Rhymes

EXPOSICIÓN DE LA RIMA.

The finger family , origins and history

Hello, good afternoon, today we are going to sing a song named “Finger family” and we are going to do one (an) activity, but first we are going to explain in a few phrases the origins and the objectives of this song, and this is…

It has been argued that nursery rhymes set to music aid in a child's development. Research also supports the assertion that music and rhyme increase a child's ability in spatial reasoning.

All that nursery rhymes seems to have come from a variety of sources, including traditional riddles, proverbs, ballads, lines of Mummer’s plays, drinking songs, historical events, and, it has been suggested, ancient pagan rituals. About half of the currently recognized “traditional” English rhymes were known by middle 18^th.

This popular nursery rhyme is a translation of the French classic Frère Jacques.

Actually, Frere Jacques is translated into almost every language in the world. This makes the rhyme one of the most used rhymes worldwide.

The finger family comes from the “Tommy thumb’s pretty song book”, who is the earliest extant printed collection of English language nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744, by Mary Cooper. It was a sequel to the lost “Tommy thumb’s song book” and contains the oldest version of many well-known and popular rhymes as well as several that have been largely forgotten.

Objectives:

- To work finger psychomotricity

- To learn the family members

- To represent the family members (symbolic image)

- To learn the work in groups

This activity is for older children3-5 years

(Tec)- Hello kids, how are you? Today ____________ will sing us a song. Let’s say him hello:

“Hello__________, hello_________

How are you, how are you?

I am fine thank you, I am fine thank you. (mascota contesta)

What about you, what about you?

(Mas)- Hello kids, how are you today?

Today I want to sing you a song, and this song it’s called: “Finger family”. We this song we can learn about the members of our family. Do you want to help me?

Let´s help him singing this song.

Ok, let sing it……

Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you?

Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

Mommy finger, Mommy finger, where are you?

Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

Brother finger, Brother finger, where are you?

Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

Sister finger, Sister finger, where are you?

Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

Baby finger, Baby finger, where are you?

Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

(Mas)- Ok kids, did you liked this song?

Do you know who this is?

What about this one?

And this one?

(Tec)- Do you remember that the other day we draw the shape of our hand?

Now we will Paint this shapes, and in the place of the fingers we will paint our members of our family. In one finger we paint our father, in other finger we paint our mother and so on….

Then we will do a tree our shapes of our hands with our members of our family

After this activity we are going to put the shape of our hand in the tree.