Rocking and Rhyming!

We love to sing and rhyme in our classroom.  One of our favorite songs to jam out to is Jack Hartman’s “Make a Rhyme, Make a Move” from his Hip Hop Alphabop Volume 2 CD.

As a quick time filler, I put some of the miniatures from the Lakeshore Vowel Teaching Tubs into a basket and pass one out to each child.  Make sure that you have enough sets of rhymes for the children in your class.  So, if I have 18 kids, I will put 9 rhyming pairs into the basket.

We sing this song:

Yes, it’s kinda corny (ok, really corny), but you have to be corny with Kinders! (You can download it by clicking on it!) The cute clipart is by Lauren Thompson of the First Grade Diaries.

We also rocked out with a little Queen-esque rhyming.  Yes, really corny, but the kids LOVE it.  Channel your inner Freddy Mercury and sing on.

I pass out the cards to the kiddos (you can use the little miniatures too) and have them find the person with their rhyming match.  I call up groups of 2 and we sing the song with their rhymes.  Oh, and you totally have to get the rhythm going with lap slaps and claps! (You WILL hear them chant it for the rest of the day!)

Click on the image for the download!

What’s your favorite activity to practice rhyming?

Math and Literacy Centers

Here are our math and literacy centers for the next 2 weeks!

This is my “Lift the Flap” literacy center – the children lift the flap and try to decode the word based on the letter boxes.  I have made a word list for them to help them out a bit!

 

This is from Donna G.’s Dr. Seuss pack:

We are still working on our America unit (continuing next week!) so there are some America themed centers.  This one focuses on contractions and is from Deanna J’s America Pack.

Fun with real and “Dr. Seuss” words! The children roll the three letter cubes with the vowel in the middle, blend the word and determine if it is a real or nonsense word.

The kids LOVE this version of sight word writing! They spin to determine the word, and then spin again to determine what “tool” they will use – markers, colored pencils, or a fancy pencil!

 

This is my America Ending Sound Sort.  The children sort the words based on their ending sound and then write the word in the corresponding spot.

This is at the listening center:

Math Centers:

Dr. Seuss probability:

(Here she is sorting after she has pulled the hats out 10 times to see why one color was pulled out the most!)

Roll, subtract, and color (this one is from Kim A’s Dr. Seuss pack)

Standard and non-standard measuring:

More practice with time to the hour and half-hour.  The cards are all flipped over – on the other side are digital and analog clocks to play memory with

Dr. Seuss odd and even. (Sorry not a great shot!)

 

Spin and Graph! (From Kim A’s pack)