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Circle Time at Home: "Jack be Nimble"

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Home Learning | Circle Time at Home

Did you know that jumping over a candle stick was a form of fortune telling and considered a sport many years ago? It was believed that the ability to jump over a candle without extinguishing the flame was a sign of good luck. Learn the nursery rhyme, Jack be Nimble and play a sorting game for quick and slow moving things. Learn how to say the rhyme using sign language and sing and move in music time. Play a word game with Nina the Newt puppet. Grades: Preschool and Kindergarten.

VA Foundation Blocks for Early Learning:


  • Oral Language Blocks 1,2,3,4,5
  • Music Blocks 1,5
  • Mathematics Block 6

VA Standards of Learning – Kindergarten:


  • Oral Language K.1,2,4
  • Reading K.5,6,7,8
  • Music K. 3,14
  • Mathematics K.12