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Author: Kudinov-Sheffer and Children
Address: Rhymes for the Nursery, P.O. Box 1665, Rehovot, Israel, postmaster at rhymesforthenursery dot org
Written: Saturday, 16 September 2014, 20:20-20:35, Jerusalem time, idea at 20:15 ; while running on sport
Original Lyrics Copyright: (c) 2013 Kudinov-Sheffer and Children, licensee Rhymes for the Nursery
Original Word Games and Crossword Puzzle Copyright: (c) 2014 Kudinov-Sheffer and Children, licensee Rhymes for the Nursery
This Publication Copyright: (c) 2014 Kudinov-Sheffer and Children, licensee Rhymes for the Nursery
How to cite this article? To cite this original nursery rhymes publication use: Kudinov-Sheffer and Children. Lovely toy. Rhymes for the Nursery. Volume 5, Nursery Rhyme 2 (2014) http://rhymesforthenursery.org/5/
Abstract: It was previously reported that nursery rhymes enhance children's musical processing skills and phonological sensitivity which in turn helps them to learn to read. The majority of classic nursery rhymes were written centuries ago and have lyrics associated with values of a mankind of long long time ago, not easily understandable by young children. Here, we report original nursery rhyme poem and song "Lovely toy". The lyrics is easy to understand by a baby or toddler, and is a great appeal for any child that parents and educators can reuse as a foundation for new poem or song creation or a variety of reported here family word games and simple crossword puzzles.
Lovely toy of mine
I'm so much loving you!
you are good friend of mine!
and simple cause of smile!When I play with you
I never feel alone
Lovely toy
I'm loving you!Lovely toy of mine
I'm so much loving you!
you are good friend of mine!
and simple cause of love!When I play with you
I always have so much fun!
Lovely toy of mine!
Early edition of this original nursery rhyme has the title "Furry toy of mine" and published as a separate poem [1].
This is original nursery rhyme toy song lyrics by a child to his or her favorite toy, in simple English language, for XXI century children, babies, toddlers and older kids. It was written by a dad of two, with kids participation, on a melody of children's song that we published earlier [2]. This song included into free printable children's mini book download [3] and is a basis for Nursery Rhymes Children's cartoon video collection [4], see publication references below. The tune of this song was reused for a number of other original nursery rhymes in English and Russian languages [5-9]. Note that this poem was first written as a "Furry toy" poem [1]. However, to meet a need for a toy song for boys who might miss furry toys, the lyrics was revised to yield the poem reported here.
Previous study demonstrated that knowledge of nursery rhymes enhances children's phonological sensitivity which in turn helps them to learn to read [10]. Moreover, nursery rhymes (especially those set to music) improve invented spelling skills, verbal memory, tonal and rhythm perception skills [11]. The majority of classical nursery rhymes were written in eighteen and nineteen centuries. A number of these rhymes have lyrics associated with values of a mankind of long long time ago [12]. This is why and despite of rhythmic drive, lyrics of vast majority of traditional poems and songs for young children are not easily understandable by twenty first century kids and have little appeal for modern kids in Contemporary Society.
We can hardly name a single classic nursery poem or classical nursery song addressing the major feelings of major value for every child being, an essence of love to mother, father, brother, sister, grandparents, and family values. This is where our simple words of love (all of basic English vocabularly) are rhymed as an original "Lovely toy" song. The lyrics is easy to understand by a baby or toddler, and is a direct appeal to self of babies and toddlers. As a result this simple nursery rhyme is an attraction for every child that parents and educators can reuse as a foundation for unlimited family word games and new song making.
Once the lyrics of this nursery rhyme is memorized, we welcome one of the parents to encourage a child to make a variation of a poem by finding words of love addressed to other parent, grandparents, other family members and family pets. Important thing to remember is that teaching parent should encourage child expression of love to other parent and be a continuos primer of it. One can not enforce natural flow of feelings-based magical words of love, but should not miss recording these words once his or her child voiced these feelings! Similarly, this can be a creative teacher assisted in-class engaging learning activity for children at a day care center, nursery school or an elementary school home work assignment. When your kid loves what he or she has written, we welcome you to publish your edition of this song (or our other songs and poems) as a Rhymes for the Nursery journal poetry masterpiece, see information for authors for details. Such interactive engagement will certainly rocket every child imaginative expression of feelings and self-confidence.
