{"id":71364,"date":"2024-01-15T00:42:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=71364"},"modified":"2024-01-15T00:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:42:29","slug":"why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

In mid-December, before lunchtime, in\u00a0<\/span>the nursery school<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of a medium-sized provincial town, two mixed classes of medium and large sections are gathered with their teachers in the playground.\u00a0Nearly fifty children aged 4 and 5 years repeat songs and nursery rhymes learned for the following week, with a view to a show which will be given for the whole school, then later only for parents of these two classes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Christmas<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is, unsurprisingly, the theme of the nursery rhymes and songs selected.\u00a0Besides,\u00a0<\/span>Have you seen Him? Have you seen him, the little guy? <\/span><\/em><\/a>and\u00a0<\/span>Christmas is like a jazz rhythm<\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0, the children also hum the following words:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c1, 2, 3, In his wooden basket<\/span>
\n4, 5, 6, Lots of surprises<\/span>
\n7, 8, 9, Brand new toys<\/span>
\n10, 11, 12, Joy for all\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They also sing: \u201c5 little sheep running in the snow, all white, all white, the pretty merry-go-round, 5 little sheep running in the snow, one is falling, that makes 4 little sheep\u201d, words which are available successively for 4, 3, 2, 1, then 1 little sheep.\u00a0Last rhyme of the day:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNN, here come the reindeer<\/span>
\nOO, we will have presents<\/span>
\nEE, the children are happy<\/span>
\nLL, it\u2019s Christmas Eve<\/span>
\nChristmas, Christmas, CHRISTMAS, Christmas, Christmas, CHRISTMAS\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The vast majority of students sing with enthusiasm;\u00a0they applaud each other at the end of each song.\u00a0A few still have the tunes and lyrics in their heads this afternoon… just like the researchers who observed the scene, as part of a Franco-Quebec research project on kindergarten!\u00a0Without us paying attention, the rhythms and melodies have also settled into our heads and we will notice them when we leave school at the end of the afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rhythms that help with memorization<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten?\u00a0Coming from the roots \u201ccount\u201d and \u201cstory\u201d, these by definition include mimed songs, finger games and short chants.\u00a0As our observation shows, they can fuel learning in the\u00a0nursery school<\/a>\u00a0program .\u00a0They are the vector of language learning \u2013 sounds, rhymes, vocabulary, etc.\u00a0What we call in kindergarten the \u201cdigital nursery rhyme\u201d, made up of the sequence of the names of the numbers, is the object par excellence of the nursery rhyme.\u00a0It is not to be confused, moreover, with digital learning, that is to say the discrimination of an order or a quantity.<\/p>\n

These nursery rhymes attract wide support from children, a method of learning through imprinting, with rhythms conducive to memorization.\u00a0Without forgetting, sometimes, the pleasure of uttering a series of syllables that go beyond ordinary language.\u00a0They also give substance to a group of children who are seen as such, singing with one voice, with the shared pleasure of repetition.<\/p>\n

Beyond the academic learning that they can convey, it is not uncommon that through this experienced pleasure of the group, nursery rhymes are used by teachers as a means of regaining control of the class, a tool for bringing people together and refocusing when it tends to disperse.\u00a0Easy to memorize, they also give good visibility, as in the choir observed, to the work carried out in the class among parents.<\/p>\n

But it is not only in kindergarten that nursery rhymes are offered to young children;\u00a0in nurseries, in libraries, etc., nursery rhymes play on the boundaries between speech, rhythm and play, between French and other languages.\u00a0Here, first and foremost, the musicality of the nursery rhymes, the complicity of sharing between young and old, a path to language is sought.\u00a0In the book\u00a0Reading while singing nursery rhyme albums<\/em><\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0Michel Manson<\/a>\u00a0clearly shows how during the 20th\u00a0century<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0children’s songs became books, marking the transition from \u201cfolklore to the nursery rhyme album\u201d.<\/p>\n

A cultural heritage from childhood<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The tradition of nursery rhymes, along with that of traditional childhood rounds and games, is older in nursery schools.\u00a0We have to go back to the middle of the 19th\u00a0century<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0, when nursery schools were still \u201casylum rooms\u201d, to understand their use.\u00a0Let us indicate what it owes in particular to\u00a0Marie Pape-Carpantier<\/a>\u00a0, director of the first normal training course for her staff, to whom we owe precisely this name of nursery school, well before it was made official in 1881. With it comes an institutional reappropriation of childhood practices, instead of the quasi-military discipline to which young children were subjected in asylum rooms.<\/p>\n

