The Subtraction
Written by: Najia Nijat
First Lane:
Waheeda is singing a melody with herself. Her brother, Naim comes with the peddler and after greeting, the peddler asks Wahida to repeat the melody. Peddler says that the melody is about subtraction. Naim says that he doesn’t know anything about subtraction.
Peddler turns on the talking box.
Ahmad Zaheen, a third-grade student says: “Subtraction means you are taking something away from a group or number of things. When you subtract, what is left in the group, becomes less.”
Lailoma says that subtraction means to separate something from a group of things.”
Peddler says that when we reduce something from the same number or the same things, they call it subtraction. Lailoma asks the peddler to tell them an example of the subtraction.
Peddler gives four pens to Naim and asks him to reduce two from them and give the remained to Lailoma. Naim does it. Peddler says that reducing something from the same items is called subtraction.
The children learn subtraction and the peddler goes to the next lane.
Second Lane:
Peddler inters the lane. Children greet him warmly. Children ask him to tell them a new joke. Peddler turns on the talking box. A boy, Atal tells a joke and the children like and learn it. Peddler goes to the lane of the story.
Third Lane:
The peddler and Golden Wing fairy inter into the lane. Nadia, Najeeb, and other children welcome them. Nadia asks the fairy to tell them a new part of the story.
Fairy asks them to repeat the previous part of the story.
They say that in the previous part, the squirrel went away from home in the jungle. She heard a hiss and asked who is there. A cobra arose his head and introduced himself. The squirrel appreciated his beauty. The cobra was asking squirrel about her family and the squirrel was replying him all questions. The cobra was getting ready to attack the squirrel.
The fairy says that the cobra collected enough information about squirrel to eat her but when she knew that the squirrel has a sister and brother, he refused to eat her now and decided to eat her together with her brother and sister and asked her to bring her sister and brother with herself for playing next day.
Cobra and the Pinkie: Part two:
The next day, the squirrel came alone again. The cobra murmured with herself why she did not take her brother and sister with herself.
The squirrel asked about cobra’s family but cobra did not reply to her and asked the squirrel to go with her to find some food.
The cobra found four walnuts and she gave all of them to the squirrel and asked her to give them to her brother and sister. The squirrel asked cobra with her to her house but cobra denies and laughed with herself.
End of part two.