Nursery Rhyme Olympic Games and Activities

NURSERY RHYMES

In September we do a unit on Nursery Rhymes in Kindergarten. 

Here are the ten we cover, including some activities for each rhyme.

TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

OLD MOTHER HUBBARD

BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP

HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE

HICKORY DICKORY DOCK

HUMPTY DUMPTY

JACK BE NIMBLE

LITTLE BO PEEP

LITTLE MISS MUFFET

JACK AND JILL

NURSERY RHYME ACTIVITIES:

• colored posters of each nursery rhyme
• black and white version of the nursery rhyme posters as a coloring page
• literacy activity pages including skills such as rhyme, syllables, letter recognition, ABC order, beginning sounds, ending sounds, and more
• math activity pages including skills such as counting, patterns, sequencing, measurement using non-standard units, comparing numbers, time to the hour, number before and after, and more
• story sequence activity pages
• opinion pages
• text-to-self connection pages
• Nursery Rhyme retelling puppets

NURSERY RHYME OLYMPICS

To wrap up our Nursery Rhyme unit, my students participated in Nursery Rhyme Olympic games.

Here is a run-down of the events they participated in:

MOTHER GOOSE WADDLE

Students had to hold a ball between their knees, then waddle around the chair. Then they had to waddle back to the line and pass it to the next person.

JACK BE NIMBLE CANDLESTICK JUMPING

I made a long line of candlesticks. Students ran and jumped over the candlesticks and then back again.

HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE SPOON RACE

Balancing a ball on their spoon, they had to go as quickly as they could around the chair and back to the line without dropping the ball.

TWINKLE LITTLE STAR LETTER SORT

The first person had to run up and find the 'A', set it aside, and go back. The next person had to find the 'B', and so on until they made a row from A to Z.

HUMPTY DUMPTY PUZZLE FIXING

The first person in each line had to put on a crown {as the king's horsemen}, then gallop {on their pretend horses} to a simple puzzle. They had to try to "put it back together again", then gallop back and pass the crown to the next person, until everyone had a turn.

MEDAL CEREMONY

Of course, the only way to cap off Olympic games is with an awards ceremony, where everyone received their gold medals.

The medals read 'Nursery Rhyme Olympic Champion'.