DO I KNOW MY NURSERY RHYMES?

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Who Are You?

TEACHER

STUDENT

TEACHER:

Target Audience

Learning Environment

Objectives

Orientation

Motivation

Information

Application

Evaluation

TARGET AUDIENCE:

This activity is aimed towards children in grades 5-7. These children work well with hands on things and can understand moderate material. For children this age the need minimum help and work best with well explained ideas where they can ask questions.

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT:This activity is designed to be done in class or as

an individual and can be accomplished anywhere there is a computer. The environment needs to be a place promoting learning and education and should be a place where the child can focus. The computers need to have the required program on it so that each child can accomplish the task.

OBJECTIVES:

Students will be able to complete a 10 question quiz about 3 different Nursery Rhymes with 100% accuracy. They will have learned the Nursery Rhymes and their origins.

ORIENTATION:

Students will be learning about 3 different Nursery Rhymes:

• Jack Sprat

• 3 Blind Mice

• Ring around the Rosie

Each slide will produce new information for the student that all leads to a 10 point qui at the end.

MOTIVATION:

Humpty Dumpty is the character chosen to travel through the Nursery Rhymes with the children. He will provide comments and help them along the way.

INFORMATION:

Information used in this activity was gathered from:

http://www.rhymes.org.uk/

I chose my Nursery Rhymes and got their history from here.

APPLICATION:

This activity can be used when doing a lesson plan on Nursery Rhymes. It is a good way to test a child’s knowledge on the Nursery Rhymes.

EVALUATION:

You will be able to evaluate how well your students learned the information by how well they did on the final quiz at the end. If you are doing this as a class, the review questions along the way are also a good indicator on how well your students are doing as a class.

STUDENT:

You are about to travel through the realm of Nursery Rhymes. Along the way you are going to run into some very unique characters that will help you through your Nursery Rhymes. So to get started click the arrow at the bottom of the screen.

GETTING FAMILIAR:

Click each button to find out what they do!

BACK MENU

NEXT QUIZ

BACK

This button takes you back to the page you just left!

NEXT

This button takes you to the next page!

MENU

This button takes you back to the Main Menu where you can choose from other Nursery Rhymes.

QUIZ

If at any time you feel ready to take the quiz, you can click on this button!

NOW THAT YOU KNOW WHAT EACH BUTTON MEANS…..

LET’S BEGIN!!!

CHOOSE THE NURSERY RHYME YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT!

JACK SPRAT

3 BLIND MICE

RING AROUND THE ROSIE

REVIEW VIDEO

JACK SPRAT

Hello,My name is Jack Sprat and I will be traveling with you through my Nursery Rhyme!

JACK SPRAT

Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean.And so between the two of them,They licked the platter clean.

Jack ate all the lean,Joan ate all the fat.The bone they picked clean,Then gave it to the cat.

Jack Sprat was wheeling, His wife by the ditch. The barrow turned over,And in she did pitch.

Says Jack, “She’ll be drowned”,

But Joan did reply.“I don’t think I shall,For the ditch is quite dry”.

JACK SPRAT HISTORY

This Nursery Rhyme is based off of the King Charles I and his wife Queen Henrietta Maria. When King Charles (Jack Sprat) declared war on Spain, parliament refused to give him money (leaving him lean). So his wife made an illegal war tax (to get some fat) after the angered King got rid of parliament.

Review Question

Who could eat no lean?

Jack Sprat

Jack Sprat’s Wife

The Cat

JACK SPRAT

SORRY! Try again

JACK SPRAT’S WIFE

YES!! It was Jack Sprats wife who could eat no lean!

THE CAT

SORRY!! Try again

RING AROUND THE ROSIE

Ring around the Rosie,

A pocket full of posies.

Ashes, Ashes,

We all fall down.

RING AROUND THE ROSIE HISTORYRing around the Rosie is a Nursery Rhyme that was

based off a poem on the plague of 1665. The parts of the Nursery Rhyme refer to many things about the black plague. For example “Rosie” refers to the rash that was a symptom of the plague. “Posies” were herbs thought to ward off the disease so people would “carry them in their pockets. “Lastly, the “Ashes, Ashes we all fall down” refers to the deaths of the sick people.

