Green Thumbs
I complained the ____ day.
My parents were making me work on the neighborhood project, but I had far better ____ to do.
I ____ understand why we were working on this place.
It was just the ugly, old, empty lot across from Johnny's ____.
It was full of wild ____, fast food wraps, old newspapers, broken glass, and every other kind of dirty trash you can imagine.
As I looked at it that first morning, I thought, "I bet there are snakes in ____, too."
There were twenty of us—all ages and ____ to work that day.
I didn't think that we could clean up this ____ mess and turn it into a garden.
We were all ____ where to begin.
Then Mr. Hernandez said, "The only way to do it is ____ to start."
Then, he divided the lot into four parts with ____ and assigned five people to each part.
By lunchtime
By ____, I was hot, sweaty, and glad my dad had made me wear gloves.
We filled fifty trash bags with waste and were ready to ____ wild plants.
As we pulled and pulled, ____ filled the air and made us sneeze.
At the end of the day, I had to admit the lot looked ____ better.
That first day was the ____.
On the weekends that followed, we made rows, planted flower and vegetable seeds, and watered ____.
After about two weeks, I stopped complaining when I found the plants had ____ popping up!
____, the lettuce and then the beans and the tomatoes.
They grew so fast. I ____ believe it!
The bean plants grew an inch, and the tomatoes doubled in size in just a few ____.
Now, two months later
Now, two months later, I like to go there every day to see ____ new flowers are ready to pop up.
Lots of people in the neighborhood meet there to enjoy the sights and to talk ____.
Tonight, it suddenly hit ____ a good thing we did!
I'm proud I ____ been a part of it.
I'm in charge of picking flowers for the nursing home on ____ Street.
The vegetables will go to every kitchen in our ____.
But even better, an ugly and dirty lot that people didn't like has ____ a pretty garden for everyone.