Fantastical Me Too!

# Come on and get on down to the city

# Where the trains all clatter through

# Hey! Look at that driver driving

-# I want to ride that train of blue

-Me too

# I'm looking way up high to the windows

# Take a peek for an inside view

# All these people busy working

# I want to see what they all do

# Come on, let's weave around the market

# Do you hear the hullabaloo?

# Everybody's busy selling

-# I wanna buy me something new

-Me too

# Look through the arches under the station

# Down where the pigeons perch and coo

# Take a taxi ride to the river

# I wanna drive down the avenue

# Hey, look at those buses gleaming

# They look so clean and spanking new

# All lined up to drive around the city

-# Let me ting that bell

-Ding, ding!

# Going to ride on round to the school stop

# Where the children hurry through

# Sit down, the teacher's teaching

-# I'd love to learn a thing or two

-Me too

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, by the sea. #

Seven o'clock.

# Come on and get on down to the city

-# Where the ferryboat sails are blue

-Sails are blue

# Time to call on Granny Murray

# She'd love to say hello to you... #

Hello, honey pie.

Come away in and see who's at home today.

# Granny Murray's house has two at home to play

# Granny Murray's house is home to... #

Who's here today?

Well, there's Hope and Cali.

Don't just sit there, poppets.

Let's get the toys out. That's the way!

Oh, wow.

"I'll eat them for my dinner."

"No," said the king. "Why don't you come for a banquet in our castle?"

"Oh! That'll be far tastier than us, eh?"

Well, we've got Hope here.

We've got Cali, but someone's missing from Granny's house today.

-CREAK!

-Oh!

Not any more. Who's coming home to Granny's today?

Ah, it's Rebecca and Mickey John.

Hello there.

Mickey John, hello!

Are you doing it by yourself?

-Come in. Join in the fun, Rebecca.

-What's going on?

-Well...

the children are playing with the wee people

and making up stories about kings and queens.

I'm doing that with my class today -

making up stories about kings and queens.

Oh, you copycat!

Here, that's a good idea.

Why don't you dress Claude up as a queen?

Let's have a wee sit-down.

How about this for a story?

There's a king called Peter and a queen called Jasmine.

-They live in space.

-Space?

-On a meteorite going three trillion mph.

There's no food there and they both have two sticky-up antennae

-that spin round like yoyos and they only eat paparazicals.

-Paparazicals?

-Queen Jasmine has three gigantic crowns.

-Oh, I'm a bit lost.

So were they. Their map was made of banana and a monkey ate it!

Oh, wait, wait, wait! I'm not really following your story.

-No?

-I like to be able to picture where things happen in stories.

Hmm. I see.

And I can picture where Claude should be now.

On a throne!

You look great, Claude. I mean, your highness.

-Ha-ha-ha!

-Oh, what's this? My own little king to take to work.

-Got a hug for Daddy? ..Ah-h!

-Bye.

-Well, I'd better go to school.

Have fun with your stories.

Remember, I like to picture where things happen in stories.

-Thank you. I'll see you later.

-Thinking of you, darling.

-Me too!

Now, you keep a wee eye on Mickey John -

make sure he goes the right way to work.

I'm in a hurry. How can I speed across the river to work?

-BEEP! BEEP!

-That's right. Thanks.

# I'm in-in-in-in-in-in-in a hurry

# I nee-nee-need to speed to work

# I take a tic-tic-ticket on a speedboat

# I'll be-be-be-be there quite quick

# Hurry, hurry down the river

# Splashing, splashing in the waves

# Whining, whining, whining drives the speedboat

# Chugga, chugga slows us down

# Rocking, rocking, rocking to the dock

# I'm in-in-in-in-in-in-in a hurry

# I nee-nee-need to speed to work

# I'm in-in-in-in-in-in-in a hurry! #

Hurry, hurry, hurry!

And hurry, hurry, hurry put my tie on.

All snazzy and ready to go.

Rebecca's king would make a great character in a story.

I'm the dancing king. Anyone messing with me dances how I dance.

-What do you have to say to that?

-Mickey John?

-Oh! Hi, Rudi.

-I'm just making up a story.

-It sounds brilliant.

I just brought back your audio tape.

-Oliver Twist is brilliant!

