Nursery
rhyme – we all grew up learning nursery
rhyme at one
point or the other in our childhood. All children take great
delight in
the rhythms and melodies of tunes. There
are many ways
to learn and teach nursery rhymes. Depending upon the child’s age, you
as a
parent or teacher can add activities to do with nursery
rhyme.
Incase of a toddler, you can consider
reading
and pointing out to the word or picture or better sing a rhyme to the
children,
while showing them the pictures. If it mentions a body part, touch it,
shake
it, wiggle it, and tickle it. Consider mimicking the action mentioned.
Incase
talking about a bird have one hand flap and wobble like a flying bird,
turn
yourself around; pick up your foot and wave it around for showing the
shoe, or
grab the child's foot and tickle it; shake your finger in a
pseudo-scolding
motion; and so forth. You can come up with your own versions of actions
and
mimics. The point is to amuse and delight your own child, and you will
know
best what works for the two of you.
<><>When the children are a little older –
probably early school
years, they often know many of the rhymes by heart, and are comforted
by the
familiarity.At this stage it may be
particularly good focus on counting rhymes and alphabet rhymes. This
would aid the
learning process for these basic skills.
Other ways to use rhymes to enhance
learning is with the
Q&A method. Naturally, if the child asks you questions about why,
what, who,
how or why, the parent can use these questions as discussions and help
the
child explore and critical thinking.
This is a good age to start working with riddles
and puzzle
questions. Often the younger child simply picks up on the sound of the
rhyme,
and won't fully appreciate some of the wonderful riddles. Older
children can
also delight in these, so long as they are new to them and their
friends.
For older children
you have to consider their age. They may feel that they are too old for
nursery
rhymes. Here a good approach would be to go in for rhymes which depict historical
trivia. There are many rhymes which directly or indirectly talks about
historical events.
As a related
activity, you
could have the children draw pictures about the rhymes or make simple
paper,
craft stick, or paper bag puppets of the main characters and objects
mentioned
in the rhymes.
The benefits of teaching nursery rhymes
are a lot.
They learn to about hand movements, telling time, counting and basic
alphabets,
languages and customs. Many of the nursery rhymes contain common word
families.
You can use these rhymes to teach these letter combinations (and how
they are
spelled and spoken), having the students sound them out after
memorizing the
rhyme.
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