Board and Bored, Wood and Would: The Fairy Garden

Welcome to the Fairy Garden, where the fairies are building a little bridge! They have a pile of wood logs and six flat wooden boards, and one sleepy frog looks very bored because he has nothing to do.

Remember: A board is a flat, long piece of wood: “The fairies need one more board for the bridge.” You also play a board game on a game board. Bored is how you feel when there is nothing fun to do: “The frog is bored.” Wood is what trees are made of: “The bridge is made of wood.” Would is a helper word for wishes and polite questions: “Would you like to help?”

Magic trick: Bored ends in ed, like other feeling words: tired, scared and excited. Would is spelled like its cousins could and should: they all end in o, u, l, d. Wood has two o’s, just like tree has two e’s.