Alipio and watches. Story of learning for children
The passage of time is inevitable and inexorable, nobody has yet managed to stop it, nor can we escape from it, no matter how much we want. Time advances and we with him. This is what the children's story Alipio and the watches enseña teach. It is a story to teach children that time passes and we mu
The passage of time is inevitable and inexorable, nobody has yet managed to stop it, nor can we escape from it, no matter how much we want. Time advances and we with him. This is what the children's storyAlipio and the watches enseña teach.It is a story to teach children that time passes
and we must accept that it entails making us older and getting older. It is a learning story for children. Through it we can explain in a simpler way a complicated issue such as the passage of time. Tale of learning for children: Alipio and the watches
Every time the ticking of the clock sounded, Alipio's heart stopped.
Why does time have to pass? He said between his teeth and looked away.
One morning, he removed all the clocks from the rooms, hid them inside a cardboard box and took them to the storage room in the basement of the house.
That way I will not listen to you anymore, he thought and I will not grow old. Cuando But when the silence of the night came he heard:
Tic, tac, tic, tac, tic, tac, tic, tac ...
Time continued to pass and the clocks insisted on continuing to mark the hours.
The next day, very irritated, he took the cardboard box from the storage room and buried it in the garden of his house. That's not how time will go in my life, he thought. Al But at nightfall, when he was getting ready to sleep he heard:
Tick, tac, tick, tac, tick, tac, tick, tac ...
Time continued to pass and the clocks were determined to continue marking the hours
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Alipio, desperate, got up and unearthed the watch box. When dawn approached the river and sank in the deepest part.
Now yes, he thought, I will be eternally young. En But in the silence of the night he heard again:
Tic, tac, tic, tac, tic, tac, tic, tac ...He got so angry that, without waiting for daylight, he went to the river to take out the box. the clocks. This time he went to the sea and filled it with very heavy stones. He got into a boat and paddled away from the coast as much as he could and, far away from the shore, threw the box at great depth.
He returned home exhausted and got into bed with a smile thinking that he would no longer age but, when the silence of the night came:
Tic, tac, tic, tac, tic, tac, tic, tac ...
He spent a Hell night covered with blankets to the ears but, Alipio, little by little he was calmed down and finally he understood that time was going to pass through his life, whether he wanted it or not.
The next day, he got up and went to buy a watch. From that moment he accepted the passage of time and the importance of knowing how to grow old and, finally, he could become happy.
Reading comprehension games of this children's story
We propose to you after reading this learning story for children, to ask your child several questions about it. It is a great way to know if the child has understood what he has read and to help him improve his reading comprehension:
- What did Alipio do with the watches when they started to sound?
- Why did not I hide the Alipio watches? - What did the protagonist learn at the end of the story?
