Introduce nursery rhymes to kids in an engaging and fun way. Sing them, read them and act them out! Poems are easy to memorize and truly fun to recite. From centuries, teachers have amused their students with nursery rhyme.

There are plenty of ways to approach teaching nursery songs to the young children. As a first thing, you just read or sing a rhyme to your kids, while showing them the pictures. Encourage your children to sing along with you. Another way is to act them out. This not only helps kids to learn the nursery songs but also understand the meaning of each word.

Apart from that, there are various ways to teach your kids the popular nursery rhymes in the most engaging and fun manner. Let’s have a sneak peep into it.

Simple steps to introduce nursery songs to kids:

Easy rhymes

Start with simple rhymes! Teach your kids the nursery rhymes that are short and not very lengthy. For beginners, singing lengthy rhymes may trouble them and they may not be able to memorize them. So, try kids songs which are not lengthy such as, ‘Johny Johny, Yes Papa’, ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’, ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’, ‘Incy Wincy Spider’, ‘Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake, baker’s man’, ‘Polly Put The Kettle On’, ‘Simple Simon’, ‘Row Row Row Your Boat’ and many more.

Actions and facial expressions

To make the teaching more fun-filled and entertaining, use actions and facial expression while singing the rhymes. You may also vary your voice to capture their interest and keep them entertained while they learn.

Sing along

Once your kid becomes familiar with the nursery rhymes, encourage them to join in and sing along. You can also say some part of rhymes and ask them to say parts of the rhyme themselves. This will help the kids to memorize the rhymes and they can recite it independently.

Practice rhymes

Nursery rhyme can be taught and enjoyed anywhere, any-time and any place! Encourage your kids to sing along the songs when getting ready for bed, bath time, whilst playing with toys, dressing them up, travelling and more. During these times, children cannot resist joining in!

Watch rhymes videos

Kids are often attracted by mesmerizing and beautiful animated nursery rhyme videos. As they listen and watch the songs, they quickly grasp it. Make sure you have a collection of best nursery rhymes videos that are funny, entertaining and educational.

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Getting engaged. What a wonderful time in your life. When your special someone “pops the question” and gives you the ring. Wealthy, eccentric, couples love to show off their engagement rings. The bigger and more opulent the better. Now there’s a murderer, dubbed the Promisor by the media, who has turned this happy time inside out. The Promisor has a love for diamonds too. Uncut. Untarnished. The raw, beautiful stone as it was unearthed. He is disgusted by the thought of this precious gem being flaunted on the “miserable fat fingers of rich women.”

The police want The Promisor caught quickly and as quietly as possible. Three murders and a wounded eyewitness on the run, in Manhattan’s Diamond District. Tortured victims and millions of dollars worth of jewelry left untouched. Obviously, robbery is not what motivates The Promisor. (Jeffery Deaver knows how to get a reader’s attention.)

As if chasing this elusive killer and trying to find the missing witness wasn’t enough, Deaver throws in a few subplots for our enjoyment. Multiple earthquakes in Brooklyn have resulted in gas leaks and explosions, sadly claiming the lives of several citizens. These rare occurrences are centered around an active geothermal drilling site and protestors are quick to blame them. Is it a coincidence? Of course not, this is a Lincoln Rhyme story.

Now while getting to the bottom of these earthquakes and chasing a remorseless killer, Rhyme somehow has time to get involved in yet another case. This time he seems to be switching sides. At least that’s the way the dirtbag prosecutors see it. Rhyme and Ron Pulaski begin digging into the prosecution of a Mexican drug lord who claims the evidence in his case has been tampered with and fabricated. We can always count on Rhyme to follow the evidence and present the truth. Even if that means exonerating a criminal and pursuing a case against federal prosecutors. Pulaski and Rhyme have put themselves in jeopardy simply by “looking into the case.” Although operating on a genius level, Rhyme is quite slow on the uptake this time. Maybe it’s his sense of service – I don’t know. He just did not see what kind of people these prosecutors really were.

