Little Miss Who?

Why Little Miss Muffet of course, and Humpty Dumpty, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Jack be Nimble, etc. are all characters that should be welcome in an early childhood classroom.  Nursery rhymes are an excellent source for teaching a multitude of concepts, from fluency, rhyming, problem solving, etc. Not to mention, the activities you can do related to different nursery rhymes is just plain fun! Fewer and fewer of our children are coming to school knowing or even recognizing nursery rhymes, so using nursery rhymes in the classroom benefits learning in more ways than one.

How about using your classroom children’s names in place of Muffet? Children love reading their names and acting out the different nursery rhymes.

Which egg is the real Humpty Dumpty? This is a great science experiment!

There are lots of possibilities for art projects with nursery rhymes. Why not make a nursery rhyme book for each child to take home at the end of the year to bring nursery rhymes back in the home too?

 

 

 

  The learning potentials are endless. Now it is just finding the time to get it all in!

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Remember Our Fallen

Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day. On this day people remember the military personnel who have died serving our country. It began as Decoration Day because many people decorated the graves of the fallen brave soldiers. Many Americans in Germany visit the WWII grave sites, which include numerous Americans, in Germany as well as in the surrounding countries. We are so thankful for these men and women whose bravery and sacrifice help to keep our country’s freedom. So please take a moment this weekend to honor our fallen soldiers.

 Our children participated in many activities in class and are planning to visit cemeteries in Luxembourg this weekend. 

We decided to ask Lady Liberty -who symbolizes freedom- about ideas on celebrating Memorial Day.  Watch and enjoy!

Pixie Slides on Educreations

Other activities to honor our soldiers: Accordion books and riddles

We restudied the meaning of the Pledge:

Pictures of Normandy from the N Family’s visit (Thank you!)

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Kindness Book :   The Wall by Eve  Bunting                       

This is the second Eve Bunting book I’ve chosen this year to share.  What an incredible author!   In The Wall she’s done an outstanding job of capturing the meaning of Memorial Day.  

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