On many playgrounds, from elementary school to high school, students often enjoy playing and singing the rhyme “Miss Mary Mack.” Perhaps the most fun aspect of the ditty is the clapping games that go ...

Justin Fletcher has the first of two sessions using movement to explore popular nursery rhymes. This two-part unit focuses on movements based on traditional nursery rhymes, to help develop children’s ...

The early years of a child's life are a remarkable development period, particularly in language acquisition. While many parents instinctively engage in sing-song speech and nursery rhymes with their ...

Parents should speak to babies in sing-song speech to help them learn language, experts have said. Scientists from the University of Cambridge have found that infants learn languages from rhythmic ...

Growing up, kids spent a lot of time on the playground. (Though, we hope that is still happening today, in the digital era.) Doing so, there are many games, from blacktop kickball and clapping to the ...