In 1997 I read The Bone Collector and I was hooked! Over the years some books have been great, while others… well, not great. Still good – just not great. The Cutting Edge is the 14th book in the Lincoln Rhyme series and it is a solid, good read. The main story and multiple subplots are interesting, exciting, and feature plenty of classic Deaver style writing. The short, crisp chapters make for a fast read. Until you get to the detailed, I mean detailed information on diamond mining. It gets tedious, almost mind-numbingly so at certain points and a good 50 pages read like stuffing… just to make the book longer. But the story is worth the effort, stick with it. There’s a lot going on in the Cutting Edge and Deaver weaves everything up in a cliff-hanger style ending… leaving just enough string to keep us hanging until the next chapter in the Lincoln Rhyme saga. I can’t wait!

Happy Reading!

A professional drummer/percussionist and educator, Dave has collaborated on many songs that later led to him writing lyrics of his own. Most of his poems in this book were in fact initially written as song lyrics, thus the presence of repeating choruses though out. Actually it was Dave who first sparked the idea for the Brummet’s to walk this path they tread today – he decided to take a writer’s course to learn what he might be able to do with his short stories that he has compiled over the years. Most of those stories have remained unpublished to this day due to other projects taking precedence, but Dave plans to release some in the near future. His poem “UFO Dream” is the theme of one of his soon-to-be novels that he has been working on.

Join us while we share 2 poems excerpted from the collaborative work with his wife: Rhythm & Rhyme

Grooveyard – By D Brummet

Author note: My thesis on the magic of the power of music. How it keeps us young and takes us away from the blues of everyday life. I believe it is the element that sets people who play music apart from those that don’t. We have the ability to sit in that sandbox and play without a care in the world for what is going on around us at the time.

As children we play, in the dirt we get down

Oblivious to all that’s going on all around.

Then we grow up and we seem to lose

That ability to shut off the world’s blues.

We tend to get tangled in every day’s grief

Without any output to get some relief.

Making music it seems, is like being a kid once again

Nothing else matters it’s just you and your friends.

When we go play we can easily forget

All the stressful things that make us all fret.

Yet if we forget to stop and to play

We have lost the power of the child’s way

In the Grooveyard – Sitting in the sandbox

Playing in the playpen – Being with your friends and

Going to the Grooveyard – You don’t have to work hard

But to take a part – You’ve got to have heart while you’re

In the Grooveyard

You may be sick and you might feel down.

Things in your world are turning you around,

But music has charms to sooth that beast

It usually works – you’ve got to try it at least.

We’ve tried the drinks and pipes to make things abuzz

But nothing has the kick that making music does.

As musicians we play, and when we get down

There is no stopping us, we’re painting the town.

We’ll not give up the power at any cost

Of that childhood ability that’s so easily lost.

That way of getting through everyday grief

Because we have still have the output to get some relief.

There is no explaining the feeling we get

When it’s all over at the end of a set.

Shell-shocked from the venting of emotions

Onto a canvas of musically inspired devotions.

Humor flows and wise-crackers attack

As we wait and discuss when we can next get back.

Wings on a Breeze – by L Brummet

Authors Note: * This powerfully emotional piece was written within moments of a strange dream I had back in March ’11; only wisps of dream memory remained as I wrote this down in an attempt to capture the remaining strands on paper. Mom often used the phrase “building your castle in the sky”, meaning to always dream and have hope.

I dream of feathers;

Ruffled and rippling

By the force of the wind,

… Sounds like laundry on a line,

Swept by a brisk breeze.

I’m Alive…

And I lament a life

Of bitter resentment,

The terrible need for approval –

Now faded with her death,

Leaves this mind weighted down

By thoughts of sacrifice

And loss.

A regret that childhood

Dared me the strength to support

While circumstances struck,

And struck and struck again.

Taking bits and pieces of her joy

Her trust… her strength.

And with her soured look on life

I grew

Into a woman…

– And her friend.

She no longer fights the wind

To stay afloat and fly

To that special castle in the sky

Today she soars without bruised wings,

Nor battered body to hinder her.

While I,

Now in mid-life,

I, who never knew wings,

Have sprouted a pair.

So small, so awkward…

Will they enable me to fly one day?

And try my own flight with the wind?

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