Still faithfully reading every one and enjoying them - your verses are so quirky, I would have loved to have had them available to me when I was trying to learn my tables!
Hello Heather - how nice of you to leave a comment - I've been putting up the rhymes, not knowing if anyone was taking any notice - that's the odd thing about blogs . . . sometimes you don't know if you are working in a vacuum or if you have a lot of invisible company.
There's a bit of a hiatus at present. The drawings were scanned at a professional printers, who put them on a disc. Quite a few won't work properly when transferred to Blogger. (Some change colour dramatically, some won't come up at all.)
I re-scanned some of them as I went along but I've now got to the ones that really don't look any good when scanned in on my home printer.
I have an appointment at the printer's later next Thursday. After that, I'll be back to posting them again.
And I'm so glad you enjoy the rhymes. My inspiration was that I simply couldn't, absolutely couldn't learn my tables when I was little. I tried and tried but just couldn't.
The idea is that by using these rhymes along with traditional ones, small children will absorb the 'facts' of multiplication (just as they find out that Jack and Jill went up a hill and Humpty Dumpty fell off a wall) so, when they arrive at school, they will be able to concentrate on the meaning of sums.
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Still faithfully reading every one and enjoying them - your verses are so quirky, I would have loved to have had them available to me when I was trying to learn my tables!
Hello Heather - how nice of you to leave a comment - I've been putting up the rhymes, not knowing if anyone was taking any notice - that's the odd thing about blogs . . . sometimes you don't know if you are working in a vacuum or if you have a lot of invisible company.
There's a bit of a hiatus at present. The drawings were scanned at a professional printers, who put them on a disc. Quite a few won't work properly when transferred to Blogger. (Some change colour dramatically, some won't come up at all.)
I re-scanned some of them as I went along but I've now got to the ones that really don't look any good when scanned in on my home printer.
I have an appointment at the printer's later next Thursday. After that, I'll be back to posting them again.
And I'm so glad you enjoy the rhymes. My inspiration was that I simply couldn't, absolutely couldn't learn my tables when I was little. I tried and tried but just couldn't.
I wish I had had them then too!
Susan
Hi again! Thanks for pointing me to the rosa-sinensis blog, and yes - it's absolutely OK to have told her about me :)
Keep up the good work!
Heather x
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