A Place Value Halloween
It was dark,
And cold,
And cool,
And clammy,
I was
wearing red jammies,
That looked like
grand-mammies...
I was
dressed as a ghost,
A goblin,
A ghoul,
I'd just returned,
From a long day at school...
I grabbed my pumpkin,
It was
plastic of course,
And grabbed my sister,
Who was
dressed as a horse,
We went out to get
tricked,
We went out
to be treated,
When it came
to candy,
We wouldn't be cheated...
Let me first
say,
My name is Ten,
And
sister's name is Hundred...
And baby brother's,
We went next door,
To the house of the Thousands,
They had 10 dogs,
10 ducks,
Ten cows and,
They had 3
kids named,
One,
Ten,
Hundred,
And that made me think,
As I stood and
wondered,
How did they have,
The same names as us?
|
Thousands |
Us |
||||
|
100 |
10 |
1 |
100 |
10 |
1 |
Couldn't they be named,
Brenda or Russ ?
But that's okay,
I won't make
any fuss...
They gave us 3
candies,
And we ran
like a race,
The thousands were big,
And scared us back to our place...
At the next house,
On the left,
On our spooky dark street...
I wasn't surprised,
When we got to meet,
The Millions family,
For they lived next door,
To the
thousands...
So we walked up like before...
They had
three kids,
One,
Ten,
Hundred,
That made me think,
As I stood
and wondered,
How did they have,
The same names as us?
|
Millions |
Thousands |
US |
||||||
|
100 |
10 |
1 |
100 |
10 |
1 |
100 |
10 |
1 |
Couldn't they be named,
Susanna or
Gus?
But that's okay,
I won't make
any fuss...
If they have 3 kids,
Named just
like us,
We'll get 3 treats,
And that's a
big plus!!!
But when they opened the
door,
I let out a
scream,
The Millions were giant,
Like a ton
of ice cream!!!
So I grabbed sister, Hundred,
And I
grabbed baby, One,
And I closed my ghost eyes,
And we
started to run...
We ran past the Millions,
And the house of the Thousands,
And we ran past the dogs,
And the ducks,
And the cows and...
We finally
got back,
To our Mom and Dad's place,
I felt like
we'd finished,
A 10-mile race...
We each got,
In our spot,
In our beds,
We were
sleepy,
And we dreamed of the Millions,
Who were so
big and so creepy...
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