#WAtaRhyme OurNursery Rhymes
Studies have found that children who explore nursery rhymes with their caregivers often develop stronger reading skills. Rhyming helps children understand that words are made up of sounds, a key milestone in learning to read. This pack includes the rhymes your child will learn in preschool. Once they master all the rhymes, they will earn their ‘WATaRhyme’ badge!
The Nursery Rhymes
Use this page to check off each rhyme as you learn it. Every rhyme brings you closer to earning your ‘WATaRhyme’ badge.
❏ Incy Wincy Spider
❏ Humpty Dumpty
❏ Baa Baa Black Sheep
❏ Five Little Peas
❏ Jack and Jill
❏ Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
❏ Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
❏ Hickory Dickory Dock
❏ I’m a Little Teapot
❏ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
❏ Little Jack Horner
❏ Miss Polly Had a Dolly
❏ Little Miss Muffet
❏ Doctor Foster
❏ Hey Diddle Diddle
❏ The Grand Old Duke of York
Incy Wincy Spider
Incy Wincy spider climbed up the waterspout, Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain, So Incy Wincy spider climbed up the spout again.
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
One for the master, one for the dame, And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Five Little Peas
Five little peas in a pea pod pressed
One grew, two grew and so did all the rest, They grew and grew and did not stop Until one day the pod went POP!
Jack and Jill Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper. He went to bed to mend his head, With vinegar and brown paper.
Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
And eyes and ears and mouth and nose.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
When all the cows were sleeping And the sun had gone to bed
Up jumped the scarecrow
And this is what he said
“I'm a dingle, dangle scarecrow With a flippy, floppy hat I can shake my hands like this I can shake my feet like that!”
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock.
Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck two, The mouse went ‘boo’, Hickory, dickory, dock.
Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck three, The mouse went ‘wheee’, Hickory, dickory, dock.
Hickory, dickory, dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck four, The mouse said ‘no more’, Hickory, dickory, dock.
I’m a Little Teapot
I'm a little teapot, Short and stout,
Here is my handle
Here is my spout
When I get all steamed up, Hear me shout, Tip me over and pour me out!
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are.
Little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said ‘What a good boy am I.
Miss Polly Had a Dolly
Miss Polly had a dolly
Who was sick, sick, sick.
So she called for the doctor
To come quick, quick, quick.
The doctor came
With his bag and his hat, And he knocked on the door
With a rat-a-tat-tat.
He looked at the dolly
And he shook his head.
And he said, “Miss Polly,
Put her straight to bed.”
He wrote on the paper
For a pill, pill, pill.
“I’ll be back in the morning For the bill, bill, bill.”
Little Miss Muffet
Little miss Muffet she sat on her tuffet, eating her curds eating and whey
Along came a spider who sat down beside her And frightened miss Muffet away.
Doctor Foster
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester
In a shower of rain, He stepped in a puddle, Right up to his middle, And never went there again.
Hey, Diddle, Diddle
Hey, diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed
To see such fun, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
The Grand Old Duke of York
Oh, the grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men, He marched them up to the top of the hill, And he marched them down again.
And when they were up, they were up, And when they were down, they were down, And when they were only halfway up They were neither up nor down.
