Give Me Dinner Before Dessert

Florencia and Miguel - you two were looking for cool pictures on the computer and creating fancy word documents BEFORE finishing what you set out to do, which was working on the context clues for tomorrow's test.

That's like eating dessert before dinner, which sometimes is very fun to do, but probably should only be done if you're in good shape.

So I'll tell you what. Show me you're in good 5th-grade shape by testing out of 5th-grade work, and I'll let you start eating dessert before dinner. \

But as your teacher, give me dinner (the completion of the task I gave you), before giving me dessert (making it look nice).