Giving 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 that 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... #

Me too!

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,

we've got Molly and Hope.

Don't just sit there, come on, let's get busy.

Is that the things we collected in the park?

That's exactly what it is.

Remember we went on a nature walk and we collected some things,

I didn't know what to put in my scrap book.

Would you like to help me stick them in?

What do you think? You set it out the way you think you'd like to.

Oh, beautiful!

Pine cones...

they remind me of Christmas.

We've got Molly and we've got Hope

but someone's missing from home today.

Oh, not any more.

Who's coming home to Granny Murray?

Who's that?

Oh yes, it's Rebecca with Mickey John.

Hello there!

Mickey John!

Hello!

And Rebecca.

Doing it by yourself?

What's going on here?

We're looking at things we collected on our nature walk.

-Look at that beautiful fir cone, Rebecca. It's lovely.

-Yeah.

Yes, it's from a fir tree, isn't it, Molly.

There's an idea. Why don't you all dress Claude up,

as a fir tree.

Why don't we waft over to the chairs in a gust of pine-fresh air?

Ha ha!

Good idea, Mickey John.

SHE LAUGHS

Look at this simply gorgeous scrap book.

My cousin Lulu gave it to me.

Oh, that's fantastic.

Well, I didn't know what to do with it until today.

What are you gonna do with it?

Look inside! The children and I have been sticking in things

we found on our nature walk.

Oh! A fine use for a fine book.

I'm glad you said that, Mickey John.

-Because, as

-I

-always say,

make the most of what you've been given.

I couldn't agree more, Granny Murray.

Speaking of presents, I heard baby Mia was coming later.

So I bought her this.

Oh, thank you, Mickey John.

Oh, we'll certainly make the most of that.

Oh, look at Claude.

He looks like a fine fir tree, waving in the wind. LAUGHTER

-Oh my!

-Nice outfit, Claude.

-I'm green with envy.

-Oh, you!

Well done, my cherubs.

What's this?

A fir cone, lovely.

Bye-bye, sweetheart.

-Be good for Granny Murray.

-Come on!

Remember, make the most of what you've been given.

Thank you. I'll see you later.

-Bye-bye. We'll be thinking of you.

-Me too!

Will you keep a wee eye on Mickey John?

Make sure he goes the right way to work.

I don't have much time. How can I speed across the river to work?

HORN BLARES

That's right, thanks!

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

# I ne ne ne ne need to speed to work

# I'll take a take a ticket on a speedboat

# I'll be be be be there quite quick

# Hurry hurry hurry down the river

# Splashing splashing splashing through the waves

# Whining whining whining drives the speed up

# Chugga chugga chugga slows us down

# Rocking rocking rocking to the dock

# Splashing splashing splashing to our stop!

# I'm in in in in in a hurry

# I ne ne ne ne need to speed to work

# I'm in in in in in a hurry. #

Hurry, hurry hurry!

And hurry, hurry, hurry - put my tie on.

All dressed and ready to go.

Still got a bit of time yet.

I'll just sit down for a minute and settle my thoughts.

-Anyone home?

-Oh, goodness. Dr Juno.

-What a surprise to see you now.

-I've come to see Edgar.

-Who's that?

-The head teacher.

-You mean Mr Grant.

-I came to show him my painting of Riverseafingal.

We all had to paint a picture of the city for the art class.

Unfortunately, Edgar didn't have time to look at it. He was busy.

Can I see it? I'd love to see it.

OK.

Oh!

What do you think?

I think it's absolutely fantastic.

-Really?!

-It's more than fantastic. I love it, Dr Juno.

Your colour, composition, the way you've used your brush.

Are you all right?

I'm just so happy, Mickey John. I love that you love my painting.

-As you like it so much, it's yours.

-I can't take this.

-You can. I want you to have it.

-Oh, I don't know what to say.

-Thank you, Dr Juno.

-Just enjoy it.

-I've got to get to work. See you later.

-Bye! Thanks again.

Lucky me! I've been given two smashing things today.

Dr Juno's painting and Rebecca's fir cone.

