Laughter & Learning in Room 139 : More Fun with Nursery Rhymes!

Last week we finished up our Nursery Rhyme unit. The kids had so much fun learning the rhymes and really enjoyed the art projects. If you'd like to see what we did during our first week of Nursery Rhymes, click here.

We started the week by making Hickory Dickory Dock. We assembled the mice on the first day and then on the second day we put the clock together.

They cut out the pendulum for the clocks.

For the morning class we wrote the numbers on the face of the clock. For the afternoon class, we had the numbers in yellow and had them trace over them with a black crayon. They did a fantastic job tracing!

I forgot to take a picture of the finished project, but here's the original idea from Tippytoe Crafts.

On Wednesday we made Itsy Bitsy Spider hats. My little cuties glued wiggle eyes on, drew a mouth, and then glued eight legs on. Some tried accordion folding them and others chose to leave them straight.

Thursday we made a One, Two, Buckle My Shoe project. Each of my sweeties glued two die-cut hands onto the paper and then they wrote the numbers 1-10 on each finger. We glued on a picture of each item in the rhyme on the corresponding finger and finished by gluing the rhyme onto the paper. This is always one of my favorite nursery rhyme activities.

On Thursday afternoon during table time I asked my little darlings to draw their favorite nursery rhyme. I was so impressed with the results! Most of them got right to work drawing and drew several pictures. Here are two of the Humpty Dumpty drawings.

During circle time we played "Who Is It?" I read them a clue, like "Who sat on a tuffet and got quite a scare?" We had pictures of the possible answers and I also had the nursery rhymes out for us to read if they weren't sure. They did a great job answering the questions!

And, last but not least, we had a new student join our class last week. In this picture I was introducing him to the class and the kids were taking turns introducing themselves. We've been working on what to say when you don't know someone's name and how to introduce yourself. They're getting the hang of it!