This week, I made a felt set to go with the traditional riddle poem "As I Was Going to St. Ives." Here's the poem:
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks.
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks.
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
I'm using this for my It's Raining Cats & Dogs Story Time this month. The surprise is that the story time features all poetry.
As you can see from the picture above, I made judicious use of the number seven. After all, would you want to make 7 wives, 49 sacks, 343 cats, and 2401 kits? Probably not! As usual, I used a combination of clipart from Microsoft Office and coloring sheets for templates.
A classic!
ReplyDeleteYou've got to do a follow-up post for all the children's guesses. I would love to hear what they say.
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