A first-grade teacher collected some well-known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of the proverb and asked them to come up with the rest of it.
Their insights may surprise you.
While reading them, please remember that they are first-grade students -- kids 5 to 6 years old.
Better to be safe than ...
Punch a 5th grader.
Strike while the ...
Bug is close.
It's always darkest before ...
Daylight Savings Time
Never underestimate the power of ...
Termites
You can lead a horse to water but ...
How?
Don't bite the hand that ...
looks dirty.
No news is ...
Impossible.
A miss is as good as a ...
Mister.
You can't teach an old dog new ...
Math.
If you like down with dogs, you'll ...
Stink in the morning.
The pen is mightier than the ...
Pigs.
An idle mind is ...
The best way to relax.
Where there's smoke, there's ...
Pollution.
Happy the bride who ...
Gets all the presents.
A penny saved is ...
Not that much.
Two's company, three's ...
The Musketeers.
Don't put off 'til tomorrow what ...
You put on to go to bed.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and ...
You have to blow your nose.
There are none so blind as ...
Stevie Wonder.
Children should be seen and not ...
Spanked or grounded.
If at first you don't succeed ...
Get new batteries.
When the blind lead the blind ...
Get out of the way!
Better late than ...
Pregnant!
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