Nursery Rhymes Songs Posters

PRESCHOOL Core Knowledge Language Arts Nursery Rhymes and Songs Posters

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Nursery Rhymes and Songs Posters 1 A Tisket, A Tasket 29 Old MacDonald 2 A-Hunting We Will Go 30 Once I Saw a Little Bird 3 An Old Person of Ware 31 One for the Money 4 Are You Sleeping? 32 One Misty, Moisty Morning 5 At the Seaside 33 One Potato, Two Potato 6 Bat, Bat 34 Open, Shut Them 7 Betty Botter 35 Pat-a-Cake 8 Bingo 36 Pease Porridge 9 Did You Ever See a Lassie? 37 Peter Piper 10 Diddle Diddle Dumpling, My Son John 38 Polly Put the Kettle On 11 Do You Know the Muffin Man? 39 Pop Goes the Weasel 12 Do Your Ears Hang Low? 40 Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat 13 Doctor Foster 41 Rain, Rain Go Away 14 Five Little Monkeys 42 Ring Around the Rosey 15 Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes 43 Row, Row, Row Your Boat 16 Here is the Beehive 44 Teddy Bear 17 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush 45 The Eensy, Weensy Spider 18 Hickety Pickety, My Black Hen 46 The Wheels on the Bus 19 Who Stole the Cookie 47 There Was a Crooked Man 48 This Little Piggy Went to Market from the Cookie Jar? 49 Tippety, Tippety 20 If You’re Happy and You Know It 50 To Market, To Market 21 John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt 51 Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son 22 Five Little Ducks 52 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star 23 Lazy Mary 53 Two Little Blackbirds 24 Looby Loo 54 Wee Willie Winkie 25 Lucy Locket 55 Where is Thumbkin? 26 Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow 56 Yankee Doodle 27 Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? 28 Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?



A Tisket, A Tasket A tisket, a tasket, A green and yellow basket. I wrote a letter to my love, And on the way I dropped it. I dropped it, I dropped it, On the way I dropped it. I wrote a letter to my love, And on the way I dropped it. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 1



A-Hunting We Will Go A-hunting we will go, A-hunting we will go, We’ll catch a fox And put him in a box And then we’ll let him go. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 2



An Old Person of Ware 3 by Edward Lear There was an old person of Ware, Who rode on the back of a bear. When they asked, “Does it trot?“ He said, “Certainly not! He’s a moppsikon floppsikon bear!” Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL



Are You Sleeping? Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping, Brother John, Brother John? Morning bells are ringing, morning bells are ringing! Ding, ding, dong! Ding, ding, dong! Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 4



At the Seaside by Robert Louis Stevenson When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. My holes were empty like a cup. In every hole the sea came up, Till it could come no more. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 5



Bat, Bat Bat, bat, Come under my hat, And I’ll give you a slice of bacon. And when I bake I’ll give you a cake, If I am not mistaken. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 6



Betty Botter Betty Botter bought some butter, But, she said, this butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter, It will make my batter bitter, But a bit of better butter Will make my batter better. So she bought a bit of butter Better than her bitter butter, And she put it in her batter, And it made her batter better. So it was a better Betty Botter Bought a bit of better butter. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 7



Bingo There was a farmer who had a dog, and Bingo was his name-o. B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, And Bingo was his name-o. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 8



Did You Ever See a Lassie? Did you ever see a lassie, a lassie, a lassie, Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that? Go this way and that way, and this way and that way. Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that? Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 9



Diddle Diddle Dumpling, My Son John Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John, Went to bed with his trousers on. One shoe off and one shoe on, Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 10



Do You Know the Muffin Man? Do you know the muffin man, The muffin man, the muffin man? Do you know the muffin man Who lives on Drury Lane? Yes, I know the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man. Yes, I know the muffin man Who lives on Drury Lane. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 11



Do Your Ears Hang Low? Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow? Can you throw them over your shoulder Like a continental soldier? Do your ears hang low? Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 12



Doctor Foster Doctor Foster went to Gloster In a shower of rain. He stepped in a puddle, Up to his middle, And never went there again. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 13



Five Little Monkeys Five little monkeys jumping on the bed, One fell off and bumped his head, Mama called the doctor, and the doctor said, “No more monkeys jumping on the bed!” [Four little monkeys jumping on the bed . . .] Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 14



Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. Eyes and ears and mouth and nose. Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes! Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 2159



Here is the Beehive Here is the beehive. Where are the bees? They’re hiding away so nobody sees. Soon they’ll come creeping out of their hive, One, two, three, four, five. Buzz-z-z-z! Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 16



Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush Here we go round the mulberry bush, The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush, So early in the morning. This is the way we wash our clothes, wash our clothes, wash our clothes. This is the way we wash our clothes, So early Monday morning. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 17



Hickety Pickety, My Black Hen Hickety pickety, my black hen She lays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day To see what my black hen doth lay. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 18



Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar? Teacher: Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? [child’s name] stole the cookie from the cookie jar! Student: Who, me? Teacher: Yes, you. Student: Not I. Teacher: Then who? Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 19



If You’re Happy and You Know It If you’re happy and you know it, Clap your hands [clap, clap]. If you’re happy and you know it, Clap your hands [clap, clap]. If you’re happy and you know it, Then your face will surely show it. If you’re happy and you know it, Clap your hands [clap, clap]. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 20



John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, His name is my name, too. Whenever we go out, The people always shout, “There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!” Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL 21



Five Little Ducks 22 Five little ducks that I once knew Fat ones, skinny ones, tall ones, too. But the one little duck with the feather on his back, He ruled the others with a quack, quack, quack! Quack, quack, quack! Quack, quack, quack! He ruled the others with a quack, quack, quack! Down to the river they would go, Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble, all in a row. But the one little duck with the feather on his back, He ruled the others with a quack, quack, quack! Quack, quack, quack! Quack, quack, quack! He ruled the others with a quack, quack, quack! Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL



Lazy Mary 23 Lazy Mary, will you get up, Will you get up, will you get up? Lazy Mary, will you get up, So early in the morning? No, no, Mother, I won’t get up, I won’t get up, I won’t get up. No, no, Mother, I won’t get up, So early in the morning! Core Knowledge Language Arts PRESCHOOL