I found a 1978 SCDC Spanish Curricula Units box that was going to be thrown away. I am always looking for "new" materials and so I opened the teachers edition up and found page 145 where it said to write palo, miel, cama, mesa, nube and the read:

Había una vez un viejo malo/ que andaba con un _________.
Tengo un amigo fiel/ tan bueno como la ________.
Toñito tiene fama/ de saltar en la _________.
Es tanto lo que pesa/ que se rompió la ___________.
Tan alto Nino sube/ que se sente una _________.

Along with talking about using a franelógrafo which is what the authors called the flannel board (for you young people, teachers used to stick pictures made of flannel on a board made of flannel to tell stories) I found a worksheet to mimeograph that had the following word match:
rica  boca
toca  beso
pide pica
mesa  jugo
Hugo  mide

I thumbed through it and the pages were falling out at the spine. It included the pictures what are part of a series of books that were in another box that was/is going to be thrown away. I can't let it go just yet. There are kids in my class room that don't have books at home, and though they are dated, they are easy to read. I had to laugh at the title of one of the stories Pollito Pito, because of the double meaning of pito in Spanish. I don't think I'll send that book home.

I am going to look into see if this series has been updated to include newer pictures and stories.