Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme Lesson Ideas

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Early Childhood Education blog! Making early learning activities fun, creative, and interesting for children gives my teacher's heart such joy!

This post is full of phonemic awareness as well some math and science connections to give you at least 1 day focus about Humpty Dumpty.

Rhyming sets include:

humpty

dumpty

wall

fall

all

men

again

Letter sounds to emphasize are:

H for Humpty and horses

hard C/K for king, couldn't

Words separated into letter 'tiles' for building word practice=

H

U

M

P

T

Y

D

U

M

P

T

Y

W

A

L

L

F

A

L

L

M

E

N

A

G

A

I

N

Math and Science connections that I am focusing attention on Humpty being an egg--

Eggs are oval-shaped.

Some animals reproduce by laying eggs.

Ask children if eggs are circles or ovals.

Animals that lay eggs include:

Chicken

Turtle

Fish

**************************Social Studies connection would be cultural traditions related to dying and decorating eggs.

****************

Additional topics to expand upon with this rhyme would be:

horses, communities, countries, types of rulers and leaders of countries, safety warnings about falling,

horses

The End! --from Mrs. S

ECE weather symbols and name alliterations

Social-emotional development= check

Sounds and letters with alliterations= check

Weather unit for early science learning= check

Another idea from my daycare employment years about 17-21 years ago that is still brilliant and super easy to implement. I did this with 4s and this simple idea was such a treat for them that they spent the rest of day wanting to be re-introduced to everyone with their new names! So here were a few weather symbols that were creatively used:

Lightning Lucas

Sunny Sara

Windy Will

and then for me

Rainy Rebecca

There were more children in the group, so more weather symbols to adopt and name tags to make. Self-images and confidence blossomed right before my eyes. The children's chatter centered around weather terms and symbols led to interesting discussions and expanding the theme for a few extra days due to their enthusiasm. Hurray for science! Reviewing some of the alphabet through the first letters of each child's name plus mine was cleverly achieved with the alliteration. Win. Win. Win.