Nursery Age 0 - Lesson 3

(Follow the links to learn more about using the ideas listed.)

Literature

Week One: Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Week Two: Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

Nursery Rhyme

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

Poetry

"Pirate Story" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Bible Selections

Psalms 18: 1-3

and/or

"Safe in the Boat" from The Rhyme Bible by L. J. Sattgast

Speech & Vocabulary

Naming: (at bath time) bathtub, water, towel, washcloth, soap, duck, boat, shampoo, face, hair...

Classical Music

Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, 2nd Movement

Baby Game

Pop Goes the Weasel
(Sing the song to your baby.  On "pop" gently (with support) lift your baby up a little above your head.  You may wish to carry your baby and move around the room as you sing.  Another way would be to sing to your baby while quietly holding a rattle.  Shake the rattle on "pop.")

Lullaby

Over the Rainbow

Foreign Language

Suggestions:

Play a CD in the foreign language of your choice daily.
If you speak another language, speak to your baby in that language daily in addition to English.

Exercise

Suggestion:  Choose an exercise from an exercise book to use with your baby daily.

Baby Massage

Suggestion:  Massage your baby daily or when needed.
 
 

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