Nursery Rhymes and Aesop's Fables

We have the books What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know and What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know, and inside each of them are some literary pieces that are "essential" for children to be exposed to, including Nursery Rhymes and selected Aesop's Fables. We read virtually all of them, some for the first time ever, but most were familiar to us. P and K put on shows and skits using hand puppets and stuff animals reenacting the stories, fables and rhymes heard in the books. The two favorites were "Jack Be Nimble" and "The Tortoise and the Hare".