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Read and Enjoy S E L • Initiative

Every animal is special in its own way. Let us read a poem

about animals and recite it with the class.

If I were an elephant

I would be thankful
That I can raise my trunk.

If I were a kangaroo

I would try to hop
Right up to the moon.

If I were an octopus

I would be thankful

For my eight arms.

So, I just think I am lucky to be ‘me’.

Not ‘you’, but ‘me’.

What do you think you want to be?

Do you want to be like me?

Or just you? Just you…

—Anonymous

Word Meanings
raise: lift to a higher level; hop: jump

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