulled weeds. How many of you like to pull weeds? (Let them answer.) It is an awful job because if you do not get the roots of the weed, you have to do it again in a very short time. But these weeds were really awful because they had thorns. Let me show you one of the weeds that I pulled. (Show them the weed with the thistles.) This is a mean weed. First, you pull the weed out of the ground and then you pull the thorns out of your hand. Does that hurt! These kind of weeds are particularly bad because if you let them grow, they wi…