Thursday, February 28, 2013

Flannel Friday: Counting Nursery Rhymes

I am doing my Family Early Literacy Time (a family storytime, craft and extension activities with the focus on an early literacy skill) on Saturday. My theme is counting for learning numbers and sequencing, which also builds narrative skills, vocabulary, print awareness, comprehension skills, background knowledge, etc.

I love nursery rhymes and especially counting nursery rhymes. I used clipart for this one.

Early in the morning at 8 o'clock

You can hear the postman's knock, knock, knock;
(I add extra knocks because they are a fun sound to make)

Up jumps (insert child's name) to answer the door,
1 letter, 2 letters, 3 letters, 4!

 Early in the morning at 8 o'clock
You can hear the postman's knock, knock, knock;
Up jumps (insert child's name) to answer the door,
1 letter, 2 letters, 3 letters, 4!

I found this nursery rhyme in Clare Beaton's Playtime Rhymes for Little People. I also used her illustration as inspiration for my felt cherries

One, two, three four,
(Insert child's name) at the cottage door.
Five, six, seven, eight,
Counting cherries on her plate.

4 comments:

  1. These are both so very sweet. Saying the child's name always brings a smile. And the cherries are beautiful on their little plate. ~ jane

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  2. Do you have the children come up with the letters? I'm interested in recreating this activity.

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    1. I do not have the kids put the letters on the board because I usually have too many kids in my storytimes to be able to have everyone have an individual turn. The original nursery rhyme uses the name "Ella", so that is what I did in storytime. At home, I change the name to my son's name when we recite the rhyme. You could make as many letters as you wanted and then have all the kids bring them to the board at the end of the rhyme. Then count them all together when they are up on the board. If I did that in storytime, I would probably recite the rhyme all the way through once and then have the kids bring their letters to the board the second time I recited the rhyme.

      I usually have the kids put things on the board when I am reading the last book in my storytime. I usually make visuals out of clipart that matches the story and then the kids bring that picture to the board. So, for example, with a John Butler book, I would do a clipart picture of each animal and then the kids bring the animal up to the board when that animal appears in the story. Then we count all the animals when I finish reading the book.

      Let me know how it goes. I really like this rhyme and when I did the visual in storytime, the families really liked it too.

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  3. Hi! nice post. Well what can I say is that these is an interesting and very informative topic. Thanks for sharing.Cheers!

    - The nursery reading, ma

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