Nursery Rhymes

Classic Nursery Rhymes & Rhyming Ideas for Preschoolers: Classic nursery rhymes and preschool rhymes are fun ideas to use with teaching your preschool children, toddlers and young kids in elementary school and home. Kids really enjoy the rhyming and the fun stories found within these classic nursery rhymes. These kinds of activities as well as poems usually work well to help keep a child’s attention just as it would while telling a story. The way that each of the individual nursery rhymes flows will keep your preschool children’s focus and make them eager to learn more of these fun preschool poems and rhymes. These are great ways to spend some time with your children before bed, great to use for rainy days or for a fun, educational preschool circle. Added Teaching Tips: Some of the nursery rhymes and poems listed on this learning page have a few tips added below to give parents, e.c.e educators and teachers some ideas on how they can use the rhymes to teach something new and to discuss new ideas with the preschoolers and children in their care. Classic Nursery Rhymes for Kids:   A Diller a Dollar: (Classic Nursery Rhymes) A diller, a dollar A ten o’clock scholar What makes you come so soon? You used to come at ten o’clock but now you come at noon.   *Parents-Teachers Tip: Show times on a clock to get children familiar with clock and hands of clock     Sing A Song Of Sixpence: Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king? The king was in his counting-house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor, Eating bread and honey. The maid was in the garden Hanging out the clothes; Down came a blackbird, And pecked off her nose.     The Man in the Wilderness: The man in the wilderness asked of me, How many strawberries grew in the sea. I answered him’ As I thought good, As many as red herrings Grew in the wood.     A Wise Owl: A wise owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he herd. Why can’t we all be like that wise old bird? Pease Pudding Hot: Pease pudding hot, pease pudding cold, Pease pudding in the pot, nine days old. Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old. Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man: Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man, Make me a cake as fast as you can. Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with a T, And put it in the oven for Baby and me.   *Parents-Teachers: Change the letter T for the letter of a child’s name in your group. Replace the name Baby with the child’s name. *Repeat to give all children […]