One Two Three Four Five Nursery Rhyme with Fun Activities

There are many rhymes children love singing and dancing to and one such famous poem is One Two Three Four Five rhyme that is loved by all of us. It’s time to teach nursery kids our favourite rhyme of us. Teaching this rhyme will help young ones to work on their basic numbers as this rhyme is based on counting numbers. This will help them to remember the numbers through the poem and this way they will learn both rhyme and numbers from 1 to 10. Let’s look into the song:

The History Behind One Two Three Four Five rhyme

The 1 2 3 4 5 poem is a traditional song that was used for counting numbers for kids.  This great song was created for parents and teachers to help children to recognize and memorise the number from 1 to 10. This rhyme was first invented in Mother Goose’s Melody book in the 1760s and later same version was altered to the longer version in the 1880s by the American nursery rhymes collector Henry Bolton the older version had only 1 stanza and dealt with a hare and the new version contains a fish.

Why it is important to teach children about One Two Three Four Five?

Here are a few benefits of teaching this poem to young ones:

• This rhyme will help both parents and teachers to teach counting of numbers through song.
• This will also help children to improve and grow their math skills at a young age and understand how numbers work.
• This poem is a fun activity that you can use to teach your child basic number counting.
• This will also help children to improve their pronunciations and vocabulary skills.
• This song will help them learn so many new words and their spellings.
• This song will help children to sing and dance on the rhyme which will help them to open up and work on their dancing skills at a young age.

One Two Three Four Five Lyrics

We had added both versions modern and traditional so that children can have fun learning both:

Modern Version:

One, two, three, four, five,

Once I caught a fish alive,

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

Then I let it go again.

Why did you let it go?

Because it bit my finger so.

Which finger did it bite?

This little finger is on my right.

Traditional and Old Versions:

One, two, three,

Four and five,

I caught a hare alive;

Six, seven, eight,

Nine and ten,

I let him go again.

Collections of Words your Kid will learn from the poem

A nursery rhyme is the best way to teach them new things instead of starting with books and pen and children find it boring, so many parents considered teaching them through nursery rhymes.  This rhyme contains some basic words like number words, common words and so on that you should teach your children.

1. Number of Words

• One
• Two
• Three
• Four
• Five
• Six
• Seven
• Eight
• Nine
• Ten

2. Sight Words

• I
• A
• Then
• It
• Did
• You
• My
• So
• This
• On
• And
• Him

3. Other Words

• Caught
• Fish
• Alive
• Finger
• Bite
• Little
• Right

Activities to help a child learn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Rhyme

Giving kids study about the poem is important at a young age as it helps them to understand the words and their meanings and helps them to communicate in a better way. This also helps them to get engage in their learning process. You can help your young ones to remember the numbers from 1 to 10 in an exciting way by adding many educational activities in their learning process so that they can pronounce and sing them nicely:

1. Checking Math Skills

This is the best activity you can teach your children to improve their math skills. This rhyme will also help them to work on basic arithmetic operations such as addition and subtraction. Since the rhyme contains fishes, it’s best to teach them arithmetic operations.

For example: Ask your child if I take out four fish out of ten, how many will be there? If they give an answer correctly give them chocolate this way, they will get more involved in the activity and it will improve their addition and subtraction.

2. Identify the Number

This is another fun activity children will love playing. For this take 1 bowl and add five to ten fish to it. Give them numbers from 1 to 10 and ask them to pick any one fish and identify the numbers on that fish. This activity will test what digits the child can recognize.

3. Identify Fish Colours and Counting

This is another exciting activity all young ones will love doing it. Start with the first 5 fishes and then slowly move to 6 to 10 digits. For this give them five fishes and ask them to colour all the fishes in a different colour then again give the remaining 5 fishes and ask them to colour them with different colours. Now give your children digits from 1 to 10 for referring and ask them to write it down on all fishes. Once they are done tell them to pick 5-number fish and ask them the colour of it. If they pick 5 digits correctly give them chocolate.

Now teach them about counting. Show them a number 4 and say I want 4 fishes out of 10 and if they pick 4 fishes correctly again give them chocolate. This activity will engage them in learning more and more numbers and they will remember it all. Doing this activity will help them to improve their thinking process, counting skills, improve math skills, improve drawing skills, and writing and they will learn about colours name.

4. Question and Answer

Once your child has learned One Two Three Four Five’ nursery poem test to see if they remember it. You can test by asking them some questions which are related to rhyme.

For example, You can ask how many fishes were there in the poem. Who bit the finger? Etc

This is the best way to revise this song using a quiz format.

FAQ

1. Why did the storyteller put the fish back in the water?

The story behind this is, he caught a live fish and that fish bit him on a small finger. So, he had to put him back in the water.

2. Who can sing this poem?

The poem was specially created for nursery and pre-schooler children to help them learn digits from 1 to 10.

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