Innovating on familiar nursery rhymes and songs is an easy and fun way to encourage children to think creatively, to develop their writing skills and extend their vocabularies. There are many ways in which Row, Row, Row Your Boat can be used for these purposes. In this post, I share just some of them.
Rhyming words
stream/dream
What other words rhyme with stream and dream? List them.
beam, cream, gleam, meme, ream, seem, team
row
What other words rhyme with row? List them.
bow, blow, crow, dough, flow, go, hoe, Joe, know, low, mow, so, slow, show, tow, though, woe
Synonyms and alternatives
Substitute synonyms or other words to sing or write new versions.
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Norah Colvin 
Very clever. A step beyond simply using the music. I’ll check out the rest of the article.
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Thank you, Jacqui.
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What a cute idea, Norah. That picture is so cute, too. 🙂
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Thank you, Marsha. I thought the illustrations were cute too – done by WhimsyClips.com. 🙂
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I’ve never heard of Whimsy Clips, but then I’m not writing children’s books any more. With adorable illustrations like that, maybe I should. I love your ideas.
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Whimsy Clips – an artist who sells her work on Teachers Pay Teachers. I buy the clip art to use and attribute it when I do. https://www.whimsyclips.com/
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Nice! It’s good to know about. I am not an artist. If you write children’s book, artwork is essential – even more than photography.
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It sure is.
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Making important learning fun!
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Definitely, Jennie. As do you. 🙂 Fun and meaningful.
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😀
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I’ve seen some new stanzas of this nursery rhyme, Norah. Your idea is brilliant. 🙂
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Thank you, Miriam. I’m you like the ideas – great for grandchildren too. 🙂
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Autumn loves music. She is now into songs. Her recent favorites are the songs in the animated movie Frozen. 🙂
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There are some great songs in that movie. They are fun to sing along to.
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She asked her dad to play the music in the car. She didn’t want to get out of the car until the entire song is over. That’s the way I listen to music – all the way to the last note! 🙂
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That’s a good way to do it. 🙂
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The illustrations makes it even better. I love that rhyme 🙂
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They are cute illustrations, aren’t they? Done by WhimsyClips.com. It is a fun rhyme – good for acting out the actions too. 🙂
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Also physical therapy and daily exercises could be done as humming the tune,,, rowing exercises instead of arms at the desks or laptop.
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Great ideas. Thanks for the suggestions. 🙂
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I can see kids totally having fun by substituting words and creating their own version.
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Thank you, Pete. Yes, it is lots of fun.
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