Today in the library, Kindergarten searched the BCD campus for clues…to Mother Goose. Scattered around our grounds, students found some of their favorite nursery rhymes (Hickory Dickory Dock and Jack and Jill) as well as discovered some new ones (Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home/ Your house is on fire/Your children are gone and Hiccup, hiccup, go away/Come again another day/Hiccup, hiccup, when I wake/I will give you a butter cake).
Nursery rhymes are excellent building blocks for emergent and beginning readers. While the unusual vocabulary make them challenging to decode, the catchy rhythms and rhymes stimulate phonemic awareness. Lastly, nursery rhymes are narrative in its most basic form, leading the reader through a problem and its clever solution.
We concluded with book browsing and checkout. This was our last checkout day. Please, please check your shelves for missing and overdue books. Happy Reading!
