Nursery Rhymes Circle Time Fun!

Circle Time was a blast these past couple of weeks.  We took off our shoes and socks for This Little Piggy.  We got to play in the rocking boat for Rub A Dub Dub and Row Row Row Your Boat.  One of our little friends even taught us a new ending for Row Your Boat that had an alligator in it!  Jumping over the candlestick gave us a new appreciation for Jack Be Nimble.  We also had fun changing the rhyme with other positional words such as "around the candlestick, stand next to the candlestick, put the candlestick over your head", etc.  Who knew it would be so much fun to fall down with Jack and Jill and Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall.  We counted drum beats for Hickory Dickory.  That poor mouse went up and down that clock so many times!  For Twinkle Twinkle, we played a visual memory game where Mrs. D would take away colors and we had to guess what color star was missing and a flashlight game where we turned off the lights, laid on our backs on the big rug and followed the star on the ceiling (flashlight) with our fingers.  Three Billy Goats Gruff is always a hoot acting it out with paper puppets and the wooden bridge.  A few other games we played were hunting for a clock timer hidden in the classroom for Wee Willie Winkie.  If the kids found the clock before it "dung", they won.  If the timer went off before they found the clock, the teachers won!  "Doggie, Doggie Where's Your Bone?" is a favorite game for Old Mother Hubbard.  Someone gets to play the dog and someone hides a plastic dog bone.  The doggie has 3 guesses to see who is hiding their bone.  We searched the room for Little Bo Peep's Sheep that were lost.  When we found them, we made a graph that sorted the sheep by colors.  We looked to see which color we found the most of and what colors were the least.  Then we kept going back and looking for more until we found them all.  We danced to Peas Porridge Hot and acted out the Three Bears.  There were also many other crazy ways we played with rhymes.