Sweet Nursery Ryhmes
Nursery rhymes has been a very popular way for children to exercise their memorization, encourage collaboration, and refresh their creativity, while they sing the lyrics of their favorite nursery rhymes with other kids. Parents also love nursery rhymes because it’s a great way for them to engage with their children and help them understand what their children like. There are thousands of different nursery rhymes that are popular in today’s world like Hokey Pokey, Humpty Dumpty, and The Alphabet Song, but school bus nursery rhymes have it’s own type of nursery rhymes.
Nursery Rhymes on the Bus
Chocolate Cake, Magic School Bus, and Camp Grenada are popular school bus nursery rhymes that children sing on the bus. Children love to sing nursery rhymes while riding the bus because it amuses them while they are on their journey to school. The most popular nursery rhyme that kids sing while on the bus is the ageless “The Wheels on the Bus” that has been sung for decades.
The Origin
This nursery rhyme dates all the way back to the late 1930’s, and is written by the American Artist Verna Hills. It is mostly popular in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and Canada. During the 1930’s, folks music, jazz, blues, and swing jazz was immensely popular in America. So nursery rhymes like this fitted in well during the age of upcoming new music. It’s a very repetitive song so it is easy for children to memorize the lyrics and have fun with their friends singing it
Changing the Culture
This nursery rhyme can also be a great way to engage kids while they are in school. Teachers sing this nursery rhyme while kids follow along and memorize the up-beat lyrics. The first part of the lyrics is “The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round” and kids smile and laugh as they sing along, and finish off the song saying “All day long”, in unison. This has been a staple for most school’s to include this in nursery rhyme in their everyday activities for kids. You may see all kinds of kids singing this song while on their way back home with other kids because of how catchy the song is.
Searching for this nursery rhyme
This nursery rhyme is not hard to find as it is very popular and because of the expansion of the internet, you can find them on various sites for kids and YouTube. Due to its popularity it has all kinds of versions you could enjoy and allows children to listen to the one’s they like the most. All kids are different and each of them enjoy different thing’s, so the multiple versions of this song will be extremely beneficial as you allow the children to chose the one that resonates with them and only sing that one. Either way, this is a very popular nursery rhyme that can be loved and sung for all ages.