Nursery Rhymes for your child to learn, and why it is important they can recite them!
Do you still remember the nursery rhymes you learnt as a child? Or have you forgotten most of the lines of them, or except maybe the first and second lines?
Child Educational experts assert that if a child knows, and can recite 6 or more nursery rhymes by heart by the time they are 4 years old, then they often become top readers at school by the time they are 8 or 9.
Therefore it follows that nursery rhymes are a great way to developing the ability to hear, identify and manipulate letter sounds.
Most schools teach phonic skills (the ability to hear, identify and manipulate letter sounds).as one of the main ways to teach reading. Nursery rhymes give children practice in pitch, volume as well as in language rhythm. Nursery rhymes expand your child’s imagination.
Just think how words such as “four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, who then began to sing” and “with vinegar and brown paper”, being a remedy for a cracked head, will invoke amazing images in your child’s mind!! Lines and phrases such as those above, from nursery rhymes, transport children to a world of fantasy and play and can really develop your child’s visualization skills.
Usually short in length, nursery rhymes frequently tell a story and contain a beginning, middle and end. Whilst this may be a compact way of storytelling, these will be some of the first stories your child will be able to follow and understand. Nursery rhymes are easy to repeat, so they become some of a child’s first sentences. Nursery rhymes improve a child’s vocabulary.
Here are the 10 most popular nursery rhymes children traditionally learn…
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Hickory Dickory dock
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Sing a song of sixpence
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Round and round the garden
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Incey Wincey spider
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
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Jack and Jill went up the hill
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Oh, the grand old duke of York
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Twinkle, twinkle little star
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Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall
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If you are happy and you know it, clap your hands!
1 Hickory Dickory dock
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down!
Hickory Dickory Dock.
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The bird looked at the clock,
The clock struck two 2,
Away she flew,
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The dog barked at the clock,
The clock struck three 3,
Fiddle-de-dee,
Hickory Dickory Dock!
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The bear slept by the clock,
The clock struck four 4,
He ran out the door,
Hickory Dickory Dock!
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The bee buzzed round the clock,
The clock struck five 5,
She went to her hive,
Hickory Dickory Dock!
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The hen pecked at the clock,
The clock struck six 6,
Oh, fiddle-sticks,
Hickory Dickory Dock!
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The cat ran round the clock,
The clock struck seven 7,
She wanted to get ’em,
Hickory Dickory Dock!
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The horse jumped over the clock,
The clock struck eight 8,
He ate some cake,
Hickory Dickory Dock!
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The cow danced on the clock,
The clock struck nine 9,
She felt so fine,
Hickory Dickory Dock!
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The pig oinked at the clock,
The clock struck ten 10,
She did it again,
Hickory Dickory Dock!
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The duck quacked at the clock
The clock struck eleven 11,
The duck said ‘oh heavens!’
Hickory Dickory Dock!
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck noon
He’s here too soon!
Hickory Dickory Dock!
2) 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;
Wasn’t 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,
When down came a blackbird
And pecked off her nose.
They sent for the king’s doctor,
who sewed it on again;
He sewed it on so neatly,
the seam was never seen
3) Round and round the garden
Round and round the garden,
like a teddy bear,
one step, two step,
tickle you under there!
4) Incey Wincey spider
Incey Wincey spider
climbed up the spout.
Down came the rain
and washed the spider out!
Out came the sun
and dried up all the rain.
And Incey Wincey spider
climbed up the spout again!
5) Baa Baa Black Sheep
Baa baa black sheep,
have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes sir,
three bags full.
One for the master,
and one for the dame,
And one for the little boy
who lives down the lane!
6) Jack and Jill went up the hill
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down
And broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got
And home did trot
As fast as he could caper.
He went to bed
To mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.
7) Oh, the grand old duke of York
Oh, the grand old duke of York
he had ten thousand men.
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again.
And when they were up, they were up
And when they were down, they were down.
And when they were only half way up,
They were neither up nor down!
8) Twinkle, twinkle little star.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveler in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny sparks;
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye
‘Till the sun is in the sky.
As your bright and tiny spark
Lights the traveller in the dark,
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
9) Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall
Humpty, Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses,
and all the kings’s men
Could not put Humpty back together again
10) If you are happy and you know it, clap your hands!
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it,
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it stomp your feet.
If you’re happy and you know it stomp your feet.
If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it,
If you’re happy and you know it stomp your feet.
If you’re happy and you know it shout “Hurray!”
If you’re happy and you know it shout “Hurray!”
If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it,
If you’re happy and you know it shout “Hurray!”
If you’re happy and you know it do all three.
If you’re happy and you know it do all three.
If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it,
If you’re happy and you know it do all three!
Nursery rhymes are a great way for children to learn. Why not interact with your child with a personalized story book and keepsake. Preview your child’s unique story at the My Magic Name website.
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