World Nursery Rhyme Week is an annual, global initiative “to promote the importance of nursery rhymes in early childhood development and education.”

At George Mitchell Nursery we have been celebrating the Nursery Rhyme week with our families and children.

Singing nursery rhymes and songs to children as young as babies can help develop their language and communication skills from an early age. Singing nursery rhymes can also help develop children’s social skills as it is a great opportunity for children to get to know their peers. Introducing children to a variety of nursery rhymes can help them understand and learn about different sounds. This is an important part of developing those early literacy skills. Listening to different sounds in the environment as well as in nursery rhymes provides children with the foundations in helping them to read and write.