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Each nursery rhyme listed below will eventually come with the following activities or resources:
    *    a planning matrix
    *    sequencing activity
    *    word search (high frequency/sight words)
    *    stationery and worksheet for word family rime
    *    shape book to use for nonfiction    
          writing    

The planning matrix addresses sight words, cross curricular connections, onset and rime, suggested book lists, reading and writing ideas and much, much more. As you go through this page, you will note that it is incomplete. Only the underlined items are linked and ready. I have so much to add to it, but I'm splitting my time between this page and the others. It will come! However, if there is a nursery rhyme that you're just dying to use, please let me know (carl1404@msn.com) and I'll update that one for you.

 

First Grade Spelling: Rimes &  Rhymes
A yearly correlation guide for using Mother Goose and rimes to teach spelling to first grade students.
Mother Goose Student Anthology
Put together an anthology of Mother Goose rhymes for each child to read and illustrate.

My Mother Goose Cover

Mother Goose Money

Cooking With Mother Goose


This is a work in progress. There are 15 recipes now and more will be added later. If you have any ideas for other recipes that you'd like to share, please let me know at carl1404@msn.com.
 

Mother Goose Cube

Mother Goose Award Ribbon

Mother Goose Certificate

Table Signs
Use to designate groups while doing a Mother Goose unit.
Headbands
Mother Goose Calendar Numbers

Word Document

Mother Goose Calendar Headings pdf

Word Document

Mother Goose Go Fish
Bibliography of Teacher Resource Books

Charlesworth, Liza, Word Family Wheels, Scholastic.

Lee Bennett Hopkins, Animals from Mother Goose

Lee Bennett Hopkins, People From Mother Goose

Merrick, Sandra, Early Childhood Units for Nursery Rhymes, Teacher Created Materials.

Moore, Helen, Mother Goose Peek-a-Books, Scholastic.

Schecter, Deborah, Mother Goose Phonics, Scholastic.

Thompson & Hilderbrand Nursery Rhymes Activity Book

Anthologies

Baker, August, ed., Best Loved Nursery Rhymes and Songs, Parents' Magazine Enterprises, Inc.

Bruce, Dana, ed. My Brimful Book, Platt & Munk.

Burns, Kate, Today I Went to Sea, Barron's

dePaola, Tomie, Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose, Putnam.

Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One Hundred Best-Loved Verses

Greenberg, David, Whatever Happened to Humpty Dumpty And Other Surprising Sequels to Mother Goose Rhymes, Little, Brown.

Krensky, S. The Missing Mother Goose: Original Stories from Favorite Rhymes.

Melling, David, illus. Over the Moon! Best-Loved Nursery Rhymes
(an interactive book of nursery rhymes)

Offen, Hilda, illus., Nursery Rhymes.

Rey, H.A., Humpty Dumpty and other Mother Goose Songs,

Scarry, Richard, Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever, Golden Press

The Real Mother Goose Book of American Rhymes, Scholastic.

Wright, Blanche Fisher, The Real Mother Goose, Rand McNally & Co.

 

Suggested Materials List

Nursery rhyme charts 
Magnetic boards & letters
Scissors, crayons, pens
 White board markers
 Highlighter tape 
Word Building Logs
Poetry notebooks
Nursery rhyme rebus poems and pictures
Pocket charts
Pointers
Nursery rhyme anthologies
Rhyme Time (activities)
Word family matching (cut & paste)
Nursery rhymes on tape
Related nonfiction books
Overhead projector (center)
Word building activities (center)
Sequencing activities
Books on a ring
       
  Posters & Poem Strips/Words

 


A Hunting We Will Go

Planning Matrix
Stationery
Sequencing
Word Search
Shape Book

A-Hunting We Will Go!

 

As I Was Going to St. Ives

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

Planning Matrix
eep word family stationery
eep family worksheet
Pop-Up Book and Background
eep family shape book
Sequencing

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

Moo, Moo, Brown Cow (Jakki Wood)
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (Marilyn Janovitz)
Baa Baa Black Sheep (Iza Trapani)
Baa Baa Black Sheep (Moira Kemp)
Charlie Needs a Cloak (dePaola)
Tomie's Baa Baa Black Sheep (Tomie dePaola)
I Love Sheep (poem)
Little Lambs (poem)
Baby Sheep (poem)

 

"Bow, Wow, Wow," Said the Dog

Planning Matrix
at, og, uck, ow word families
Shape Book
Sequencing
Word Search
Poem:My Dog
Accordion
Book/flap pictures