In the end, we can, it seems, bring the teaching of nursery rhymes closer to the\u00a0<\/span>school learning of writing<\/span><\/a>\u00a0analyzed by Anne Marie Chartier.\u00a0It responds to data that are both pragmatic, cognitive and relational: a way of responding to the expectations of the institution, but also to the concern for class management by giving it material to experience a shared collective.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, it makes sense towards a children’s culture, that of playgrounds in the first place, prolonging the\u00a0<\/span>pleasure of formulas transmitted between children<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, of “amstramgram” and other “plouf-plouf” analyzed by Julie Delalande.\u00a0It is undoubtedly also in their hybridity, between children’s culture and school culture, that we must look for the reasons for their longevity in nursery school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Pascale Garnier is a Doctor in Sociology, Professor in Educational Sciences at Sorbonne Paris Nord University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In mid-December, before lunchtime, in\u00a0the nursery school\u00a0of a medium-sized provincial town, two mixed classes of medium and large sections are gathered with their teachers in the playground.\u00a0Nearly fifty children aged 4 and 5 years repeat songs and nursery rhymes learned for the following week, with a view to a show which will be given for […]\n… learn more→<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15645],"tags":[434791],"coauthors":[11733],"class_list":["post-71364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-nursery-rhymes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten? - World leading higher education information and services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten? - World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In mid-December, before lunchtime, in\u00a0the nursery school\u00a0of a medium-sized provincial town, two mixed classes of medium and large sections are gathered with their teachers in the playground.\u00a0Nearly fifty children aged 4 and 5 years repeat songs and nursery rhymes learned for the following week, with a view to a show which will be given for […]\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-01-15T05:42:29+00:00\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Nursery_Rhymes.jpeg\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kevin\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kevin\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kevin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\"},\"headline\":\"Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten?\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-15T05:42:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":849,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Nursery_Rhymes.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"nursery rhymes\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Education\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/\",\"name\":\"Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten? - World leading higher education information and services\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Nursery_Rhymes.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-15T05:42:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Nursery_Rhymes.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Nursery_Rhymes.jpeg\",\"width\":680,\"height\":383},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/\",\"name\":\"World leading higher education information and services\",\"description\":\"Global Higher Education Jobs, University jobs, Lecturer & tenure jobs.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\",\"name\":\"Kevin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g8ba4c352a279c450aa9435d770c1ebf4\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kevin\"},\"description\":\"Kevin is founder of the world.edu project. The past 28 years have been involved in publishing to the education sector in print and the internet. Kevin has a degree in Education and has a many years experience in developing companies and projects.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/author\\\/kevin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten? - World leading higher education information and services","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten? - World leading higher education information and services","og_description":"In mid-December, before lunchtime, in\u00a0the nursery school\u00a0of a medium-sized provincial town, two mixed classes of medium and large sections are gathered with their teachers in the playground.\u00a0Nearly fifty children aged 4 and 5 years repeat songs and nursery rhymes learned for the following week, with a view to a show which will be given for […]","og_url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/","og_site_name":"World leading higher education information and services","article_published_time":"2024-01-15T05:42:29+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Nursery_Rhymes.jpeg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Kevin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kevin","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/"},"author":{"name":"Kevin","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee"},"headline":"Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten?","datePublished":"2024-01-15T05:42:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/"},"wordCount":849,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Nursery_Rhymes.jpeg","keywords":["nursery rhymes"],"articleSection":["Education"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/","name":"Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten? - World leading higher education information and services","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Nursery_Rhymes.jpeg","datePublished":"2024-01-15T05:42:29+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Nursery_Rhymes.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Nursery_Rhymes.jpeg","width":680,"height":383},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-do-we-learn-nursery-rhymes-in-kindergarten\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/world.edu\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Why do we learn nursery rhymes in kindergarten?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#website","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/","name":"World leading higher education information and services","description":"Global Higher Education Jobs, University jobs, Lecturer & tenure jobs.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee","name":"Kevin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g8ba4c352a279c450aa9435d770c1ebf4","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kevin"},"description":"Kevin is founder of the world.edu project. The past 28 years have been involved in publishing to the education sector in print and the internet. Kevin has a degree in Education and has a many years experience in developing companies and projects.","sameAs":["https:\/\/world.edu"],"url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/author\/kevin\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71369,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71364\/revisions\/71369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71364"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=71364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}