*fleece: the wool coat of a sheep; this coat when it has been removed from a sheep (by shearing)
*Children can learn from rhymes about…
Color, number, animal, vocabulary, shape
*All the King's Men
All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1946 and rated the 36th greatest novel of the 20th century by Modern Library. The novel's title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. All the King's Men portrays the dramatic political ascent and governorship of Willie Stark, a driven, cynical populist in the American South during the 1930s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_King's_Men
Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English language nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world.[1] He is typically portrayed as an egg and has appeared or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture. The rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13026.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty
*through the looking glass
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May (May 4), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on November 4 (the day before Guy Fawkes Night), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on.
*rhyme: a word that has the same sound or ends with the same sound as another word
*nursery: a room in a house where a baby sleeps
*finger rhyme
"Old King Cole" is an English language nursery rhyme. The historical identity of King Cole has been much debated and several candidates have been advanced as possibilities.
*take the key and lock him up (from London Bridge Is Falling Down)
"London Bridge Is Falling Down" is a well-known traditional nursery rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the world.
Ex:
London Bridge is broken down,
Falling down, falling down.
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_Is_Falling_Down
*Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name. It has become an iconic symbol of London.(No London Bridge, but there is a Tower of London in London )
*Tower of London
The Tower served as a fortress, a royal palace and a prison (particularly for high status and royal prisoners, such as the Princes in the Tower and the future Queen Elizabeth I). This last use has led to the phrase "sent to the Tower" (meaning imprisoned). It has also served as a place of execution and torture, an armoury, a treasury, a zoo, the Royal Mint, a public records office, an observatory, and since 1303, the home of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London
What’s (=does) he look like?
*undertaker: a person whose job is to prepare dead people to be buried or cremated, and to arrange funerals
*tavern: a pub or an inn (in British)
*tailor: a person whose job is to make men's clothes, especially somebody who makes suits, jackets, etc. for individual customers / to make or adapt something for a particular purpose, a particular person, etc. (tailor made)
*cobbler: a person who repairs shoes
*Little Miss Muffet:
- tuffet
- curds and whey
- afraid of spiders
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