Hot Cross buns Hot-cross buns! Hot-cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot-cross buns! If you have no daughters, Give them to your sons. One a penny, two a penny, Hot-cross buns!

CSD Poetry

PreK Hot Cross buns

To Market To Market To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, Home again, home again, jiggety jig. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, Home again, home again, jiggety jig.

PreK To Market To Market

Jack Be Nimble Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick.

PreK Jack Be Nimble

Wee Willie Winkie Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, Upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown, Tapping at the window, crying at the lock, “Are the babes in their beds? For it’s now eight o’clock.”

PreK Wee Willie Winkie

Sing a Song of Sixpence Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing; Wasn’t that a dainty dish To set before the king?

PreK Sing a Song of Sixpence

Cobbler Cobbler Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe Get it done by half past two; Stitch it up, and stitch it down, Make the finest shoes in town.

PreK Cobbler Cobbler

Little Boy Blue Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn! The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn. Where is the boy that looks after the sheep? Under the haystack, fast asleep!

PreK Little Boy Blue

Old Mother Hubbard Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone; But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.

PreK Old Mother Hubbard

One Two Buckle My Shoe One, two, buckle my shoe; Three, four, knock at the door; Five, Six, pick up sticks; Seven, eight, lay them straight; Nine, Ten, a good fat hen; Eleven, Twelve, did and delve; Thirteen, Fourteen, maids a counting; Fifteen, sixteen, maids in the kitchen; Seventeen, eighteen, maids a-waiting. Nineteen, twenty, my plate’s empty.

PreK One Two Buckle My Shoe

Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating some curds and whey. Along came a spider, Who sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffett away.

PreK Little Miss Muffet

Hey Diddle Diddle Hey, diddle, diddle! The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Prek Hey Diddle Diddle

Mary, Mary Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? Silver bells and cockleshells, And pretty maids all in a row?

PreK Mary Mary

Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses, and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

PreK Humpty Dumpty

Apple Tree Rose Fyleman I STOOD beneath the apple-tree, The apples were so good to see ; Very high above my head I saw them shining round and red. A robin sang a tiny song, And after I had waited long A fairy in the apple-tree Threw an apple down to me.

Kinder Apple Tree

Singing Time Rose Fyleman I wake in the morning early And always, the very first thing, I poke out my head and I sit up in bed And I sing and I sing and I sing.

Kinder Singing Time

Classical School of Dallas routinely recites poetry in effort to train students to speak winsomely while enjoying the playfulness and beauty found in the rhythm of language.

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