Nursery Rhymes and Songs Posters

PRESCHOOL Core Knowledge Language Arts

Nursery Rhymes
and Songs Posters

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Nursery Rhymes and Songs Posters

1 A Tisket, A Tasket 29 Old MacDonald
2 A-Hunting We Will Go 30 Once I Saw a Little Bird
3 An Old Person of Ware 31 One for the Money
4 Are You Sleeping? 32 One Misty, Moisty Morning
5 At the Seaside 33 One Potato, Two Potato
6 Bat, Bat 34 Open, Shut Them
7 Betty Botter 35 Pat-a-Cake
8 Bingo 36 Pease Porridge
9 Did You Ever See a Lassie? 37 Peter Piper
10 Diddle Diddle Dumpling, My Son John 38 Polly Put the Kettle On
11 Do You Know the Muffin Man? 39 Pop Goes the Weasel
12 Do Your Ears Hang Low? 40 Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
13 Doctor Foster 41 Rain, Rain Go Away
14 Five Little Monkeys 42 Ring Around the Rosey
15 Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes 43 Row, Row, Row Your Boat
16 Here is the Beehive 44 Teddy Bear
17 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush 45 The Eensy, Weensy Spider
18 Hickety Pickety, My Black Hen 46 The Wheels on the Bus
19 Who Stole the Cookie 47 There Was a Crooked Man
48 This Little Piggy Went to Market
from the Cookie Jar? 49 Tippety, Tippety
20 If You’re Happy and You Know It 50 To Market, To Market
21 John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt 51 Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son
22 Five Little Ducks 52 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
23 Lazy Mary 53 Two Little Blackbirds
24 Looby Loo 54 Wee Willie Winkie
25 Lucy Locket 55 Where is Thumbkin?
26 Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow 56 Yankee Doodle
27 Oh Where, Oh Where

Has My Little Dog Gone?
28 Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?



A Tisket, A Tasket

A tisket, a tasket,
A green and yellow basket.
I wrote a letter to my love,
And on the way I dropped it.
I dropped it, I dropped it,
On the way I dropped it.
I wrote a letter to my love,
And on the way I dropped it.

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A-Hunting We Will Go

A-hunting we will go,
A-hunting we will go,
We’ll catch a fox
And put him in a box
And then we’ll let him go.

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An Old Person of Ware 3

by Edward Lear

There was an old person of Ware,
Who rode on the back of a bear.
When they asked, “Does it trot?“
He said, “Certainly not!
He’s a moppsikon floppsikon bear!”

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Are You Sleeping?

Are you sleeping,
Are you sleeping,
Brother John, Brother John?
Morning bells are ringing,
morning bells are ringing!
Ding, ding, dong!
Ding, ding, dong!

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At the Seaside

by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.
My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.

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Bat, Bat

Bat, bat,
Come under my hat,
And I’ll give you a slice of bacon.
And when I bake
I’ll give you a cake,
If I am not mistaken.

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Betty Botter

Betty Botter bought some butter,
But, she said, this butter’s bitter.
If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter,
But a bit of better butter
Will make my batter better.
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than her bitter butter,
And she put it in her batter,
And it made her batter better.
So it was a better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.

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Bingo

There was a farmer who had a dog,
and Bingo was his name-o.
B-I-N-G-O,
B-I-N-G-O,
B-I-N-G-O,
And Bingo was his name-o.

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Did You Ever See a Lassie?

Did you ever see a lassie,
a lassie, a lassie,
Did you ever see a lassie
go this way and that?
Go this way and that way,
and this way and that way.
Did you ever see a lassie
go this way and that?

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Diddle Diddle Dumpling,
My Son John

Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John,
Went to bed with his trousers on.
One shoe off and one shoe on,
Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John.

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Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Do you know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man?
Do you know the muffin man
Who lives on Drury Lane?

Yes, I know the muffin man,
the muffin man, the muffin man.
Yes, I know the muffin man
Who lives on Drury Lane.

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Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Do your ears hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them
over your shoulder
Like a continental soldier?
Do your ears hang low?

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Doctor Foster

Doctor Foster went to Gloster
In a shower of rain.
He stepped in a puddle,
Up to his middle,
And never went there again.

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Five Little Monkeys

Five little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped his head,
Mama called the doctor, and the doctor said,
“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!”
[Four little monkeys jumping on the bed . . .]

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Head and Shoulders,
Knees and Toes

Head and shoulders,
knees and toes,
knees and toes.
Head and shoulders,
knees and toes,
knees and toes.
Eyes and ears
and mouth and nose.
Head and shoulders,
knees and toes,
knees and toes!

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Here is the Beehive

Here is the beehive. Where are the bees?
They’re hiding away so nobody sees.
Soon they’ll come creeping out of their hive,
One, two, three, four, five. Buzz-z-z-z!

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Here We Go Round
the Mulberry Bush

Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
So early in the morning.

This is the way we wash our clothes,
wash our clothes, wash our clothes.
This is the way we wash our clothes,
So early Monday morning.

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Hickety Pickety, My Black Hen

Hickety pickety, my black hen
She lays eggs for gentlemen.
Gentlemen come every day
To see what my black hen doth lay.

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Who Stole the Cookie
from the Cookie Jar?

Teacher: Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
[child’s name] stole the cookie from the cookie jar!
Student: Who, me?
Teacher: Yes, you.
Student: Not I.
Teacher: Then who?

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If You’re Happy
and You Know It

If you’re happy and you know it,
Clap your hands [clap, clap].
If you’re happy and you know it,
Clap your hands [clap, clap].
If you’re happy and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it.
If you’re happy and you know it,
Clap your hands [clap, clap].

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John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt,
His name is my name, too.
Whenever we go out,
The people always shout,
“There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!”
Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.

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Five Little Ducks 22

Five little ducks that I once knew
Fat ones, skinny ones, tall ones, too.
But the one little duck with the feather on his back,
He ruled the others with a quack, quack, quack!
Quack, quack, quack! Quack, quack, quack!
He ruled the others with a quack, quack, quack!
Down to the river they would go,
Wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble, all in a row.
But the one little duck with the feather on his back,
He ruled the others with a quack, quack, quack!
Quack, quack, quack! Quack, quack, quack!
He ruled the others with a quack, quack, quack!

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Lazy Mary 23

Lazy Mary, will you get up,
Will you get up, will you get up?
Lazy Mary, will you get up,
So early in the morning?
No, no, Mother, I won’t get up,
I won’t get up, I won’t get up.
No, no, Mother, I won’t get up,
So early in the morning!

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