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Helpful and Kind by Andrew Plant

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I’m packing up my sandpit

Not because I am to old 

I’m packing up my sandpit

Because I heard it told 

That the sand in all the world

Is less than it used to be

Once a hundred squillion grains

Now there’s only 93

So I’ve stomped on all the castles

That I built yesterday

Then romped on all the ruins

Such funtastic games to play

I picked up toys and tools

And put them in my cubby house

Which frightened a few spiders 

And scared little a mouse 

Now I’m scooping up the sand 

Into buckets bags and boxes

And I’m getting quite a lot

In my shoes and in my sockses 

There’s much more that I thought 

Yes there’s lots and lots  and lots

So I’m going to the kitchen

To get some cups and pans and pots

I heard that I can take it  

To a market that is black

And people pick it up

From somewhere out the back

I hope that they will take it

To a beach not far away

So that I may still enjoy it

Should we go there to play 

I’m sure I’ll miss my sandpit

But I’m trying not to mind

I hope it will be helpful

It’s not that easy to be kind

But I think it is the right thing

For everyone and me

If it means we’ll still have beaches

Beyond 2053

Teacher’s note: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is-running-out-of-sand?

Photo from Pexels by Elviss Railijs Bitāns

The Land That Never Was: Part 2 by Andrew Plant

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In the Land that Never Was things were very strange because
People who were living there used to have quite messy hair

But this no longer is the case but still it is the weirdest place
The folk there act peculiarly for they stand on all they want to see

Stand on anything they need stand on books they want to read
Stand on people when they talk like they’re the ground on which they walk

Stand on mirrors to brush their hair stand not sit upon the chair
The reason why they stand is clear it’s so that things won’t disappear

The people remember very well the day the goblin cast his spell 
Saying “what they saw would go away only that on which they stood would stay”

He was thinking of the land for this is what he hope and planned 
That all the folk would walk around looking only at the ground

One day a clever person thought “In this spell a lesson’s taught
Anything I wish to see must be stood upon by me”

He found a friend – pushed him down and stood on him which made him frown
Then shouted so that all could hear “LOOK HE DOESN’T DISAPPEAR”

Quickly then he went around throwing people on the ground
To show them how there was a way to change what the goblin had to say

Soon everyone in every street heard how things placed under their feet
Remained – even if they were looked upon whether pen or paper dog or swan

So now in the Land that Never Was though things are still quite strange because
They stand on everything that’s there and at least they don’t have messy hair!

The Land That Never Was: Part 1 by Andrew Plant

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In the Land that Never Was something’s very strange because
Everyone who’s living there always has quite messy hair

In this land as you look around things disappear without a sound
So you must be careful where you look which makes it hard to read a book 

A spell was put upon this place by a goblin mean with nasty face
Who people tried hard to avoid which made the goblin most annoyed

So angry did he get one day he said “I’ll make these people pay
Since they refuse to look at me I’ll take away all that they see”

“Gingel gangel gungel gel” went the nasty goblins spell
“to smell and taste and hears’s okay but where they look will go away”

“All except what they stand on this will always carry on
The ground will always remain there as one safe place for them to stare”

It didn’t take the people long to realise what was going on
They’d look in mirror to brush their hair and find themselves no longer there

And so with family and friends one look would surely mean their end
Thus they learnt to move around looking only at the ground

Mirrors had to be thrown out and people soon forgot about 
The need to brush their hair each day for no one would see it anyway

The goblin clapped his hands with glee and said “Oh clever clever me”
Which made everybody look at him and that removed his nasty grin

Now the ugly goblin’s gone but his spell still lingers on 
And the people still have their messy hair because there are no mirrors there

Thirsty Work by Andrew Plant

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My giraffe is so very high 

That she can almost touch the sky 

She reaches up to the tallest of trees 

And off of their branches she eats their leaves 

But my giraffe must get thirst I think 

So what does she do when she wants a drink 

She has to bend down and make herself shorter  

So she can drink from the cool clear water 

Then when she’s finished up again  

I think that it must be a terrible strain 

I wonder if she would be aloud 

To drink the water out of the cloud? 

The Sneeze by Andrew Plant

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As Effie elephant walked through some trees  

She suddenly felt she was going to sneeze 

And her trunk was so big and her trunk was so long  

The sneeze that came out was amazingly strong 

It sneezed away birds, as they flew by   

It sneezed away clouds that were up in the sky  

It sneezed away leaves and it sneezed away flowers 

It sneezed away houses and castles and towers  

When Effie had finished her huge ACHOO 

A voice far far away called out –  ‘Bless you’