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Below are the nursery rhymes that we will be focusing on throughout the school year.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men,
couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker’s man, Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Pat it and prick it and mark it with a T.
Put it in the oven for Tommy and me.
Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one. The mouse ran down. Hickory, dickory, dock!
Twinkle, twinkle little star how I wonder
what you are. Up above the world so high like
a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle little
star, how I wonder what you are!
Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white
as snow and everywhere that Mary went the
lamb was sure to go.
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating a Christmas pie. He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, and said, “What a good boy am I!”
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and doesn’t know where to find them. Leave them alone, and they’ll come home wagging their tails behind them.
Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider and sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away!
The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain and the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.
One, two, three, four, five, once I caught a fish alive. Six, seven, eight, nine, ten then I let it go again. Why did you let it go? Because it bit my finger so. Which finger did it bite? This little finger on the right!
This little piggy went to market. This little piggy stayed home. This little piggy had roast beef. This little piggy had none, and this little piggy cried “Wee, wee, wee!” all the way home.
Old King Cole was a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he. He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl and he called for his fiddlers three.
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn. The sheep’s in the meadow. The cow’s in the corn. Where’s the little boy who looks after the sheep? He’s under a haystack, fast asleep. Will you wake him? No, not I! For if I do, he’s sure to cry.
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to give her poor dog a bone, but when she got there, the cupboard was bare and so the poor dog had none.
The Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn’t know what to do. She gave them some broth along with some bread then hugged them all soundly and sent them to bed.
Hot cross buns, hot cross buns, one a penny, two a penny hot cross buns. If your daughters don’t like ‘em, give ‘em to your sons. One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns.
Baa, baa, black sheep have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full. One for the master and one for the dame and one for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye; four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing; wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before the king?
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse and they all lived together in a crooked little house.
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