Finger Rhymes

Poetry is valuable for stimulating the young child?s brain growth. Combine poetry with fun movements and you have an effective way to actively involve children in learning about manners. What fun your children will have as they learn about saying ?please? and ?thank you,? sharing, technology etiquette, working in groups, table manners, and many other manners-based situations. Each rhyme is filled with movement suggestions to keep your children engaged and active. Plug these cross-curricular rhymes into your daily routine for fun enrichment during gym, science, math, social studies, or language art lessons. They?ll transform your classroom lessons into live action!

Poetry is valuable for stimulating the young childs brain growth. Combine poetry with fun movements and you have an effective way to actively involve children in exploring celebrations of all cultures around the world. What fun your children will have as they pretend to play musical instruments, steer a ship, look through a telescope, plant a tree, be a groundhog, fly on a broomstick, spin a dreidel, or march in a band. You can add any of the suggested small props (ribbons, small bells, maracas, miniature flags, and party hats) to the rhymes to help build large motor skills and increase the fun factor even more! A CD with the various rhymes being sung is included that provides either appropriate background music for use for singing the rhymes and/or performing the movements.

Poetry is valuable for stimulating young children's brain growth. Combine poetry with fun movements, and you've got an effective way to actively involve them in exploring science, math and language arts concepts. These finger rhymes cover themes such as: technology, outer space, colors, fruit, animals' life cycles, plants, sharing, birthdays, other cultures and numbers. What fun your children will have as they pretend to drive a car through a tunnel, fly on an airplane, float to the moon and personify numbers. They'll enjoy pretending to be growing animals, bouncing balls, rolling apples and newborn chicks. Plug these rhymes into your daily routine for fun enrichment during gym, science, math or language arts lessons. They'll transform your classroom lessons into live action!

The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants gives children a variety of ways to fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and structural sequence -- important building blocks for future readers. The 700 selections will help children ages 3 to 6 build a strong foundation in skills such as listening, imagination, coordination, and spatial and body awareness. In this giant book of rhythm and rhyme, you are sure to find your own childhood favorites! Book jacket.

Don't say it, sing it! Children will listen up quick, if you say it with a trick! Rhythm, imagery, and humorous nonsense will delight children while teaching them numbers, colors, shapes, self-concept, feelings, and more. This bestseller contains more than 250 original rhymes and fingerplays which help children learn through play, imitation, and repetition. Enhance vocabulary development, language skills, memory, hand-eye coordination, finger dexterity, and even attention spans! Rhyme and song in your lessons will make the ordinary exciting and new.

Text and illustrations introduce eighteen finger games with music.

Finger Rhymes is a book of twelve illustrated finger rhymes which together teach the first five cardinal and ordinal numbers both ascending and descending. Each rhyme has a different theme with its own sequence of actions to perform. An interactive numeracy resource for children, ages 0-5.