Nursery rhymes and songs for children are great learning tools. Not only for social interaction, nursery rhymes for children are also important for language development. It develops a special bond between the parents and kids. Parents can make learning fun, by using props or musical instruments.
The Benefits of Learning Nursery Rhymes for Kids:
Teaching nursery rhymes to your children provide a learning experience between parent and child.
Stories in rhymes, teach children the moral values and the English language is developed.
Nursery rhymes are essential for child development, improves vocabulary, as well as fine and gross motor skills.
Through rhymes, children learn new forms of writing like poetry.
Improves memory in both children and adults.
For children in groups, nursery rhymes are the best way to learn to speak and interact together, while rhyming and singing the songs.
How to Teach Nursery Rhymes for Children:
There are various ways to teach nursery rhymes for children.
Nursery rhymes are generally short and helping your child learn to use different tactics is a great way to ensure repetition. A child repeats words and sounds they hear from rhymes and helps him/her remember what they have heard. From books to DVDs, children enjoy learning nursery rhymes.
Best Nursery Rhymes for Children :
1. Itsy Bitsy Spider
The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout.
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
and the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.
2. 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.
3. Ding Dong Bell
Ding, dong, bell,
Pussy’s in the well.
Who put her in?
Little Johnny Flynn.
Who pulled her out?
Little Tommy Stout.
What a naughty boy was that,
To try to drown poor pussy cat,
Who never did him any harm,
But killed all the mice in the farmer’s barn
4. Five Little Speckled Frogs
Five little speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating the most delicious bugs (yum yum)
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there were four green speckled frogs. (glub glub)
5. Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory, Dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory, Dickory, dock.
6. Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
7. Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a spider
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.
8. Mary Had A Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb, little lamb,
little lamb, Mary had a little lamb
whose fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went
Mary went, Mary went, everywhere
that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
He followed her to school one day,
school one day, school one day,
He followed her to school one day,
Which was against the rules,
It made the children laugh and play,
laugh and play, laugh and play,
It made the children laugh and play,
To see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out,
turned it out, turned it out,
And so the teacher turned it out,
But still, it lingered near,
He waited patiently about,
patiently about, patiently about,
He waited patiently about,
Till Mary did appear.
“Why does the lamb love Mary so?”
love Mary so?” love Mary so?”
“Why does the lamb love Mary so?”
The eager children cried.
“Why Mary loves the lamb, you know,”
lamb, you know,” lamb, you know,”
“Why Mary loves the lamb, you know,”
The teacher did reply.
