Building a railroad
I may be gone crazy about preparing for the game, but today I wrote some verses for our trainland. I just wanted to go on playing with the train we have already made before. I wanted to add a railway. So I cut many stripes of paper for the rails and the sleepers. I layed them straight, singing: five, six - pick up sticks, seven, eight - lay them straight. Then I thought to myself that it was a good song to sing when building the railway with my kid. I just changed the other words of the song to make all song suitable for the trainland. There may be mistakes, And the rhyme is not always right, anyway, feel free to comment upon. And here it is:
One, two - little too-too
Three, four - leaving depot!
Five, six - pick up sticks
Seven, eight - lay them straight!
Nine, ten - get into the train,
Eleven, twelve - suitcace on a shelf!
Thirteen, fourteen - first goes engine,
Fifteen, sixteen - hear the whistle.
Seventeen, eighteen - girraf, alligator,Nineteen, twenty - everyone freighted!
And we did it! I unrolled the scothch tape and started putting the sticks one by one singing my song. Ms.T joined me eagerly and built all the railroad this way. It was easy and she had a lot of fun.
I gave her the following guides:
Unroll a long line of scotch tape. Look, this side is sticky and this is not. We put it on the table with the sticky side upwards. Now lay the sticks one by one straight. (Here I started singing) Then I gave her longer sticks and told to put them across the short ones for it were the rails. To my surprise she saw a ladder, not the railroad! When all was ready we put the train on the way and she saw how it worked. She learned what the railroad was.
And this time we have one more passenger, who is it? - alligator!
Wes, you are right. He will travel in our train too. But in a different car. In a caboose! The caboose is always in the end of a train. And so other animals can travel safely, the alligator won't eat them. Look, it can not reach for anyone from its caboose.
Let's start our journey now!
Nine, ten, get into the train! Choo-choo!
Thank you for reading
