NURSERY RHYMES

NURSERY RHYMES

 One of the first gifts we were given after the birth of our first child, Claire, was a book of nursery rhymes. It was a gift from my parents to my husband for reading aloud to her, and read aloud we did! Fast forward almost 21 years, and here I am this morning pulling out the nursery rhyme books for my 4th, 7th, and 10th graders. No, I'm not cuddling them up for a reading time, I'm challenging them to write their own version of a nursery rhyme over the next couple of days. They are allowed to use the beginning line of a familiar rhyme and branch off with their own or they must follow the rhythm structure of a well known rhyme and create a new one. I was going to write that you never know what type of rhymes I'll get, but then I remembered the originals have to do with being kept in a pumpkin or shoe, jumping over a candle, flying on a goose, etc. I think we're good!