Writing - Nursery Rhyme: Mary Had a Little Lamb

Welcome to learning nursery rhymes in Spanish! There will be a number of Spanish Difficult Review nursery rhyme quizzes. Each one was created to help you with your Spanish vocabulary memory of words. In addition, since this is a writing quiz, you will be required to write out the Spanish quiz sentences and then translate those sentences into English. In this Spanish Difficult Review quiz you will be covering the nursery rhyme of Mary Had a Little Lamb as it is spoken in Spanish.

Each rhyme, and the writing practice required, should help the brain to exercise its memory bank and withdraw a word quickly. Mary Had a Little Lamb was originally written as a song in the round such as Row, Row, Row Your Boat. It was written by Sarah Josepha Hale in May of 1830 and then published in Boston. It is believed that the poem/song was inspired by an actual event when a girl named Mary Sawyer, who lived in Sterling, Massachusetts, brought her lamb to school with her.