Counting

Concept: An educational book, which helps kids get familiar with the idea of counting by two’s, three’s and so on. (Essentially, a gentle precursor to the times tables they’ll be learning later.)

Style: AAB CCB rhyme scheme, with the A and C lines being shorter / more staccato than the B lines.

I can count
Any amount.
Come along and see!

 I’ll count these flowers
And show my powers.
There’s one, and two, and three!

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Oh, wait! There’s more
I missed before,
These countable flowers of mine.

It’s easy to fix
Four, five, and six,
And seven, and eight, and nine

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There’s number ten,
And eleven. And then…
This is really a big bouquet!

Counting is fine
But one at a time?
I’ll be counting the rest of the day.

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I’d sure love to master
Counting much faster,
When numbers get really high.

So, just for fun
I won’t count by one.
There’s so many numbers to try!

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These pairs of shoes –
I’ll count them by twos.
Two, four, six, and eight!

That was a blast!
It went so fast.
Counting by twos feels great!

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 These autumn trees –
I’ll count by threes.
Remember when they were green?

Now, colored so fine,
There’s three, six, and nine
Twelve, fifteen, eighteen.

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My toy dinosaurs –
I’ll count them by fours.
I’ve sure collected plenty!

Let’s concentrate
There’s four, and eight,
Twelve, sixteen, and twenty

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Bees in their hives –
I’ll count them by fives
(And stand back so their stingers won’t hurt me!) 

There’s five and ten,
Fifteen, and then,
Twenty, Twenty-five, and Thirty

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These baby chicks –
I’ll count them by six.
That peeping’s too loud to ignore.

But they won’t distract,
Or get me off track.
Six, twelve, eighteen, twenty-four

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The stars in the heavens –
I’ll count them by sevens,
And make wishes on them when I’m done.

They glitter and blink,
So I quick as a wink,
I count them seven, fourteen, twenty-one.

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Those peas on my plate –
I’ll count them by eight.
I’m lucky – there are quite a few!

I’m eating them all
To grow strong and tall.
Eight, sixteen, twenty-four, thirty-two.

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These ants in their lines –
I’ll count them by nines,
As they crawl over branches and sticks.

They work as a team.
Here’s nine on this beam,
Then eighteen, twenty-seven, thirty-six

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[ART NOTE – the ‘friends’ are a combination of everything we’ve counted so far]

Now all of my friends –
I’ll count them by tens.
Get ready. It’s gonna be nifty!

The big and the small,
I’ll count one and all.
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty!

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Counting’s a game
That’s good for my brain
And big numbers are so much fun!

Whether counting by sevens
Or fives, or elevens,
Or even just counting by one.

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