Significance of the Study
“Nursery Rhymes” is not a dying pedagogy. It may be a teaching tool that has been taken for granted by adults who may or may not be directly involved in the early education of regular children or even so those with special needs but is it not extinct.
There may be a deliberate exclusion of the Nursery Rhymes in the households in UK or the omission in the curriculum in the U.S. but in the Philippine setting, it is still a fun way of doing things among the children. It is a common statement of adults which pertains to Nursery Rhymes as a tool to make concepts easily communicated to little children.
Filipinos by nature is fun-loving. We like music and singing as a people. We memorize concepts by putting familiar tunes to them or sometimes make up our own tunes just to make anything complicated musical. This is because in our culture, we believe that music has a magical way to getting into our brains to increase retention and retrieval.
In the same way that children invent their own chants at play, adding choreography with jump, claps, tempo and patterns to the words that rhyme. This may be to drive the play into a direction or simply to while away time with fun. Whatever the intention of adults and children with making Rhymes and Chants the major elements of a certain activity, we will discover that there is more to it aside from just having fun.
Learning of certain serious concepts and skills are intentionally or subliminally embedded in this activities highlighted in Nursery Rhymes.
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