Nursery rhymes and songs

Nursery rhymes and songs help develop language skills as well as physical development and numeracy and are an essential part of pre-school education.

## Action songs and rhymes

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Many songs and rhymes have a physical component.

* Wind the Bobbin Up
* Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
* I'm a Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
* If You're Happy and You Know it
* Sleeping Bunnies
* Ring around the Rosie
* Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
* Two Little Dickie Birds
* The Grand Old Duke of York
* Do the Hokey Pokey
* Trit Trot to Boston
* Tommy Thumb / Daddy Finger
* Wheels on the Bus
* Pat-a-Cake
* I'm a Little Teapot
* The Itsy Bitsy Spider
* One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four
* Round and Round the Garden
* What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor

## Numeracy rhymes and counting

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Many songs involve counting up and down. These songs can help your child become comfortable with counting.

* Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
* One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish Alive
* Five Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day
* Five Fat Sausages Sizzling in a Pan
* Bell Horses
* Hickory Dickory Dock
* Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, We're Going to the Moon
* Five Little Speckled Frogs

## Other classic rhymes and songs

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* Humpty Dumpty
* Yankee Doodle Went to Town
* Old McDonald Had a Farm
* Hey Diddle, Diddle
* My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
* You Are My Sunshine