From the moment your child takes his or her first breath, they are learning and growing. Your child will mimic you and try to imitate the sounds that he or she hears as development occurs. Nursery Rhyming is a great way to teach your little one about phonics and storytelling. These simple rhymes are your child’s introduction to using their imagination to visualize the story they are hearing. I am going to go over several reasons why you should put down the apps and pads and pick up a nursery rhyme. Discover why technology doesn’t teach what old school nursery rhymes teach.
The perfect first stories
Nursery Rhymes are the ideal first stories for your little one because they can be transformed into a song. A baby has a very short attention span, and it can become a challenge to finish a story without them getting distracted. But when you sing your books, it can captivate the child more than your usual bedtime routine. You will enjoy seeing them and clap, and sing along with the nursery rhyme.
Developing Litle Speakers
Nursery Rhymes also develop early cognitive skills including speech. Nursery Rhymes can boost a child’s first developmental language abilities. It makes words fun, and before you know it, your child will be uttering bits and pieces of the nursery rhymes you read to them.
Ready to read
Knowing Nursery Rhymes will help your preschooler understand the concept of reading better. When they realize the words that rhyme is all spelled the same they can sound out the rhyming words in the next sentence. Knowing nursery rhymes can build confidence in young readers.
Social Butterflies
If you have a shy child, knowing a nursery rhyme can be a right of passage. Imagine your first day of kindergarten, and you hear a familiar song that you already know. Suddenly you are singing twinkle twinkle little star right along with the other children. This can build friends and ensure commonality between your child and other children their age.
From generation to generation
Nursery Rhyming connects us to our past. It is the stories and traditions that our parents told us, and now we can pass it down. And our children can read them to our grandchildren, and so forth. Nursery Rhyming songs connect us to our past and give us stories to give our future.
They make you move!
These simple old school nursery rhymes can improve your child’s cognitive motor skills as well. Think about songs like, “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”, and the hand movements that go along with the song. This takes coordination to match your fingers in alignment with the song and make the waterfall at the correct time ( down came the rain). Your child will love learning and do these hand movements.
In this day and age, we all know a toddler who knows how to operate out phones better than they know how to sing nursery rhymes songs. Let us not forget the benefits of nursery rhyming songs. Last but not least, let us not forget how FUN they are!