Thinking in Numbers

"A singy songy poem of patterns and dialect of childhood days"

One two,

buckle  

me shoe;

Three four,

knockin 

on’t door; 

Five six,

Pick up sticks;

Seven eight,  

swinging on’t gate; 

Nine ten,  

feedin cockerels, roosters, and hens. 

Reviews

[Michelle Buckley]

Feeding cockerels, roosters, and hens is me remembering myself as a seven year old kid, I grew up on a farm in East Devon. I used this rhyme to teach my children language skills, and getting them to think on the spot! In a way it's me remembering myself as a child, and a mother, and remembering my time with my children when they were little, toddling around and such, also me coming to terms with being autistic, I was only diagnosed in January this year, I'm approaching fifty-nine, peeling the onion I guess, remembering myself home...

[MCS]

LOL, I had no idea that’s how this child's verse went. :)

[Gee]

We always said..9, 10 do it agen :)

[Michelle Buckley]

Ha yeah, using numbers as literature is a good way of teaching children language skills...