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

The Cow That Went OINK (Most)
Once a Lullaby (Anita Lobel)
It's a Perfect Day (Abigail Pizer)
"Buzz, Buzz, Buzz," Went Bumblebee (Colin West)
Buzz Said the Bee (Lewison, Wendy Cheyette)
Who Says a Dog Goes Bow-wow? (Hank De Zutter)
Pig, Horse, Or Cow, Don't Wake Me Now (Arlene Alda)
Moo, Baa, La la La! (Boynton)
One Windy Wednesday (Root)

 

The Crooked Man

Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling

 
Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling (Tracey Campbell Pearson)
 

Five Little Monkeys

Five Little Monkeys
Little Reader

Stationery
Bed
(ed word family)
ed family worksheet
Book
ed family shape book
Sequencing
Five Little Monkeys Copy Change
ed Family
Zip File

Links:
Coloring sheet: http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/monkeys/color.htm

Finger Puppets: http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/monkeys/fingerpuppets.html

Monkey Crafts: http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/jungle-monkeys.html

 

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed  by Eileen Christelow
Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do by Eileen Christelow
Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car by Eileen Christelow
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow
Five Little Monkeys Play Hide-and-Seek  by Eileen Christelow
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (Board Book) by Eileen Christelow

Hey, Diddle, Diddle

Planning Matrix
Sequencing
Word Search
Bookmark
Little Reader
Big Book
Poem
Hey, Diddle, Diddle Match
Hey, Diddle Handwriting
Hey, Diddle, Diddle Pictures and Words
oon Moon Shape Book

Hey, Diddle, Diddle Mobile
Moon Stationery
Moon Stationery (oon Word Family)
Cow Shape Book
Level 1 Reading Book
oon Word Building Mat
oon Recording Sheet

Hey, Diddle, Diddle Following Directions
Hey, Diddle, Diddle Rebus Story
Hey, Diddle, Diddle Copy Change
Hey, Diddle, Diddle Jigsaw Puzzle
Hey, Diddle, Diddle Desktop Nametags
Hey, Diddle, Diddle Word Family Coloring
Picture Sequencing
Hey, Diddle, Diddle Story Telling Cube (color)
Hey, Diddle, Diddle Story Telling Cube (b+w)

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds:

Hey, Diddle, Daddle: a copy change (James Marshall)

Hey Diddle Diddle Board Book
Hey Diddle Diddle (Kin Eagle)
The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down (Paul Brett Johnson)
When Cows Come Home (Harrison)
Cows
The Missing Mother Goose  (Stephen Krensky)
No Moon, No Milk!  (Babcock)
Hey Diddle Diddle (dePaola)
Hey, Riddle, Riddle (Hayes)
And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon (Stevens)

 

Hickety, Pickety, My Black Hen

en family worksheet
All About Hens

Word Family Wheel (Scholastic)
Big Fat Hen
(Baker)
Big Fat Hen
Board Book

 

Hickory, Dickory, Dock

Planning Matrix
Stationery  ock family
ock family worksheet
Clock
ock family shape book
Sequencing

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

Hickory Dickory Dock (Heather Collins)
It's AboutTime (Lee Bennett Hopkins)
The Time Book (Britannica Discovery Library)
Clocks and More Clocks (Pat Hutchins)
Hickory Dickory Dock
The Missing Mother Goose (Stephen Krensky)
The Completed Hickory Dickory Dock (Aylesworth)

 

Hot Cross Buns

Bun Stationery (un family)
Bun Book

 

Humpty Dumpty

Planning Matrix
Humpty Dumpty Bookmark
Poem

Another Humpty Dumpty Poem
Wall Stationery (all family)
How I Like My Eggs

Egg Pictures
Sequencing
Word Search (sight words)
Humpty Dumpty Word Search (at family)
Humpty Dumpty Puzzle
Humpty Dumpty Following Directions
Humpty Dumpty Rebus Story
Humpty Dumpty Copy Change
Humpty Dumpty Jigsaw Puzzle (new)
Humpty Dumpty Word Family Coloring (at, all, en)
Humpty Dumpty Desktop Nametags


Humpty Dumpty Big Book
Humpty Dumpty Little Reader

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds:

An Extraordinary Egg (Lionni, Leo)
Big Egg (Coxe, Molly)
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones (Heller, Ruth)
Little Lumpty (Miko Imai)
The Missing Mother Goose (Stephen Krensky)
Humpty Dumpty All Cracked Up! (Lisa Ann Marsoli)
Humpty Dumpty (Playmore)
Humpty Dumpty (Kirk)
Humpty Dumpty Flew off the Wall (Hayes)
What's Inside? (Martin)
Humpty Dumpty (big book)

 

I Had a Little Nut Tree

I Know an Old Lady
Who Swallowed a Fly

Matrix
Fly Stationery
y family worksheet
Word Search
Sequencing
Pictures for accordion book

