What Kinds of Nursery Rhymes are there?
There are a great deal of different type of nursery rhymes. For example some are old folk tales, some fairytales, some teach your child actions such as clapping, dancing, etc., while others teach rhythm, language, community and even numbers/counting. These different nursery rhymes can all serve a different purpose and lesson for your child to learn and grow from.
Unique and uncommon nursery rhymes
While traditional nursery rhymes are always great fun and very educationally helpful it is always nice to have something new, unheard of and maybe even from other cultures. Widening your child’s nursery rhyme variety can be very beneficial. One uncommon rhyme is “Mondays Child Poem“. The meaning and lyrics of this rhyme is not very well known. The song gives a individual quality depending on the day. This song is a great resource to use to teach your child or children their days of the week. Another uncommon nursery rhyme is “Remember Remember The 5th of November” this nursery rhyme dates all the way back to the 17th century in England. The song came about after Guy Fawkes was found guilty and sentenced to death by execution in a very inhumane way because of the crimes he committed. There for this rhyme was sang as a reminder of treason and the seriousness of the crime. “Remember Remember The 5th of November” teaches lessons on behavior. The moral of the story is how important it is to remember the punishment at hand when someone commits such a heinous crime such as treason in hopes of it never occurring again. One more of many uncommon nursery rhymes is “Simple Simon”. This rhyme dates all the way back to Medieval England. In this rhyme it contains old english words that are no longer used in the modern day english language, a really neat way to keep some history alive while teaching it to our children. This rhyme has had quite a change over the year and it is now more commonly known as doing what “Simple Simon” says. Not only is this nursery rhyme historical and education it is also a rhyme that can be physically interactive. A rhyme with multiple opportunity for kids to learn. “Sing a Song of Sixpence” is another uncommon rhyme packed with a ton of educational and interesting history. This rhyme is also more commonly known as blackbirds baked in a pie. You’re probably thinking how horrible but when you look back in history the song starts to make more sense. Black birds used to be eaten as a delicacy and often times even in desserts! Therefore the song is about the Black bird seeking revenge of those who made or ate the pie!