Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Rhyming on the Run


It’s funny how when your toddler or pre-schooler asks you to sing a song, you can’t think of any or you forget all the words! Having all your favourite songs quickly at hand can be a real help. Why not copy this list and place in a protective cover and put it on the pinup board or make a colourful "songs we know" chart and put it up on a wall in your child’s room. I even like to keep a copy handy in the car for Grandparents to use when I'm busy driving!

We use nursery rhymes in early childhood education because research consistently shows that children who have memorised many nursery rhymes become better readers. Recite these rhymes with soft and loud voices, happy and sad voices. Sing the rhymes, march to their rhythms, and often pantomime their actions. Nursery rhymes are an important part of our literary heritage. Many have survived since the time of Shakespeare. Children continue to love these rhymes because of their delightful rhythm, nonsense, and imagery!Memorising rhymes, songs, and verses is a strategy that will give your child a storehouse of language to call upon when he is asked to fluently read, write and speak the English language.

Twinkle Twinkle
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are

Round and Round the Garden
Round and round the garden
Like a teddy bear
One step, two step
Tickle him (her) under there

Eensy Weensy Spider
Eensy weensy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed poor Eensy out
Out came the sunshine
And dried up all the rain
And Eensy weensy spider
Climbed up the spout again.

Ring a Ring a Rosies
Ring a ring a rosies, a pocket full of posies,
A tissue, a tissue, we all fall down
When our mother calls us we all jump up

Three Jelly Fish
Three jelly fish, (rpt)
Three jelly fish sitting on a rock
One fell off (OH!)
Two jelly fish……
One jelly fish……
No jelly fish…… one jumped on.
HOORAY

Five Fat Sausages
Five fat sausages sizzling in the pan
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, (rub hands together) and one went bang! (clap!)
Four fat sausages………

This is the Way We
This is the way we go to bed, go to bed, go to bed
This is the way we go to bed, it’s time to go to sleep. (sweep, jump, dress, clap, wave, etc)

My Hands Are Clapping
My hands are clapping, clapping, clapping
My hands are clapping just like this. (Repeat with: arms waving, feet stamping, head nodding, legs marching, etc.)

I Went To Visit A Farm
I went to visit a farm one day
I saw a cow across the way
And what do you think I heard it say?
Moo, moo, moo. (repeat, using different animals/sounds)

If you’re happy and you know it
If you’re happy and you know it
Clap your hands (rpt all)
If you’re happy and you know it
Then you really ought to show it
If you’re happy and you know it
Clap your hands (If you’re sad have a cry, If you’re angry stamp your feet)

Roley poly
Roley poly, ever so slowly, ever so slowly,
Roley poly, faster, faster, faster, faster, STOP!


The wheels on the bus
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and Round, all the way to town
The driver on the bus says "tickets please".
The babies on the bus cry, boo hoo hoo.
The parent’s on the bus go, shh, shh, shh.

Take you riding in my car
Take you riding in my car, car (rpt x 3)
Take you riding in my car.
Engine it goes brmm, brmm (rpt x 3)
Horn it goes beep, beep
Windscreen wipers go swish, swish

I have two eyes to see with
I have two eyes to see with
I have two feet to run
I have two hands to wave with
A nose I have but one
I have two ears to hear with
A tongue to say g’day
And two red cheeks for you to kiss
And now I’ll run away.

5 Currant Buns
5 current buns in the baker’s shop
Round and fat with a cherry on the top
Along came (child) with some money one day
Bought a current bun and took it away.
4 current buns………

Miss Polly had a dolly
Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick
So she called for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick
The doctor came with his bag and his hat
And he knocked on the door with a Rat-a-tat-tat
He looked at the dolly and he shook his head
He said "Miss Polly put her straight to bed"
He wrote on the paper for a pill, pill, pill,
"I’ll be back in the morning, yes I will will will"

Glumph went the little green frog
Glumph went the little green frog one day
Glumph went the little green frog
Glumph went the little green frog one day
And it’s eyes went glumph, glumph, glumph
But we all know frogs go la-dee-da-dee-da la-dee-da-dee-da, la-dee-da-dee-da
We all know frogs go la-dee-da-dee-da
They don’t go glumph, glumph, glumph.

Clap your hands
Clap your hands, clap them so
Make it fast, make it slow
Clap up high, clap down low,
Clap your hands like me

Here is the bee hive
Here is the bee hive, but where are the bees?
Hiding away where nobody sees
Watch them come creeping out of the hive
One, two, three, four, five.

Teddy bear, teddy bear
Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around
Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground
Teddy bear, teddy bear, stand on your head,
Teddy bear, teddy bear, go to bed
Teddy bear, teddy bear, wake up now
Teddy bear, teddy bear, take your bow.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes
Head and shoulders, knees and toes knees and toes, knees and toes
Head and shoulders, knees and toes We all clap hands together. (Eyes and ears and mouth and nose…)

Roley poly, Roley poly
Roley poly, Roley poly, up, up, up
Roley poly, Roley poly, out, out, out
Roley poly, Roley poly, clap, clap, clap
Roley poly, Roley poly, lay them in your lap.

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