Family learning…
rhymes, poems & little songs to know
(these are life-long lists to continue!)
Songs
A-Tisket A-Tasket
The Ants Go Marching
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Diddle, Diddle Dumpling, My Son John
Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Eensy Weensy Spider
The Farmer in the Dell
Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Hush-a-Bye
I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
If You’re Happy and You Know It
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring
Knicky Knacky Knocky Noo
Kum Ba Yah
London Bridge Is Falling Down
The Muffin Man
The Mulberry Bush
Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
Old McDonald Had a Farm
On Top of Old Smoky
Open Up Your Heart
Pop Goes the Weasel
Ring Around the Rosie
Rock-a-Bye, Baby
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Rub a Dub Dub, Three Men in a Tub
She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
Skip to My Lou
There Was a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
There Were Ten in a Bed
This Old Man
Three Blind Mice
Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star
You Are My Sunshine
Poems & Rhymes to Memorize
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Banbury Cross
Bobby Shafto’s Gone to Sea
Happy Thought - Robert Louis Stevenson
Hey, Diddle Diddle!
Hickory, Dickory Dock
Humpty Dumpty
Jack and Jill
Jack Be Nimble
Jack Horner
Jack Sprat
Little Bo-Peep
Little Miss Muffet
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
One Two Buckle My Shoe
The Owl and the Pussycat
Pat-a-Cake
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Peter Piper
Pussycat, pussycat
The Red Wheelbarrow
Ride a Cock Horse
Ring Around the Rosies
Simple Simon
Sing a Song of Sixpence
There Was An Old Lady
This Little Pig Went to Market
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
Three Blind Mice
Three Little Kittens
Three Little Ghostesses
To Market
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Wee Willy Winkie
Yankee Doodle
Medium Poems & Rhymes to listen to, absorb, enjoy, or at least become familiar with :)
Block City - Robert Louis Stevenson
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Catch a Little Rhyme - Eve Merriam
May - John Updike
My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson
Sick - Shel Silverstein
Tommy - Gwendolyn Brooks
When he was small, when he would fall - Vladimir Nabokov
Longer Poems that are important to hear and absorb if they take a while to sink in…
Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
First They Came for the Jews - Martin Niemoller
Paul Revere’s Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Unknown Soldier - Billy Rose
Bible verses (portions of)
1 Corinthians 13:1-8 (Paul)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
Micah 6:8
Do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God.