The cat and the fiddle

To do:

1. Translate this nonsense nursery rhyme into French!
2. Learn it by heart!
3. Enjoy listening to this song: Hey Diddle!

Baa, baa, black sheep...

Baa, baa, black sheep,

Have you any wool?

Yes, sir, yes, sir,

Three bags full;

One for the master,

And one for the dame,

And one for the little boy

Who lives down the lane

To do/questions:

1. When does this nursery rhyme date from?
2. Translate the text!
3. Find the melody on internet and learn to sing the nursery rhyme by heart!

Humpty Dumpty

Alice meets Humpty Dumpty... Click HERE!

Click HERE to read the article from Wikipedia on Humpty Dumpty!

Click HERE to watch a 1936 cartoon starring Humpty Dumpty!

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

To do/questions:

1. Who is Humpty Dumpty?
2. Describe his character.
3. What does Alice think of him?
4. Learn this famous nursery rhyme by heart!

Hickery dickery dock!

Listen to a sung version: click HERE!

To do:

1. Write the words of the nursery rhyme by listening to the song.
2. Translate them.
3. Learn the rhyme by heart!

Another great name: Geraldine Giraffe (poem by Colin West)

The

longest

ever

woolly

scarf

was

worn

by

Geraldine

Giraffe.

Around

her

neck

the

scarf

she

wound

but

still

it

trailed

upon

the

ground.

Click HERE!

We have to find great names for our stories' characters, for example: "Jack Sprat"!

Jack Sprat could eat no fat,

His wife could eat no lean;

And so betwixt them both, you see,

They licked the platter clean.