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Here Comes the Band – Counting Rhyme Poster

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    Updated:  22 Jul 2024

Use the counting nursery rhyme “Here Comes the Band” poster to teach your students about numbers and rhyme simultaneously!

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    Non-Editable:  PDF

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    Pages:  4 Pages

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    Years:  P - 1

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teaching resource

Here Comes the Band – Counting Rhyme Poster

  • Updated

    Updated:  22 Jul 2024

Use the counting nursery rhyme “Here Comes the Band” poster to teach your students about numbers and rhyme simultaneously!

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  4 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  P - 1

Use the counting nursery rhyme “Here Comes the Band” poster to teach your students about numbers and rhyme simultaneously!

Counting Nursery Rhymes for the Early Years

One girl marching down the street,
Stamp, stamp, go her feet.
Two girls marching with their drums,
Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat, tum-tum-tum.

Counting rhymes are an excellent tool for developing early number sense in young learners. Rhymes make learning numbers engaging and memorable, helping children to grasp counting sequences, recognise number patterns and build a strong foundation for future mathematical learning.

This resource features the counting nursery rhyme “Here Comes the Band”. The download features one portrait page containing the entire rhyme, along with three landscape pages that feature four lines of the rhyme at a time. It displays the complete rhyme in a child-friendly font, making it accessible for early readers to follow along. It also uses underlining to denote the rhyming pairs, e.g. street/feet, sticks/clicks.

Read on for some suggestions as to how you might use this counting rhyme in your early years classroom!

Use This Counting Rhyme Poster in Your Classroom

This poster of the counting rhyme “Here Comes the Band” can be used in multiple ways in your early years classroom. Here are a few suggestions from our teacher team:

  • Lesson Warm-Up – Use the “Here Comes the Band” counting rhyme as a warm-up to your counting lessons. Read or sing the rhyme together as a class, encouraging students to count along with you. Point to each number as you say it, reinforcing the counting sequence visually and auditorily.
  • Movement Activity – Use the poster to engage students in a kinesthetic counting activity. Have students march in place or use instruments to act out the rhyme, linking physical movement with number counting.
  • Number Recognition – Choose one of the numbers from the rhyme. Have students find these numbers in the classroom, or have them go outside to find them in the playground or wider school environment.

Download and Print This Counting Rhyme Poster

Use the Download button to access the easy-print PDF.

Project the poster on your interactive whiteboard or print it for your classroom display board. If you intend to display the poster, we recommend enlarging it for enhanced readability.


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