Letters, numbers, and Natalia

 
Letters, numbers, and Natalia:


Natalia is a seven year old. She lives in a small village in Granada.

It is a very obedient little girl and loves reading. At home it has a large library with many books and fairy tales that always reads with great enthusiasm.

Today you are going to perform as usual math homework, so goes to her room to pick up the backpack and its case with pencils and pens normally used at school.

Once she took her case, she had to open your notebook's duties. In it she began writing an essay and performed the first math homework calculations when suddenly:

-Up!. Taken care, that you squash me - said a voice that was coming from the interior of its notebook.

When Natalia stared into his notebook she was perceived as one of the numbers jumped screed on line and row on row with angry look.

- But it is the seven who has spoken to me - said Natalia frowning.

Yes, of course - said bad-tempered the seven. Are you also going to correct me? – said sadly the number 0.

No. You were already well where I had put you. So do the favor of returning to the line that corresponds to you. Three more four do seven - Natalia said.

-Well, at least you don't me studded as the rest of children who hate mathematics - said the seven returning to your site.

Natalia continued to write in her notebook and suddenly more letters and numbers appeared and disappeared from sight.

- But that is happening here? – said Teresa very surprised. It looks like the numbers and the letters that they are going crazy - Natalia said.

-It is that we have very afraid - said the letter a.

Lately the children correct us and correct non-stop and every time we stay less letters and numbers in the country of the books - kept on saying the or. If this continues this way soon all the children will stop studying and the books of accounts and of reading will begin to disappear – said the three sadly.

- But, how is this possible? - Natalia said.

As you’ll see. Enemy number one mathematics and duties, Mr Stud, has invented a plan to get rid of us.-one said. It is that he never has liked studying and hates math.

- And why he hates you? And what plan is this that has devised to eliminate you? -said Natalia.

-As you'll see. It has created an imaginary ink with which transmits through writing the hatred and resentment that he has towards the numbers and letters. So when children begin to perform their duties does it cost them to finish them and who wish to drop out of school by the tiredness and the difficulty that implies them to write and calculate. Thus more children are those who do not want to continue studying. For each child who begins to hate the math’s and study a great Stud invades our world and it carries with it to one of us. You leave it retained in its great castle of oblivion and there is left alone and helpless without anyone to remember him. Soon, everyone will be going to stop there and then the calculation and reading books will disappear due to lack of numbers and letters that write-said very shocked zero.

- But that is not possible. I like much read and do homework. Any Stud Lord will I prevent to continue it - said Natalia very convinced.

-I wish all children think like you!-said the letter i. But it is not. The power of great stud is very high and the strength of its evil ink is even higher. With her he hypnotizes them and leaves them without forces to continue the duties and calculations - continued explaining the u.

-Because we have to do something to prevent that appear more studs, and you carried the dark castle of oblivion - said Natalia.

-This would only be possible if children returned to love us. If they return to regain the illusion and desire to study and that only could be achieved if we did disappear to the big stud and its ink - said the six.

-We can try - said Natalia. If we could counteract the effect of the ink from the oblivion that use the studs with anything that will prevent that children heard Mr Stud malefic messages when they write in their notebooks, perhaps we would get that they would not stop studying - said Natalia.

-It is true. But how we could counteract its effects? -said the O.

I do not know. We will have to think about it. To me I cost nothing to finish my homework since I make them not me represents a great effort - said Natalia. For my mean something special and while I write them and drawing in my notebook singing songs and melodies. So it costs me less finish them because I am very happy doing them - said Natalia.

Perhaps if you transmit music from your country towards the notebooks of the children, they would enjoy just as I doing the duties and they would keep on studying.

And saying this Natalia turned out to be transported to the interior of its notebook and with big surprise it began to be part of the country of the books.

- But what has happened? – Natalia said. Where am I? – She said with big surprise.

- I believe that now you are part of us. Perhaps in being able to solve our problem, the happiness and the interest that you have demonstrated has done that you were turning into one of us to be able to help us - said the e

- Very well, I hope that since I am here it should serve to you as help and that later it could to house continue again with my duties - Natalia said.

In that moment thousands of studs appeared in the country of the books and began to look for another number to take to the castle of the negligence.

- Taken care Natalia. Over there more studs come - said the o.

