Nursery Rhyme Week

This week we practiced reciting several classic nursery rhymes.  Each day we chose one to focus on and said it several times throughout the day and did an activity to go along with each.
Monday: Hey Diddle Diddle--We practiced the rhyme with pictures in place of words like cat, dog, moon, cow, dish, and spoon.  Then I asked the students to match cards containing those words to the pictures in the poem.  It was a fun pre-reading activity!  We also practiced counting and number recognition with stars placed on moons labeled with numbers.
Tuesday: Little Miss Muffet--After reciting the rhyme together, the students drew spiders and themselves sitting on a tuffet, then wrote their name in the phrase "Along came a spider and sat down beside __________."  This activity helped them to practice drawing circles and lines, drawing a person, and writing or spelling their name.  We also used spider rings to practice positional words like "Put the spider behind you" or "Put the spider under your foot."
Wednesday:  Hickory Dickory Dock--The kids constructed a clock by putting the numbers 1-12 in order, or by matching the numbers 1-12 to their clock.  This was good practice for number recognition and sequencing.
Thursday:  Humpty Dumpty--We made a picture of Humpty Dumpty sitting on his wall.  The kids snipped strips of red paper with scissors to make bricks and glued them to the paper to make a wall.  Then they glued on white ovals and drew a face, arms, and legs.  With this activity they got scissor practice as well as how to draw a person.

Nursery rhymes are a great way to encourage pre-reading skills, so it is always a good idea to read some nursery rhyme books and help kids recite them.  Here are some videos of the nursery rhymes we practiced at school:

Hey Diddle Diddle
Little Miss Muffet
Hickory Dickory Dock
Humpty Dumpty

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