#childrenrhymes

Bed time is crucial! Parents all over the world have their own rituals. Pat the baby to sleep, rock back and forth, drive all around, run up and down… The things we do! Whew! Here is a list of lullabies that might (just might) make things easy…

Goodnight Sleep Tight

Get into your most hypnotic singing voice and drill this into your little one’s head when it’s time to go to bed! Goodnight sleep tight, Don’t let the bed bugs bite!

Hush Little Baby

Hush Little Baby is one of the best classics. Fill your little one’s ears with these promises… It’s a great song to go to sleep to.

Rock-a-bye Baby

Soft and mellow, the rhythm of this song is bound to rock your baby to sleep. Rock-a-bye-baby works with even the crankiest bunch!

Lavender Blue

Melodic and dreamy, this is a song that would set your little one to fly across meadows and fields. Lavender Blue is a truly magical piece. Whisper sweet nothings into your child’s ears!

Cry Baby Cry

You’re little one is being a handful? Here is an age old lullaby that will gently lilt your baby to sleep. Cry Baby Cry is worth a try!

Sleep Baby Sleep

Get your baby in your arms and gently sing or play the song… You’ll witness the magic unfold! Sleep Baby Sleep is sure to work.

Dance To Your Daddy

A folk song that has the power to put your baby in bed. Sing it and you’ll be stunned by the results! Dance To Your Daddy is a great song.

Hush Baby My Dolly

Something you sing to your kid, and in turn you’ll see in their role-plays… Hush Baby My Dolly is quite charming!

Star Light, Star Bright

Make a wish! Make a wish! Gaze at the stars, and go to sleep with a good feeling! Star Light, Star Bright is one such song.

The Man in the Moon

There are some songs that might have played through, like soundtracks when you were young. Here are some songs that most kids like to play all through the day.

Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes

The ultimate snooze-buster. This will get a snoozing bunch of students on their toes. You can try this on teenagers too...

Here We Go 'Round The Mulberry Bush

A song that teaches routine! It's addictive, so your kids are bound to repeat the whole list over and over again, until they're practiced.  

One Two Buckle My Shoes

One Two Buckle My Shoes is a rhyme that will get your kids on their feet, and learn to count in no time. A great song to sing when you go for long walks with your little one. It is a song where you can divide parts... one person counts and the other sings the lines.

This Old Man

This Old Man is a wacky song that will help your little ones learn numbers as they anticipate this little old man's moves... It's addictive! It's a handclapping song. Go ahead, have fun!

Pop Goes The Weasel

Pop Goes The Weasel is an action song that is bound to get your little one animated. Pop, pop, pop! Have fun singing this one!

London Bridge Is Falling Down

London Bridge Is Falling Down is one of the most loved classic rhymes. You can make the long story short, and act it out!

Ten Green Bottles

Count backwards with Ten Green Bottles! This is a song that kids get introduced to even before they learn to write numbers. A pre-primer special!

In a Cabin In The Woods

Those of you gifted with theatrics, let your imagination wild. In a Cabin in the Woods is a song that you can beautifully enact. Get dramatic. Kids love it!

Round and Round the Garden

They chimed throughout your childhood; you cackled away at every funny refrain; you hear children singing and keep up the custom until today... Rhymes are timeless. Appu Series talks about how these verses have come to stay, pulsated through the ages and has been indispensible in the growth children.

The first introduction to any language is action packed. A child learns through onomatopoeic words... What do you make of the words ‘incywincy’ or ‘itsy-bitsy’? When you couple them with the finger-play, viola! Your child has made the first step to build his/her vocabulary, one of words and actions. Appu Series firmly believes in combining the aspects of music and movements for a rich learning experience.

An article on the Merill-Palmer Quarterly, notes that a sound introduction to rhymes kindles language learning in children of age 3 1/3 years and above. The study was conducted for over 15 months and the evidence showed that children who learned rhymes picked up language quicker that those who did not (Francis, July, 1987, p. 255)

Rhymes are not just verbal. They have a lilting rhythm in them. There is a set tempo in everything around us. Driving, biking or just walking in the streets demand a lot of speed-gauging techniques.

Rhythm is crucial. Unless you’re in synch with the pulse of traffic, you cannot smoothly get anywhere. In a study conducted by Jessica Phillips-Silver and Laurel. J. Trainor in 2005, they found a close connection between movement and rhythm in the cognitive functions of a child who starts with learning rhymes. (Jessica Phillips-Silver, June 3, 2005)

Rhymes definitely give a child that measured and mathematical acumen to navigate this world. It is fascinating to watch your child go through this journey of making sense of theirs world around. Words, objects, melody, rhythm ALL have a role to play.