Would you have thought learning nursery rhymes would help with math skills? It does! A number of them have to do with counting (forward/addition and backward/subtraction), size, shape, and patterning through the repetition of words.įine motor skill development is another benefit of teaching our small ones nursery rhymes. They are also a fun way to introduce listening to and reading longer stories since nursery rhymes have a beginning, middle, and end.

They also strengthen a child’s imagination and story-telling skills which in turn creates strong readers.īesides helping strengthen children’s tongue and mouth muscles, nursery rhymes help build listening skills which are needed for reading comprehension. They are exposed to a variety of words like “tumbling,” “curds and whey,” and “fetch,” just to name a few.

Singing or reciting nursery rhymes (especially over and over again) helps strengthen children’s memory as well as builds up their vocabulary. Knowing what each letter sounds like is a key pre-literacy skill needed when children are learning to read. The most amazing things happen to Itsy Bitsy Spider in this animated version of this popular kids song. COUNTING 1 to 10 Climb up the tree on the Itsy Bitsy Spider’s web while learning your numbers. Tap your bug to make it run faster, the more you tap the faster it will go. Why? First of all, they help children hear the smaller sounds in words (phonemic awareness) when they recite or sing the rhyme. Press the directions and watch the Itsy Bitsy Spider swing BUG RACE The Bug Race is on, select your bug and race with 10 colorful bugs in a vivid racing track. Nursery rhymes are classics and we should teach them to our children. Ugh! Nursery rhymes! Again? Do we have to? (asks a caregiver of a little one after singing Hickory Dickory Dock for the fifth time in a row).

Itsy bitsy spider