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Rhymes can be helpful for reinforcing concepts with
children in enjoyable ways. Here are some especially useful rhymes
(click on the links to jump to rhymes for that topic):
Telling
Time
Color Words
Days of the Week
Months of the Year
Mention Holidays
The Alphabet
Number Words
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Nursery Rhymes that use
Telling Time |
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- Bedtime
- Bell Horses
- The Clock
- The Mouse and the Clock (Hickory Dickory Dock)
- A Sunshiny Shower
- The Ten O'clock Scholar
- Wee Willie Winkie
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Nursery Rhymes that use Color Words |
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- Around the Green Gravel (green)
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (black)
- Banbury Cross (white)
- Betty Blue (blue)
- The Black Hen (black)
- Blue Bell Boy (blue)
- Bobby Shaftoe (silver, yellow)
- Bobby Snooks (black)
- Boy and the Sparrow (green)
- The Bunch of Blue Ribbons (blue)
- A Candle (red, white)
- A Chimney (black, red)
- Cushy Cow (silver)
- Daffodils (yellow, green)
- The Donkey (gray)
- Hector Protector (green)
- The Hobby Horse (gray)
- Jack and Jill (brown)
- The Lion and the Unicorn (white, brown)
- Little Boy Blue (blue)
- Little King Boggen (black, white)
- Lock and Key (gold, silver, lead, brass)
- Mary's Canary (yellow)
- Old Grimes (brown)
- Old Mother Hubbard (white, red)
- Rock-a-Bye Baby (green)
- Sleep, Baby, Sleep (green)
- Teeth and Gums (white)
- Two Gray Kits (gray)
- A Walnut (white, green)
- Why, May Not I Love Johnny? (blue, brown)
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Nursery Rhymes
that use the Days of the Week |
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- Dreams (Friday, Saturday)
- Oh Dear! (Saturday)
- Play Days (Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday)
- Saturday, Sunday (Saturday, Sunday)
- Sneezing (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday)
- Solomon Grundy (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday)
- Tommy Snooks (Sunday, Monday)
- A Week of Birthdays (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Sabbath)
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Nursery Rhymes that
use Months of the Year |
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- Bees (May, June, July)
- The First of May (May)
- Thirty Days Hath September (September, April, June,
November, February)
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Nursery Rhymes that
Mention Holidays |
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- Christmas (Christmas)
- Christmas is Coming (Christmas)
- Little Jack Horner (Christmas)
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Nursery Rhymes that use
the Alphabet |
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- ABC (A, B, C)
- The Alphabet (almost all letters)
- Pancake (letter A)
- Pat-A-Cake (T)
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Nursery Rhymes that use
Number Words |
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- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (three)
- Barber (four, twenty)
- The Bells (two, five)
- The Derby Ram (ten, six)
- Diddle Diddle Dumpling (one)
- The Dove and the Wren (two, ten)
- Elizabeth (one, four, five)
- Fingers and Toes (twenty, five)
- Five Toes (five)
- For Every Evil (one)
- Forehead, Eyes, Cheeks, Nose, Mouth and Chin (two)
- The Girl and the Birds (seven)
- Going to St. Ives (seven)
- Hot Cross Buns (one, two)
- If All the Seas Were One Sea (one)
- Intery, Mintery (five)
- John Smith (two)
- Just Like Me (one, two)
- The Kilkenny Cats (two)
- The King of France (twenty, thousand)
- The Man Who Had Naught (fourteen, fifteen)
- Multiplication is Vexation (three)
- Nancy Dawson (eight, nine)
- A Needle and Thread (one)
- Old King Cole (three)
- Old Woman, Old Woman (seventeen)
- One, He Loves (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, eleven, twelve)
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (one through twenty)
- One, Two, Three (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten)
- Pairs or Pears (twelve, dozen)
- Robin and Richard (two, ten)
- Sing a Song of Sixpence (sixpence, four, twenty)
- The Tailors and the Snail (four, twenty)
- To Babylon (threescore, ten)
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