Nursery Rhyme

The same applies to “Jimmy Crack Corn,” “Camptown Races,” and “Oh Susannah,” meaning that Bugs Bunny had me singing a lot of secretly racist tunes as a child. Continuing the trend of strange french nursery rhymes is Fais dodo. I say “baby french slang” because there are a series of words that end in “o” and “ou” that are reserved for small children. Words like doudou meaning favorite toy or coucou meaning bonjour are most often used in the context of children.

There’s not much information on this one, but I thoroughly enjoy highlighting the history of oppressed and marginalized people. Apparently, this nursery rhyme is actually about England’s West Yorkshire Prison. The song commemorates the required daily walks around the prison yard for female prisoners. The women (and their children supposedly??) would dance around the mulberry tree in the yard for exercise. In this blog post, you will find the some of the best nursery rhymes lyrics and suggested activities. Before you begin, click the social media buttons above to save this post to your favorite platform.

By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould's A Book of Nursery Songs , folklore was an academic study, full of comments and footnotes. A professional anthropologist, Andrew Lang (1844–1912) produced The Nursery Rhyme Book in 1897. Get ready tosing, whisper, and shout your children's music video way through these dozen nursery rhymes for kids. The oldest recorded kids’ songs and rhymes were originally the lullabies or cradle songs which were intended to lull the little babies to sleep. The term lullaby is believed to be derived from the words, “la, la” or “lu, lu”. These were the sounds made by nannies and mothers to keep the child quiet and calm.

What we bring to you is a child friendly website of educational videos. One that they can navigate easily and engage in for hours at a go while learning simultaneously. There are original videos in a number of categories to teach your child shapes, colors, letters, numbers, nursery rhymes and even culture. There are also various videos on different festivals like Christmas, Halloween, Easter and Thanksgiving to help your child understand their importance better.

Have the kiddos write or draw a letter to a friend, then act out the poem.