Why Poems, Rhymes and Songs Are Important For Your Child
I can bet that you still remember the nursery rhymes and songs you have learned as a child. I can also bet that you must have passed these rhymes to your children or grand children. These poems, nursery rhymes and songs play a significant role in the upbringing of the child.
Rhyme and rhythm
Rhymes help the children to understand that language has some pattern. Even little kids can differentiate the words with similar endings. As you sing the song they begin to anticipate the rhyming words. They also try to follow the beat or the tune of the poem. This is helpful in developing musicality. It is because of this reason that many early books have repetition, rhymes and rhythms. This keeps the children’s interest in the rhymes.
Reading and Spellings
Reading books with songs, rhymes or poems show the children that these are not written in paragraphs but in lines. Reading the rhyme to the children make him understands that same sound may come from different spellings.
Action rhymes and songs
Children love to perform the songs and rhymes. This opens them the world of vocabulary. As they relate the words with actions.
Number songs and rhymes
Number songs encourage the child to learn basic learning skills. Like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 once I got a fish alive, makes them learn how to count. Nine green bottles, gives him the sense of backward counting and simple subtraction. Some rhymes even give the sense of multiplication like cherries on a plate, cherries on a plate, 2, 4, 6, 8. Parents should encourage the child to use fingers while rhyming the poem.
Song and rhyme activities
Activities help the child to learn many things in an easier way. Many activities can be created with poems and songs. You can ask your child to underline the rhyming words. You can sing his favorite rhyme by missing the rhyming strings. Encourage the child to make new lines of the poem that rhymes with it.
Hickory Dickory Dock
Mouse Has a Sock
No matter if the lines are silly
Perform the rhyme with your child
Clap out the rhythm or the beat. It will add more fun to the poem. You can either stamp or nod your head or can do all.
No matter if you have a feeling that you are becoming a child again. But the feeling which your child is going to have is marvelous. Go on, be a child again.
