The Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Package contains the following two units: "Hey, Mother Goose!" and "Nursery Rhymes". You may use this resource package as a whole or in part to duplicate and give to your students. A cover page is included to make a book for each student. The activities will surely bring out the creativity in your classroom! It also includes a nursery rhyme trivia card game. Contents include: Math Activities, Little Miss Muffet, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Mistress Mary, Sets to Numerals, Visual Discrimination, Little Betty Blue, Colours, This Little Kitten, Word Recognition and Hidden Letters, Activity Cards, and others. This Nursery Rhymes lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, connect-the-dots, maze, and trivia game to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

Enjoy the fun and freshness of poetry and rhyme with your class. This package contains full-page illustrations and verse for 13 popular Nursery Rhymes and activities that focus on these skills: brainstorming, mathematics, creative, phonics, matching, reading, and word development.

Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives practical how-to tips on how to tell a story, and write and stage a Reader's Theater script that gets children involved with creative drama. Reader's theater teaches children how to become better listeners, enriches their thinking skills, and encourages their response to literature. Included are ideas on using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants and nonsense rhymes, and a reader's theater script. Also included in this handbook are 400 plus annotated children's books every storyteller should know, 100 great titles for creative drama and reader's theatre and professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama and reader's theater. Grades PreK-6. Judy Freeman, author of the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, gives personal and practical how-to tips on how to learn and tell a story, how to act out a story using creative drama, and how to write and stage a Reader's Theater script. All are guaranteed to get your children listening, thinking, reading, loving, and living stories with comprehension, fluency, expression, and joy. Once Upon a Time pulls together a wealth of ideas, activities, and strategies for using folk and fairy tales, songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes. Also included in this handbook are the texts of 10 of Judy's favorite stories you can read today and tell tomorrow; a songbook of songs, chants, and nonsense rhymes; and a Reader's Theater script. You'll also find annotated bibliographies: 400+ children's books every storyteller should know; 100+ great children's books to use for creative drama and Reader's Theater; professional books and Web sites for storytelling, creative drama, and Reader's Theater; and a title and author index. Chapters include: ; Getting Started with Storytelling ; Judy Freeman's Songbook: Including Songs, Chants, Riddles, and Plenty of Nonsense ; Judy Freeman's Storybook: Tales You can Hear Today and Tell Tomorrow ; 400+ Children's Books Every Storyteller Should Know ; Getting Started with Creative Drama and Reader's Theater ; 100+ Children's Books Just Right for Creative Drama and/or Reader's Theater