Kindergarden - Nursery Rhymes and Fables

Nursery Rhymes and Fables: Supplemental Guide 3A | Jack Be Nimble 57

On Stage

• Tell students that they are going to dramatize—or act out—this
  nursery rhyme.


• Remind students that nursery rhymes are short poems enjoyed by
  young children. You could ask students, “Does Jack look like a young
  boy or an old man?”


• Choose a volunteer to act out the nursery rhyme by jumping over a
  small, safe classroom object. The best objects are those that rhyme
  with quick and have a similar syllable count as candlestick, e.g., “little
  stick,” “hockey stick,” “big red brick,” “a toothpick.”


• As the student jumps over the object, the rest of the class may recite
  the nursery rhyme, inserting the student’s name in place of Jack’s
  name and the classroom object in place of the candlestick. For
  example, “Madison be nimble, Madison be quick. Madison jump over
  the hockey stick.”

 Stop here if you choose to split the lesson into two parts.