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

Oh My a Fly! (Jan Pienkowski)
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Glen Hay)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Bonne)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Hoberman and Westcott)
(Sing-Along Stories Series)
I Know an Old Lady (G. Brian Karas)
I Know An Old Woman (Bari Weissman)
I know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Nadine Bernard Westcott)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie (Alison Jackson)

 

I'm a Little Teapot

Planning Matrix
Spout Stationery
out family worksheet
Sequencing

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

I'm a Little Teapot (Kemp)
I'm a Little Teapot (Iza Trapani)
Muffin Mouse's New House (Di Fiori)

 

It's Raining, It's Pouring

Matrix
Sequencing

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

It's Raining, It's Pouring (Kin Eagle)
Why does It Rain? (Chris Arvetis)
Rain Song (Leslie Evans)
The Storm (Harshman)
The Rain Came Down (Shannon)

 

Spider

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Planning Matrix
Poem
Bookmark

Spout Stationery (out family)
out family worksheet
Sequencing
un Word Building Mat
un Recording Sheet
un Shape Book
un Stationery

Spider Book
Itsy Bitsy Spider Desktop Nametags
Itsy Bitsy Spider Word Search (un Word Family)
Itsy Bitsy Spider Reading Book

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds:

Eensy Weensy Spider (Heather Collins)
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Lorianne Siomades)
Eensy Weensy Spider
The Eensy-Weensy Spider (Hoberman and Westcott)
(Sing-Along Stories series)
The Roly-Poly Spider (Jill Sardegna)
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Iza Trapani)
Mighty Spiders! (Fay Robinson)
Eency Weency Spider (Joanne Oppenheim)

 

Jack Be Nimble

Poem
Planning
Matrix
Candlestick Stationery (ick family)

ick family worksheet
ick family shape book

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

Jack Jump Under the Candlestick (Donna Lugg Pape)
The Missing Mother Goose (Stephen Krensky)
Jack (Rigby Big Book)

 

Jack and Jill

Planning Matrix
Crown Stationery
Sequencing

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

Jack and Jill (Board Book)
Jack and Jill and the Giant (Calvin Irons)
Jack and Jill's Spill (Lisa Ann Marsoli)
Jack and Chill Were King of the Hill (Hayes)
Jack and Jill (Rigby big book)

 

Jack Sprat

at family worksheet
at family shape book

 

Ladybug, Ladybug

Planning Matrix
Poem
Bug Stationery (ug word family)
Ladybug Book
Ladybug, Ladybug Reader
Sequencing
ug Word Slide
ug Bug Shape Book
ug Word Building Mat
ug Recording Sheet

Ladybug Math
(Use with black paper dots to solve equations)
Ladybug, Ladybug Desktop Nametags
Ladybug, Ladybug Word Search (ug Word Family)

 

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds:


The Grouchy Ladybug (Eric Carle)
Ladybugs
(Althea)
The Ladybug and Other Insects (Scholastic)
Ladybug, Ladybug (Ruth Brown)
Houses and Homes

 

Little Bo-Peep

Poem
Planning
Matrix

eep family worksheet
Sequencing
Lamb Headband

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

The Day the Sheep Showed Up (David McPhail)
Little Bo-Peep
(Paul Galdone)
Little Bo-Peep
(Rebecca Archer)
Sheep in a Shop  (Nancy Shaw)
Take a Hike/Eat Out
Sheep in a Jeep
(Nancy Shaw)
Woolly Sheep and Hungry Goats
(Allan Fowler)
Have You Seen My Duckling?

 

Little Boy Blue

Poem
Planning
Matrix
Popcorn Stationery (orn word family)
Sequencing
Word Search

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

Over in the Meadow (Lilian Obligado)
Little Boy Blue (Board Book)
When Sheep Cannot Sleep (Satashi Kitamura)
Sheep, Sheep, Sheep, Help Me Fall Asleep (Arlene Alda)
Little Boy Blue and the Panda's Kazoo (Hayes)
Little Boy Blue's Horn (Wing)
Over in the Meadow (big book)
Corn On and Off the Cob

 

Little Jack Horner

Poem
Planning
Matrix
Pie Stationery (ie word family)
ie family worksheet
Sequencing
Dirt Pie (Recipe and Sequencing Activity)

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

Each Peach Pear Plum (Ahlberg)
Little Jack Horner (Rigby Big Book)
Sweet Potato Pie (Rockwell)
Story of Little Jack Horner (Wing)
Sweet Dream Pie (Wood)
How to Make a Mud Pie (Williams) CTP big book
Apron Annie's Pies (Nechaev) CTP
Jamberry

