12 minutes of the BEST Nursery Rhymes from Jack Hartmann

Nursery rhymes are traditional poems or songs for young children. The repetition in nursery rhymes is helpful in teaching kids how language works. Kids love to sing and dance along with the nursery rhymes with all the characters they know and love. Nursery Rhymes help with a child’s language development. Kids hear and say vowel and letter sounds repeatedly throughout the song. Nursery rhymes are filled with alliteration. As they sing a nursery rhyme they get a sense for rhythm and can help develop other important language skills such as inflection. Nursery Rhymes are also important as they are often where a child hears a word for the first time, building their vocabulary. Nursery rhymes are also a great introduction to sentence and story structure because they are short and easy to remember, making them repeatable, too. Nursery rhymes are good for simple story telling as they usually have an identifiable beginning, middle and end. Kids easily memorize and recall the stories, especially when the nursery rhymes are set to music. Nursery rhymes can build a child’s imagination as they need to visualize and often act out scenes in the nursery rhymes. Humpty Dumpty is a great example. Nursery rhymes such as Itsy Bitsy Spider can help kids with developing gross and fine motor movements. What you may not know is nursery rhymes can also help develop math skills as well. Many nursery rhymes involve the use of number, such as three blind mice, but also nursery rhymes rely on patterning and sequence. Math vocabulary words for measurement can also be introduced, for instance weight. Research also supports the assertion that music and rhyme increase a child’s ability in spatial reasoning. Nursery rhymes also aid kids in developing socially as the characters in nursery rhymes are often portrayed in a variety of situations. These situations teach children about understanding their emotions and the emotion of others and how to identify what these emotions are.