FUN FACT

Today, Ring around the Rosie, is a game played by children of all ages where they twirl around in a circle while singing the Nursery Rhyme and at the end they would all fall down.

Review Question

What was “Ring around the Rosie” based off?

The Black Plague

A Book

Flowers

THE BLACK PLAGUE

That’s Correct!! The Nursery Rhyme was based off the black plague that caused many people to die.

A BOOK

SORRY!! Try again

FLOWERS

SORRY!! Try again

3 BLIND MICE Hello,We are the 3 Blind Mice. Follow us through our Nursery Rhyme!

3 BLIND MICE

Three blind mice, Three blind mice,

See how they run, See how they run.

They all ran after the farmers wife,

Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.

Did you ever see such a thing in your life,

As three blind mice.

It was pretty scary!

3 BLIND MICE HISTORY

Three blind mice, is taken from the story of a woman named “Queen Mary I”. Queen Mary (nicknamed “Bloody” Mary), was known fro her persecution of Protestants. The three blind mice, were based off some men who were protestants that were burned at the stake for plotting against the Queen.

Review Question

Sweet Mary

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

Bloody Mary

What was Queen Mary’s nickname?

SWEET MARY

SORRY!! Try again

MARY, MARY QUITE CONTRARY

SORRY!! Try again

BLOODY MARY

Bloody Mary! Queen Mary was nicknamed Bloody Mary because of her violent persecution of protestants.

GREAT

JOB!

REVIEW VIDEO

Before you take the quiz make sure you watch this video to review what you have learned.

QUIZ TIME

QUESTION 1:

Who could eat no lean?

Jack Sprat’s Wife

Bloody Mary

3 Blind Mice

JACK SPRAT’S WIFE

CORRECT

BLOODY MARY

OOPS! Try again

3 BLIND MICE

OOPS! Try again

QUESTION 2:

Which Nursery Rhyme is also a kids game?

Humpty Dumpty

3 Blind mice

Ring Around the Rosie

HUMPTY DUMPTY

OOPS! Try again

3 BLIND MICE

OOPS! Try again

RING AROUND THE ROSIE

CORRECT

QUESTION 3:

What cut off the blind mice tails?

Scissors

A Carving Knife

A Saw

SCISSORS

OOPS! Try again

A CARVING KNIFE

CORRECT

A SAW

OOPS! Try again

QUESTION 4:

In the 3 Blind Mice, what was Queen Mary’s nickname?

Sweet Mary

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

Bloody Mary

SWEET MARY

OOPS! Try again

MARY, MARY QUITE CONTRARY

OOPS! Try again

BLOODY MARY

CORRECT

QUESTION 5:

Who said “She’ll be drowned”?

Jack Sprat

The Farmer’s Wife

Rosie

JACK SPRAT

CORRECT

THE FARMERS WIFE

OOPS! Try again

ROSIE

OOPS! Try again

QUESTION 6:

Which Nursery Rhyme says “Ashes, Ashes we all fall down”?

Jack Sprat

Ring around the Rosie

3 Blind Mice

JACK SPRAT

OOPS! Try again

RING AROUND THE ROSIE

CORRECT

3 BLIND MICE

OOPS! Try again

QUESTION 7:

Who was Jack Sprat based off?

3 Blind Mice

Bloody Mary

King Charles I

3 BLIND MICE

OOPS! Try again

BLOODY MARY

OOPS! Try again

KING CHARLES I

CORRECT

QUESTION 8:

What was Ring Around the Rosie Based off of?

A Book

The Black Plague

Flowers

A BOOK

OOPS! Try again

THE BLACK PLAGUE

CORRECT

FLOWERS

OOPS! Try again

QUESTION 9:

How many mice were there in the Bloody Mary Nursery Rhyme?

7

5

3

7

OOPS! Try again

5

OOPS! Try again

3

CORRECT

QUESTION 10:

What is my name?

Humpty

Jack Sprat

Joan

HUMPTY

CORRECT

JACK SPRAT

OOPS! Try again

JOAN

OOPS! Try again

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

You have successfully completed the quiz and now are an expert on these three Nursery Rhymes. I hope you had fun and come back soon!

Your Friend,

Humpty