 

Little Miss Muffet

Poem
Planning
Matrix

ay family worksheet
ay family shape book
How I Like My Oatmeal
Sequencing

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

Little Miss Muffet (Ian Beck)
The Missing Mother Goose (Stephen Krensky)
Little Miss Muffet's Count-Along Surprise (Emma Chichester Clark)
Miss Muffet and Her Pet the Puffin (Hayes)
The Very Busy Spider (Carle) Little Miss Muffet (Rigby Big Book)

 

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Planning Matrix
Snow Stationery (ow word family)
Sequencing
Lamb Headband

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

The Sheep Follow (Monica Wellington)
Mary Had a Little Lamb (Hoberman and Westcott)
(Sing-Along Stories Series)
Mary Had a Little Lamb (Iza Trapani)
Mary Had a Little Lamb (Sarah Josepha Hale)
Mary Had a Little Lamb ( Gavy)
Mary Had a Little Lamb (Rigby Big Book)
Mary Had a Little Lamb (Creative Child Press)
Charlie Needs a Cloak (dePaola)

 

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Planning Matrix
Accordion Book

Suggested Book Titles for Read Alouds

Birthday Happy, Contrary Mary (Anita Jeram)

 

Miss Mary Mack

Miss Mary Mack (Hoberman and Westcott)
(Sing-Along Stories series)

Miss Polly Had a Dolly

Miss Polly Had a Dolly (Mellentin and Wood)

The Mulberry Bush

Oh, Where, Oh, Where Has
My Little Dog Gone?

Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? (Iza Trapani)
The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy

 

Old King Cole

Planning Matrix
Stationery
Sequencing

Old Mother Hubbard

Poem
Bone Stationery (one word family)
Old Mother Hubbard Bookmark
one family worksheet
Dog Shape Book (nonfiction writing)
Mother Hubbard's Bones: Number Writing
Mother Hubbard's Bones: Addition Facts
Mother Hubbard's Bones: Subtraction Facts
Old Mother Hubbard's Handwriting
Dog Shape Book (og family) color
Dog Shape Book (og family ) b & w
Word Building Mat (og family)
Recording Sheet
og Word Slide

What's In Your Cupboard? (categories)
What's In Your Cupboard (numbers)


Old Mother Hubbard Little Reader
Old Mother Hubbard Word Search (og Word Family)

The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (Tomie dePaola)
Old Mother Hubbard's Dog Dresses Up
(John Yeoman & Quentin Blake)
Old Mother Hubbard's Dog Learns to Play
(John Yeoman & Quentin Blake)
Old Mother Hubbard (
A. and M. Provensen)
Word Family wheel (Scholastic


 

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Big Fat Hen (Keith Baker)

 

Over in the Meadow

In the meadow (David M. Schwartz)
Over in the Meadow
(Paul Galdone)
Over in the Meadow
(Ezra Jack Keats)
Over in the Meadow
(John Langstaff)
Over in the Meadow
(Louise Voce) Big Book
Over on the Farm
(Christopher Gunson
In the Tall Tall Grass
(Denise Fleming)

 

Pease Porridge

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater

Poem
Pumpkin Stationery (ell family)

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
(Steven Kroll)
Word Family Wheel (Scholastic)
The Pumpkin House (Rigby 17)

 

Polly, Put the Kettle On

Pop Goes the Weasel

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat

The Queen of Hearts

Stationery (art word family)
Queen of Hearts Sequencing

The Queen of Hearts (Koda, Elizabeth)
A Heart for the Queen of Hearts
(Dussling, Lynn)
The Queen of Hearts
(Randolph Caldecott)

 

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Rain, Rain, Go Away!
(ay Family Reader)

Rainy Day Stories & Poems (Bauer, ed.)
Rain Talk
(Mary Serfozo)
The Rain Came Down
(David Shannon)
Rain (Robert
Kalan & Donald Crews)
Word Family Wheel (Scholastic)

 

Rock-A-Bye Baby

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Boat Stationery (oat  word family)
oat family worksheet
Sequencing
oat word building mat

Row, Row, Row Your Boat (Joanne Oppenheim)

 

Rub-a-Dub-Dub

Poem

Rub-A-Dub Dub
(ub Family Reader)

Rub a Dub Dub (Kin Eagle)
The Tub People
(Pam Conrad)

 

Shoo Fly!

Simple Simon

The Adventures of Simple Simon (Chris Conover)

 

Sing a Song of Sixpence
Six Little Ducks

Stationery (ack word family)
ack family worksheet
Duck Book
Sequencing

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Stationery (ound word family)
Teddy Bear Book
Sequencing
Word Search
Graphing for Bears Plus