Nursery Rhymes & Fingerplays

Work on counting to 5 by singing “5 Little Ducks” with Ms. Morgan. You can ask your child, “How many ducks are left?” and have them answer or count the ducks to give an answer. This song is also a great way to teach the concepts of happy and sad. Have your child practice making those facial expressions with you.

This is a great children’s nursery rhyme to talk about a rainy day and what happens to one person. It contains signs for words that your child can imitate with or without speaking the words. The nursery rhyme can be repeated several times, practicing signs, rhyming words and vocabulary (sleeping, man, old, head, morning, raining, snoring).

This is a song about 5 spotted frogs sitting on a log and jumping into some water. The song teaches number concepts (counting to 5), vocabulary (frog, log, jumped, bugs, pool) and descriptor words (green, cool, speckled, wet). Your child can do the hand gestures for “yum, yum” and hold up the number of frogs left with their fingers. You can do this song at home with your child either as shown in the video with a container or at bathtime. If you don’t have frogs, you can change the words and use any animal and talk about what they would eat. You can also talk about wet and dry and how the animals are able to get dry

Learn the sign language to the classic nursery rhyme: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

Practice your sign language when singing along to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. This is a great nursery rhyme to sing at night when watching the stars for just before bedtime!

The repetition in “If You’re Happy and You Know It” helps teach vocabulary and action words in a fun manner. This song teaches action words such as “clap, touch, stomp.” Imitating actions is a great way to ensure that your child is understanding action words and emotions (happy, sad, mad). You can change the song to work on body parts, emotions, and other actions. For example “If you’re sad and you know it make a frown” or “If you’re mad and you know it take a deep breath.”

This is a fun finger play that works on number skills. It’s about some mice and a hungry cat.

Kids will have a lot of fun showing off their counting skills with this fingerplay at the dinner table!

This is a nursery rhyme for children. This rhyme discusses a determined spider that climbs up a waterspout. Rain falls and washes the spider down the spout. The weather changes and he climbs up the spout again. Vocabulary words and their signs taught include: spider, water, rain, sun, again. Children often enjoy repeating the rhyme and doing the signs or hand gestures. Repeating the rhyme increases their vocabulary skills.