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Vocabulary: mysteriously, consented, petticoat, heroic, ingenuity Quote: “O dear,” said Bobbie, with a sigh, “I do believe you’re cross.” - The Railway Children By E. Brainstorm with your children some things you can do to cheer someone without talking to the person.

Nesbit.Ĭhapter 6: The children try to cheer the Russian. I know he does, - look at his eyes!” - The Railway Children By E. Vocabulary: besieged, obliged, inquisitive, reluctantly, ceremoniously Quote: “Oh don’t!” said Bobbie “don’t you see how frightened he is? He thinks you’re going to shut him up. Nesbit.Ĭhapter 5: The children play a game of advertisements while in the station. Well, the broken half shall be my half of the engine, and I’ll get it mended and give it back to Peter for his birthday.” - The Railway Children By E. Vocabulary: hereabouts, extravagant, engineering, fortifications Quote: “That was awfully jolly decent of Peter because I know he didn’t mean to. The how stuff works website has some good information about steam engines. Have children learn about how train engines work. Bobbie inadvertently ends up on an engine and gets to learn all about the engine. Have children draw what they think the model would look like.

Nesbit.Ĭhapter 4: The children make a model of the railroad using flowers. Vocabulary: sensible, eau-de-cologne, sweetbrier Quote: …Bobbie understood a little bit the thoughts that were making Mother so quiet – the thoughts of the time when Mother was a little girl and was all the world to her mother. Nesbit.Ĭhapter 3: The children met several different railroad workers. “Can’t you decide now what you’ll do to us? It’s our fault just as much as Peter’s.”- The Railway Children By E. Vocabulary: countenances, telegraph, remembrance, indignantly Quote: “Oh don’t!” said Bobbie. Find out about rail stations in the 1900’s. Nesbit.Ĭhapter 2: The children go to the rail station. Vocabulary: calamity, melancholy, draughty Quote: “Oh Mother,” she whispered all to herself as she got into bed, “how brave you are! How I love you! Fancy being brave enough to laugh when you’re feeling like that!” - The Railway Children By E. Have children write a poem for a friend or relative’s upcoming birthday. The first 12 quotes show the character traits of Bobbie.Ĭhapter 1: Mother writes poems for birthdays. Children can also copy quote for their handwriting exercise. Have children look up vocabulary words and choose appropriate definition. You will also need to use encyclopedias or the internet and a dictionary. The Kids’ Guide to First Aid: All About Bruises, Burns, Stings, Sprains and Other Ouches by Karen Buhler Gale

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Mother announces that Father will be away for a while and that the family must move to the countryside, admitting to the children that the family needs “to play at being poor for a bit” (24), although she doesn’t tell them why. Peter’s toy engine-his favorite birthday present-is left broken, as Father has not had time to fix it before his disappearance. This idyllic existence ends abruptly days after Peter’s birthday when two men show up at the house and have a heated conversation with Father, who disappears shortly afterward. They live in a large house with servants, and “always had everything they needed: pretty clothes, good fires, a lovely nursery with heaps of toys, and a Mother Goose wallpaper” (6). Their father works for the government their mother is an artistic woman who loves to tell stories and writes poems to amuse her children. When the novel opens, the three “railway children” of the novel’s title-Roberta (Bobbie), Peter, and Phyllis-are living privileged, upper-class lives with their parents in London.