Here is a compilation of the responses that were received. I was out of school for
a couple of days; I hope I have included them all. Again, thanks to those who took
the time to respond.
I know a teacher who turned the nursery rhyme into a reader's theater.
Older students read the poem, younger ones acted it out. Great
collaboration.
My favorite activity to do with nursery rhymes is one I learned while
doing a class project with a music teacher a million years ago; singing
a song with the rhymes as the stanza and sing the ABC song to the tune
of 99 bottles of root beer on the wall as the chorus. You point to a
student after each chorus and they tell/sing the rhyme of their
choosing. It is fun and you have to sing the chorus a time or two for
them to get it in their head instead of the other ways to sing the
ABC's.
You have to check out Susan Stevens Crummel's And the Dish Ran Away with the spoon
And Cook A Doodle Doo
My "junior webquest" on Mother Goose is online, if you would like to see it.
Here's the link:
http://www.livoniacsd.org/primaryschool/gordon/Lesson%20content/Mother%20Goose/Mother%20goose.htm
It was designed for kindergarteners, but there are some good resources listed.
Anne-Marie Gordon, Librarian
Livonia Primary School
Livonia, NY
agordon@livoniacsd.org
http://www.livoniacsd.org/primaryschool/gordon/index.htm
I am a 1st Grade teacher. September 29th (I'm pretty sure this is the
date. I do know that it is the end of September...) is Old King Cole's
b-day. We are celebrating it this Friday! From the start of the year we
have been going over Nursery Rhymes. I start out with a circle map of "My
parent's favorite Nursery rhyme" (I send home a slip of paper asking
parent's to state the title of their favorite NR) and culminate with "My
Favorite Nursery Rhyme." Each day we add one or two NR's. (Some are
traditional, we add the 'lost verses' most of the time. Jack of Jack and
Jill covering his head with brown paper... Mary's teacher and class, of
Little Lamb fame, talking about how the lamb loves Mary... etc.) We even
cut them apart and put them back together again with sentence strips...
beginning/middle/end fits in nicely too. I have an old TV antennae as a
pointer and sometimes the kids volunteer to 'read' the rhyme to us as they
point to each word. The kids LOVE "Lazy Mary" and "I Love Little Pussy."
(And thankfully they only think of kittens and cats!) We will continue to
go about it through the year! Later on we will even classify what season
we think each might happen in (The North Wind Doth Blow (fall or winter),
Thirty Days (summer or fall... it starts with "SEPTEMBER"), etc.) If you
go on-line there are numerous ideas!
(Can't wait to see what other LMers post!)
Patrice Huckaby, media specialist
South Central Elementary School
6595 E. Highway 11 SE
Elizabeth, Indiana 47117
812-969-2973, ext. 2511
HuckabyP@south.shcsc.k12.in.us
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