Nursery rhymes & development

Babies and toddlers love the bouncy rhythm of nursery rhymes! Its so lovely to see their faces light up when they recognise a song 🥰

But did you know that nursery rhymes are great for their brain development too?

❤️Repetition and familiarity help little ones to learn language.

☀️ Singing with our babies helps foster social development.

❤️ They can help to develop the easy recall and memorisation parts of the brain.

☀️ The structure of nursery rhymes (with a beginning, middle and end) teaches that events have a sequence.

❤️ Many nursery rhymes include counting and introduce early math concepts.

☀️ Lots of nursery rhymes have actions which accompany them helping develop their motor skills.

“Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight”. -

Mem Fox, Reading Magic.

I love using nursery rhymes in class 🥰

Vicky x

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