Little Miss Muffett

Little Miss Muffett

Act it out! This was so fun! The kids really enjoyed acting out this rhyme and it was so easy to do! All I needed was a stool, bowl and spoon!

Sequence the Nursery Rhyme - We used some sequence cards to help Brooke re-tell the story of Little Miss Muffett. Re-telling is a valuable auditory skill and using the cards helped her to remember. I asked her to re-tell each card and then to re-tell the whole nursery rhyme.

Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

We practice and recite a nursery rhyme each week. This week we learned Little Boy Blue and did some activities. Sometimes we do a puppet show or a craft as well. You can also see our Humpty Dumpty, Old Mother Hubboard, and Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater activities.

1. Watch the nursery rhyme on You Tube. There are quite a few videos on each nursery rhyme. Some are a little weird but there are some good ones too. Here is one and it will lead you to many others http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJJSRdIL158

2. Here is an 8 page mini-book for your child to read on Little Boy Blue

3. Use some coloring sheets from Enchanted Learning.

4. Act it out!

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

Objective:
a. Teach and memorize Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
b. focus on rhyming

Points to Remember:
1. Teaching Nursery rhymes have so many benefits for young children. Look here
2. Repeat this nursery rhyme over and over....say it in the morning, during car rides, have your child say it to friends or to grandma on the phone. Get lots of practice this week.

Lesson:
1. Introduce the rhyme on a poster. I printed the rhyme from Enchanted Learning

I like this poster since it has pictures as well as words. Talk about the poem. What is a pumpkin-eater? What kinds of food have pumpkins in it? What is a wife? Do you know anyone who is a wife? Is it possible to live inside a pumpkin shell? Do you think this is real or pretend?
2. On YouTube there are multiple videos of the nursery rhyme. Watch some videos with your child.
3. Print a coloring page. Have your child circle all the letter P's in the poem. Help her to find them.
4. Here is my 8 page book. Feel free to print and read over and over with your child.
5. Since it was Halloween time, we used a pumpkin leaf bag to act out the poem! Here is Kate in the pumpkin shell....where I kept her very well!


Modifications:
1. Put on a puppet show. Use your own puppets or print puppets from the Enchanted Learning website.
2. Print off some coloring sheets of Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater if your child enjoys coloring.

Humpty Dumpty

Objective:
a. Teach and memorize Humpty Dumpty
b. focus on rhyming


Points to Remember:
1. Teaching Nursery rhymes have so many benefits for young children. Look here
2. Repeat this nursery rhyme over and over....say it in the morning, during car rides, have your child say it to friends or to grandma on the phone. Get lots of practice this week.
3. Make some hard-boiled eggs before you begin today's lesson.

Lesson:
1. Introduce the rhyme on a poster. I printed the rhyme from Enchanted Learning

I like this poster since it has pictures as well as words. Point to Humpty Humpty and identify him by name. What is Humpty Dumpty? What do you know about eggs? Explain that he sat on a wall; why was he sitting on a wall? Talk about Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall. Who tried to help Humpty Dumpty? Could they fix him? Then read the poster and run your finger under the words and pictures as you read.

2. Have an acting day! With your child, get an egg out of the refrigerator. How does it feel? Cold? What would happen if you dropped it? Let your child draw a face on Humpty Dumpty.




3. Gather the Kings horses and the King's men: we used some My little Ponies and Lego men.

4. Head outside and find a wall for Humpty Dumpty to sit on. Recite the nursery rhyme as you act out Humpty Dumpty.


5. Here is a video of the Nursery Rhyme


6. Now, pull out your hard boiled egg and have it be your turn. Let the hard-boiled Humpty Dumpty fall off the wall. What happened? Why didn't it break? Try it again and again.....I did it 3 times before Jake realized the egg was hard-boiled. Talk about the difference in the eggs?

7. Now, try to put Humpty Dumpty together again with tape and Band Aids.


8. Enchanted Learning also has sequence cards. Have your child color the pictures and then cut them out. After cutting them out, let your child color the pictures. On a 1/2 sheet of construction paper I wrote the numbers 1-4. Have your child put the picture in order and then glue them on the sheet as first, second, third and fourth



Once the cards are in order, say a line of the rhyme and ask your child to point to the correct scene on the cards. For example, say "All the King's horses and All the Kings' men." Your child should then point to the 3rd scene card.

9. Create a little book for your child to read. Having your child "read" a book will help her practice memorizing the rhyme as well as give her the confidence that she can read! Download mine here

Modifications:
1. Put on a puppet show. Use your own puppets or print puppets from the Enchanted Learning website.

Old Mother Hubbard

Objective:
a. teach and memorize Old Mother Hubbard
b. focus on rhyming

Points to Remember:
1. Teaching Nursery rhymes have so many benefits for young children. Look here
2. Repeat this nursery rhyme over and over....say it in the morning, during car rides, have your child say it to friends or to grandma on the phone. Get lots of practice this week.

Lesson:
1. Introduce the rhyme on a poster. I printed the rhyme from Enchanted Learning

I like this poster since it has pictures as well as words. Point to Old Mother Hubbard and identify her by name. Tell children the meaning of 'bare'. What are some reasons the cupboard might be bare? Was there food for Old Mother Hubbard? How do you know? Then read the poster and run your finger under the words and pictures as you read.

2. Have an acting day! Have your child pretend to be Old Mother Hubbard. Use a stuffed animal as the dog. Have your child go to the cupboard to get the dog a bone and find that there is nothing in the cupboard.

3. Ask you child some questions to get an idea of her comprehension of the rhyme:

a. Where did Old Mother Hubbard go?
b. What was she going to get?
c. What happened when she got to the cupboard?

d. What pet did Old Mother Hubbard have?

e. What did she get her doggie to eat?

4. I created a book of Old Mother Hubbard with 8 pages. Download it here

Modifications:
1. Put on a puppet show. Use your own puppets or dolls

Jack and Jill

Objective:

a. Teach and memorize Jack and Jill

b. focus on rhyming

Points to Remember:

1. Teaching Nursery rhymes have so many benefits for young children. Look here

2. Repeat this nursery rhyme over and over....say it in the morning, during car rides, have your child say it to friends or to grandma on the phone. Get lots of practice this week.

Lesson:

1. Introduce the rhyme on a poster. I printed the rhyme from Enchanted Learning

I like this poster since it has pictures as well as words. Point to Jack and identify him by name; then point to Jill and identify her. Explain that FETCH is another way of saying getting something and bringing it back. Talk about Jack bumping his head, and that CROWN is another way of saying head. Put your hand on the top of your head and say, "Touch the crown of your head." Then read the poster and run your finger under the words and pictures as you read.

2. Have an acting day! Have your child pretend to be Jack or Jill and you be the other. Hold a pail (real or imaginary) between you both. Have Jack carefully fall and gently hit his crown on the floor. Then Jill can carefully tumble after Jack.

3. Enchanted Learning also has sequence cards. Have your child color the pictures and then cut them out.

Once the cards are in order, say a line of the rhyme and ask your child to point to the correct scene on the cards. For example, say "Jack fell down and broke his crown." Your child should then point to the 3rd scene card.

4. After practicing with the cards, staple them together to create a little book for your child to read. Having your child, "read" her Jack and Jill book will help her practice memorizing the rhyme as well as give her the confidence that she can read!

5. I created a book of Jack and Jill with 8 pages. Download it here



Modifications:
1. Put on a puppet show. Use your own puppets or print puppets from the Enchanted Learning website.
2. Print off some coloring sheets of Jack and Jill if your child enjoys coloring.