Ms Jones 3rd Grade Class Home of the Smart Butterfliesnursery rhymesNursery Rhymes Activities and Procedures:
1. Have the class brainstorm nursery rhyme titles and list them. 2. Each person selects a nursery rhyme to say from memory 3. Draw your nursery rhyme 4. Act out your nursery rhyme and include your name and different ideas, but using the same rhyme pattern. 5. Create a song for your nursery rhyme tittle 6. Discuss rhyming patterns and rhyming words 7. Make a rebus of pictures on inspiration 8. Create a clay animation character with movement 9. Write a modern day nursery rhyme 10. Find the who, what, when, where, why, and how 11. Find words with prefixes and suffixes in the nursery rhyme 12. Write a nursery rhyme about a book or tv character or a famous, historical, or political person 13. Write and draw an advertisement for a product or business using your nursery rhyme (present to the business - they love it); 14. Write your idea about the rhyme 15. Share class ideas with your buddy class 16. Have a local radio station do nursery rhyme ads 17. Make up a story about a nursery rhyme character (using the present, past, future, other characters, etc.) 18. Write a newspaper article and/or make a political cartoon about a nursery rhyme character 19. Publish a nursery rhyme newspaper (study newspaper writing and format - there are some good computer newspaper programs) 20. Find nursery rhymes used in other ways (political cartoons, comics, ads, literature)
How to tie it all together:
- 1. Present rhymes and discuss.
- 2. Display drawings and nursery rhymes.
- 3. Present rewritten rhymes and perhaps printed copies for all.
- 4. Present advertisements orally and display drawn ones.
- 5. Publish a nursery rhyme newspaper.
- 6. Display other uses of nursery rhymes.
Little Bo-Peep Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And cant tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and theyll come home, And bring their nails behind them.
Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, And dreamt she heard them bleating; But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For still they all were fleeting.
Then up she took her little crook, Determined for to find them; She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed. For theyd left all their tails behind em!
It hapened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray Unto a meadow hard by There she espied their tails, side by side, All hung on a tree to dry.
She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye, And over the hillocks she raced; And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, That each tail should be properly placed.
Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue, come, blow your horn! The sheeps in the meadow, the cows in the corn Wheres the little boy that looks after the sheep? Under the haystack, fast asleep!
Rain
Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day; Little Johnny wants to play.
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