-One of my favourites.

Charles Dickens really brings the characters to life.

I can picture them. I like Fagin.

"Oliver, my dear, you can trust Old Fagin."

If you like stories, come back later.

I'm making up a story. You could tell it to Jack tonight.

Sounds brilliant. Toby can look after the stall and I'll pop back later.

I love making up stories.

I wonder what stories Rebecca's making up with Granny Murray.

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, by the sea. #

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, that's for me. #

Oh, Your Majesty! ..Do you want to sit on the throne?

Come on, then. Good girl.

Wait till you meet the beautiful Princess Rebecca.

If only your dad could see you now, eh?

I miss you, Daddy.

Come along. Today we'll be making up kings-and-queens stories,

I want you to draw characters that you may find in that kind of story,

such as kings or queens, princes or princesses or soldier guards.

Now, let's have a look at what you've done.

That's fantastic. Is he your knight? He looks very brave.

Oh, and a little princess as well.

-Right then, who do we have here?

-A queen.

She's tall and skinny, isn't she? That's a good idea for a story.

-Now what have we got here?

-A knight.

-A knight, yes.

Looks like a guard of the castle, doesn't he?

These pictures are going to make an absolutely fantastic story.

I'll tell it to you after some schoolwork.

# Oh, I whoop with joy when I go to school in the morning

# Teaching with my chums and see the children learning

# School day, work away

# I'm learning, learning when I'm teaching

# I'm teaching, learning, teaching, learning, teaching

# School day, work away! Teaching to count and teaching to read

# Learn about birds, plants and seeds! Playing outdoors

# Keeping the scores

# School day, work away!

# I'm learning when I'm teaching

# We're learning, learning, learning when he's teaching

# School day, work away! Oh, the secretary's smiling

# As she does her organising

# The jannie fixes, the cookie mixes and the cleaner keeps shining

# Oh, I whoop with joy when I go to school in the morning

# Holding the line in the dinner queue

# While the cookie serves us stew Answer questions

# How does it fly?

# School day, work away

# I'm learning, learning as I'm teaching

# Learning, learning, learning when he's teaching

# School day, work away

# The children eye me as they sit and try their writing

# Take a look, I mark their books The good ones get a smiley

# Oh, I whoop with joy when I go to school in the morning! #

-All alone?

-Hi, Raymond. What are you doing here?

-Waiting for a lift.

Tina's bringing some children in her taxi.

Does that mean you've got a moment? I need to scan in these pictures.

-Lead me to it.

-Come on, then.

OK, Raymondo, I'll put the pictures in the scanner.

-You work the keyboard and check them on the monitor.

-Go for it.

Oh, the King!

"I'm very busy. I need my Royal Crown and a ham sandwich."

Very good.

Oh, the Queen!

"My husband and I enjoy skateboarding."

-Oh, dear, oh, dear.

-Oh, the Prince! "Hello, dude. Where's the party?"

You're going to give me great ideas for the story!

I'm not interrupting, am I?

Ah, there you are, love.

Shall we go?

-Well, I think so. You don't want to miss your train, eh?

-No, no, quite.

I hope the story is fab. Got to go.

I wonder what the story will be.

I wonder how Rebecca would make up a story.

So Queen Claude, do you love to eat jelly?

Me too!

Come on, everybody. Let's eat some jelly.

I bet your dad wishes he was eating jelly on a plate.

Can you see me?

OK, there was once this king and this queen, right?

The king was big and covered in gold

and the queen was little and covered in silver.

-Great characters.

-Oh, hi, Rudi. I was doing my king and queen story.

-Do you mind if I record it for Jack?

-No, make yourself comfortable.

What are the characters in my story like?

The king had a big, fat tummy. The queen was as thin as a rake.

The king smelt of cheese and the queen smelt of custard.

I think the characters are brilliant

but you haven't told me where they are, so I can't picture it.

I'm still working out who's in it.

I'll pop back later when you've decided what happens in the story.

Do you have any ideas to make the children listen to my story?

You need action, things to happen.

I want to know where the characters live and work.

Work it out and I'll be back later to listen.

Oh, my class will be back at any moment. Oh, gosh! Rudi's right.

