Please help Andrea review the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet" was the note that was sent home from kindergarten last week.How silly I thought. I try really hard to help my children be prepared for kindergarten by teaching them of course their phone number, colors, shapes, and patterns. But I also teach them how to read, their addition facts, and nursery rhymes.
That evening I got out the good old nursery rhyme book and asked Andrea to tell me the rhyme Little Miss Muffet. This is how it went.
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her Nerds and gained weight.
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.
I guess I will have to add vocabulary words to my list of kindergarten pre requisites.
Curds - solid part of sour milk: the solid substance formed when milk coagulates, used to make cheese.
Whey - watery part of curdled milk: the watery liquid that separates from the solid part of milk when it turns sour or when enzymes are added in cheese making.
I wonder if children understand these definitions. I didn't know what enzymes were until 7th grade. Wow! I'm impressed what things kids are learning these days.
So, Andrea and I worked really hard on this nursery rhyme all week and at the end of the week she was able to say it correctly. I guess no matter how hard you try to get your kids prepared for school, some things just go wrong.
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Did she really say that? That is just too funny. I love to hear what kids think they hear us say.
On the same note, when my dad and your grandpa came home from Jr. Sunday School, their mother Rosella asked them what they did at church. My dad proudly said they had learned the Butcher Shop song in Church. They then sang it for her,
"Butch-er shoulder to the wheel Butch a law,
Do your duty with a heart full of song......"
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