Word Sunday : Gait

A domestic goddess not only is a goddess to her husband, in the kitchen but must be able to entertain her products of love. She must have the ability to be a clown yet remain sound and intelligent to make research, so the children will remain sane and not banter in the name of broodiness.

In the attempt to entertain my children, I read these poems to clown around with them. And for a moment they forgot about TV and trot around the house like horses themselves. Zachary remained the funniest because he looked like a small pony and was clueless but decided to do the same.

For your information also, within these four walls of blogging eh, I am a very animated person. So there I went around the horse doing all the actions with them. Kanak-kanak ribena aku ni.

THIS IS THE WAY THE LADIES RIDE

This is the way the ladies ride: clipclop, clipclop, clipclop
This is the way the gentlemen ride: trotalong, trotalong, trotalong
This is the way the old man rides: bumpalump, bumpalump, bumpalump
... and down into a ditch!

When you read the bumpalump, bumpalump , you should go out like a careless person and dropped yourself with them. Hilarious!

Clip Clop

Slowly, slowly
Walks my horse.
Clip... clop, clip... clop
Walking walking
Round the course
Clip clop, clip clop.

Frisky, frisky
Trots my horse
Clip clop, clip clop.
Trotting, trotting
Round the course
Clip clop, clip clop.

Crazy, crazy
Gallops my horse
Clip-clop, clip-clop
Clip-clop, clip-clop
Galloping, galloping
Round the course
Clip-clop, clip-clop
Clip-clop, clip-clop

Bravely, bravely
Jumps my horse
Clip-clop, clip-clop
Clip-clop - Jump!
Float through the air
And land with a bump!
Jumping jumping
Round the course
Clip-clop, clip-clop
Clip-clop - Jump!
Float through the air
And land with a bump!
Clip-clop, clip-clop
Clip-clop - Stop!

This one I like, because you can start off lowering down your voice and escalate it with excitement until the end where you land with a bump.

Then I went on to google the basic horses' gaits. Haziq loves this googling thing.

Walk. Trot Canter and Gallop.

Found many interesting sites. These one (HERE), shows the gaits in motion which I think helps a lot. And typically Wikipedia has a long description of the horses gaits. I used my copy of Britannica as well.

Then end the whole thing with drawing and colouring to wind them down. Haziq coloured his horse, silver. Sya had pastel colours on her horse. Jack wrecked the horse totally. I can't do crafts, so drawing will do.

Then for the rest of the holidays, I let them watch TV or play games.

So I can blog.

Err I find that one is easier to do.

P/S : If I have to quit my job (the one I still have in Malaysia), can I open up my own playhouse?

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Etymology of the word gait

circa 1200 :departure, journey," earlier "way, road, path," spelling was "gata"

Meaning "manner of walking" is from 1509.

Modern spelling developed before 1750, originally in Scottish.