Nursery Rhymes

This post is a long time coming. I have more than a few to catch up on.

I had the Nursery Rhyme theme a few months ago for preschool. I think this was one of the most fun units I have ever done! There is so much to do, it was really hard to narrow it down!

We finished the alphabet, so we had been doing numbers, and we happened to be on numbers 13 and 14 that week. So I made worksheets to match that.

First day:

As the kids arrived I had a little activity set out for them (got the idea here:http://www.preschooleducation.com/gnursery.shtml). There were two bowls set out, one filled with oatmeal (Little Miss Muffet's curds and whey) with plastic spiders hiding in it. They were to spoon out one spoonful at a time into the bowl on the right. They were supposed to work around the spiders. The kids actually did really well at this, and thought it was great fun, asked to do it over and over. It is supposed to help them with directional reading, but also just a great hand/eye coordination activity!

Little Bo Peep Paper (The kids had to color her sheep, so they would be easier to find)


Then we did a Put Humpty Together Again craft. I provided the background paper, a red (brick) square, and a white oval, cut for them to fit together. It was up to them how to arrange it on the paper, and add Humpty's little extras.


For snack we made muffins, while singing, "Do You Know the Muffin Man" over and over and over.

Once we got the muffins in the oven to cook we did a messy craft (great thing to do right before snack, because they have to wash up before eating!)

We made a sheep black for Baa Baa Black Sheep. (The below pic is not a true reflection, it was an extra and got a little paint on it, the kids COVERED their's so much you could not see a sheep on it!)


Then we made a Hickory Dickory Dock clock. I bought foam numbers, and gave them a clock to look at, but mostly left it up to them on how to put the numbers on. The raindrop shaped mouse was attached on some yarn so that the kids could move him up and down the clock.


For our songs and movement we did a Jack and Jill Spill. I had a bucket filled with large blue poms poms. We let the kids take turns (2 at a time) being Jack and Jill. We would recite the poem, and when we got to the last line dump the bucket on the kids as they "fell" down, they LOVED it! (Got the idea here! http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/preschool_themes/nursery/nursery_rhyme_misc.htm)

Then we had some candlesticks (toilet paper and paper towel tubes in various sizes with a paper flame) for the kids to jump over. This gave us an opportunity to talk about fire safety. We had some great jumpers in our class!

We also had to find Little Bo Peeps sheep. I had paper sheep hidden around the room for them to find.

And lastly we used a Nursery Rhyme dice. Each side had a nursery rhyme pic on it (got my pictures from my Story Time Felts Nursery Rhyme Set!), such as Ring Around the Rosies, Humpty Dumpty, etc. Each child had a chance to roll and we would sing whichever landed on the up side.



I had even more planned, crazily enough, there was just so many fun things to do. But we did manage to get all that done in two hours! I'll post our second day tomorrow! I made sure to put the words to each nursery rhyme on the front or back of each paper, so that us parents can remember them too!