Singing Time!!! XD Enjoy..

INCY WINCY SPIDER

BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP

JACK AND JILL

LONDON BRIDGE

Reading Skills & Creative Demonstration XD

ReaDiNG SKiLLS...

In almost all finger plays, the hands move from left to right. When you read to your children, let them follow your finger, tracing the words so they also absorb this concept from the written words in book.  

A second important reading concept that children must experience is story sequence so they can retell it in the order  of the events occurred.

CReaTiVe  DeMoNSTRaTioN...

Rhymes and songs provide great building blocks for creative dramatics. Children love to act out the rhymes as they say them, dramatizing the actions of the characters with their whole bodies or using their hands and fingers.

 When children are encouraged by an adult to display their creativity  in an atmosphere that is free of criticism, their sense of self is strengthened and their confidence in expressing themselves is increased.

Physical & Social/Emotional Developments Through Rhymes...!

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

Children develop their mouth and tongue muscles by using the different sounds in the rhyme.

Rhymes that involve movement help with coordination such as “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “Incy Wincy Spider”.

In dramatic play, children use their whole bodies to act out the nursery rhymes they hear.

SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Sharing nursery rhymes provides a safe and secure bond between parents and children.

Positive physical touch between a parent and a child or between children, for example, during clapping rhymes, is important for social development.

Funny nursery rhymes allow children to develop a sense of humour.

Nursery rhymes characters experience many different emotions. This can help children identify their own emotion and understand the real emotions of others.

When children act out the nursery rhyme stories they hear, they learn to imagine, be creative, and express themselves.

Cognitive Development through RHYMES!! :)

Since nursery rhymes are patterns, they help children learn easy recall and memorization.

Nursery rhymes usually tell a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. This teaches children that events happen in sequence, and they begin to learn how to understand stories and follow along.

Nursery rhymes use patterns and sequence, so children begin to learn simple math skills as they recite them. Many rhymes also use numbers, counting, and other math words that children need to learn, such as size and weight.

Nursery rhymes also introduce alliteration “Goosie Goosie Gander” , onomatopoeia “Baa Baa Black Sheep”, and imaginative imagery. Children hear these rhymes and act out what they imagine the characters are doing. 

Language Development by using RHYMES!!!

When children hear nursery rhymes, they hear the sounds vowels and consonants make. They learn how to put these sounds together to make words.

They also practice pitch, volume, and voice inflection, as well as the rhythm of language. For example, listen to how you sound when you ask questions. Do you sound different when you tell a story?

In nursery rhymes, children hear new words that they would not hear in everyday language (like fetch and pail  in “Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water”).

Nursery rhymes are short and easy to repeat, so they become some of a child’s first sentences.

Why is RHYMES important to children???

Tony Stead, senior national literacy consultant for Mondo Publishing in New York, described research showing that in 1945,the average elementary school student had a vocabulary of 10,000 words. Today, children have a vocabulary of only 2,500 words. 

At the early age, parents are suppose to be the first to teach their children on how to read and write.

You thought you'd forgotten all those nursery rhymes from your childhood, but if you had your own child in 4 to 6 years old, they probably came flooding back. Parents have been using these little catchy tunes for hundreds of years, and for good reason. Not only will they probably put a smile on the child's face, but they will also help develop many of those skills she has to master in her early years.

Here are some of the ways finger plays, rhymes, chants and songs teach children concept and skills and provide emotional support.