Nursery: Can you sing your favourite nursery rhyme?

This week in Nursery we enjoyed World Nursery Rhyme Week. We joined in with the challenge to learn a new nursery rhyme each day. On Monday we learnt ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence, which many of the children did not know. We spoke about the blackbirds baked in the pie and then decided to make our own ‘Silly Soup.’ Silly Soup is a phonics game where children can only place objects in the soup if they rhymed. We made many interesting soups containing a cat, a bat and a hat or a whale, snail and scale. On Tuesday we focussed on Humpty Dumpty, which many of the children were already familiar with. We had lots of fun making different walls. On Wednesday we sang ‘When I Was One,’ this is a number rhyme about pirates. We then made lots of treasure maps to help the pirates find the treasure and the children produced some fantastic meaningful marks. On Thursday we sang the rhyme ‘I hear Thunder’ and used the rhyme to practise some new Dough Disco actions. We also had lots of our families join us for Early Bird sessions and it was lovely to share different rhyming activities altogether. On Friday, the children came to Nursery dressed as their favourite nursery rhyme character and we were very proud when lots of the children sang their chosen rhyme in front of their friends! We also enjoyed sharing the ‘Two Little Dickie Birds’ rhyme.