Using nursery rhymes: classified links

We have already talked about the advantages of using real texts such us stories, riddles, tongue twisters and nursery rhymes for our classes. Working with short texts, such as nursery rhymes, has an obvious advantage: those are the kind of texts that are going to be repeated many times without being boring and tedious and after many repetitions they are probably going to have much more educational value than any grammar lesson.

Another of its main advantages is that we have an extremely wide range of topics to choose such as animals, transport, names, seasons etc.

Here there are some useful links classified by topics:

Animals:

http://www.nurseryrhymes4u.com/NURSERY_RHYMES/animals_and_insects.html

 http://www.songsforteaching.com/animalsongs.htm

http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/insect-rhymes.htm

http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/animal-rhymes.htm 

Maths and numbers:

http://www.songsforteaching.com/store/early-number-and-counting-skills-songs-c-440.html

http://www.songsforteaching.com/numberscounting.htm

http://www.songsforteaching.com/math/additionsubtractionsongs.htm

http://www.songsforteaching.com/math/multiplicationsongs.htm

Christmas and other celebrations songs:

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/mother-goose-nursery-rhymes/holidays.html

http://www.songsforteaching.com/christmas/

http://www.nurseryrhymes4u.com/NURSERY_RHYMES/celebrations.html

Seasons:

http://www.nurseryrhymes4u.com/NURSERY_RHYMES/seasons.html

http://www.songsforteaching.com/calendarseasons.htm

Transport:

http://livelyenglishclass.blogspot.com.es/p/eans-of-transport-songs.html

http://www.songsforteaching.com/transportation.htm

http://www.nurseryrhymes4u.com/NURSERY_RHYMES/transport.html

http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/transportation-rhymes.htm


There are many other themes that can be explored through nursery rhymes. If you want to explore other pages which provide with good selections of them go to the useful links column.