Nurseries in Jumeirah strive hard to meet
the standards set for childrens education in Dubai and bring out the best in
children. They introduce and work around various new techniques to combine fun
and education for children. Nursery rhymes are one such
technique followed by these nurseries.
In the term nursery rhymes itself
we understand that these rhymes are for children attending kids’ nurseries and day
care. While these nursery rhymes are one of the few things that has
remained the same from the very early days, one many question do they actually
play a role in the children’s development in the early years or are they just
meant to be a fun activity in any nursery in Dubai.
Early years foundation is focused on the
children getting the proper guidance during the early years when they are going
through very important development stages in life. And nursery rhymes have been
found to be a great and fun way to teach the little ones many valuable lessons
while it remains entertaining. There is no child care nursery which doesn’t
include nursery rhymes in their curriculum. As children in the early years
loves music and loves to repeat things they are also more likely to understand
lessons combined with nursery rhyme examples.
Nursery rhymes are an important tool used
to introduce many new things to children. It plays a vital role in helping
children understand and start to get familiar with communication, reading and
his or her language skills. An important
phase in a pre-schoolers life is to learn a language. Through various nursery
rhymes children are taken into a new world of letters, words and names. By
repeating nursery rhymes over and over again helps children to understand
phonetics and to grasp early reading. Children will also begin to understand
the words in the nursery rhymes when they sing along to it with actions
repetitively.
Mathematics in another skill that can be
introduced to children through nursery rhymes. They are the initial guides for
the children to understand the concept of counting and numbers. Again relative
actions and actually having the items added and taken down in front of the kids
with the rhymes (e.g. 5 little ducks, 10 bottles of milk) they will easily
grasp the skills of counting.
Did you know that nursery rhymes also lay
the foundation for science, craft, social studies and art? The child’s
curiosity about the world around them can be further developed with nursery
rhymes. They can be introduced to whole new concepts of animals, solar systems,
plants and all the other wonders of the world.
Next time a nursery rhyme is playing think
out of the box and be creative in using that time to help children learn
something new every day.
