Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Rhyme Olympics!

NURSERY RHYMES

I begin every year in Kindergarten with a Nursery Rhymes unit. I do this for many reasons. Most children came to school knowing a few of the rhymes, and this familiarity makes them more comfortable- which is pretty important when beginning a new school year or even starting school for the first time.

I also love how Nursery Rhymes can be used to teach essential literacy and numeracy skills, such as rhyme, cause & effect, sequence of events, counting, and more!

We always wrap up our Nursery Rhymes unit with Nursery Rhyme Olympic games. Keep reading to find out more :)

NURSERY RHYMES ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

I have created a Nursery Rhyme activity unit that includes 10 of the most popular Nursery Rhymes. The unit includes literacy and math activities that are perfect for Kindergarten!

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

BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP

HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE

HICKORY DICKORY DOCK

HUMPTY DUMPTY

JACK AND JILL

JACK BE NIMBLE

LITTLE BO PEEP

LITTLE MISS MUFFET

OLD MOTHER HUBBARD

TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

NURSERY RHYME OLYMPICS

To wrap up the unit, we participate in the Nursery Rhyme Olympic games! The unit includes instructions and a materials list for all the activities. And of course some Olympic medals for the participants :)

You can see the Nursery Rhyme Olympics in action {here}