Nursery Rhyme

Teaching in a nursery class

Some of them were weeping,

Tried to teach them counting

 Most of them were sleeping.

 That night I thought what went wrong

I had given it ample time,

Then to make the lesson interesting

I made it into a rhyme.

 ‘’You are alone in the house

For your company, there is none,

You are single, you are frightened

And we count it as one.

 You are a very small child

Can’t buckle your shoe,

They come in pairs

You also have two.

 A new guest in your house

One day old is she,

Two brothers one sister

Now you are three.

 You and brother chatting inside

Bell rings at the door,

Mummy and papa waiting outside

In total, you are four.

 You are going for a picnic

Papa is going to drive,

Mummy papa brother sister

Add you it makes five.

 Mummy takes you to a doctor

He gives you two pricks,

Every month for three months

Painful injections all six.

 Six balls on my terrace

As if fallen from heaven,

I have already one with me

Now I have all seven.

I ordered four pizzas

They delivered them late,

Every pizza cut into two

Now they have become eight.

 My sister has eight marbles

I have five, that's not fine,

I need four more marbles

To make it nine.

Standing outside the classroom

For painting walls with the pen,

Five boys, five girls

Five and five make ten.’’

Now counting for them

Is just a play,

They are learning one to ten

And singing all day.