RHYMES FOR OLDER CHILDREN

ROMAN NUMERALS

X stands for playmates TEN;

V for FIVE stout, stalwart men;

I for ONE, as I’m alive;

C for HUNDRED and D for FIVE*** (This is five hundred)

M for a THOUSAND soldiers true,

And L for FIFTY, I’ll tell you.

Important dates in History

William the Conqueror, ten sixty-six (1066) Played on the Saxons oft cruel tricks.

Columbus sailed the ocean blue, In fourteen hundred and ninety-two (1492)

The Spanish Armada met it’s fate, In fifteen hundred and eighty-eight. (1588)

In sixteen hundred and sixty-six (1666) London burnt like rotten sticks.