Classic American Nursery Rhymes welcomes you to learn and explore a variety of resources with young children. Add us to your favorite website page and we will be your base for educational material. We have gathered some of our preferred links full of learning tools right on this page for you.

It's a great way to sharpen academic development and prepare kids for kindergarten. Some websites even offer curriculums for teachers and stay at home mom's to follow. Happy Learning!  

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Educational websites:

• Phonics activities
• Listen to ABC
• Listen to Spanish vocabulary
• Spanish coloring sheets
• Spanish activities
• Spanish English Dictionary 
• Letter of the week curriculum
• Compound word list for little readers 
• Practice these sight words for early readers 
• Create your own tracer page here
• Math activities
• Kindergarten readiness activities

Popular children's sites:

• Mr. Rogers teaches children how people make things
• Sesame Street hand eye coordination games and videos
• Character games, videos and activities
• The Cat and the Hat activities
• Read along stories with Clifford 
• Listen to the popular story of King Midas

RIF (Reading is Fundamental) Government Educational site:

• Follow this monthly reading calendar full of hands on activities
• Follow along reading activities 
• Locate your neatest Library for storytime events

Crafts:

• Kids craft ideas
• Martha's seasonal crafts for kids

Other learning activities you can practice with children to prepare them for Kindergarten and beyond to build a wonderful foundation:  

• Games: hide & seek    
• Story time at the library
• Music and dance with funny hats and scarves
• Counting items outside and throughout the house and pointing them out on signs  
• Social development playtime with peers regularly
• Outdoor play with chalk or bubbles or balls or toys & bikes
• Cooking and baking cookies or kneading dough 
• Circle time with interactive songs or follow along books 
• Letter and number recognition with alphabetical magnets
• Puzzles, crafts and more crafts
• Puppets and plays are great fun and funny
• Practice pouring water from cup to cup or jug to jug
• Pretend play by driving an imaginary car or boat made from large boxes
• Reading & Singing Classic American Nursery Rhymes, of course!

Character roll playing activities like tea parties to educate on manners & respect for others

Visit museums, gardens, parks, live outdoor bands and go on bear hunts for nature items

Enhance motor skill development with:  scissors, glue, tape, finger paint, play dough, pencils, crayons and rulers                   

Fill a large bowl to run their fingers through full of sand, rice, small balls, popcorn or uncooked corn, foam peanuts to stimulate a sense of feel