Baa Baa Black Sheep | Nursery Rhymes Resources

Let’s take a closer look at this collection of Baa Baa Black Sheep nursery rhyme resources. The combination of printable activities will help your kids build language, rhyming, vocabulary, reading, and fluency skills.  

These resources are a fun way to engage your active learners in Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. At the end of the post, you will find links to other popular nursery rhymes posts. 

The Origin of Baa Baa Black Sheep

This English nursery rhyme dates back to the 17th century. According to Wikipedia “Katherine Elwes Thomas in The Real Personages of Mother Goose (1930) suggested the rhyme referred to resentment at the heavy taxation on wool”.

Although there is no supporting historical evidence, this rhyme has been allegedly connected to the slave trade in the southern United States.

Regardless of nursery rhyme origins, these short stories and rhymes remain a powerful tool for building both expressive and receptive language skills.

Baa Baa Black Sheep Lyrics

Baa Baa black sheep have you any wool?

Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full.

One for my master, one for my dame.

One for the little boy who lives down the lane.  

 

Use in musical games or as a learning tool. There are endless ways for your kids will have such fun with nursery rhymes and nursery rhyme sets.

 

Baa Baa Black Sheep Bundle (PreK-1st Grade)

If you/re in a hurry, and need to print these resources immediately, you can purchase this Baa Baa Black Sheep Bundle.  

The bundle includes all of the resources listed below. Teachers and parents love the bundle to save them time and money. Grab it HERE or on TPT.

Write the Room

This Nursery Rhyme Write the Room is an interactive, hands-on, activity to build vocabulary, reading, writing, rhyming, and concepts of print.

PreK, Kindergarten, and first grade will love this nursery rhyme write the room, identifying main characters and objects then writing the words on the recording sheet.

2 Levels are included for easy differentiation.

Choose a level, post the picture cards around the room, and the students become eager to record the nursery rhyme vocabulary on their record sheet. Great for visual and kinesthetic learners.

• Level 1 vocabulary picture cards have the word printed on the bottom.
• Level 2 cards DO NOT have the word on the card. Instead, these are for the kids who want to try and spell them using inventive spelling.

Post the picture cards around the room, and watch as the students become eager to write their favorite nursery rhyme characters on their record sheet. Great for visual and kinesthetic learners.

 

Ways to Use Write the Room:

• Vocabulary Write the Room
• Writing Center
• Supplemental to Rhyming lessons
• Nursery Rhyme center
• Nursery Rhyme Sensory Bin
• Pocket Chart Cards for Retelling and Sequencing
• Sub plans
• tutoring
• Extra language arts practice at home / homework activity

Nursery Rhyme Sequencing Cards 

Your kids are going to love retelling Baa Baa Black Sheep Nursery Rhymes Sequencing worksheet.

• Read / Retell
• Cut and paste sequencing picture cards
• Draw a picture

 

The printable sequencing worksheet has a set of 4 picture cards.

A 4-sequence puzzle is great for Prek, Kindergarten, and First Grade.

The kids will read, sequence, and draw a picture of this popular nursery rhyme.

Simply print and go! No prep, and easy differentiation!!

Give your advanced kids a challenge with writing a sentence about their favorite part rather than drawing a picture.

 

 

Baa Baa Black Sheep Build a Poem

Build a Poem is an interactive pocket chart center to build the classic nursery rhyme, 

This is the type of pocket chart center the kids WANT to go back to, over and over. After you display the poem, and recite it a couple times, they become eager to build the poem using the word cards.

Every word is printed on a separate card, with a orange glitter border, and black sheep graphic ~ great for organizing, sorting, and to keep students from misplacing them with other pocket chart activities.

Baa Baa Black Sheep Printable Poems

These printable poems are great to display as the poem of the day, or poem of the week, in reading groups. 

In addition to the Bundle, you can also find these poems in the Black and White and Colored Nursery Rhymes bundles.  

Color by Codes

Practice shapes, numbers to 10, letters, and sight words with these Nursery Rhymes, Color by Code printables.

Included in the Color by Code set:

You will get one nursery rhyme coloring page for each skill listed below.

• Shapes
• Numbers to 10
• Alphabet
• Sight Words

(Answer keys included)

These are perfect as homework, morning work, practice sheets for small groups or tutoring, and a fun ELA center activity. Perfect for Prek, kindergarten, and first grade review.

 

 

Baa Baa Black Sheep Bundle 

Now that you’ve seen all of the fun resources, you know how much fun the kids will have! To help save you money and time, I have put together a Bundle of Baa Baa Black Sheep printables.  

Purchase the bundle of printables from the Little Learning Corner Store or on TPT.  

 

Thanks so much for sticking around and learning about these resources! Each month, I will be releasing a new collection of nursery rhymes. Be sure to come back for more or sign up for the Little Learning Corner Newsletter for updates. 

Before you go, here are more posts you’ll love:

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