To assist parents and educators further, we build on the demonstrated fact that combining nursery rhymes with language activities is an effective way to help developing emergent literacy skills [11]. Based on the vocabularly of our original nursery rhyme (see lyrics section above), we developed and report here two simple crossword puzzles and cute letters and word games for children, easy for beginners and those who learns English as a Second Language (ESL). Interestingly, no alphabet knowledge or reading skills are required to play our nursery rhymes games, as these games are rather English letters and ABC's comparison challenge. Playing such mind games will additionally help developing every child ability to focus, and will be a funny workout to improve concentration, attention, creative thinking and problem solving skills. Word and Letters Games are described below, while crossword puzzles of two to five words are included in printable mini book .pdf of Rhymes for the Nursery Volume 5 [3].
Game 1: English Letter L Games
Level 1 (for beginners):
Find words that begin with letter L
Level 2 (advanced, for those who learned to count to 4 or 6):
Task 1: Find four-letter words that begin with letter L
Task 2: Find six-letter words that begin with letter L
Game 2: English Letter G Games
Level 1 (for beginners):
Find words that begin with letter G
Game 3: English Letter F Games
Level 1 (for beginners):
Find words that begin with letter F
Level 2 (advanced, for those who learned to count to 3 to 6):
Task 1: Find three-letter words that begin with letter F
Task 2: Find four-letter words that begin with letter F
Task 3: Find six-letter words that begin with letter F
Game 4: English Letter A Games
Level 1 (for beginners):
Find words that begin with letter A
Game 5: English Letter C Games
Level 1 (for beginners):
Find words that begin with letter C
A suggestion for parents and teachers: consider rewarding kids comprehension (evaluated as a sum of points for every correct answer) with any reward that you deem appropriate (as simple as stickers, for example)
1. Kudinov-Sheffer and Children. Furry toy of mine! Rhymes for the Nursery, Volume 5, Nursery Rhyme 3 (2014) http://rhymesforthenursery.org/5/3.html
2. Kudinov-Sheffer and Children. Little original tune, musical composition and notation for XXI century kids nursery rhymes. Super Simple Songs Journal, Volume 4, Song 1 (2013) http://supersimplesongs.org/4/
3. Original Nursery Rhyme Mini Book .PDF of Rhymes for the Nursery Volume 5 nursery rhymes to be available upon completion of Volume 5 publication.
4. Lovely toy. Nursery Rhymes cartoon video. To be available at youtube.com/user/rhymesforthenursery
5. Kudinov-Sheffer and Children. I love you! Rhymes for the Nursery, Volume 1, Nursery Rhyme 2 (2013) http://rhymesforthenursery.org/1/2.html
6. Kudinov-Sheffer and Children. Mom, I am loving you! Rhymes for the Nursery, Volume 1, Nursery Rhyme 3 (2014) http://rhymesforthenursery.org/1/3.html
7. Kudinov-Sheffer and Children. Daddy, I love you! Rhymes for the Nursery, Volume 1, Nursery Rhyme 4 (2014) http://rhymesforthenursery.org/1/4.html
8. Kudinov-Sheffer and Children. Я тебя люблю (I love you, original song in Russian Language). Rhymes for the Nursery (2013)
9. Kudinov-Sheffer and Children. Мамочка моя (Song for mother, original song in Russian Language). Rhymes for the Nursery (2014)
10. P. E. Bryant, L. Bradley, M. Maclean and J. Crossland. Nursery rhymes, phonological skills and reading. Journal of Child Language (1989) 16, pp 407-428. doi:10.1017/S0305000900010485 Abstract
11. J Bolduc and P. Lefebvre. (2012). Using Nursery Rhymes to Foster Phonological and Musical Processing Skills in Kindergarteners. Creative Education (2012) 3, 495-502. doi: 10.4236/ce.2012.34075 Full Text
12. Nursery rhyme. Wikipedia Article (last seen 2014 September 12) wikipedia.org
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