Post on 05-Dec-2014
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SONGS AND RHYMES
IN THE PRIMARY CLASSROOM
How often do you sing songs or chant rhymes with your students?
When is the best moment for singing? Do you share your songs with your
colleagues?
Advantages
Teach children the art of listening which is an important step towards been able to read.
Help grow children activeness Using rhymes, poem, and songs enable
children to learn the ability to identify things and understand different things easily.
Allow freedom of speech and expression using short verses.
The first English rhyme of real importance has its origins dating back to the 14th century! This is a small rhyme that caught the imagination quite quickly and spread from person to person, it was remembered easily and created an English revolution - a call for recognition and class equality!
When Adam delved and Eve span Who was then a gentleman
(To delve means to work and 'span' refers to spinning yarn there was no class distinction when there was only Adam and Eve)
GROUP WORK
Get in groups of three and practice two rhymes or songs from the material you have received.
Perform them to the rest of the class