And quickly without realizing the number seven was watched by one of the studs that raised it for the airs towards its big castle.

- But do not be able to be! - They were weeping for all the numbers and the letters. Our friend seven has disappeared also.

-We need to act quickly - said Natalia.

To neutralize the harmful effect of great Stud ink, Natalia was thought to perhaps the best way of doing that children perceive not discouraging messages from Stud through the relaxing and therapeutic effect of music. If getting the numbers and letters to learn songs and sing them when the children were recorded in his notebooks, children would feel more relaxed and happy performing their duties and oblivion ink would make effect on the mind of every one of them. Thus the duties would not mean the great effort that until now was assuming in them due to the plan of the great alcove.

So in this way Natalia began to be the teacher of music of the small letters and numbers.

Together began to produce songs and music to get avoid that you world of books soon disappeared.

At once that Natalia was designing a song, the letters and the numbers were memorizing them and were reciting them non-stop, cheerfully for all the notebooks of the children when these were preparing to do its duties to them.

When the children began to write, the great alcove ink began to make effect but soon the letters and the numbers began to sing the following song:

“María, María que llega la “a”

Tan contenta y risueña como está

Con su gran barriguita te saluda al pasar

María, María que yo soy la “ a”.

Pepe , Pepe que viene la “e”

Divertida y risueña quiere saber

letras y números para poder leer

Enséñale Pepe porque ella es la “e”

Pili, Pili que viene la “i”

Con su gran sombrero blanco sobre su nariz

Ilusiones, ingenio, ideales te muestro a ti

Y con sigilo respondo al nombre de “ i”

Pol, Pol que llega la “o”

Con su boca abierta te responde con desazón

Dibújame con gran devoción

Porque yo soy redonda y me llaman la “o”.

¡UHH ¡Cuidado que viene la “u”!

Como un susurro al oído sabe que eres tú

Y se muestra asustada

Porque ella es la “uuuu”.

The mind of the children when they were feeling the melody that was coming from the world of the books, quickly they were recovering the desire of finishing its tasks and learning with the numbers the mathematics.

By every child who was finishing its task there was appearing in the world of the books a rubber with which the numbers could be erasing each of the studs that the big Stud was sending to take to the castle of the negligence.

Thanks to the melody of numbers, in the world of books began to carry out a cleaning of studs and erasures.

Natalia thought that when they had more erasers, they would have to go in search of the numbers and letters that great Stud had retained in his castle.

Meanwhile, great stud began to suspect that something strange was happening when the studs that was sending to the world of numbers not returning to appear.

-Something strange is happening - I thought for himself great Stud. Perhaps the power of my ink is not sufficient and children continue to do and ending their duties - still thinking big Stud. I'll have to invent another plan to make the kids stop studying - thought great Stud.

But the children increasingly were happier doing their duties and numbers and letters were still singing the songs that had been developed with Natalia. And thus more erasers appeared in the world of books.

-When faced with the large stud to come - said Natalia. We now have a very large number of erasers with which to go to the castle of oblivion and erase all the studs that have retained to your peers - said Natalia.

Natalia, numbers and letters, accompanied by the army of erasers that appeared in the country of the books thanks to the children recovered the love by Studio, approached the castle of oblivion without further delay.

They hoped that great Stud had not discovered that ink had ceased to have effect and that it had not made any other malevolent plan.

So suddenly, Natalia and thousands of rubber bands went to the castle of oblivion flying.

When big stud saw the sky covered with erasers released alarmed in search of their studs to deal with them.

An army of studs made his appearance. Natalia guided the army of gums climb in one of them and the great alcove controlled all the studs and directed the counter-attack.

Meanwhile, Natalia and numbers were still singing and singing the songs that had been written and more children ended of doing her homework with the number of erasers is multiplied by moments.

After the hard battle, the country of the books remained clean of studs. The big stud was retained forever in its big castle of the negligence supervised now by a big army of rubbers that they would control that he never again was planning no other plan against the children and its studies

In this way was as Natalia helped your friend’s numbers and letters that you not reinstated books.

Natalia returned to his home more content and happy than ever before because now I knew that if a stud appeared in some notebook of children, there would always be a great eraser with which eliminate it from their duties.

Y colorin, colorado, estee cuento se ha acabado.

By Monica Zambrano. The multicultural wikicuentos