Mary Had a Little Lamb | Nursery Rhymes Resources

Let’s take a closer look at this collection of Mary Had a Little Lamb 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 Mary Had a Little Lamb

This sweet story of Mary and her pet lamb came to existence in the nineteenth century. In 1830, Sarah Hale wrote this rhyme about a young girl who brought her lamb to school.

It is said this is a true story about a teacher, a little girl, and an incident of the lamb.

Sarah was once a teacher in a New Hampshire small school house. The pictures portray a one-room schoolhouse. It is there that Sarah reportedly experienced the story of a girl brining her pet lamb to school.

Telling this story is a great way to engage your young students in the following learning activities.

Mary Had a Little Lamb Original Poem Lyrics

Mary had a little lamb, it’s fleece was white as snow.

And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.

He followed her to school one day, that was against the rules.

It made the children laugh and play to see a lamb at school.

Mary Had a Little Lamb Song Lyrics

In the 1830’s, Lowell Mason took the original verses of this nursery rhyme, and added repetition to create a melody.

Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb.

Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow.

Everywhere that Mary went, Mary went, Mary went,

Everywhere that Mary went, her lamb was sure to go.

It followed her to school one day, school one day, school one day.

It followed her to school one day, which was against the rules.

It made the children laugh and play, laugh and play, laugh and play,

It made the children laugh and play to see a lamb at school.

Use in musical games or as a learning tool. There are endless ways for your eager children will have fun with this beautiful rhyme about Mary’s little lamb.

Mary Had a Little Lamb Bundle (PreK-1st Grade)

If you/re in a hurry, and need to print these resources immediately, you can purchase this Mary Had a Little Lamb Bundle.  

The bundle includes all of the resources listed below. Teachers and parents love the bundle to save them time and money.  

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 Mary Had a Little Lamb 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.

Mary Had a Little Lamb 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 purple glitter border, and a small graphic of Mary’s lamb ~ great for organizing, sorting, and to keep students from misplacing them with other pocket chart activities.

Mary Had a Little Lamb 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 Mary Had a Little Learning Corner Bundle, you can also find these poems in the Black and White and Colored Nursery Rhymes bundles.  

Now only will your kids love Mary in these fun poetry activities, they will also love to read Mary Had a Little Lamb books. At the end of this post, you will find a link to see our favorite nursery rhyme book list.

Mary Had a Little Lamb 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.

Mary Had a Little Lamb 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 Mary Had a Little Lamb 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. 

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