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Nursery Songs |
Children love to sing-a-long to nursery rhymes. This book has some old favourites with colourful pictures, fun animations and engaging music. Children do not need to be able to read, as the rhyme is sung to them. They can have fun clicking on the speaker icon to have the rhyme resung.
To play the animation, children can click on the film-strip icon in the upper left corner of the picture. Pages can be turned forwards and backwards by clicking on the turned corner at the bottom of the pages. Children can also use click and drag in the direction of the arrow. This makes the reader feel like they are turning the page of a real book.
To exit, click on the small hand in the upper right corner of the screen.
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world
Outcome 4: Children are involved and confident learners
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators
Music and singing
Understand that print carries meaning
Enrich vocabulary
Relate images to text
Programme navigation
Mouse control - single click
Children love being told nursery rhymes and enjoy singing them over and over again. The lyrics may have changed a little over the years and may also be known in different versions. For example, Eency Weency Spider is also known as Insy Wincy, Itsy Bitsy or Ipsy Wipsy Spider.
Most of the rhymes are quite old and the origins of some can only be guessed at. Hickory Dickory Dock was first seen published in 1744 and is believed to come from North America. Described as a "nonsense poem" it was intended to introduce children to telling the time.
Eency Weency Spider is usually accompanied by hand actions and is believed to have been developed to help children improve their manual dexterity whilst repeating the words of the song.
Humpty Dumpty is believed to have been a large cannon! It was used during the English Civil War by Royalist soldiers (King's men) and was positioned on the protective wall surrounding Colchester. When the wall was damaged by cannon fire, Humpty Dumpty fell to the ground and the Royalists were unable to raise it back onto the wall because it was too heavy.