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Alligators all around
Really Rosie
Maurice Sendak’s Really Rosie Starring the Nutshell Kids
A – alligators all around
B – bursting balloons
C – catching colds
D – doing dishes
E – entertaining elephants
F – forever fooling
G – getting giggles
H – having headaches
I – imitating Indians
J – juggling jellybeans
K – keeping kangaroos
L – looking like lions
M – making macaroni
N – never napping
O – ordering oatmeal
P – pushing people
Q – quite quarrelsome
R – riding reindeer
S – shockingly spoiled
T – throwing tantrums
U – usually upside down
V – very vain
W – wearing wigs
X – x-ing x’s
Y – yackety-yacking
Z – zippity zound
A – alligators ALL around!
Oyfn Pripetchik
אױפֿן פּריפּעטשיק
By Mark Warshavsky
Oyfn pripetchik brent a fayerl,
un in shtub is heys.
Un der rebe lernt kleyne kinderlakh
dem alef-beyz.
Zet zhe kinderlakh,
gedenkt zhe, tayere, vos ir lernt do.
Zogt zhe nokh a mol un take nokh a mol:
“Komets-alef: o!”
Lernt kinderlakh, lernt mit freyd,
lernt dem alef-beyz.
Gliklekh is der Yid, wos kent die toyre
un dos alef-beyz.
.en translation
At the fireplace
At the fireplace a little fire burns
And in the room it’s warm.
And the Rabbi teaches little children
The aleph-bet
See you children-dear,
Remember dear, what you’re learning here.
Say once again, and then once again,
“Komets-alef: o!”
Children, learn with happiness,
Learn the aleph-bet.
Lucky is the jew who knows the Torah.
And the aleph-bet.
Apple to Zucchini
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z
by Lois Ehlert
Apple to Zucchini,
come take a look.
Start eating your way
through this alphabet book.
THE CAT’S IN THE CUPBOARD
THE ROLE OF CATS IN NURSERY RHYMES
by Sarah Hartwell
Great A, little a, bouncing B,
The Cat’s in the cupboard, and she can’t see.
This of course is a play on the first letters of the alphabet, with alliteration for cat, cupboard and “C” (rendered “see” in the verse). This illustrates the use of nursery rhymes in teaching language and letter skills to young children.