I wonder how you're getting on my little lucky sausage.

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal by the sea

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, that's for me. #

Oh, she's lovely, isn't she?

Hello, baby Mia.

Hello!

You know, I've just remembered I've got a present for you.

Hello!

Hello!

This is from Mickey John.

-That was nice of your dad to buy baby Mia a present.

-Yes.

She likes it!

What are you doing now, Daddy?

Right, come on class, that's the way.

In you come. Come on.

Nice and quiet, please.

Now, I want you all to come up in ones and twos

and look at this painting by Dr Juno.

Then I want you all to think about your favourite things.

Things you love in Riverseafingal.

Later on we'll write them down.

But first, time for me to do some hard work.

# 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 learning when I'm teaching

# I'm teaching learning teaching learning, teaching

# School day, work away!

# Teaching to count and teaching to read

# Learning about birds and plants and seeds

# Playing games and sports outdoors

# Blowing my whistle and keeping scores

# School day, work away!

# Learning learning learning when I'm teaching

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

# School day, work away!

# Oh, the secretary's filing as she does her organising

# The jani fixes, the cookie mixes

# And the cleaner keeps it shining

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

# All in a line in the dinner queue

# While the cook he cooks and serves us stew

# Answering the questions where and why

# How does it work and how does it fly?

# School day, work away!

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

# He's learning learning learning when he's teaching

# School day, work away!

# All the children peep and eye me as they sit and try their writing

# I 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! #

BELL RINGS

OK, everyone. Pack up and off you go.

I hope you've written down what you like most about Riverseafingal.

Off you go.

-Oh, hiya.

-Bobby, what are you up to?

I've just been on this nature run.

It was ace. I saw loads of brilliant things.

Here, I've collected some stuff for you.

Oh, thanks, Bobby.

Ooh. Leaves...and twigs.

Ferns.

Seeds and bark.

This is fantastic. Thanks, Bobby.

Thought it might be useful for your class.

That's really kind. And I can really keep all this?

Of course, I collected it for you. Wow. That's a great picture.

Yeah, it's good.

-Did you do it yourself?

-Ha, no!

I love it, who did it?

Dr Juno, it's fantastic.

-She painted it for her art class.

-No way!

She's clever, isn't she? A doctor and an artist.

I want you to have the painting. You obviously love it as much as I do.

-What? No, I couldn't.

-But you gave me all this stuff.

-I want you to have it.

-Oh, crumbs!

Well, all right then. Thanks very much.

I know where I'll put it.

Above my fireplace where everybody'll see it.

Thanks for all this, Bobby.

No, thank you for the painting. Bye.

Oh, people are so lovely, aren't they?

I wonder how you're doing, my lovely little girl.

# I love to skip in Riverseafingal

# Riverseafingal, that's for me. #

-Look, Granny Murray, there's a tree.

-Oh, there's a tree!

Well done, Rebecca.

Look, Granny Murray,

-there's a twig.

-Well spotted, you!

A twig, Mia.

You hold onto that, my darling.

Oh, wow! Shall we show them to your dad later?

-Yeah.

-Good girl.

Thanks for all your hard work, class.

I've enjoyed reading things you love in Riverseafingal.

Some of you like the Harlequin Hospital in the picture here.

Some of you like the River Fingal.

You can see it in the picture... here.

Oh, just a moment.

I've been building up to this moment all day.

The children have written about Riverseafingal

but now I don't have a picture to go through their ideas with.

Where did the time go?

At 7 o'clock, I took Rebecca to see Granny Murray.

The children had collected things from a nature walk.

Granny Murray stuck everything in a scrapbook as a memento.

She told me it had been a present to her

and she hadn't known what to do with it.

Rebecca gave me a present of a fir cone.

At 8 o'clock, I arrived at school.

Dr Juno showed me a picture of Riverseafingal that she'd painted.

I thought the painting was wonderful.

Dr Juno was so pleased I liked it that she gave it to me!

At 9 o'clock, the children arrived. I asked them to look at the painting

and write down what they liked best about Riverseafingal.

