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Reading Notes: Nursery Rhymes Part B

For the second half of the Nursery Rhymes unit, there were a few more segments that were introduced: jingles, love and matrimony, natural history, accumulative stories, and relics. In jingles I found Hey Diddle Diddle, which was word for word how I remembered hearing it.

I thought it was really cool that there was a love and matrimony segment because there were a few that I remember that I found in this segment such as: Jack and Jill and this one:

 I HAD a little husband,
No bigger than my thumb;I put him in a pint pot,And there I bid him drum.

 I could not for the life of me remember where I had heard this before though. 

 In the natural history segment, I thought it was cool that this was two segments and there was only one in both that I had heard of and it was Baa Baa Black Sheep. This one was very much exactly like I had heard it before. Each of these had something to do with animals, but I was confused at first as to why the segment was called natural history. I always think about Ring Around the Rosy as a historical nursery rhyme because it has to do with the plagues, but I didn't see that one in this segment. Then I started looking a few of these up and it turns out they all have something to do with historical events. Baa Baa Black Sheep is actually about a misfit during WWII.

 The accumulative stories segment was my favorite because I liked that they had some structure to them. The House that Jack Built was a familiar accumulative nursery rhyme that I had heard of before but the other one I hadn't. I also noticed that one other nursery rhyme that I remember hearing as a kid would have fallen into this segment: There's a Hole in my Bucket.


Bibliography: The Nursery Rhyme Book by Andrew Lang, Nursery Rhymes Unit

Image Info: Baa Baa Black Sheep


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