I've worked hard all morning to tell a story about a king and queen

and I know who's in the story but I don't know what happens.

I haven't got a story. Where did the time go?

At seven o'clock, I dropped off Rebecca at Granny Murray's.

Claude was dressed up as a queen.

Granny Murray made up stories about kings and queens.

I thought that was a great idea for my class too.

At eight o'clock, I got to work.

Rudi returned a tape he'd borrowed. He wanted to hear my story later.

At nine o'clock, my class drew pictures of the characters

who would be in the story.

At 12 o'clock, Raymond called by while he was waiting for a lift.

He helped me scan the pictures in, ready to be the story characters.

At one o'clock, Rudi came back with a tape recorder to record my story.

He liked the characters

but he wanted to know what the story was all about.

Now, remember, I like to be able to picture

where things happen in stories.

Of course! Granny Murray's right.

I need a place to put all the children's exciting characters.

I need a place that everyone can picture,

especially if I take photos.

I know just the place that a king and queen might live.

It's a race against time!

# I'm going to do it! I'm going to beat the clock before the chime

# I'm going to sort it I'm going to do the job on time

# Like a busy bee, I'll beat that bong,

# I'm gonna finish this job before you finish that so-o-ong

# I'm going to do it! I'll beat the clock before the chime

# I'm going to sort it! I'm going to do the job on time

# Like a busy bee, I'll finish this job before you finish that so-o-ong

# Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock!

# Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock! Tick! Tock! Tick! #

I don't know about you,

-but I think I'm ready for the made-up story.

-Me too.

-Hi, Rudi.

Would you like to take your seat at my desk?

OK, this is the story of King Peter and Queen Jasmine

using your pictures and my castle.

Once upon a time there was a king and queen

who lived in a big castle.

In the castle they had lots of people to do everything for them.

The trouble was, the King was a little dreamy,

and whenever lunchtime came and the Queen sat down

with all the princes and princesses, and the footmen brought the food

the King was never there!

He was always on the battlements

dreamily thinking about all sorts of other things.

So the Queen had a problem -

how could she let the King know it was time for lunch?

Well, the Queen called everyone together

and said, "How can we let my dear husband know that it's one o'clock?"

Everyone scratched their heads in puzzlement

until a little drummer-boy piped up, "I think you should fire the cannon

"at one o'clock every day.

"Then the King will know it's lunch time."

The Queen thought this was a brilliant idea

so every day the cannon was fired... Boom!

..and the King was never late for his lunch,

and the cannon has been fired at one o'clock every day since.

Amazing! Wonderful story!

The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts

All in a summer's day

The knave of hearts He stole those tarts

And took them clean away.

That's silly, isn't it?

I'm only kidding! They're right here.

Who fancies a jam tart? They're delicious.

We'll save one for Dad, Rebecca.

Mickey John!

-Look who's here, Rebecca.

-Hello, beautiful girl!

-Hi, Daddy.

-Hey! Have you had a lovely time?

-You bet we have.

-Say thank you to Granny Murray.

-Thank you, Granny Murray.

-Clever girl.

-And thanks from me too, Granny Murray -

your saying "I like to be able to picture

-"where things happen in stories" saved the day.

-Oh, fancy that!

Come on, let's get you home.

-Looking forward to next time!

-Me too! Let's chat about our time away.

And I suppose you'll want me to tell you about my time too!

# Well, there was...

# Waving, painting, hello! meeting

# Bye-bye, closing waking, dozing

# Eating, sleeping fetching, stretching

# Painting, sketching, gluing, chewing

# Sticking up and wiping round

# Dressing up and sitting down. #

But what was really special about today?

Well, the children dressed Claude up as a queen

because we wanted to make up king and queen stories today.

We made my living room into a gorgeous palace -

just the sort of palace a real king and queen would like to live in.

In fact, it was rather like the Riverseafingal Castle.

Then we had a delicious banquet with jelly.

Later, I dressed up as the Queen of Hearts

and we had jam tarts for tea.

Do you like making up stories? Me too.

Bye-bye, honey pie!

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, by the sea

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, that's for me

# Come on and get on down to the city

-# Where the ferryboat sails are blue

-Sails are blue

# Time to call on Granny Murray

# She'd love to say goodbye to you! #

Me too!