At 12 o'clock, Bobby brought things she'd collected on a nature run -

leaves, seeds, twigs and bark.

She thought they'd come in useful for my class.

Bobby spotted the painting, and loved it so much I gave it to her.

At one o'clock, the children arrived for lessons.

I was talking through their favourite things when I realised

I didn't have the picture any more.

How could we talk about our favourite things in the city

without a picture to look at?

Remember, make the most of what you've been given.

Make the most of what you've been given.

Of course! I gave the picture to Bobby,

but she gave me things from her nature walk in return.

I'll make them most of Bobby's gift and make a new picture

of Riverseafingal. But it's a race against time!

# I've got to do it I've got to do it

# I've got to beat the clock before the chime

# I've got to sort it I've got to sort it

# I've got to do the job on time

# Like a busy bee I'm going to beat that gong

# I'm going to finish the job Before I finish this song

# Do you think he's going to do it? Do the job that needs to be done?

# Will he know how to fix it?

# Will he finish what he has begun?

# As sure as we are friends He will get there in the end

-# Because he knows what he should do

-I'm going to do it

# I'm going to beat the clock before the chime

-# I'm going to sort it

-He's going to sort it

# I'm going to do the job on time

# Like a busy bee I'm going to beat that gong

# I'm going to finish this job Before I finish this song. #

Thanks for all your hard work.

I enjoyed reading your stories about Riverseafingal.

You said you like walking by the river.

You can see the river snaking through here.

And you like walking on the bridges.

You get the best views from these bridges -

views like the amazing Riverseafingal Castle.

Some of you like the Harlequin Hospital best, here in the picture.

See if you can guess what everything's made from.

What's the castle made from? Yes?

-Leaves.

-That's right.

What about the bridges? Quite a rough texture. What do you think?

-Bark.

-That's right, the bark of a tree.

What's the Harlequin Hospital made from? Yes?

-A pine cone.

-Yes, a pine cone, or a fir cone.

Ah, Rebecca, thanks so much for giving me that fir cone.

..Yes, you are!

Yes. Oh, how's your picture coming on, Rebecca?

-Fine.

-Let's see, darling.

Aw, that's beautiful! Well done!

I think you've got an artistic streak, just like your dad.

He'll be here to pick you up soon, darling.

-Mickey John.

-Hello, Granny Murray.

-Come away through.

-Rebecca, Daddy's here.

-Hello, beautiful girl!

-Hello, Daddy.

-Looks like you've had a lovely time.

-Yes.

-We certainly did. It was a pleasure.

-Thank you, Granny Murray.

-Oh, my special girl!

-You're good as gold!

-Thanks from me too, Granny Murray.

-Saying "Make the most of what you've been given" saved the day.

-I'm glad.

Come on, you two. Home, home.

-Looking forward to next time.

-Me too!

Come on, Rebecca. Let's chat.

I suppose you want me to tell you all about my time too.

# Well, there was

# Waving, greeting, hello, meeting

# Bye-bye, closing, waking, dozing

# Eating, sleeping fetching, sketching

# Glueing, chewing Sticking up and wiping round

# Dressing up and sitting down! #

But what was really special about today? Well...

Claude was dressed as a fir tree

because we were looking at things the children and I had collected

on our nature walk.

I stuck everything in a lovely big scrap book as a memento of the day.

Mickey John gave me a rattle.

It was a present for baby Mia.

Mickey John left for work and I gave Mia her rattle.

She was a very happy baby!

Later on, Rebecca helped me take Mia for a nice, long walk.

Rebecca pointed out lots of lovely things to see along the way.

Back home, Rebecca made a picture with things collected on the walk.

Meanwhile, Mickey John remembered what I told him.

Make the most of what you've been given.

Bobby had given him a collection of things

and Mickey John used them to make a big picture of Riverseafingal.

I hope you remember to always make the most of what you've been given.

And I hope you enjoyed yourself.

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 down to the city Where the ferry boat sails are blue

# Time to call on Granny Murray

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